Case Studies

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In an orange sky the sun beats down onto cracked dry earth with a burning thermometer on the left of the image reading over 40 degrees centigrade

Using outer space as a limitless, energy efficient heat sink

The vast majority of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface is composed of UV and visible shortwave radiation (≤3 μm). This energy is absorbed by the oceans and landmasses and reemitted as longwave thermal radiation (4 μm - 100 μm). Although some escapes into space, certain wavelengths are absorbed by atmospheric gases such as c...