Thomas Murphy: “Physics and Planetary Ambitions”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Second Law of Energy
Every time we do a transaction, a good or service, an activity, there's energy spent, and there's waste, heat dissipated. So how much of our energy is directed towards actual output, and how much is wasted? Roughly. Well, you know that in the long term, all of it's wasted. And where does all this waste heat go? If it just stayed on earth, earth would get hotter and hotter and hotter to the point where climate changes. Is a lag matter. But there is an escape from the earth, and that's in the form of infered radiation. The earth sort of cools off to the coldness of space by just radiating
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