Hot water kills half of Columbia River sockeye salmon

[hueymahl]

149. Ok, I'm going to try one more time

According to NASA, the Sun radiates 1.8 x 10^17 Joules/s, which is a really, really big number (1,800,000,000,000,000,000). (see http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sun.html#sunenergymass).

Mankind uses about 1/10,000 of that. Assuming ALL of that got converted to heat (it doesn't - the vast majority is converted to matter in accordance with the first law of thermodynamics), the heat generated by all sources of energy, including renewables, would amount to 0.001% of the total heat generated by the sun.

This is very simplistic physics, and I have likely overestimated the heat input from all mankind sources. But it does go to show that the impact of any power plant on global warming due to heat radiation from the plant is so insignificant as to be irrelevant.

Greenhouse gasses, that is another story.


And BTW, I don't appreciate the ad hominem attacks (in your other response to my last post), but you have shown you like to assert logical fallacies, so I guess it is par for the course.