A study found that waste heat generated by a city’s worth of air conditioners during a heatwave can raise the outside temperature by more than 2 degrees Celsius.
Hot air can only rise so far homie. Upper layers of the atmosphere are actually rather cold. Ever seen the tops of mountains and wonder why so many of them are covered in snow?
The Earth doesn’t have a heatsink to transfer extra heat into outer space, so we’re stuck with this conundrum of how to manage our own planet and the heat we generate.
But the collisions between the atoms cause them to rise. If you get to less dense collisions, your temperature goes down. That’s just ideal gas law. I don’t get it actually
Hot air can only rise so far homie. Upper layers of the atmosphere are actually rather cold. Ever seen the tops of mountains and wonder why so many of them are covered in snow?
The Earth doesn’t have a heatsink to transfer extra heat into outer space, so we’re stuck with this conundrum of how to manage our own planet and the heat we generate.
But the collisions between the atoms cause them to rise. If you get to less dense collisions, your temperature goes down. That’s just ideal gas law. I don’t get it actually