• Dagrothus@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    It’s a straight up factually incorrect title. Heat is a measure of energy. The sun produces 3.9e26 joules of heat per second. So no, they did not surpass the heat of the sun.

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      5 months ago

      Nah, that’s a nitpick. In common English heat is just presence of high temperatures, and there’s no specific word for thermal energy.

      Also, that would be heat/time, so power basically. The sum of all heat currently in the sun would be larger, considering how slow the convection is among other things.

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        5 months ago

        We’re talking about energy generation, so the distinction is pretty important. I think a layperson can understand that it takes far more heat to boil a pot of water than a match can produce, even if the match is at a higher temperature than the stove top.

        A layperson would describe the heat of a campfire as being much higher than the heat of a candle, even if theyre the same temperature.