Jed Rothwell wrote: > Harry Veeder wrote: > >> Heat production may be trivial today, but that may change in the future. > > It is not trivial today. It is already a problem. I do not think it > will become as bad a problem as Paul predicts, even with cold fusion. > > >> After all humanity now produces 10,000 times more heat than it did centuries >> ago. Is it not possible that in the centuries to come, humanity might be >> producing 10,000 times more heat than today? > > We covered this topic here several times, and I covered it in the > book. I recommend that energy intense manufacturing be conducted off > planet in the distant future. Products should be brought to earth via > a network of space elevators, and shipped via relatively slow (low > energy, subsonic) transport. > > - Jed
Ok. The salient point of this discussion is that even if humanity NEVER produced green house gases, it is reasonable to assume, all other things being equal, that if heat production becomes large enough the average global temperature would indeed rise. Harry
