alt Hacker NewsIt's quite possible that with "infinite" energy we could do mass scale carbon capture to offset the increased temperatures by rolling back the greenhouse effect.
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itishappy • yesterday at 1:21 PM
The greenhouse effect is not what's cooking the planet in this example, it's the heat that results from turning all that energy into work.
This is basic thermodynamics, not greenhouse gases. If you put some amount of energy into a system with a fixed surface area, you will get a minimum equilibrium temperature.
Greenhouse gases and Earth’s internal nuclear decay engine make the situation worse, but even without them this would boil the oceans.