From: "Geo" 

"Monte Davis"  wrote in message
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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...

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.

> 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..

I was thinking white shingles for roofs and white roads/parking lots. Who
the hell thought up dark roof materials anyway?

Geo.

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