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What about the Heat?

1 pointsby dreamgliderabout 1 year ago
Let&#x27;s assume fusion is available to everyone, anywhere, at all times. &quot;Green&quot; energy from A to Z. Things are jolly, no more green-house gases, no more radioactive Cs-o-Sr that replace the potassium-o-Ca in our bodies, thus having us radiated... But... every form of energy, as far as we know (which, despite all the fuzz, is not a lot), eventually ends up as heat. The motion of atoms and molecules. Can&#x27;t stop it, can&#x27;t prevent it.<p>How one gets rid of heat w&#x2F;o causing another form of green-house effect? We&#x27;ve solved one issue but introduced another. We&#x27;ve made available &quot;free &amp; green&quot; energy to everyone, thus enabling rise in consumption but then - what about the heat?<p>The question goes beyond...the ask. Once we solve a given problem, the solution itself mutates into another problem, harder to solve and sometimes the solution resembles the suit juice that the hungry fly dreamt about...<p>Everybody wants to have the greatest and best of talent but does one know how to keep it content, engaged, challenged? W&#x2F;o the fakery, propaganda and &quot;we are family&quot; cr&#x2F;\p? Most want to be billionaires, but strangely, few are willing to have the life of one - with all ups`n`downs. And there are lots of downs. Especially once you&#x27;ve gotten the &quot;ups&quot;. At certain points, we&#x27;ve all imagined living the &quot;high&quot; life, having big houses, fancy cars, fans, being &quot;recognized&quot; and &quot;validated&quot; &amp; etc - but have we taken into account what it takes to maintain those? Or... we think, &quot;Am a BiLi baby, will hire people to figure it out for me!&quot;? Cool, but people can figure out only so much. And... still, what about the heat? It gotta go &quot;somewhere&quot;. Say in space but... when the rate of generation becomes higher than the rate of dispersion, then what? We still got just 1planet...

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Terr_about 1 year ago
1. Additional waste heat produced will be <i>zilch</i> compared to what Earth is constantly blasted with by the Sun or which is leftover from its formation. Heat <i>per se</i> has <i>never</i> been the problem.<p>2. It will continue to radiate into the inky void of space the same as all heat has done naturally for billions of years, with no measurable effect on the equilibrium-temperature...<p>3. ... Unless we fuck it up by putting a blanket of CO2 over the Earth to trap too much heat, which is exactly the disorder cheap fusion would also solve.
thesuperbigfrogabout 1 year ago
I&#x27;ve got bad news: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Heat_death_of_the_universe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Heat_death_of_the_universe</a>