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To: Wuli
1) Energy consumption dissipates as waste heat, and energy consumption is proportional to GDP. As Asia's 4.6 billion people join the middle class, energy consumption, waste heat, and pollution all grow about as fast.

2) Hurricanes are a smaller problem that could be tackled. That mainly involves getting rid of excess heat. If that could be done, that also gets rid of the CO2 warming hysteria.

3) A fusion reactor operates at 100+ million degrees Celsius and requires a large amount of energy consumption onsite for cooling and magnet power. Beyond that, once someone figures out how to produce anti-matter cheap enough, energy consumption and waste heat will power a new age of great wealth. Total waste heat will double about every 10 years. That unnatural heat will have to be radiated off Earth beyond what occurs naturally.

13 posted on 05/13/2021 7:44:24 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Reeses

1. (a) OK - Energy consumption (my lights, my TV, my washer & dryer, my car, my air condition, ect all) create heat. Got it. And so does energy production - an electric power plant for instance fueled in any manner creates heat. (b) Are you saying “waste heat” via growing man-made energy use is the source of “global warming”?

2. (a) We are not smart enough to try to “tame” Hurricanes. (b) They have existed from long before humans began creating “waste heat” from man-made energy production & consumption. (c) Earth’s own climate dynamics naturally creates them, where it creates them naturally. (d). No we should not think we can tame that without vast unintended consequences. We are not G-d and should not think we can play G-d.

3. (a) There is no working commercial fusion reactors in use. We are we don’t know how long before fusion will replace fission in nuclear power production. (b) There is more than one design of small safe nuclear power plants that turns the heat generated in the nuclear process back into the electric generation process - essentially reusing all its waster heat.


14 posted on 05/13/2021 8:39:24 AM PDT by Wuli ("")
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