• treadful@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    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
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      8 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.

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
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      6 hours ago

      What if instead of a pipe to return the steam we use a freaking laser beam!