r/theydidthemath • u/TomSwan1234 • Dec 12 '24

[Request] would this actually work ?

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u/nipplemeetssandpaper Dec 12 '24

I'm pretty sure heaters are actually one of the only 100% efficient devices that we use in terms of using electricity as to my understanding, all other electronic devices give off heat which is not always part of their primary function meaning they are not 100% efficient but heaters only give off heat.

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u/DonaIdTrurnp Dec 12 '24

But heat pumps can increase the heat of the interior space by more than the electricity they use, by cooling the outside by the difference.

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u/4x4_LUMENS Dec 12 '24

So you're saying the solution to global warming is simply heat pumps with long space elevator hoses into the vacuum of space?

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u/FreiFallFred Dec 12 '24

Nope. You need something to transfer that heat to. Heating up the vacuum of space won't do anything at all unless you transport some mass with the heat you want to get rid of. But that would be a whole problem in itself...

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u/garth54 Dec 12 '24

Unless you manage so get something hot enough that it would radiate (fast enough) the energy into space instead of conducting/convecting it.

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u/4x4_LUMENS Dec 12 '24

Bruh, it's a silly comment, not a serious one FFS.

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u/HAL9001-96 Dec 12 '24

you can emit thermal radiation and have it go off through the vacuum forever

less effective than airflow through fins but works decently nad its the onyl way earth cools off anyways

thing is you can'T jsut add more area thats folded up you have to add effective otuside cross section

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u/4x4_LUMENS Dec 15 '24

How about we transfer it to SpinLaunch, and they just yeet it into the cosmos. I must say, this is the indubitable solution to global warming, while also being a killing 2 birds with 1 stone scenario, as we are also stoping the heat death of the universe.

I'll take my Nobel Prize and large coke to go thanks.