Where does all the heat energy go?

nobodythere

I was just thinking, most electronics circuits generate heat, any internal combustion system generates heat, the radiator generates heat, a fire generates heat....

Where does all the heat energy go? Why doesn't it contribute to global temperatures?

Pherekydes

It goes into the atmosphere, raising global temperatures.

Son Goku

However all that energy is only enough to raise the global temperture by far less than a degree.

ApeXaviour

Aye compared to the effect of the sun it's pretty negligible. Being radiated into space and whatnot.

JoeB-

yeah, it's the energy in manufacturing the items that's the problem...

Just think, plants spent millions and millions of years converting (photosyntisying, spelling?) a very small part of the suns energy into producing organic material... then millions of years decaying at the bottom of a sea or bog... then it turned into oil, coal or gas... then humans burn all the oil, gas and coal releasing the energy in a few hundred years.... voila! Global warming!

Nuclear is the only sustainable way to go in my opinion... or else back to low energy living....