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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Waste heat is a minor cause in global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions predominate, and it's not close.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Radiation from communication infrastructure is hardly waste heat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If a system's purpose isn't to produce heat, any heat it produces is waste heat.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's whole purpose is to radiate specific radio waves...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, and it's not infrared.

Do you think the purpose of telecom systems is to produce heat? What the hell do you think waste heat even is?

Waste heat is heat that is produced by a machine, or other process that uses energy, as a byproduct of doing work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes of course they proceduce waste heat as well. I was referring to the microwave part in the root comment...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ahh right I see, I got very confused by the way you worded the comment but that may well have been a problem here on the receiving end