Talk:Relevance paradox

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[edit] Tidying

Spent five minutes or so trying to tidy up this article (which was really confined to the writing rather than the content). It probably needs to be wholly re-written and researched. - CharlesC 21:08, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

This section is rather suspect:

Or the astonishing and not widely appreciated fact that the UK wastes heat from power stations equal to the entire import of natural gas for heating, which is an amazing example of the relevance paradox and hierarchical incompetence of particular relevance 30 years on now that fears are growing about inadequate reserves of natural gas and global warming.

Waste heat is really just waste heat. Heat is the least organized form of energy, and although efforts are made to minimize energy loss through waste heat, you can't eliminate it in any energy-conversion process. Waste heat is not an oversight; in fact, it is very well-knowns, and is a fundamental part of Thermodynamics. i.e. not an example of the relevance paradox. - --Metalfilter 06:48, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

The point here is that the waste heat in the UK could be used to heat all the houses in the UK instead of importing extra gas to do the heating - this is what they do in Scandinavian countries..........13:06, 28 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Engineman (talk • contribs)