A Thought Experiment 2
Jun 12, 2017
Science thing: To ALL living things on Earth, dissipated heat energy is a major waste product of life processes and it's completely worthless. Arctic bacteria? Pine trees? Humans? Everything releases a ton of heat and nothing else can use it. Us mammals benefit a little bit (indirectly) from being warm, but overall it's not a "usable" form of energy.
Normally at least SOMETHING can use a waste product, like plants needing our waste (carbon dioxide) or us using plant waste (oxygen,) or the whole biosphere using solar heat hitting the earth, but biologically produced heat isn't like that! It's too complicated and disordered-- too "high entropy"-- for any known organism to make sense of and use to stay alive. The ol' circle of life? Ends with heat.
With the first species of virman I'm introducing in detail, called the Ectoentropes, there's finally a living thing that can use environmental heat energy to do things. Like break perfectly good crucibles!
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The heat energy we produce is mostly waste (except fir the energy that we use to keep our core temperature at the right level.) But we do use heat energy produced by the sun. So not all is wasted?
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