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I've never done the calculations before. I wonder if this waste heat has any significance.
Anyone?
Anyone do the calculations or see a paper on it?
Clue: Waste heat from coal, gas, oil, biomass, propane, LNG, butane, Nukes, etc. Calculate the World-wide usage by type. Convert to BTUs. Consider usable shaft power to be 25% (optimistic, because of mining, drilling, etc.), that leaves 75% of all fuels to be waste heat to the atmosphere. That will give you BTUs to 10exp23 or 24. Calculate how much the weight of the atmosphere would be increased by that number of BTUs all on an annual basis. Simple. My results say one tenth of a degree per year, but you should do your own.
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