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Oh, I'm sure that being in a cold environment and letting it passively cool you is more efficient! What I'm more unclear on is how small the impact is. It seem
by brian_cloutier 8y ago
Oh, I'm sure that being in a cold environment and letting it passively cool you is more efficient!
What I'm more unclear on is how small the impact is. It seems very likely to me that throwing the waste heat into the bottom of the ocean has less of an environmental impact than running A/C to suck out the heat and dump it into the air.
However, is the impact really so small that you wouldn't notice it just meters away? That's the part I'm unclear on.
- craigds 8y agoI think so yes. Water has many times greater thermal conductivity than air, so the heat will spread out across a larger area faster. Meaning a very small (negligable) temperature increase at any given location. You wouldn't be able to detect it from a few metres away.