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Letter: New greenhouse

Published 10 September 2014

From Bob Hinge

Steven Ashley describes schemes to generate electricity from Earth’s infrared emissions (23 August, p 38). Surely if these emissions take heat from Earth into space, then capturing and converting them into electricity (and ultimately, to heat) will be a very effective greenhouse effect, perhaps even more effective than that of carbon dioxide?
Birchington, Kent, UK

Issue no. 2986 published 13 September 2014

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