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Post #1823517
2026-04-13 12:36 UTC
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@Akshay/116397375680946291
A reminder that storms are thermodynamic heat engines. They use temperature difference to generate “work” (ie wind and motion). So hot seas amplify their intensity.
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@greg_montreal@fediscience.org 2026-04-13 14:53
@sellathechemist The atmosphere is a resource that keeps on giving, when teaching thermodynamics - from latent heat transfer to crude models of hurricanes as Carnot cycles and phase diagrams of water-salt mixtures…; it is all there and so relevant for the everyday life (of undergraduates). Opening class discussing a weather phenomenon going on outside the classroom window is so much fun! #academia #teaching #academicchatter
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@GetzlerChem@mstdn.science 2026-04-14 23:18
@sellathechemist this is exactly how I teach thermo in my gen ed environmental chem course