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cloudcooling
An artificial cloud created over really hot cities | |
This is an idea to help cool really hot cities and so reduce the money spent on air conditioning.
A small fleet of aircraft criss-cross the sky high above a really hot city. They do this in such a way that all of their contrails merge to form an unbroken broken blanket of cloud above the city. This
acts like a sun shade so helping to keep the city cool.
Would the energy consumed by the planes be less than the energy saved in airconditioning?
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agreed. makes it hot at night too. better
to live with the sun and make your
buildings more efficient. For the energy
cost i suspect you could easily beat the
heat by conventional means for far less.
(just boiling that much water, forget about
the planes, etc.) |
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