If all of mankind’s energy was supplied through solar panels would the effect be big enough to decrease the temperature (since light is converted in part to electricity)?

  • vrighter
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    20 hours ago

    but not all of it is converted back to heat. The energy used to do actual work is used for that. Some of it comes back out as heat

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      32 minutes ago

      That just pushes the heat production down the chain: Take a light: it converts electricity into electromagnetic waves. Those waves the get converted into heat when they hit things.