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nancyminusone 15 hours ago

This just has me picturing a scene where global warming is solved not by cleaning it up, but by leaving tons of window air conditioners everywhere, troll physics style, "to cool down the outside"

filoeleven an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> The Stanford team’s passive cooling system chills water by a few degrees with the help of radiative panels that absorb heat and beam it directly into outerspace. This requires minimal electricity and no water evaporation, saving both energy and water. The researchers want to use these fluid-cooling panels to cool off AC condensers.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/efficient-airconditioning-by-beami...

the_sleaze_ 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Psh, that's not reasonable.

Outer space is like really really cold. What we need is a huge heat pump in outer space that pumps the planets heat out into deep space. All we need is a space-elevator style tube and we're good to go!

lukan 13 hours ago | parent [-]

You would need GIANT radiators. Space is cold but there is also allmost no cold material to transfer heat. So even with a space elevator .. not so easy.