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Richard Branson (who asked for UK taxpayer money to repair his private island after hurricane Irma) Has set a climate change challenge:
As the world continues to warm, you can expect more and more folks to be turning to air conditioners to keep their living environments cool and comfortable. And in that sense, this energy-intensive technology will do plenty to exacerbate the very problem it is designed to solve. The Global Cooling Prize is a competition to help stop runaway climate change, by dangling US$3 million in prize money for the development of more energy-efficient cooling solutions.
The Global Cooling Prize is backed by the Indian government among other partners, with Richard Branson taking on the ambassadorial duties.
$3M could keep this site running for some time -- go team SoylentNews!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @12:41AM (4 children)
Just need to put one end of the heat exchanger in outer space. The same structure can be used as a space elevator and the temperature difference between top and bottom can be used to generate bonus electricity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @01:01AM
Thermoelectric generation that sees increased efficiency from the waste heat of anthropocentric global warming. Heads will spin!
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday December 04 2018, @01:28AM (1 child)
You hardly need the expensive structure [wikipedia.org]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:02AM
Yeah, there is a certain masochism in having black shingle roof and colored walls. Hard to imagine how an IYI feels inside.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday December 04 2018, @03:23PM
Space based heat exchangers suck. The massive radiators on ISS shed about the same amount of heat as a large truck radiator.