P5_7 Baked Alaska

Alaska currently has a very cold Arctic and sub-Arctic environment, but due to global warming and a proposed increase of global temperatures of 5.4 ◦C by 2100 AD this is being threatened. We calculated if placing an insulating cube on Alaska in 2100 AD and using a refrigerator to cool it down to its...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peacock, Billy, Hopkinson, Alfred Thomas, Weston, Jack, Logan, Matthew, Page, Archie
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The University of Leicester 2019
Subjects:
Arctic
Global warming
Alaska
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/pst/article/view/3327
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Summary:Alaska currently has a very cold Arctic and sub-Arctic environment, but due to global warming and a proposed increase of global temperatures of 5.4 ◦C by 2100 AD this is being threatened. We calculated if placing an insulating cube on Alaska in 2100 AD and using a refrigerator to cool it down to its 2019 AD temperatures was a viable solution to keeping Alaska cold. It was worked out it would need 1.1×1015 J of work in order to cool the interior of the cube. It was concluded the environmental damage and increased fossil fuel emissions are too great for this to be a option.

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