Space/Science — HabitableZone

Space/Science » in reply to And heat dissipation via radiation is completely left out of the rather odd numbers...

Davin's nailed it

Obviously, the Earth radiates into space almost all the energy received from the Sun (otherwise we'd have boiled off a long time ago). The heat emitted by radioactive substances is completely lost in the noise.

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