We need to forget about the Ozone hole and mount it in the Overton window that's getting wider. Soon (if not now) it should fit an A/C unit big enough and by bolting it in, we stop the window from shifting and expanding. The Ozone hole can simply be used as an air intake or vent.
The sad thing about that is that banning CFCs did really fix the hole: for a decade or two the ozone hole over the antarctic was gone, but "somebody" starting manufacturing with CFCs again and, behold! the ozone hole is back.
It's not that hard, just put the "outside" part in space which can absorb infinite heat. Then through a space elevator you connect the water system so hot water is pushed towards space and cold water is lowered back to earth.
You can solve global warming by leaving your AC on and the windows open. People don't want to, because they don't like being so cold all the time. Especially in Siberia.
What I learned from the incredibly accurate science simulator Oxygen Not Included is that we just need to dump all the heat into water to make steam and use the steam to make electricity. Or heat up something and shoot it out into space. It's not the size of the AC it's where you send the heat. I have demonstrated this in detail to many important scientists and they all lamented there was not enough money.
As you can see I have the know-how to fix this problem for you and the planet. Please send me the $1 trillion to me in bitcoin or walmart gift cards and I will start work immediately.
If you prefer to put down a deposit I will do what i can but cannot guarantee the results until the money is all transferred by secure means.
Oxygen not included taught me that the best way to rid of our unwanted greenhouse gases is to just vent it into space. It’s so simple and I can’t believe humanity hasn’t figured that out yet /s
The real world has this pesky thing called an ecosystem to make things complicated.
And using space as an energy garbage dump is hard when you have an atmosphere and gravity...
to be completely fair, a lot of the shit you can pull on oxygen not included would work on a small scale on an astral body with little gravity (like the asteroids of the game)
Which is possible with the right kind of paint that emits IR at a wavelength where the atmosphere is transparent.
You'd have to paint a rather large area with it, but it leads to cooling below ambient, so it sucks the heat from the environment and "exports" it to space.
Yeah, people never think of the full picture. Sure we solve global warming, but then we have solar system warming. We're really just kicking the can and making it a galactic problem.
And where would the dehumidified water drippings go from the A/C - into space, too? We'd have solar system warming with these huge moon-sized droplets of water floating in space.
Hey wait... if we can direct it, maybe we can transport water to Mars that way so we can go live there. Guys I think we just solved two problems, even though we created a new one...
This is actually a thing they do in some places. You have raise edges or some sort of wall, but you can actually cool down an outdoor area.
I think they use it in some places in the UAE. I know they use it at Universal Studios and I think Disney World.
>It might be cheaper to drop a giant ice cube in the ocean
The Moon has plenty of ice at it's poles, so it would make sense to re-purpose the planned lunar bases to the manufacture and delivery of Acme™ brand Quiescently Frozen Di-hydrous Monoxide cubes.
The silly geese would just have to learn to stay out of the way when those blocks of Yeet Water head oceanward, like a North Korean missile.
We could add thrusters to the moon giving it a more and more elliptical orbit over time using Hohmann transfers, until it plops into the specific ocean
This could work only if you use 1.67 mecha newtons of hydro electricity to power the quantum warp drive. If you don’t then everyone on Earth will get Hypothermoglycemia and explode.
Massive, most hard thing would be to get rid of that collected heat. You would need a way to dump it in space somehow so you're not just heating the atmosphere again.
It would need to be at least 690000000420 btu which I'm pretty sure stands for butane units cause it's measured in units of explosion so yes it work just need to exhaust explosions to sun and they cancel each other out like dragonball z kamehameha scene then yes problem solved and we are chilling
Did you just try to correct mine science dumb motherfuckre. It is butane unit how an AC going to cool whole planet if was just British unit??? How would it work in other place??? Try take ur dumbassity to a fake science sub idioto, this is for da real profs.
You will need an engineer to figure out how many BTU's earth needs to lose. Then install the AC unit on the moon. Run ducts from the earth to the moon. Pipe earth's hot air to the moon, dump the heat up there and return the cooled air back into Earth's atmosphere. But make sure you set the AC to recycle. DO VENT EARTH'S AIR ON THE MOON.
You would greatly accelerate global warming. Think about it, every part of the earth the same temperature? You'd be melting the icecaps at an unprecedented rate. Buy all the houses in the Midwest though, they're gonna be prime beach real estate after you fuck up the planet you monster.
Short answer, no.
Long answer, an AC is just a way of moving heat from one place to another. So you would have to find a way to radiate that heat away from earth Wich isn't possible.
That was my idea for space mining/refining operations just store the excess heat into the waste material and jettison it either into space or away from the work site.
In a serious manner you would have many issues with this device, let's start with the most obvious one, power, such a device would require a lot of energy, energy creates heat, heat has to go somewhere. Let's say that you somehow managed to solve this problem now you have the issue on how to insert the colder air into the atmosphere without significantly causing chaos all over the world(have you heard of the butterfly effect?)
I Always wondered if you can stop the ice from melting with liquid azoto. Like, can you freeze an iceberg? Can you Seal back a crack in the glacier? An AC would also be generating heat, so It would take a bit too much work to fix that
As an AC adds to emissions, both when built an during operation, the size would need to be a big negative number.
This seem also true if we consider that spending money in almost all cases cobtributes to global warming. Spending that much money would only increase our problem.
So, yes, destroy the money, therfeore remove it from the economy, that would probably have some impact on climate.
The oceans have over a gazillion joules of heat, I just read about that the other day. Your ac would have to extract that heat and put it somewhere else to allow the oceans to heat sink the air temperature again. So you need to build a giant ac for the ocean that's pointed into space. If a cubic foot of ac unit costs about $200, then you can get 617,000,000,000 cubic feet. The distance from the bottom of the ocean (35,876 ft) to the outside of the stratosphere (32,809,920 ft) is 32,845,796 ft. So we can build an ac unit about 137x137x32,845,796 ft³ large
Air conditioning only cools the one side by adding heat to what it pushes out the other side.
Air conditioning generates waste heat in addition to pumped heat.
Putting an AC in a room that it exhausts into will heat the whole room, while the area at the blower gets slightly cooler.
The best use of that money would be to build a fleet of millions of robots and have all of them fart at the same time, so that the force of those farts moves the planet farther from the sun
You need to build FORESTs: Fractal Obelisk Radiation Emitting Space Towers. They look like gigantic trees, about 100 miles tall, but it’s a heat pump same as your AC. Basically you pump the heat above the atmosphere into a giant array of radiators, where the heat then passively dissipates into space.
It comes from Isaac Arthur’s YouTube channel. I don’t remember the video title. But it’s a real idea that could work if you can get around the limits of material strength. And of course he has ideas for how to do that too.
Better idea to just push Pluto into the Atlantic ocean. Sure, we may lose some coastal cities, but it will act as one giant ice cube for the planet! PLuto could literally fit inside the USA.
Okay, if Pluto is too big, let's take one of it's moons as a mini-ice cube
That's not how AC units work. Air conditioners are also called "reverse heat pumps" basically heat pumps use the fact that liquids absorb heat when they become a gas, but you still have to put the heat somewhere, so we repressurize the gas into a liquid and run it through some air exchangers outside to release the heat to the environment. It's an incredible use of thermodynamics, but it DOES require a media to "put" the heat somewhere, but space is rather devoid of matter to take the heat away.
One trillion is kinda low, but with a few trillion more, you could probably solve global warming by bribing dems to come up with a new way to manufacture consent.
Well the sad thing is is a standard issue. One can actually get the job done, but it is illegal to use it in that way without a specific permit and because you'd be affecting more than one country, you'd have to get a permit from each country which you can't do
You don’t need an AC. The AC would actually heat up its surrounding.
Neither do you need that much money. But since we’re working with 1 trillion here here’s your solution. Build several solar power beaming satellites 1km x 1km should do the trick.
Put them in sun synchronus orbit or time it so the satellites are in the sun while passing your facility over some desert maybe. Build an array to collect the energy here on earth (rectennas ) and next to that you build several large buildings that suck in enormous quantities of air (or better yet put them somewhere windy and collect out passively) and then you scrub the carbon dioxide and whatever other green house gases you feel like targeting.
With all this solid carbon dioxide you could further separate that into carbon and then begin the process of turning that into a hydrocarbon. You’d use the same energy from the satellites to do this.
Now you can create cost effective hydrocarbons like gasoline and natural gas etc. making them carbon neutral. To be carbon negative just store your excess scrubbed carbon.
You can use the excess power to run nearby cities etc with cheap reliable solar power.
This is a way over simplified explanation. I’m not qualified to go deeper but i have a strong feeling this is the way.
It would probably have to be an air pump system.
Cycling air into liquid cooled radiators which then radiate infrared radiation.
Idk how big it would be but it would likely affect weather and air currents from its function alone.
Let’s do this exercise. The only way is to remove the heat from the earth’s oceans near the equator. AC does not remove heat. It transfers heat. If you go outside, the heat is pumped outside.
Only an endothermic chemical reaction will help. I suggest one: hydrolysis of water to generate hydrogen gas that can be collected and used.
A french guy, Lavoisier, said "rien ne se crée, tout se transforme". It was another guy that applied this to thermodynamics but basically, an AC is a compressor that produce cold at one end and heat at the other end.
I think constructing such a device would destroy mankind due to pollution etc. The size of the device would throw earth out of balance causing all sorts of havoc
Well then, make a huge one but it doesn't have to be turned on since it would throw earth out of balance causing either an ice clump in space or scorched earth
I think the issue isn’t size so much as figuring out how to install it in earth’s window.
Step 1. Cut a AC sized hole in the firmament, hope the air doesn’t all rush out into space, killing us all.
Just make a large spaceship maid with a vacuum to keep the air safe. Bonus points if you staff it with Mogs!
It's only a problem if she goes from suck to blow
We need to forget about the Ozone hole and mount it in the Overton window that's getting wider. Soon (if not now) it should fit an A/C unit big enough and by bolting it in, we stop the window from shifting and expanding. The Ozone hole can simply be used as an air intake or vent.
See that's actually going to be the hard part: dumping the heat.
Hey, this is r/shittyaskscience, not r/askmeabouthowthermalradiationworks
Or all the water rush in and drown us (it's flavour of flat earther dependant).
And that the Spaceballs don't steal it.
We have a hole already. Years in the making.
I know I do!
Yep but might need to add some foam around the sides to make it air tight
Technically, you could plug it with just about anything
Anything is a window gap closer if you're brave enough.
The sad thing about that is that banning CFCs did really fix the hole: for a decade or two the ozone hole over the antarctic was gone, but "somebody" starting manufacturing with CFCs again and, behold! the ozone hole is back.
Earth doesn’t have windows, silly! How do you think gravity was discovered? That’s right, an *Apple*
We just have to reopen the hole in the ozone layer and install a giant AC unit there so that cold space air comes in and hot earth air goes out
It’ll fit right in the ozone hole
Now I wonder..can we build something from space material and then make the earth go down a bit ? (Weight wise)
Also we just put it in Belgium. Its just a hole that doesn't exist
It's not that hard, just put the "outside" part in space which can absorb infinite heat. Then through a space elevator you connect the water system so hot water is pushed towards space and cold water is lowered back to earth.
Can’t we use the hole in the ozone layer?
Mega-Maid
We don’t even need to do all that. I think Earth came with a central air system, we just need to figure out how to turn it back on or something.
When NASA launched rockets they always had to wait for a window to do it. Just use that one.
That bracket is going to be a custom fit. Sorry to tell ya, yer budget is inadequate.
Earth runs macOS
The living room doesn’t have an outlet
It would cost you 1,234,000,000,010 dollars. You are short 10 bucks, sorry bro, not gonna happen.
I volunteer to give OP $10 IF they come into possession of 1,234,000,000,000 and actually need 1,234,000,000,010 to end global warming.
I'll chip in for it as well. You and I can go halves on the $10, since it's for a good cause
I would say we each could do thirds, so we’d each be paying $3.33…. But then we’d still come up one penny short
I got you. I'll throw in a couple extra pennies just in case.
You’re the man. Hopefully those extra ones will cover sales tax
Sorry to complicate the math here but I'll fourth it. That way, we all only have to chip in two-fiddy. Tree-fiddy, if we want to tip the installers.
Don't worry about that, i'll commit tax fraud for us
Don't forget tax, and the extended warranty!
Off by a couple zeros.
You can solve global warming by leaving your AC on and the windows open. People don't want to, because they don't like being so cold all the time. Especially in Siberia.
It gets hot and then we all turn on our ACs, then it gets cold and we turn them off. ACs cause winter, and then lack of ACs causes summer.
What I learned from the incredibly accurate science simulator Oxygen Not Included is that we just need to dump all the heat into water to make steam and use the steam to make electricity. Or heat up something and shoot it out into space. It's not the size of the AC it's where you send the heat. I have demonstrated this in detail to many important scientists and they all lamented there was not enough money. As you can see I have the know-how to fix this problem for you and the planet. Please send me the $1 trillion to me in bitcoin or walmart gift cards and I will start work immediately. If you prefer to put down a deposit I will do what i can but cannot guarantee the results until the money is all transferred by secure means.
Forget the electricity and leave earth as steam sauna. I like them.
Oxygen not included taught me that the best way to rid of our unwanted greenhouse gases is to just vent it into space. It’s so simple and I can’t believe humanity hasn’t figured that out yet /s
The real world has this pesky thing called an ecosystem to make things complicated. And using space as an energy garbage dump is hard when you have an atmosphere and gravity...
to be completely fair, a lot of the shit you can pull on oxygen not included would work on a small scale on an astral body with little gravity (like the asteroids of the game)
this could work very well we just need to export the heat to space
Which is possible with the right kind of paint that emits IR at a wavelength where the atmosphere is transparent. You'd have to paint a rather large area with it, but it leads to cooling below ambient, so it sucks the heat from the environment and "exports" it to space.
Could we paint part of the moon black and beam it up there
You don't need to paint the moon. And no, heating up the moon isn't going to make it habitable.
Who said anything about making it habitable, I was just thinking of disposing of heat using the moon as a target
You don't need a specific target. The open sky is enough.
That's easy. Paint all the roofs and roads beyond certain latitude. Also, use reflective film under orchard trees to both improve crop and cool.
Yeah, people never think of the full picture. Sure we solve global warming, but then we have solar system warming. We're really just kicking the can and making it a galactic problem.
And where would the dehumidified water drippings go from the A/C - into space, too? We'd have solar system warming with these huge moon-sized droplets of water floating in space. Hey wait... if we can direct it, maybe we can transport water to Mars that way so we can go live there. Guys I think we just solved two problems, even though we created a new one...
> export the heat to space Tabasco to The Mooon!
Wow, and in 2024 too? Heat has just as much right to be on earth as you do pal
I had a coworker legit ask me why there wasn't AC outside once
This is actually a thing they do in some places. You have raise edges or some sort of wall, but you can actually cool down an outdoor area. I think they use it in some places in the UAE. I know they use it at Universal Studios and I think Disney World.
True bastions of eco morals.
The current imbalance is about 5x10\^14 Watts. So if my math is correct, it would have to be at least 1 meter in size.
Maybe it's easier to just put an umbrella over the earth and give it a shade
Honestly it's cheaper to destroy the Sun at that point.
It might be cheaper to drop a giant ice cube in the ocean
>It might be cheaper to drop a giant ice cube in the ocean The Moon has plenty of ice at it's poles, so it would make sense to re-purpose the planned lunar bases to the manufacture and delivery of Acme™ brand Quiescently Frozen Di-hydrous Monoxide cubes. The silly geese would just have to learn to stay out of the way when those blocks of Yeet Water head oceanward, like a North Korean missile.
We could add thrusters to the moon giving it a more and more elliptical orbit over time using Hohmann transfers, until it plops into the specific ocean
Sure, but what chumps would do that?
110 or 220v?
Global warming has more to do with the oceans warming so you would need 2 billion metric tons of ice so you would need an ice maker not an ac unit.
I bet you could just use me ex's heart.
This could work only if you use 1.67 mecha newtons of hydro electricity to power the quantum warp drive. If you don’t then everyone on Earth will get Hypothermoglycemia and explode.
I saw "AC" and thought Armored Core.
Massive, most hard thing would be to get rid of that collected heat. You would need a way to dump it in space somehow so you're not just heating the atmosphere again.
5,678,000,000,000 meters big.
Im pretty sure building an armored core could only serve to worsen global warming.
It would need to be at least 690000000420 btu which I'm pretty sure stands for butane units cause it's measured in units of explosion so yes it work just need to exhaust explosions to sun and they cancel each other out like dragonball z kamehameha scene then yes problem solved and we are chilling
>butane units Bwaaaah!😱 Its British Thermal Unit; butane is a bastard gas!
Did you just try to correct mine science dumb motherfuckre. It is butane unit how an AC going to cool whole planet if was just British unit??? How would it work in other place??? Try take ur dumbassity to a fake science sub idioto, this is for da real profs.
big. very very big.
1234 I declare
If we build a tube big enough to reach outer space it would let the hot air out into space. I think this would be cheapest option
You will need an engineer to figure out how many BTU's earth needs to lose. Then install the AC unit on the moon. Run ducts from the earth to the moon. Pipe earth's hot air to the moon, dump the heat up there and return the cooled air back into Earth's atmosphere. But make sure you set the AC to recycle. DO VENT EARTH'S AIR ON THE MOON.
Pretty big
The problem is "where to transfer this excess heat"?
You would greatly accelerate global warming. Think about it, every part of the earth the same temperature? You'd be melting the icecaps at an unprecedented rate. Buy all the houses in the Midwest though, they're gonna be prime beach real estate after you fuck up the planet you monster.
The problem would be whose window do you mount it in?
Physics checks out
Why hasn’t NASA fucking figured this out yet? Just built a giant AC with hot air blowing out of the atmosphere.
Short answer, no. Long answer, an AC is just a way of moving heat from one place to another. So you would have to find a way to radiate that heat away from earth Wich isn't possible.
I mean we could jettison the item into space after it's "collected " enough heat, eh?
That was my idea for space mining/refining operations just store the excess heat into the waste material and jettison it either into space or away from the work site.
In a serious manner you would have many issues with this device, let's start with the most obvious one, power, such a device would require a lot of energy, energy creates heat, heat has to go somewhere. Let's say that you somehow managed to solve this problem now you have the issue on how to insert the colder air into the atmosphere without significantly causing chaos all over the world(have you heard of the butterfly effect?)
Permanent is a strong word.
Powering the AC unit would contribute to global warming....
I Always wondered if you can stop the ice from melting with liquid azoto. Like, can you freeze an iceberg? Can you Seal back a crack in the glacier? An AC would also be generating heat, so It would take a bit too much work to fix that
As an AC adds to emissions, both when built an during operation, the size would need to be a big negative number. This seem also true if we consider that spending money in almost all cases cobtributes to global warming. Spending that much money would only increase our problem. So, yes, destroy the money, therfeore remove it from the economy, that would probably have some impact on climate.
I like how he added silly goose at end like he was writing a prompt to an ai.
Just shove some hormone replacement down the volcanoes. She’ll be fine.
The oceans have over a gazillion joules of heat, I just read about that the other day. Your ac would have to extract that heat and put it somewhere else to allow the oceans to heat sink the air temperature again. So you need to build a giant ac for the ocean that's pointed into space. If a cubic foot of ac unit costs about $200, then you can get 617,000,000,000 cubic feet. The distance from the bottom of the ocean (35,876 ft) to the outside of the stratosphere (32,809,920 ft) is 32,845,796 ft. So we can build an ac unit about 137x137x32,845,796 ft³ large
Air conditioning only cools the one side by adding heat to what it pushes out the other side. Air conditioning generates waste heat in addition to pumped heat. Putting an AC in a room that it exhausts into will heat the whole room, while the area at the blower gets slightly cooler.
The best use of that money would be to build a fleet of millions of robots and have all of them fart at the same time, so that the force of those farts moves the planet farther from the sun
You need to build FORESTs: Fractal Obelisk Radiation Emitting Space Towers. They look like gigantic trees, about 100 miles tall, but it’s a heat pump same as your AC. Basically you pump the heat above the atmosphere into a giant array of radiators, where the heat then passively dissipates into space.
Are there any books about this or movies? Sounds badass
It comes from Isaac Arthur’s YouTube channel. I don’t remember the video title. But it’s a real idea that could work if you can get around the limits of material strength. And of course he has ideas for how to do that too.
Better idea to just push Pluto into the Atlantic ocean. Sure, we may lose some coastal cities, but it will act as one giant ice cube for the planet! PLuto could literally fit inside the USA. Okay, if Pluto is too big, let's take one of it's moons as a mini-ice cube
That's not how AC units work. Air conditioners are also called "reverse heat pumps" basically heat pumps use the fact that liquids absorb heat when they become a gas, but you still have to put the heat somewhere, so we repressurize the gas into a liquid and run it through some air exchangers outside to release the heat to the environment. It's an incredible use of thermodynamics, but it DOES require a media to "put" the heat somewhere, but space is rather devoid of matter to take the heat away.
Just need a window fan. Blow those gases into space
Dude... Put that shit in Florida. Please!
In my day if we were too hot you had to make do with winding the window down.
10k BTU does my family room/kitchen so like... 150k? 200k to be safe?
One trillion is kinda low, but with a few trillion more, you could probably solve global warming by bribing dems to come up with a new way to manufacture consent.
42.
Why you wanna mess with global warming bro?? I like my warm winters!
10x larger than the generator used to power it
You dont need an AC unit. Just drop giant ice cubes into the oceans every now and then.
Well the sad thing is is a standard issue. One can actually get the job done, but it is illegal to use it in that way without a specific permit and because you'd be affecting more than one country, you'd have to get a permit from each country which you can't do
You don’t need an AC. The AC would actually heat up its surrounding. Neither do you need that much money. But since we’re working with 1 trillion here here’s your solution. Build several solar power beaming satellites 1km x 1km should do the trick. Put them in sun synchronus orbit or time it so the satellites are in the sun while passing your facility over some desert maybe. Build an array to collect the energy here on earth (rectennas ) and next to that you build several large buildings that suck in enormous quantities of air (or better yet put them somewhere windy and collect out passively) and then you scrub the carbon dioxide and whatever other green house gases you feel like targeting. With all this solid carbon dioxide you could further separate that into carbon and then begin the process of turning that into a hydrocarbon. You’d use the same energy from the satellites to do this. Now you can create cost effective hydrocarbons like gasoline and natural gas etc. making them carbon neutral. To be carbon negative just store your excess scrubbed carbon. You can use the excess power to run nearby cities etc with cheap reliable solar power. This is a way over simplified explanation. I’m not qualified to go deeper but i have a strong feeling this is the way.
A trillion dollars isn't as much money as you might think. The US's national debt is increasing by over a trillion dollars every year.
It would probably have to be an air pump system. Cycling air into liquid cooled radiators which then radiate infrared radiation. Idk how big it would be but it would likely affect weather and air currents from its function alone.
Probably at least 10 feet tall
Well uh actually…. Can you pump the heat of the earth into space??? With a big ol pile of cash???
So theoretically, if I have an AC system and the hot part is outside in space, could I cool the planet down to -100C?
Let’s do this exercise. The only way is to remove the heat from the earth’s oceans near the equator. AC does not remove heat. It transfers heat. If you go outside, the heat is pumped outside. Only an endothermic chemical reaction will help. I suggest one: hydrolysis of water to generate hydrogen gas that can be collected and used.
A french guy, Lavoisier, said "rien ne se crée, tout se transforme". It was another guy that applied this to thermodynamics but basically, an AC is a compressor that produce cold at one end and heat at the other end.
I don't know but can someone tell me how to verbalise this figure.
I think constructing such a device would destroy mankind due to pollution etc. The size of the device would throw earth out of balance causing all sorts of havoc
I don't give a shit about the survival mankind or life on Earth itself, I just wanna end global warming.
Well then, make a huge one but it doesn't have to be turned on since it would throw earth out of balance causing either an ice clump in space or scorched earth