eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square157linkfedilinkarrow-up1314arrow-down120
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minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·2 days ago you can only vent heat in infrared Yeah, when you heat something, it emits infrared. Kind of the nature of hot things.
minus-squareWildmimic@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 days agoI think CorrectAlias meant that heat transfer by direct contact, which is how we cool things in general, is not available, making cooling a datacenter cluster in space actual science fiction.
minus-squareCorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoThis is exactly what I meant, thanks.
Yeah, when you heat something, it emits infrared. Kind of the nature of hot things.
I think CorrectAlias meant that heat transfer by direct contact, which is how we cool things in general, is not available, making cooling a datacenter cluster in space actual science fiction.
This is exactly what I meant, thanks.