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Datacenters in space aren't going to work
A sports car radiator has about that size and dumps 1 MW without boiling the coolant.
alextingle
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A car's "radiator" doesn't actually lose heat by radiation though. It conducts heat to the air rushing through it. That's absolutely nothing like a radiator in a vacuum.
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fsh
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That's the point. Forced air cooling is way more efficient than radiative cooling.
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tsimionescu
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The question was about comparing the 1400KW of radiative cooling to how much convective coolig you could get from the same radiator on Earth.
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