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aorloff | 27 days ago

Tell me about your cooling medium in space

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rlt|27 days ago

A large piece of aluminum with ammonia pumped through it?

aorloff|27 days ago

Nothing about this is sounding economically competitive with ground based solutions

jacquesm|27 days ago

Right up to the radiation limit and then you'll either have to throttle your precious GPUs or you'll be melting your satellite or at least the guts of it. You're looking at an absolutely massive radiator here, many times larger than the solar panels that collect the energy to begin with.

pyrale|27 days ago

Where does the heat collected by amminia get evacuated?