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How can you use electricity to cool things in space?
by xyzzyz 6y ago
How can you use electricity to cool things in space?
- andruby 6y agoPiezo-electric? But then you need to cool the other side even more..
- sandworm101 6y agoYou run a pump on a coolant loop, just like any air conditioner.
- sandworm101 6y agoSame 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_Control_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro...
- voxelghost 6y agoYou 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.