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What makes cooling easier in space? Isn’t it harder due to the lack of atmosphere?
by dgellow 6mo ago
What makes cooling easier in space? Isn’t it harder due to the lack of atmosphere?
- dzhiurgis 6mo agoJust need radiators, no fans, no piping, no ac compressors, no moving parts.
- nickburns 6mo agoBut, but—convection!
- dgellow 6mo agoHow? There is no heat dissipation without an atmosphere. I mean, you have dissipation via radiation but that’s very slow
- roer 6mo agoNot that slow if the temperature is high enough. Power radiated is proportional to T^4
- datadrivenangel 6mo agoI don't want to run my cpus at optimal radiator temperatures... 1000s of degrees is not ideal.
- noitpmeder 6mo agoNot on earth at least!