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0 pointsWalterBright4y ago0 comments

> At no point did I or anyone else on the planet ever suggest that heating a rock by 1 degree will release less than 1 degree of heat.

Yet you said it was only 20% efficient. Where did the 80% of the energy go?

> it requires 3-5x MORE ENERGY to impart the THE SAME AMOUNT OF HEAT to a rock as it does water

No, it doesn't. It's the same. Unless you've confused heat with temperature. Or you didn't try to heat the rock in an enclosed, insulated box, and the rocks were radiating the heat away almost as fast as it was applied.

"Heat is a form of energy that can be transferred from one object to another or even created at the expense of the loss of other forms of energy."

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/thermalP/u18l1d.cfm

QED.

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bryans4y ago· 2 in thread

You finally provided some "evidence" and it literally says the opposite of what you're suggesting. I would highly encourage you to keep reading the subsequent pages on that site, because it goes on to explain the reasons why you're wrong.

> No, it doesn't. It's the same.

This statement is the entire premise of your argument, but is directly refuted by the source you provided, and is so ridiculously absurd that I can't take you seriously anymore. You have to be trolling.

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

WalterBrightOP4y ago

> You finally provided some "evidence" and it literally says the opposite of what you're suggesting.

Then it should be no trouble for you to present a literal quote of what I said and a literal quote that says the opposite.

bryans4y ago

Walter, I've already provided you with a mountain of evidence. You pasted a single sentence stating that heat can be transferred between objects, which nobody has ever refuted, and does not factor in any of the actual physics involved with that transfer -- and then you asked me to paste an entire article as a counterpoint.

Your gaslighting continues, and I'm beyond tired of it.

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