>>13477358This won't generate power in a continuous, cyclical manner. If your working fluid chamber is currently at 1atm, your system can transition from 1atm to ambient pressure and harvest the energy from the work done by the high pressure atmosphere on your working fluid. Once your working fluid reaches ambient pressure due to compression, that's all you get.
Here's the simplified model:
Have a cylinder and piston. The fluid inside is 1atm. The ambient pressure is (any value >1atm).
Your piston will begin to compress your working fluid until it reaches ambient pressure. The speed at which this occurs will likely cause your working fluid temperature to increase during this process and cause entropic leakage as heat dissipates from your system into the atmosphere unless you recover some of it.
Your ambient pressure and reduced volume chamber/piston system will eventually reach ambient temperature. Your system is now at equilibrium. All the energy that could be extracted by your surroundings and system is expended.
This is why two reservoirs are used for cyclical energy harvesting. You should have a large pressure reservoir, your generator system, and then a low pressure reservoir. It is the natural flow from high to low pressure that allows you to scrap energy along the way. Done with my poop, see ya
