Re: The joy of Democracy

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:34:13 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

The problem is that we can in theory  produce marvellous low entropy
products like computers, but only at the expense of increasing entropy
elsewhere.

There is an absolutely massive source of energy literally pouring down on
us, that we can use for this entropy reduction. It’s so massive, it’s
inconceivable (at this stage in our civilization) that we could ever
exhaust it. It supplies this energy at the rate of about a kilowatt of
power per square metre of Earth’s daylit surface.

It’s called our Sun.