Ice Rink Global Cooling

At night, deserts can be mighty cold. This is surprising to many since they're often mighty hot in the day. This happens because while facing away from the sun, thermal radiation emits into the cold abyss of space. Deserts are rarely covered with cloud, so the radiative process is particularly efficient.

Deserts are usually low in water, which is right up there as a thermal buffer, particularly when it comes to changing states from solid to liquid to gas. Deserts also famously lack outdoor ice skating facilities, which makes Canadians sad, and has detrimental effects on the development of grass-roots curling teams in rural Nevada.

To solve the pressing global issues of sad Canadians and curling facility supply, I recommend the construction of enormous Ice rinks in the deserts of the world.

Following the construction of large shallow pools, enormous compressors work throughout the night* to freeze the pools solid. This process removes tremendous heat energy from the water and radiates it into space since the refrigeration equipment features space-aimed parabolic condensers.

Come sunrise, happy Canadians may skate between nascent curling teams on fresh level ice. By early afternoon, however, the ice will become unskatable, mostly melted from a hard day's heat absorption.

Overnight, we repeat the process, beaming ever more heat into space solving all the important problems. I should also insist that the parabolic emitters be steerable. Once a few hundred GigaWatts of emitters are installed, we could focus all the thermal energy at will, like a big environmental Death star. This would be useful should the Borg turn up. Granted it relies on them staying on the night side of the planet, but their waxy pale pallor is clear evidence that this will be the case.

*Economy 7 price plan recommended.