Reply to post: Re: Heat engines

Scientists use supercritical carbon dioxide to power the grid

brainwrong

Re: Heat engines

No.

The Sun dumps truly enormous amounts of energy onto the earth, our efforts are tiny in comparison.

A quick look at wikipedia gives 3 relevant figures: ->

Human production of energy : 18 TW

Geothermal output of earth : 47 TW

Solar irradiance : 173,000 TW

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