• emilsgameroom@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The simple answer is entropy. It’s much easier to poor a bunch of energy into something and have it express itself as heat than it is to retrieve spent energy out of an object. You can burn down a forest and make a lot of light and heat, but you can’t spend light and heat to turn smoke into a dark, cold forest.

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      1 year ago

      We cant do it now thats true. But isnt the process you described called photosynthesis? Using Sunlight (heat in form of UV Waves) to turn Smoke (CO2 and bunch of other stuff that isnt used) with Water into sugars which build the structure of plants?