To reduce global warming...

[Philippine Mango]

An airconditioner is 30% efficient, if you were to power the airconditioner via fossil fuels you'd be generating more heat than you'd be cooling. But, if you were to use solar power instead, hypothetically speaking, if you were to have air conditioners powered via solar power, would you be able to 'cool down' the earth? Because the sun's rays already hit the earth every day, I'm just wondering if taking that energy to power an array of airconditioners would work or not. It's hypothetically speaking of course.

 

[dighn]

airconditioners merely "move" heat. in an enclosed system like the earth they just generate heat no matter what you do, unless you can pump heat out of the system (into space)

 

[KLin]

No.

 

[mundane]

Air conditioners generate more heat than they remove from the air, I thought.

 

[moshquerade]

anyone ever have a mouse pop out of their airconditioner?

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
An airconditioner is 30% efficient, if you were to power the airconditioner via fossil fuels you'd be generating more heat than you'd be cooling. But, if you were to use solar power instead, hypothetically speaking, if you were to have air conditioners powered via solar power, would you be able to 'cool down' the earth? Because the sun's rays already hit the earth every day, I'm just wondering if taking that energy to power an array of airconditioners would work or not. It's hypothetically speaking of course.

BS. just don't use AC.

 

[FoBoT]

conservation of energy

you can only move heat energy around, like from the inside of your car to the outside. you can't destroy it. A/C doesn't send heat into another dimension

 

[imported_Zeke]

Releases fine particulates into the air to simulate a large volcanic erruption. That will cool things down a bit.

 

[Heisenberg]

"Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"

 

[jlbenedict]

Evidence of global warming: Global Warming Evidence

 

[DrPizza]

:laugh:

Seriously though, such a plan would actually heat up the earth. While the airconditioners would do absolutely nothing toward cooling the earth, the solar cells (or so I'd think) would tend to absorb more of the sun's energy than the earth naturally does, reflecting less back to space.

 

[Mo0o]

sounds like someone is trying to break the law of thermodynamics

 

[HardcoreRobot]

running ac always generates heat (turns power into heat). it just puts it all outside and the cool air inside

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
sounds like someone is trying to break the law of thermodynamics

Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law

So much for the golden future, I cant even start
Ive had every promise broken, theres anger in my heart
You dont know what its like, you dont have a clue
If you did youd find yourselves doing the same thing too

Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law

 

[Mark R]

An airconditioner is 30% efficient, if you were to power the airconditioner via fossil fuels you'd be generating more heat than you'd be cooling.

Definitely not.

Efficiency isn't a very helpful term when talking about air conditioners. A more useful measure is EER (energy efficiency rating). Most domestic sized AC has an EER of about 3 (some small units may get 4.5, larger units may be as low as 2.8). Essentially, EER is the ratio between the cooling power and the power input. So an EER of 3 means that to provide 3 kW of cooling, it would consume 1 kW of electricity (and generate 1 kW of heat).

In fact, heat pumps (AC run in reverse) are one of the most efficient methods of heating. Powering a heat pump with coal fired electricity produces less CO2 emissions than heating your home with the coal directly (by the time the electricity reaches your home, it carries about 35% of the energy of the original coal) - and only a little more than if you heated your home with natural gas.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I've got a better idea...



If everyone wore reflector sunglasses and stared at the sun all day then the heat would be reflected back into space, thus reducing global warming.

 

[Cristatus]

You should've posted this in Highly Technical. You'd probably get more serious answers.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: logic1485
You should've posted this in Highly Technical. You'd probably get more serious answers.

We'd still laugh at him.

 

[BrownTown]

<---would laugh at him even in HT

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
conservation of energy

you can only move heat energy around, like from the inside of your car to the outside. you can't destroy it. A/C doesn't send heat into another dimension

No, I read in the manual for my Hitachi that it does.

 

[0roo0roo]

well global warming cooled by ac no as said already.
powering an ac would take a lot of panels, not sure how many, but probably enough to be really impractical. maybe someone here knows exactly how much
and well theres probably no way to have enough batteries to power it at night...
probably easier to dig a deep cave house and live there instead like mole people lol

 

[letdown427]

The solar panels we use on out stations at work run through an inverter and produce about 9W. They are approximately 20inches by 12inches (very approximately!)

Just my input.

And no, AC won't solve global warming, but your childlike innocence is endearing lol :beer: