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>>ajyoon+(OP)
How about we just make a giant heatsink that reaches into space instead. Then we can cool the whole planet. Coming up with crazy ideas is cheap, but the logistics are obviously impractical.

>>izzyda+eu
Look into radiative cooling. Basically this, but more practical. Several companies working on it: https://www.skycoolsystems.com/

>>0x53+mv
I don't quite believe this.

Is it really better than just using solar panels to run a heat pump?

>>grim_i+ZC
> Our core innovation is a radiative cooling material that we’ve combined with a panel system to improve the efficiency of any vapor-compression based cooling system

A heat pump is a “ vapor-compression based cooling system” so that tech is an addition-to not an instead-of.

Whether it’s better probably depends on how expensive the additional efficiency is in practice.

> SkyCool’s Panels save 2x – 3x as much energy as a solar panel generates given the same area.

So if you’re area constrained maybe.