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What is Earth's "heat engine"?

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The core is the “heat engine”
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Answer: The Earth as a Heat Engine. The Earth is a body of stored heat, radiating into space. This heat is associated with two things; one is that the very high temperature of the inner parts of the Earth are very high, and the other is the result of heat generated due to radioactive decay of material in the deep

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