Thomas Murphy: “Physics and Planetary Ambitions”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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How Much Waste Heat Is Generated by the Greenhouse Effect?
The power of the global economy right now is 19 terawats, which means we have effectively a hundred and 90 billion 100 wat light s turned on all the time. Going from our sun to all hundred billion stars in our galaxy would buy you a hundred here's how the mouth works. And so it becomes very easy at a factor of ten per century. That 11 is how many centuries you have. So in 11 hundred years we're using how much energy, we would go from the sun to the entire galaxy. In some sense, that's the wrong road, and i's its leading us to a bad place. It's a monkey trap. We can't let go of the banana
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