If temperatures are getting hotter, and more people start using air conditioners more, which continue to make their external environmental temperatures hotter, is their any realistic hope of the overall temperatures coming back down?
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Your question is wrong but hear me out, i ll explain.
Right now about 70% of energy is generated by (any) form of steam powered turbines, lets average efficiency at 40% for all those sources.
Humans produce around 29 000 TWh of electicity yearly, for sake of simplicity let’s assume that all of it is perfectly transfered to heat.
Now let’s take 70% of that amd take a 60% more for waste heat and figure out how much heat was emmited to get that electricity in powerplants – 32 000TWh
So humans produce around 52 000 TWh of electricity what’s around **2*10^20 J**
Now let’s figure out how much heat earth gets from sun, according to [this](https://www.energy.gov/articles/top-6-things-you-didnt-know-about-solar-energy) around **4*10^20 J IN AN HOUR** 2 times of all energy generated by all electricity used globally through whole year just in one hour
That’s why your question is wrong it’s like asking “if i take a grain of sand from my favorite beach is there a chance that it wont destroy it?” Scale is so absurdly big that the question doesn’t make sense.
That’s also why fosil fuels are so bad, they accualy change how much of solar power is getting trapped by earth and as you see it’s not a small value. And that makes hudge impact and is reason why we have to take actions against CO2 emissions.
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