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In your equation above. The sun produces so much more ambient heat I imagine everything else is a rounding error. I highly doubt any number of fusion plants wou
by mlazos 4y ago
In your equation above. The sun produces so much more ambient heat I imagine everything else is a rounding error. I highly doubt any number of fusion plants would affect global temperature.
- hinkley 4y agoPlease check my math here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32760914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32760914 I’m getting 1.6% of our heat surplus at present power production rates, and I’m saying what if we triple our power production because it’s cheap and clean now? Wind doesn’t increase this number. Nor does hydro. Solar only does if the albedo is lower than ambient. Tidal… I wouldn’t even know where to start calculating that. Heat engines increase it by something like 300% of the power that gets to your light switch.
- ncmncm 4y agoStill negligible. Fusion and fission are bad ideas on their own merits, regardless of heat they might produce.