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Hah, I was always intrigued by the idea of placing solar cells on the bright side of Mercury and servers on the dark side. I wonder what other good options migh
by ajmurmann 7y ago
Hah, I was always intrigued by the idea of placing solar cells on the bright side of Mercury and servers on the dark side. I wonder what other good options might exist in the solar system.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoMercury's whisper thin atmosphere won't be much use for cooling anything, though possibly the surface would be. However, the real problem is that Mercury isn't actually tidally locked anyway.
- cookingrobot 7y agoIn certain regions on Mercury the temperature stays within 1 degree of room temperature less than a meter underground. http://einstein-schrodinger.com/Mercury_temperature.pdf http://einstein-schrodinger.com/Mercury_temperature.pdf It’s actually relatively habitable. http://einstein-schrodinger.com/mercury_colony.html http://einstein-schrodinger.com/mercury_colony.html
- newsoul2019 7y ago> In fact, if we delay until the distant future, or even 50 years or so, such an effort probably will become impossible. This is because us humans will consume the Earth's non-renewable energy and mineral resources almost completely within the next 50-100 years, severely reducing our discretionary income for costly activities such as space travel. I wonder when that was written...
- jp555 7y agoMakes me think of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
- dredmorbius 7y agoLikely around 2013 by the Wayback Machine.
- MereInterest 7y agoYou could have the facility move constantly to keep the facility straddled across the sunlight line. At the equator, this would require constantly moving at about 7 mph, though you could reduce the speed necessary by moving to higher latitudes.
- gbrown 7y agoYeah but if you break down...
- greglindahl 7y agoLike in the scifi books?
- foota 7y agoReminds me of the book Absolution Gap
- akozak 7y agoAppears in 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- SECProto 7y ago
- aatharuv 7y agoMercury doesn't keep the same side to the sun all the time. So you'd need to either bury everything deep enough (obviously not possible for solar cells), or keep them such that they're always on the terminator. The latter has been explored in Kim Stanley Robinson's work, 2312. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2312_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2312_(novel)
- ksahin 7y agomercury-dark-1
- ars 7y agoThe poles of the moon. Have 3 "legs", and the alternate being the hot and cold areas. Yes, you need equipment that can swap being hot and cold, but it's a lot easier to get to :)
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