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dzhiurgis
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SpaceX S-1
30% of terrestrial datacenter power use is cooling. Space cooling is easier!
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dgellow
9 days ago
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What makes cooling easier in space? Isn’t it harder due to the lack of atmosphere?
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dzhiurgis
9 days ago
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Just need radiators, no fans, no piping, no ac compressors, no moving parts.
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dgellow
9 days ago
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How? There is no heat dissipation without an atmosphere. I mean, you have dissipation via radiation but that’s very slow
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roer
9 days ago
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Not that slow if the temperature is high enough. Power radiated is proportional to T^4
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datadrivenangel
9 days ago
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I don't want to run my cpus at optimal radiator temperatures... 1000s of degrees is not ideal.
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noitpmeder
9 days ago
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Not on earth at least!
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nickburns
9 days ago
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But, but—
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