> or artificially cool surface ocean water
Good curiosity, but they would have to put out atleast an equal amount of heat into the atmosphere! (2nd law of thermodynamics).
Good curiosity, but they would have to put out atleast an equal amount of heat into the atmosphere! (2nd law of thermodynamics).
We have some materials that are much more thermally conductive in one direction than the other. Pair the two, and it might just be possible to shed some heat into space at night.
Entropy always wins. It’s the heat trapped in the atmosphere that’s killing us. The universe is a mighty big heat sink though.
Bad analogy and you cannot rely on conduction to transfer heat in space. The only means of heat transfer is radiation.
The answer is “you can, if you have some place to put the heat”. What would you call the counterpart to a heat source?