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These radiators exist specifically to deal with power which has already been used. As stated in the article, the station needs a few kW of electrical power. Eve
by mr_olive 12y ago
These radiators exist specifically to deal with power which has already been used. As stated in the article, the station needs a few kW of electrical power. Eventually all this power ends up as a waste heat energy. There is nothing that can be done with it, so it has to be dumped into space.
- tesseract 12y agoThere's also solar heating of the station itself to worry about. Although to some extent you can make the station reflective (white) to deal with that.