Question by Bobby: How does geothermal energy not contradict the second law of thermodynamics?
If entropy increases because of increasing amounts of heat, how does geothermal energy, which basically gets energy out of the heat in the earth, not contradict the second law of thermodynamics?
Best answer:
Answer by MarcThyme
The Second Law of Thermodynamics applies to a CLOSED system (like, for example, the Universe); the planet Earth is NOT a “closed system”, it is both receiving energy from and losing energy to the Universe around it….
Silly goose!
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