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#26 2025-01-16 08:27:49
- Calliban
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- From: Northern England, UK
- Registered: 2019-08-18
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Re: SPS Solar Power Satellite
Void, to my knowledge, no one has ever been annoyed by your contributions. The only thing about this board that is less than ideal is that it has too few members to really function as a forum and raise new ideas. There are a mere handful of us. We need to do something about that.
The idea of using solar power for cooling is a good one. Heat can be stored in large volumes very cheaply. A solar powered heat pump could for example, be used to make ice for data centre cooling on its cold side and produce warm water for district heating on its hot side. Both forms of heat energy can be stored, so this is a good way of using intermittent energy.
"Plan and prepare for every possibility, and you will never act. It is nobler to have courage as we stumble into half the things we fear than to analyse every possible obstacle and begin nothing. Great things are achieved by embracing great dangers."
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#27 2025-01-16 12:42:48
- Void
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Re: SPS Solar Power Satellite
Well, I see. A cool Maritime Climate might be ideal for that. Who could that be?
So, district heating, heated swimming pools, and tropical greenhouses as well. You can become energy libertines. For shame! What would Gretta think?
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