Re:In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate w...
by smolder on Saturday November 04, 2023 @05:15AM
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It's possible we could improve swamp cooling with this, as with desalination, though in general you want to avoid putting energy into the system, I think. Powering a laser might overcome the benefits... unless you shot lasers in from outside? Even so, it might be best to use natural light for such a system.
Alternatively, I wonder if this could be used as a super swamp cooler, I'm picture water dripping or flowing from a tube, a laser causing it to "burst apart", and then the droplets formed rapidly cooling the surroundings due to their surface area.