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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Just like Daddy puts in his drink every night.

And then he gets mad.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Just one small problem, Ben. Where’s the heat from the condenser going to go?! FUCKING AQUAMAN?!?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We are going to bottle the heat and return it to the sun!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

ONCE AND FOR ALL!

[–] artificial_unintelligence 3 points 1 year ago

They just sell it to the highest bidder. Who doesn’t like a little extra warmth?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think the purpose isn't to directly cool the planet, but the ice has much higher reflectivity and absorbs less heat from the sun compared to the ocean.

If this thing can produce ice at a large enough scale, it could have a real effect. However that doesn't solve the issue of those gaseous dudes beating up the escaping heat men and trapping them in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We package it and send it to the moon. It's cold on the moon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's being cooled down by the ice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This sounds like one of those ideas on the level of "If we punch another hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse gasses can escape!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is beautiful

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Solving climate change with a digital tech demo hosted on a GoFundMe page is a worse idea than even comedy writers could come up with

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing the goal is to convince a few people on the edge that we've already solved it, so they care less. Slowing down the movements progress ever so slightly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

ooh I wanted to make something like this but use a hyper-reflective surface(that sends IR rays into space causing a net heat loss) to cool the water, I was more planning for it to be in warmer waters and "push" the water though a heat sink using tesla valves but those might not have been needed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Life imitates Futurama

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Has some real "why doesn't Tesla put an alternator on the wheels" energy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

-That won't work.

-But why? Mom? Moooom! Why won't it work? Moom!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saw a study recently that placed refrigeration management as one of the most impactful things regarding climate change.. pretty sure that doing it on a big scale is a horrible idea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it’s not possible unless the heat is being transferred outside of Earth and that requires a ton of energy. Also Kyle Hill did a video where he did the math and the cube required would be over 30 km^3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, so I could just make a bunch of ice cubes in my fridge and throw them in the ocean! It would only take me the rest of life to make one of these at home!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bestagons will save us all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think letting freon leak into the atmosphere was actually reversing global warming so Big Air Conditioner started making up lies about “CFCs”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I wonder if they realize that, according to the laws of physics and thermodynamics, the amount of heat and energy they consume and put into the world in order to produce those ice blocks, actually exceeds the amount they're removing. So making ice blocks might help in the short term, but in the long term, they might actually make it worse, if not for the arctic, than for other places on the planet. Unless they're doing other stuff like planting trees, the best they could ever hope for is to simply break even; to cancel themselves out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The ice isn't to cool the water, the ice is to reflect most of the incoming light.

Sea ice keeps the polar regions cool and helps moderate global climate. Sea ice has a much brighter surface compared to many other Earth surfaces, particularly the surrounding ocean. The darker ocean reflects only 6 percent of the sun’s energy and absorbs the rest, while sea ice reflects 50 to 70 percent of the incoming energy.

-- https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/sea-ice/quick-facts-about-sea-ice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much, i was looking for this comment. The issue with 1°, 1.5°, 2° C of warming is that at some point you will break a critical level where the process is greatly accelerated because less/no sunlight is reflected by the ice caps, further increasing the energy absorption. This is especially apparent in Greenland and the Alps (and probably other glaciers), where the uncovered earth now absorbs WAY more light than the sheets of ice did, thus essentially making the melting process irreversible (at least in our comprehension).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suppose but if you are reflecting it into greenhouse gases then the air temperatures go up instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. Greenhouse gases don't absorb all wavelengths of light. Generally they only absorb parts of the IR spectrum. The 50-70% of light reflected isn't absorbed by greenhouse gasses because it's not in a wavelength that it can absorb, it mostly radiates back into space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, and much of that energy would be absorbed on the way in. So the additional energy absorbed on the way out depends on how the surface material changes the reflected light or later radiates the absorbed energy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ONCE AND FOR ALL!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The site says it’s an architecture journal so…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could it be that the change in reflectivity compensates that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

you'd have to source the ice from someplace cold. Like drop a comet on the pole or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Surely they're won't be a stupider subm-

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How many iceblocks to save the eart?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Globa waba?