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The burning of 1 kg of coal heats the earth in two ways:

A) the energy that is produced immediately (about 24MJ)

B) the excess energy absorbed from the Sun over many subsequent years, caused by CO2 emitted burning that coal.

The B is much larger than A. The fusion only produces A, but not B.




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