Spending all the money you have and all the money you can get and all the money you can promise has a number of side effects, such as gigantic data centres full of high-power chips just to run lyin…
  • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Yup, they can only dump heat through infrared radiation. The giant white fins on the ISS are radiators for waste heat.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I think there is another way to dump wase heat. Use it to warm up something that has a lot of heat capacity, and then eject that. Not practical and a huge waste (i also got this from science fiction), so you onow they are going to try it. Gonna suck for us groundies.

      • Deathray5@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Theoretically you could heat pump but the energy required to make it work would probably would probably be more than it’s usability