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by sandworm101 2158 days ago
(1) Heat. Space is cold. (-100c)

(2) Cooling. Space is hot. (+400c)

(3) Running the computer.

(4) Running the communications gear.

(5) Cooling 4+5.

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I'd be amazed if GP's house is in space. But hey, life's full of surprises!
How can you use electricity to cool things in space?
Same as in a car or any air conditioner. You pump a hot fluid to/from radiators. Look at the iss. See the big black structures always held perpendicular to the solar panels. Those are the radiators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro...

You build your walls out of Peltier elements. On one side of capsule, hot side will be in, cold side out, the other side of the capsule, the reverse. And then you use the generated power to drive a laser to shoot the energy right back into the sun.
Piezo-electric? But then you need to cool the other side even more..
You run a pump on a coolant loop, just like any air conditioner.