• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    17 hours ago

    i read up on that recently and IIRC the heat that comes out of earth’s interior is about 0.03% of the total power we get on the surface of earth, the vast majority is from sunlight.

    and earth’s interior heat is about half-and-half from primordial heat (from when earth was formed) and from decay of primordial radionuclids and their decay products (basically uranium and thorium decaying)