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Is this out of the same ballpark as "thermal powerplants will boil the atmosphere." The entire humankind's power consumption is completely microscopic in compa

• fooker 4y ago
  It is on the same ballpark, and that's exactly why it's worth discussing. Runaway effects in the same ballpark can easily become issues with a feedback loop mechanism. Interestingly this was a real concern before testing the first nuclear weapons. Some scientists were convinced that the chain reaction would ignite enough of a fraction of the atmosphere causing irreparable damage. That concern was ignored because these weapons were critical for the war, and luckily nothing like that ended up happening.