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So now we are getting into albedo and black body radiation, but the short answer is that you cannot radiate heat out from earth (or any body) into the vacuum fa
by betwixthewires 4y ago
So now we are getting into albedo and black body radiation, but the short answer is that you cannot radiate heat out from earth (or any body) into the vacuum faster than it radiates out by itself.
An air conditioner performs the work of moving heat from one place into another. There's a reason your compressor is outside, that's because if it were inside the heat pump wouldn't work. You're expending energy to move heat generating more heat, you'd just heat up your house. The compressor wouldn't work outside if the heat wasn't convected or conducted off the radiator into the air, there has to be a temperature differential between the ambient environment and the radiator.
With the earth, there's nowhere to pump the heat to, there's only vacuum. You'd have to convert the heat to something else like light, radiate it out, expend energy to do it, and in the process generate more waste what from that energy that will then radiate out at the natural pace. At best in this process, you'd break even and just be really expending energy beaming light out into space and accomplish nothing with regard to the heat you're trying to move.