New technique stores summer heat until it's needed in winter

Re:New technique stores summer heat until it's needed in winter by d_burfoot on Thursday January 12, 2017 @05:31PM (#13386770)

That's true for west coast cities, but not for east coast cities like Boston and New York, which experience terrible temperature extremes.

How much water do we need? I wouldn't try to affect large regions, just specific urban areas. The water doesn't actually have to go anywhere, it just sits around storing heat. All we have to do is bubble a lot of air through it. As a nice side benefit, this should clean the air.

(This is my version of the Reber Plan).

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Re:New technique stores summer heat until it's needed in winter by dpark on Thursday January 12, 2017 @07:51PM (#13387548)

Are you proposing that we capture heat this way to warm houses (in which case it's a terribly ineffective and inefficient system) or to actually raise the outside temperature? If you're proposing the latter, there's just no way. Water might store 400 times as much heat per unit as air, but there's an absurd amount of air hovering around a town and an enormous area that air mixes with constantly.

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Re:New technique stores summer heat until it's needed in winter by ars on Thursday January 12, 2017 @07:35PM (#13387490)

It's true for Boston and NY as well. Those cities have milder weather than the cities inland of them.

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