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You understand that a refrigerator puts out heat so in the end it’s a zero sum game?
by maxxxxx 7y ago
You understand that a refrigerator puts out heat so in the end it’s a zero sum game?
- cookingrobot 7y agoNot exactly a zero-sum game because the earth isn’t a closed system. We’re constantly getting heat energy from the sun and radiating it back out into space at an equal rate. The composition of the atmosphere (greenhouse gasses) decides what equilibrium temperature will be. So if we had big refrigerators refreezing the arctic (without creating greenhouse gasses), they would put a ton of heat into the air but it would radiate away into space just like any other heat captured by the sun, and wouldn’t really affect the earth’s average temperature.
- maxxxxx 7y agoBy that thinking you could just cool down the air. No need to freeze the arctic.
- danschumann 7y agofreezing is white and reflects more
- keenmaster 7y agoThermal energy storage might be able to capture the waste heat. That’s assuming we can make such a massive amount of ice to begin with.
- maxxxxx 7y agoI think the scale of the effort would be way too big. Same probably for carbon sequestration. It’s just too much.
- danschumann 7y agoenergy will keep getting more efficient