• Twongo [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    don’t need to think much about this crackpot idea.

    where would the heat dissipate? that just ends this topic.

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      16 hours ago

      Via radiation into space. All you need is a radiator, the weight of a battleship (or worse). Yes, the idea is crazy.

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          13 minutes ago

          That gives you a heat rejection capacity of less than 140 kW (mind you, that is total heat rejection, incl. heat from the sun, support systems etc., only a part of that can be used to cool servers) So you settle for laughably low compute to keep radiator size somewhat reasonable, yet still massive and heavy.