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Waste heat is a minor cause in global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions predominate, and it’s not close.
Radiation from communication infrastructure is hardly waste heat.
If a system’s purpose isn’t to produce heat, any heat it produces is waste heat.
It’s whole purpose is to radiate specific radio waves…
Yes, and it’s not infrared.
Do you think the purpose of telecom systems is to produce heat? What the hell do you think waste heat even is?
Waste heat is heat that is produced by a machine, or other process that uses energy, as a byproduct of doing work.
Yes of course they proceduce waste heat as well. I was referring to the microwave part in the root comment…
Ahh right I see, I got very confused by the way you worded the comment but that may well have been a problem here on the receiving end