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in Order to first get my idea out there, I need to lay the ground work.
In this link, Bill Gross shows a heat engine modeled after the Sterling engine which has long gone from our world. The idea is that he managed to create a relatively efficient heat engine (about 09:30 min into the clip). after some looking up, I found that it can be rigged to water, and that about a quarter liter of hot water (80 centigrade) can power a small fan for a few min.
From this point I designed a system that uses the sun to heat water and for the heat engine to work constantly. all that is needed is for there to be closed pipe system filled with water. at the bottom it would split to smaller pipes (like a capillary system in the body) and be painted black in order to heat up fast (solar water heaters do this easily for 150 liters of water). above the heating system would be the heat engines (or cooling system) which would make electricity while cooling the water.
Hot water goes up, cold water goes down. and so the hot water would constantly replace the cold water, keeping the heat engine hot and making power.
finally, in this process a water current is generated (as the hot and cold water keep replacing each other). this currant can turn a propeller and generate even more power.
The system would take up just about the amount of space traditional water heaters do (4 square meters) but produce more power than photo voltaic cells of the same size, because the sun is used for heat and not electricity.
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