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My quick calculation shows about 6e22 BTUs of energy hit the Earth every year, 5e17 BTUs consumed by us. So that's 0.01% of heat from our consumption. Total nap
by gilbetron 3y ago
My quick calculation shows about 6e22 BTUs of energy hit the Earth every year, 5e17 BTUs consumed by us. So that's 0.01% of heat from our consumption. Total napkin math, but if it is in the ballpark, that's pretty negligible.
- 7373737373 3y agoAccording to this: https://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/09/csfe-heat-capacity-air-ocean/ https://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/09/csfe-heat-capacity-... it would require 6e21 J (1 BTU ~= 1000J) to heat the entire atmosphere by 1°C, so just 6e18 BTU, so with our consumption that would be 1/10 of that, so on the order of 0.1°C extra per year (assuming no sinks)? On another note, this would also imply that if all of the excess energy stored in the ocean (20e22J, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_heat_content#/media/File:1955-_Ocean_heat_content_-_NOAA.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_heat_content#/media/File...) would be dumped into the atmosphere at once, it would warm up by 33°C