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minus-squaretreadful@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoI’m curious if it would even be thermodynamically possible. If we could magically run a pipe that far, would the heat from the water radiate into space before it reached earth to do anything useful? Someone get XKCD to do a video short on this.
minus-squaremojofrododojo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-23 days agoi imagine filling any decent sized pipes (! plural because heat exchange has to loop) to 1au would use most of the water on earth.
minus-squaretempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoWhat if instead of a pipe to return the steam we use a freaking laser beam!
minus-squarethethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoSo we generate energy with boiling water next to the sun, and we send the energy back to earth as a laser beam. Guess how we turn the laser beam back into energy.
I’m curious if it would even be thermodynamically possible. If we could magically run a pipe that far, would the heat from the water radiate into space before it reached earth to do anything useful?
Someone get XKCD to do a video short on this.
i imagine filling any decent sized pipes (! plural because heat exchange has to loop) to 1au would use most of the water on earth.
What if instead of a pipe to return the steam we use a freaking laser beam!
So we generate energy with boiling water next to the sun, and we send the energy back to earth as a laser beam.
Guess how we turn the laser beam back into energy.