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I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years.

Sabine Hossenfelder
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747K views 2 years ago #climate #science #tech
Try out my quantum mechanics course (and many others on math and science) on Brilliant using the link https://brilliant.org/sabine. You can get started for free, and the first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. All power plants create waste heat that contributes to global warming. At the moment, the contribution is fairly small, but if mankind flourishes it is bound to increase and eventually it will become a problem. The only thing we an do about it is to build an air condition for the planet. Scientists have come up with some ideas how to address the problem that I hope you will find entertaining. The full video of Michael Pesochinsky's super chimney demonstration is here:    • Super Chimney  Prototype Demonstration   👉 Transcript and References on Patreon ➜   / sabine   💌 Sign up for my weekly science newsletter. It's free! ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsle... 📖 Check out my new book "Existential Physics" ➜ htt …...more
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I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years.
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2023Feb 25
Try out my quantum mechanics course (and many others on math and science) on Brilliant using the link https://brilliant.org/sabine. You can get started for free, and the first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. All power plants create waste heat that contributes to global warming. At the moment, the contribution is fairly small, but if mankind flourishes it is bound to increase and eventually it will become a problem. The only thing we an do about it is to build an air condition for the planet. Scientists have come up with some ideas how to address the problem that I hope you will find entertaining. The full video of Michael Pesochinsky's super chimney demonstration is here:    • Super Chimney  Prototype Demonstration   👉 Transcript and References on Patreon ➜   / sabine   💌 Sign up for my weekly science newsletter. It's free! ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsle... 📖 Check out my new book "Existential Physics" ➜ http://existentialphysics.com/ 🔗 Join this channel to get access to perks ➜    / @sabinehossenfelder   Many thanks to Jordi Busqué for helping with this video http://jordibusque.com/ 00:00 Intro 00:38 What is Waste Heat? 04:46 How Big Is the Waste Heat Problem? 08:29 What Can We Do About Waste Heat? 10:07 Reuse Waste Heat 12:30 Reduce Incoming Solar Energy 15:20 Improve Planetary Cooling 17:47 Planetary Air Condition 20:17 Summary 20:51 Learn More About Solar Power With Brilliant #science #tech #climate

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Sabine Hossenfelder

1.7M subscribers