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As someone who teaches engineering thermodynamics, if one of my first year students wrote this in an exam, I'd be inclined to fail them immediately. You should ask for a refund for your primary degree.

My educated guess (studied engineering thermodynamics, but never taught) for most infuriating part is the whole inefficient systems increasing entropy, is that it? If not, would love to see you expand! (I did pass the class, but know I know less than even my TA )

Because earth isn’t a closed system, we get heat from the bright thing in the sky. Ergo renewable energy here doesn’t means it renews itself it means it’s replenished from an outside source, which is ultimately the sun. Shapiro’s an idiot.

The sun is dying with the years!!!. Explain again the replenishing part?

No (reasonable) human activity can deplete the energy of the sun. It's free energy for the next few billion years => effectively infinite. All energy stores that are replenished (on a human timescale) through radiation from the sun are thus renewable.

The earth is now 4.53 billion years old. I guess it has already existed in infinite already. YET WE ARE HERE.

And homo sapiens have existed for less than 0,025% of that time. Human civilisations of any kind for a magnitude less. For the sun's lifespan to be an issue for humanity we have to expand the lifespan of the species several thousand times.

And the issue isn't that we'll run out of renewable energy. Non-renewables won't save us for any length of time if the sun suddenly went out. And when the sun burns out we're screwed for a bunch of reasons other than energy supply.

Now do the thing where you remind the teacher to assign homework

If only there was a gigantic ball of burning fuel in space constantly flooding our planet with new energy. Man that would be sick.

But it goes away every twelve hours and doesn't tell us where it's going! What if it never comes back?!

How can we trust the sun when it keeps flip flopping?

"Unlimited breadsticks! THAT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!" I scream slapping the plate out of the waiter's hands.

The hubris of Olive Garden knows no bounds. Their reach exceeds their grasp! The Large Breadron Collider may be mankind's undoing!