I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years.

Sabine Hossenfelder explains that waste heat from ever-growing energy use could eventually boil the oceans in a few centuries, whatever the energy source. She discusses proposed ways to cool the planet.

HN 推荐的原因： HN cites it in energy debates as an illustration of the long-term thermal limits of exponential energy consumption growth.

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