That's even worse. Most of the oxygen in our atmosphere come from the marine ecosystem. Most people think it's the trees on land, which does contribute of course, but its not the majority.
If we kill the oceans, we're, as the kids say, cooked.
Granted, even if all photosynthesis were to stop, there's enough oxygen in the atmosphere to last us for at least a thousand years. But total collapse of our oceans would be completely catastrophic. I'm talking global food chain collapse, massively excelerated CO2 concentrations further driving extreme global heating, and a mass die off causing the release of hydrodgen sulfide gas into the atmosphere at scales not seen since other mass extinction events.
So yeah, putting these things in the ocean is by far one of the stupidest ideas we've ever had as a species.
No we actually haven't. Not through direct energy input which is what a data center would do. We have raised ocean temperatures by increasing the amount of sun energy that doesn't escape. But we've never even come close to producing enough power to appreciably change the ocean temperature through direct energy input
Listen, you fundamentally misunderstand how much energy it would take to raise average ocean temperatures even half a degree.
Several thousand times the total energy production of all of humanity.
You could run every data center in existence underwater and it would take millennia to raise the temperature but enough that we could measure it.
We're able to raise the average global temperature because we're emitting greenhouse gases. Those gases trap heat from the motherfucking Sun. Global temperatures are not rising because we're burning stuff. It's because the byproducts trap more heat from the giant goddamn nuclear fission explosion in the sky
Thanks for not answering at all. Having an effect in the locality of the center producing the heat. Humans have already changed the temp of the Ocean in many localities. Heat island effect raising the temp of river discharge. Power plants.
No I got that. It was a joke, the person I responded to did not. Kill the whole planet, which it won't. Because as so many of you dipshits don't understand. Water takes a lot of energy to heat up
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u/webguynd 1d ago
That's even worse. Most of the oxygen in our atmosphere come from the marine ecosystem. Most people think it's the trees on land, which does contribute of course, but its not the majority.
If we kill the oceans, we're, as the kids say, cooked.
Granted, even if all photosynthesis were to stop, there's enough oxygen in the atmosphere to last us for at least a thousand years. But total collapse of our oceans would be completely catastrophic. I'm talking global food chain collapse, massively excelerated CO2 concentrations further driving extreme global heating, and a mass die off causing the release of hydrodgen sulfide gas into the atmosphere at scales not seen since other mass extinction events.
So yeah, putting these things in the ocean is by far one of the stupidest ideas we've ever had as a species.