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You're bringing up lots of objections that seem to be logical to you.
However, they reveal you are unaware that radiant cooling is a viable commercial option and has been for several years.
Sorry, but you need to keep up.
I haven't dealt with radiant cooling here in south Mississippi for 2 reasons.... first and formost is that 95% of what I do is high-end residential heat pumps and dual fuel/hybrid systems, second is that the latent loads here are extremely high. Humidity control is a very big issue here.
We have high humidity here in Alabamastan too and one of the criteria we use to define the performance of an air conditioning system is whether or not the stream of water coming out of the evaporator drain line looks like someone turned on a kitchen sink. On those days when the air is so humid it slows down your vehicle from the increased density of the air, I always wonder how my distant ancestors the Cavebillies ever survived summer weather. It was the radiant cooling of the caves of course. :-)
If you consider everything between Antarctica in winter and Alabama in summer "happy".
BTW, since I've discovered alt.hvac (I'm posting from sci.physics), I had this idea I'd like to see shot down: AC in the summer by freezing large underground ponds in the winter, circulating chilled water through them in the summer. Advantages: offset electric load by season, and also have AC which leaks _cold_, rather than the conventional type which leaks only heat into the ambient environment. Great for urban heat islands (though there would be a problem with real estate to put in the pond).
Shall I start a new thread to be properly thrashed? ;-)
First off, we can use the heat in the heart of a salt dome to preheat water used to make steam for power generation. We should also use tides all over the place to do small amounts of pumping work to a larger kinetic vessel high above for on-demand generation use.
On your side of things (cold), I want to make HUGE covered (sealed) reservoirs at about 20° above and below the equator (perhaps 25°) which we ONLY fill with ice and water from the polar glacial deposits. We could in fact make a huge inclined track for sliding them down here from up there. (big blocks of ice). We really need to do this weather anyone even thinks it possible or not. God took the time to collect nice, fresh water at the poles for us, and the least we could do with the brains he also gave us is manage it better. Unless we are going to build an 30 kilometer mountain of ice at each pole (I would do both actually).
Maybe we could actually lower ocean depths, and recover the old land bridge ocean shelf components of our continents.
Hell with rising oceans! Let's make 'em DROP! We could even send some ice to the moon!
Send all death row prisoners into the sun once every year.
A better comparison may be the Moon, not the Earth. Without the insulation of an atmosphere, the difference between the sunlit and dark portions are several hundred degrees C. Even though there is a long time (~14 days) to cool off, I think it reaches close to the final temp. quite quickly.
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