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Interesting idea, but my next thought was "how are you going to cool that thing?!" :D
by bserge 6y ago
Interesting idea, but my next thought was "how are you going to cool that thing?!" :D
- kelnos 6y agoNot sure in which direction you're joking, but heat dissipation can actually be a difficult problem in space, at least as close to the sun as Earth is, while outside Earth's atmosphere. For example: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast21mar_1/ https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/a...
- bserge 6y agoThat's exactly what I meant. Running a nuclear fission reactor (along with the high power beams to Earth) in vacuum might prove... problematic.