A study found that waste heat generated by a city’s worth of air conditioners during a heatwave can raise the outside temperature by more than 2 degrees Celsius.
What are you suggesting, that we not cool ourselves down? This is the natural result of moving heat out of a room and into the atmosphere. Of course there is waste heat put into the atmosphere too, but much of that heat, if it was produced from renewables, was itself extracted out of the atmosphere to start (solar, wind…).
It really is a non issue. Or at least, this is not an issue we can solve, because these are just the laws of thermodynamics.
The real problems lie where we ignore the natural laws of thermodynamics. Like using fossil fuels for power at large scale.
What are you suggesting, that we not cool ourselves down? This is the natural result of moving heat out of a room and into the atmosphere. Of course there is waste heat put into the atmosphere too, but much of that heat, if it was produced from renewables, was itself extracted out of the atmosphere to start (solar, wind…).
It really is a non issue. Or at least, this is not an issue we can solve, because these are just the laws of thermodynamics.
The real problems lie where we ignore the natural laws of thermodynamics. Like using fossil fuels for power at large scale.
No shit, you don’t say huh?
Looks like we’re soon to figure out why they dug so many tunnels underneath the country we currently call Turkey that could house like 20,000 people.
Right now, humans are gradually destroying them(our)selves living in matchboxes on the land and burning all the fuel we can find.
Edit: Environmental air temperature tends to be way more stable and more comfortable underground.
Building underground isn’t an option everywhere.