Some people never had that talk and fail to understand.
Thermodynamics was probably the single most important class I ever took.
It’s also the one single subject area that the largest number students had difficulty understanding.
if hard core STEM students have a hard time grasping Thermodynamic fundamentals, how much of chance does your average public high school graduate or even your average liberal Arts College Grad have.
This is why we have so much bogus garbage floating around pretending to be energy policy.
Large scale Man Made Global Warming is a hard sell to some one who understands Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer