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?
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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!