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Cooling panel sends excess heat back into outer space (Eliminate A/C? Power companies won't like)
Venturebeat Green ^
| April 15, 2013
| Chitra Rakesh
Posted on 04/16/2013 7:41:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Don't open the windows to catch a breeze!
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:03:31 PM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: taterjay
Cthulhu will become angry and seek vengeance.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:03:57 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m as dumb as a box of rocks, obviously. I don’t get it: if the ambient temperature is 95 degrees (Florida summer), how is reflecting sunlight off the roof supposed to “cool” a house enough to do away with the A/C?
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:04:17 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: taterjay
What about the space warming that will take place and alter the universe? Could be bad.Global Galactic Warming!
We need to tax it!!
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:04:19 PM PDT
by
airborne
(MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let’s not celebrate just yet. It’s completely OBVIOUS that this will cause Universal Warming.
To: Nateman
I suspect its a scam. A simple Mirror will reflect back sunlight but it wont make the house any cooler than the temperature of the air.
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I'm not sure. What isn't discussed much in the article is the mechanism for converting the heat from, for example, your house into energy in the particular infrared frequency band that will pass unattenuated through the atmosphere to the ultra cold of outer space. Thermodynamically this makes outer space a heat sink for your home. Not bad if they can actually do it.
To: airborne
Romulans first. They are wealthy I hear.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:10:25 PM PDT
by
taterjay
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It is time for some good old ass kicking of the rulers of the world.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:13:09 PM PDT
by
logitech
(It is time.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sounds like it might be a good way to bring on a glaciation cycle.
I don’t think we want to do that, no matter how much putting Chicago under a mile of ice appeals at first glance.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:15:52 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Cicero
See my previous. We’re on the same page.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:16:40 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What happens when it is hot and overcast?
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:19:09 PM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(see post #6)
To: jeffc
The system does more than reflect all the sunlight. It is also transparent to the IR that your house is (always) emitting, and that IR energy is radiated into space.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:20:12 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: InterceptPoint
Basically, you are using space as a heat sink.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:20:15 PM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(see post #6)
To: old-ager
It sounds great but at 100 watts per square meter it would require a great deal of area.If, and that is a big if, it really is 100W/M, then that is actually quite good.
My math might be off, but for example my house has about a 1400 square foot roof (Larger actually, but from a top view, its about 1400 sq ft). That translates roughly into about 130 square meters. That would mean that a roof of this material could radiate away about 13,000 watts. According to this site (http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_tz.htm), that works out to about 3.7 tons of refrigeration. My house only needs 2.5.
For that reason, and others of practicality, actual system inefficiencies, and so on, I will file this, for now, in the "Too Good To Be True" file.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:21:27 PM PDT
by
Paradox
(Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
For an encore, he's making X-Ray specs that work.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Re:
" It reflects visible light, and also radiates heat back out with a frequency that allows the infrared waves to pass unimpeded through the atmosphere, back out into space."This contrary to what I have been led to believe. That is, the alpha, beta, gamma rays are short waves and when they strike earth, they elongate when they bounce back - that's why you're more apt to get sunburned on a cloudy day because they wont penetrate the clouds and therefore they resonate between the clouds and earth, kind of like a microwave.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:30:19 PM PDT
by
Cribb
(Home of Conservatism - America's middle class.)
To: old-ager
It sounds great but at 100 watts per square meter it would require a great deal of area.Actually, that's about 9w/sf or 31 btu/sf, or 390 sf/ton, which is a pretty typical AC load. Course that in turn makes me think the 100w/m^2 is bunk.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:44:51 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Now Al Gore will have to stop galactic warming.Course we'll need to send him on a fact finding mission. And the guy who's supposed to gas up the rocket, might put in x liters instead of x gallons.....mistakes do happen....
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:50:47 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Still Thinking
I like it. Moroned on the other side of Mars. Marooned too.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:55:01 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Obama is the Chicken Little of politics)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Yeah, let the Martians deal with the idiot for a while. They’ll probably sit in their SUV’s and roll their squinty little alien eyes, just like back home.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:58:12 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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