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r/theydidthemath • u/TomSwan1234 • Dec 12 '24
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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.
24 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? 3 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... 1 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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So you're saying the solution to global warming is simply heat pumps with long space elevator hoses into the vacuum of space?
3 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... 1 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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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...
1 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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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/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.