🧵 Climate Change
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:42:51 UTC No. 16619127
Why can't people just use the extra energy trapped by the greenhouse gases to power things same as they do with solar energy and wind energy?
Isn't it good that the greenhouse gases trap extra energy to use here instead of letting it go off out into space?
Maybe in the end if you were able to use the extra heat for power, you'd nearly want to pump more greenhouses gases into the atmosphere to trap more heat to use.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Mar 2025 06:09:38 UTC No. 16619529
>>16619127
I don't think there's a known way to utilize just heat. You need heat difference for a generator to work. And if everything gets hotter the difference stays the same, more or less.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:45:52 UTC No. 16619555
>>16619127
If anything the greenhouse gases would make it harder to generate power from heat. Heat escaping to space is what lets the heat distribution be non-uniform. Generating energy from heat becomes more efficient the greater the temperature differences are, so you want heat escaping to space to create temperature movement and differences. This isn't a limitation of technology, it's just how thermodynamics work.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:06:47 UTC No. 16619600
>>16619127
You need a temperature difference to generate energy, rising the ambient temperature which is used as the cold end for energy generation lowers the efficiency of everything that makes power.