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[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 16 hours ago (10 children)

Air-conditioning is pretty power intensive

Even that should still be minuscle compared to getting rid of the waste heat from a huge antimatter reactor.
Feels like trying to get your Ferrari faster by switching of the cockpit instrument illumination. Not even worth giving the command.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago (9 children)

How does transferring heat out of a ship work? On the one hand, it's really cold in space, but on the other, there's no substrate to absorb and transfer the heat.

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[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 15 hours ago* (3 children)

From a thermodynamical standpoint, the whole Enterprise is something of a mess.

But, hey, if you already have a "Heisenberg-Compensator", also having a "Boltzmann-Compensator" is probably not that implausible... ;-)

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

And you can always re-arrange the sensor arrays if you're ever really in a pinch, but it'll take some time.

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[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

I would consider reversing the polarity first!

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

But that could destabilize the tachyon field; is it worth risking a temporal anomaly?

Maybe if we invert the thingamajigger coils we could prevent that.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 15 hours ago

IIRC, they use the plasma manifold for the warp nacells to heat the ship like a radiator. I know they use that plasma for more than just the engines, but not 100% on how.

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[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Thermal Radiation, you send it somewhere else. It’s how the sun heats our planet.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't thermal radiation kinda slow, though? It's basically air cooling, but without air or fans.

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[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 5 points 13 hours ago

It is, yes. A large fraction (about a quarter?) of what looks like solar panels on the ISS are actually dedicated radiator panels. The solar panels are angled to face the sun, and the radiators are angled at 90 degrees from the sun, to face empty space.

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[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 1 point 11 hours ago

Inefficient is maybe the right word? If you have more stuff to absorb the radiation I believe you can transfer it faster. So maybe tethering and tossing asteroids or something could be viable?

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