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And
the other thing is: you still need a "cool delivery system" which is what the
pumps and compressors and fans of a typical HVAC system are. So even if you can
use the big Pacific heat sink without adverse effect, you still use electricity
in the delivery of the "cool." So the real issue is not whether you ground
source, air source, or ocean source the heat sink but how can you redesign or
eliminate the air conditioning hardware. Am I wrong?
That
pesky Newton guy again: in this situation, what would happen to the waste
heat? If you use cool water to cool spaces, you'll end up with hot water.
Would there be a concern with algae blooms and other waste heat concerns as
you pump all the hot water back into the ocean? Would that continue to warm
the oceans? Or am I being naive? I know the sheer volume of the oceans could
absorb a few gigaunits of heat energy, but could it absorb,
say, even half of California's waste heat without a noticeable
change in patterns or currents? Anyone want to try numbers?
(Notme!)
Limitless offshore energy - ocean
water district cooling
- the California clean energy
solution?
Building cooling with
electricity and air-conditioning should be outlawed.
All we need to do to have all the
equivalent benefit as air-conditioning is to pump the [ocean's] cooling water to the
buildings.
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