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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 98 points 12 hours ago (21 children)

Why don't we just pipe our water all the way out to the sun and pipe the steam back to earth.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I'm curious if it would even be thermodynamically possible. If we could magically run a pipe that far, would the heat from the water radiate into space before it reached earth to do anything useful?

Someone get XKCD to do a video short on this.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

i imagine filling any decent sized pipes (! plural because heat exchange has to loop) to 1au would use most of the water on earth.

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