Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity using deep ocean current

Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by baybal2 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @02:22PM (#31623577)

Is this out of the same ballpark as "thermal powerplants will boil the atmosphere."

The entire humankind's power consumption is completely microscopic in comparison to any natural weather phenomena.

We are 0.0000000000001% of energy the Earth dissipates.

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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by fooker on Saturday June 04, 2022 @09:52PM (#31627158)

It is on the same ballpark, and that's exactly why it's worth discussing. Runaway effects in the same ballpark can easily become issues with a feedback loop mechanism.

Interestingly this was a real concern before testing the first nuclear weapons.

Some scientists were convinced that the chain reaction would ignite enough of a fraction of the atmosphere causing irreparable damage. That concern was ignored because these weapons were critical for the war, and luckily nothing like that ended up happening.

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