How Waste Heat Could Boil the Oceans in 400 Years

Sabine Hossenfelder · Explainer · 23 min · 2023 · YouTube title: I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years.

Why it's here

HN cites it in energy debates as an illustration of the long-term thermal limits of exponential energy consumption growth.

What it covers

Sabine Hossenfelder explains that waste heat from ever-growing energy use could eventually boil the oceans in a few centuries, whatever the energy source. She discusses proposed ways to cool the planet.