• tedach@lemmy.zip
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      5 hours ago

      Pardon my potential ignorance, but I’m under the assumption that radiating heat in vacuum is NOT easy. Normally, heat escapes from sources into the surrounding atmosphere, whereas in space, only radiant heat (IR?) can bleed off into vacuum. The conductive heat from, say, a cycling loop of water still needs a radiator that vents into surrounding volume. Without atmosphere, radiators can’t conduct efficiently, right?

      Please set me straight if possible.

      • Krunchiebro@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        Your thoughts were really well written. I’m glad you took the time to explain your viewpoints organically instead of taking an easy way out to avoid having to do it yourself.

        How about this for what my post was trying to say…

        It’s a good idea to the person who can pull it off. It will be highly profitable and they will monopolize that ecosystem. For the rest of us, if this were ever to become adopted wide spread, it has the potential to make something that normal people can no longer compete with and can’t easily avoid (assuming it is significantly subsidized initially to offset cost and get users to adopt it)