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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: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 04 2018, @12:29PM
The ground is big, 20 acre feet of water have a hell of a thermal capacity, and eventually that heat does make its way back to the surface and atmosphere, where most of it radiates to space.
If solar energy didn't re-radiate to space, we'd all be vaporized within weeks.
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