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Isn't that what your parent comment said? > exporting that heat into the rest of earth (where it is used and expelled as heat)
by DennisP 3y ago
Isn't that what your parent comment said?
> exporting that heat into the rest of earth (where it is used and expelled as heat)
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoIf you covered the Earth in solar panels and used it solely to charge a battery, the Earth wouldn’t freeze. Energy is not the same as useful energy.
- daveguy 3y agoNot even at 95% efficiency? I think it was a hypothetical, not a current consideration.
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoBut it would tho? Imagine if your battery was the earth's core. So basically you're pumping majority of the incoming energy inside the earth. Less heat is reflected to to warm the athmosphere, hence a cooling effect. Once you release the stored energy it's a different story.