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> Oceans are insanely large (citation needed) heat sinks. If my math is right (hopefully), and assuming there's no cooling (hopefully not), it would take 790 b
by itishappy 3y ago
> Oceans are insanely large (citation needed) heat sinks.
If my math is right (hopefully), and assuming there's no cooling (hopefully not), it would take 790 billion years for Microsoft's datacenter to raise the temperature of the ocean by 1 degree.
(1.426e21 kg * 4184 J/kg) / (240000 J/s * 31536000 s/yr)
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoYou claim this, but my own simulations show the oceans boiling away to nothingness in just a few billion. Are you certain you did the math correctly?
- dmd 3y agoFortunately, we have ZFS for that! https://web.archive.org/web/20180223071740/https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/128-bit-storage:-are-you-high https://web.archive.org/web/20180223071740/https://blogs.ora... "Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans." - straight from the horse's mouth (that's Jeff Bonwick, who created ZFS).