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After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] -5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

you can only vent heat in infrared

Yeah, when you heat something, it emits infrared. Kind of the nature of hot things.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    @phutatorius @technology So, a high-efficiency thermoelectric generator, powered by #datacenter heat directly, might be a win-win. I don’t understand why the current (jk) #technology efficiency is still so low. Surely someone must be working on this.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric/_generator

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