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Re:Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments by paulmd on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @05:35PM (#20034645)
Humanity can already access more energy than is healthy for our planet. Even if you had a zero-greenhouse-gas source of energy, all that energy is eventually dissipated as heat, so it would not be safe to use an unlimited quantity of it.

I looked at the numbers about 10 years ago and iirc I concluded that waste heat is about 10% the impact of greenhouse gasses, so not insignificant. I don't remember how I got that number though, and I could have easily messed something up.

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Re:Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments by ErikVandeWater on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @05:43PM (#20034702)
If we had near unlimited energy, we could find a way to trap heat energy and remove it.
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Re:Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments by p1mrx on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:10AM (#20037249)
Where would the heat go?
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Re:Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments by de_watcher on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @03:27AM (#20037594)
To the orbital ring, then to its radiators.

Alternatively we can tone down the sun with the shade satellites.

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Re:Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments by 0-_-0 on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:27PM (#20043651)
Into the Sun of course!
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