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Don’t forget the practical ability to dissipate waste heat on top of producing energy. That’s an upper limit to all energy use unless we decide boiling ourselve
by wwweston 9mo ago
Don’t forget the practical ability to dissipate waste heat on top of producing energy. That’s an upper limit to all energy use unless we decide boiling ourselves is fine, or find a way to successfully ignore thermodynamics, as you say.
- CorrectHorseBat 9mo agoIf we'd ever get so far that would be the most compelling argument for datacenters in space
- dredmorbius 9mo agoHeat rejection is far more challenging in vacuum.
- rbanffy 9mo agoWe can always build a sunshade in the Earth-Sun L1. Make it a Sun facing PV panel pointing radiators away from us and we can power a lot of compute there (useful life might be limited, but compute modules can be recycled and replaced, and nothing needs to be launched from Earth in this case).