I'm unclear on the proposed mechanism, but any artificial refrigeration simply moves heat around. There is obviously an energy penalty for doing this - and for generating the electricity, in the first place. In short, all the additional thermal energy from the nuclear power plant will ultimately end up as waste heat, in the system you're trying to cool. You can't make a sealed room colder by locking a generator and refrigerator in it - even if that room is the size of a planet. Only by using energy to Accelerate hear transfer to space can anything be achieved. Pumping water through the ice can do this, as can freezing glacier bases to preserve them and their ice-albedo feedback. .
I address some of these issues in my recent paper. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674927820300940 On Sat, 6 Feb 2021, 07:54 Adrian Hindes, <[email protected]> wrote: > @Oliver although that's quite a few nuclear power plants, that's actually > not so far out of the realm of possibility. > > On Friday, 5 February 2021 at 11:48:12 am UTC+11 Oliver Wingenter wrote: > >> It would take 20 nuclear power plants running conventional refrigeration >> to cool the Arctic Ocean.and refreeze it. >> >> >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> >> Virus-free. >> www.avast.com >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> >> <#m_-5856287996666497104_m_-2870835931810201667_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 3:10 PM Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> https://climateemergencysummit.org/the-cooling-conundrum-event-profile/ >>> >>> THE COOLING CONUNDRUM >>> REVERSING CLIMATE CHANGE TO REFREEZE THE ARCTIC >>> With rapidly rising global temperatures, the harm to people and nature >>> is already too great. Signs that we are on the brink of triggering runaway >>> global warming are increasing by the day, as the strain on major ecosystems >>> reaches a new level of stress. Analysis shows that even a zero-emission >>> pathway will not be enough alone to slow warming and avoid further >>> devastation. This points to an urgent need to consider establishing an >>> immediate way to cool the planet. Is reversing climate change a real >>> possibility? What would it take to refreeze the Arctic and Antarctic ice to >>> repair the climate? >>> >>> David Keith – Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard >>> Ye Tao – Principal Investigator, Rowland Institute at Harvard >>> Holly Jean Buck – Science Writer & Analyst >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "geoengineering" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-06JsW0OtEti5ZfcnPe9%2BM43bB4EEa4p-PRvhr7VVdz3XA%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-06JsW0OtEti5ZfcnPe9%2BM43bB4EEa4p-PRvhr7VVdz3XA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/1d332f63-84f7-42cb-91d4-afc4fa71593bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/1d332f63-84f7-42cb-91d4-afc4fa71593bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-074aJ8%3Dnu20%3DvbY6XpH58GNYs%2BxVcV3V1jbYaDVRsK2ng%40mail.gmail.com.
