Gregory's Server@karolherbst @kkarhan @ShadowJonathan The scale at which humans consume power vs the scale at which the earth naturally collects it are vastly different.
For perspective, the earth collects about 10 sixtillion joules of energy each day (major assumptions apply). In 2008 the entirety of human energy consumption totaled ~520 quintillion joules in a year. Meaning, that each year humans use ~0.014% of the energy the earth absorbs each day by the sun.
The heat added from nuclear power generation would likely not be enough to have a major impact in the earthβs retained heat.
@empressEvora @kkarhan @ShadowJonathan It's not a major factor, but I've seen some studies claiming if we would replace all energy with nuclear and taking future needs into account it would heat up earth by more than 0.2 ΒΊC this century.
It's not much, but also not entirely irrelevant.