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