lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agoDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square110fedilinkarrow-up1289arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1286arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ielemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square110fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarefallaciousBasis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 hours agoWhat part of radiator don’t you understand?
minus-squareathatet@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 hours agoWhat you don’t understand is the size requirements those radiators would need to have to cool an entire data center.
minus-squareBeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 hours agoTell me you don’t know how radiators actually work without telling me. They dissipate heat via convection through the air surrounding them or gasses in general. What does space lack a significant amount of?
minus-squarePommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 hours agoRadiators dissipate heat through…wait for it…radiation.
What part of radiator don’t you understand?
What you don’t understand is the size requirements those radiators would need to have to cool an entire data center.
It’s conserved.
Tell me you don’t know how radiators actually work without telling me. They dissipate heat via convection through the air surrounding them or gasses in general. What does space lack a significant amount of?
Radiators dissipate heat through…wait for it…radiation.