Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

• athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What you don’t understand is the size requirements those radiators would need to have to cool an entire data center.

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  • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s conserved.

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    • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right. Exactly zero understanding on your part.

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      • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Zero effort shit post. Cool.

        Do you ever make posts that demonstrate what your opinions are or what your own thoughts are or do you just like to talk about other people and put them down cuz it makes you feel better?

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• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tell me you don’t know how radiators actually work without telling me. They dissipate heat via convection through the air surrounding them or gasses in general. What does space lack a significant amount of?

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Radiators also dissipate heat through…wait for it…radiation.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right… and a carpet is a pet you keep in your car, got it.

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    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you know how BIG they would have to be to dissipate a data center worth of heat to keep it as cool as on earth?

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      • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you know how much heat they would need to retain?

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      • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you?

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah so there is some confusion here. The are radiators on cars or in houses, but those are more accurately heat exchangers. Then there are things like heat lamps, which are really IR radiators that convert electricity to infrared light that feels hot.

    Most of the heat you feel at a camp fire is radiant from the flame, unless you are down wind and feeling some convective heat, but most of that heat goes straight up with the smoke.

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    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a difference certainly but do you think the people who seem to be floating this idea know the difference?

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hard to say, but they’ve been using resistive cooling In space a long time.

        Also a tech ingredients made a neat video about building one and radiating heat out into space from the ground. It was cool to see what happened when it was cloudy and stopped working.

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