Can we air condition our way out of extreme heat? part 1: a primer on air conditioning
part 1: a primer on air conditioning
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Why don't we build a tunnel to space? Heat goes up so it'll go out to space where it's cold and some cold air would come in. Win win
Heat doesn't go up. Hot air rises because it's less dense than cold air. You know what's less dense than hot air though? Vacuum. That's a good thing, though, because we don't want to be hemorrhaging atmosphere.
Even if we could build a physical heat sink sticking out of the atmosphere somehow, it would be less protected from solar radiation than anything inside the atmosphere, so if it were facing the sun it probably wouldn't work.
Even if we had the resources and like, enough readily available materials on Earth to make some sort of retractable heat sink sticking out of the night-side of the planet, it'd probably require more energy consumption to create than would be worth it.
Probably the best way to cool things down is to quit burning so much shit and quit knocking forests down.
Are you assuming heats gender? /s