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The sibling comment to this one helps clear this up: In short, they're not talking about the entire heat of the inner planet. They're talking about the rate at
by etskinner 3y ago
The sibling comment to this one helps clear this up: In short, they're not talking about the entire heat of the inner planet. They're talking about the rate at which heat that is transferred to the surface of the planet, not the thermal energy of the interior of the planet.
- jl6 3y ago~180,000TWh of annual human energy production vs ~ 3,000,000,000,000,000TWh of thermal energy inside Earth.
- thriftwy 3y agoPower is not the same as energy obviously, but otherwise it is the rate at which the thermal energy is spent.
- mitthrowaway2 3y ago> the entire heat of the inner planet ... is an energy figure, not a power figure, unless you mean either the rate at which heat is added through thermal decay, or the rate at which heat is lost through conduction to the surface, both of which are at the same mid-ten-terrawatts order of magnitude as human power usage.