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by Animats
69 days ago
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It's liquid cooling.
Even ordinary pole transformers are immersed in oil.[1] As transformers get larger, cooling fins appear, then active pumped cooling. It's the usual cube-square scaling problem. Heat generation increases with the volume, while heat dissipation increases more slowly, with the surface area. For small animals, life is a struggle to keep warm. For large animals, life is a struggle to cool off. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_transformer |
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