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Comment by epgui

The per-volume claim rings alarms in my head.

If it produced a quarter of the heat of the human body per volume, its temperature would be lower as well (less than 37 degrees Celsius).[1] This is obviously not the case.

[1] Obviously heat and temperature are not the same, I know that. But when something’s temperature is higher than another thing’s, then heat is exchanged along that gradient. Meaning if the sun produced less volumetric heat than the human body, a human body placed within the sun would warm the sun and cool the human.

parent epgui 3 years ago

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