From: Tony Williams 

Geo wrote:
> "Monte Davis"  wrote in message
> news:t6egp1df1uqv1q6mq33me5e9k23qr4dqpg{at}4ax.com...
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>>Of course -- that's what happens already. The point is that
>>thermodynamics won't let you *concentrate* diffuse heat within the
>>biosphere and export it to a radiator on a tower extending into space,
>>or blast it out on a laser, or...
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> That's the really cool thing about heat, you don't need the radiator on a
> tower, heat rises, all you have to do is concentrate it over a big enough
> area to create a large upward current in the atmosphere, gravity does the
> rest.
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>>In any case, at that SF level of technology it would make more sense
>>just to screen off N terawatts of solar input to compensate for our
>>excess..
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> I was thinking white shingles for roofs and white roads/parking lots. Who
> the hell thought up dark roof materials anyway?

We need chamaeleon roofs: dark when the sun's shining, light when it isn't.
Maybe I could buy a few crates of photo-sensitive sunglasses and use them
as shingles.

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Tony

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