Reply To: Mind, Spirit, Science connection?

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Tulse wrote: I’m curious as to what, if any, regulations there are about waste heat in residential areas.

Apparently very few regulations that don’t involve something being burned.

Tulse wrote: Many houses in northern climes of course have chimneys, but I doubt any fireplace is putting out 5MWt.

This is off the cuff but about 250 large homes with their furnaces going…

Tulse wrote: What effect would a large 60 C air stream have on a local clime?

Even in a stiff breeze it would rise ~20-30 meters and would disperse laterally even further before impacting the neighborhood.

Tulse wrote: I don’t have a good sense of the relative scale of the heat being dumped — is this comparable to the exhaust of an industrial air conditioner, or something much more substantial?

… an office buildings total heat output or a car being set on fire… 🙂