Imaging if this technology could cool a data centre.
Edit: I was not involved in this project. You are wasting your time asking me questions.
Imaging if this technology could cool a data centre.
Edit: I was not involved in this project. You are wasting your time asking me questions.
Im sure that this doesn’t violate the laws of thermodynamics, but the headline makes it sound like this magics away the heat without using electricity or putting the heat anywhere.
Ye canna change the laws of physics, Captin.
Also Titanium is a bitch to extract if I recall correctly, hence the price. Still, options are good.
No, but you can write a bullshit article that has very little bearing on reality.
Goes quadruple for its title.
Agreed. But you can cool without heating the planet. It doesn’t violate the laws of thermodynamics because it just uses a larger system - I.e. nocturnal radiative cooling.
In this case they just mean its not contributing to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
But it is possible to do cooling without heating the earths atmosphere, if you manage to yeet the heat into space somehow, e.g. Paint that reflects the heat as light that passes through the atmosphere into space: https://youtu.be/KDRnEm-B3AI
I did watch a real good set of videos by Tech Ingredients, the chap’s gotta be either a lecturer (and) or his special interest is DIY-ing everything from pulse detonation rocket engines (that turned out better than the ones ol muskrat’s using) to using an underground heatsink made of plastic tubing and carbon saturated cement outside his workshop for an in-window AC unit, turning an 800W drain down to a 300W drain for the same cooling.
He was using some kind of fine particle paint to create a large Infrared radiating surface that shed heat so well it got below ambient air temp because it was shedding IR directly up out into space
The only unfortunate limit is shielding it from catching any outside radiation and making sure all the IR actually leaves the system, he had to build a shade to protect it from trees and buildings which would have been effectively shining IR back into the system.
This video;
https://youtu.be/dNs_kNilSjk
It doesn’t use refrigerant, which is full of HFCs, HCFCs and CFCs.
Maybe it whisks the heat away to space?
What through a wormhole?
There’s a lot of air between the refrigerator and space I think it might get in the way
I know, I was kidding
It is possible to get IR radiation out almost directly to space, its the same principle for why clear nights are always colder- no cloud layer to bounce the IR back at the surface and keep it warm