• halvo317@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Mostly because hot air rises. The entropy equation seems pretty silly when you consider the volume of outside

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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