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The question was 'what about a solar powered ac for cooling?', yes? Giant radiators don't make ice. The proposed method of pumping heat into someplace hot to
by eesmith 1y ago
The question was 'what about a solar powered ac for cooling?', yes?
Giant radiators don't make ice.
The proposed method of pumping heat into someplace hot to make it hotter doesn't work. But there area definitely ways to do solar powered ac for cooling.
- IAmBroom 1y agoThe Second Law of Thermodynamics would like a word with you.
- eesmith 1y agoI provided links. It's how propane-powered fridges work. And it was a homework problem in thermodynamics class.
- im3w1l 1y agoSince this discussion is still active, I think hwillis was the only one that got my idea. Pumping heat into the radiators will make them hotter then they would be by just passive conduction, and then the T^4 radiation scaling means that the radiators will start radiating a lot, i.e. a lot of heat will be sent into deep space.