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by dgellow 32 days ago
What makes cooling easier in space? Isn’t it harder due to the lack of atmosphere?
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Just need radiators, no fans, no piping, no ac compressors, no moving parts.
How? There is no heat dissipation without an atmosphere. I mean, you have dissipation via radiation but that’s very slow
Not that slow if the temperature is high enough. Power radiated is proportional to T^4
I don't want to run my cpus at optimal radiator temperatures... 1000s of degrees is not ideal.
Not on earth at least!
But, but—convection!