I realize that I might come across as arrogant, pushing the laws of physics. But I think an influencer can make a good case that those laws are outdated. Look at all the planes falling out of the sky, LRT trains that don't work, endless wars. Reality is not defined by rationality. People make billions selling fantasy. I can't argue with any of that. I write in the confidence that nobody will pick up on the simple concepts of basic physics, which isn't taught any more anywhere. I have hopes for a nephew who is 6 years old. Perhaps he will pick this up one day.
The big thing with solar heat is that it has to be concentrated to do anything. Diffuse energy is useless, it has to be concentrated by simple machines. Windmills use a lever machine to concentrate at the hub. Plants are concentrating all the time. For solar heat on the Earth, we need natural machines, and we have them.
If you have a glass of warm water, and a shot glass of hot water, the heat energy is the same. But the hot water is needed to do things, like warm up your tummy. You just can't take the diffuse energy of the lukewarm water and warm things up. That's why we call it waste heat, and our big heat engines throw that out. That's the problem we have with solar heat, it's all waste heat.
If we want storms and rain, and other wonderful things we need heat engines, so we know they must exist and we must look for them and figure it out. The lovely warm air of a golden meadow can't do much. Birds with big wings can glide on the thermals and that's it.
-- to be continued
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