5233 20210129100814.0 10.1016/j.icarus.2020.113934 DOI SCART-2021-0042 Beuthe, Mikael Comment on `Heating of Enceladus due to the dissipation of ocean tides’ by R. Tyler 2020 Dissipation of ocean potential energy is proposed by Tyler (2020) as a new mechanism leading to possible high-power states for Enceladus. I show here that this process actually results from viscoelastic dissipation within the crust. For plausible values of Enceladus’s ocean thickness, crustal dissipation can be computed with the standard approach of static deformations of solid layers by equilibrium tides. PRODEX program managed by the European Space Agency in collaboration with BELSPO/ PRODEX program managed by the European Space Agency in collaboration with BELSPO/ PRODEX program managed by the European Space Agency in collaboration with BELSPO NO Icarus 350 2020 113934 mikael.beuthe@observatoire.be https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103520303092 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14800 published in REFERD