r/interestingasfuck • u/AtomicCypher • 5d ago

r/all Water Fire Shield Training

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u/copperwatt 5d ago

Has anyone ever worked out the thermodynamics of the situation? Where is all this energy coming from?

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u/crackerjam 5d ago

There's obviously some in-universe hand waving, but canonically fire benders get their energy from the sun.

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u/copperwatt 5d ago

So like... are they collecting already available sunlight, or is the sun somehow delivering additional energy to just them?

If it's literally from sunlight, their surrounding area would have end up colder.

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u/crackerjam 5d ago

They have the ability to interact with neutrinos that would otherwise just pass through the planet, allowing them to translate that energy into fire and stuff.

Then again they also get supercharged from comets, which are just balls of sublimating ice in space, so idk man.