Feasibility of Space Data Centers
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Feasibility of Space Data Centers
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Re: Feasibility of Space Data Centers
#2I think a good analysis should be done with numbers in text - or oral? - form. For this video, claiming that ~70 tons/sec needs that much more powerful pumps than Shuttle engine's 500 kg/s doesn't seem to mention the fact that power is proportional not only to flow, but to pressure difference as well; other questions could also appear.
Re: Feasibility of Space Data Centers
#3I think a good analysis should be done with numbers in text - or oral? - form. For this video, claiming that ~70 tons/sec needs that much more powerful pumps than Shuttle engine's 500 kg/s doesn't seem to mention the fact that power is proportional not only to flow, but to pressure difference as well; other questions could also appear.
Hi, I wanted to ask you a further question about heat dissolution. You had commented on a previous posting of mine - I waited too long to reply and I can't reply to the original comment - it was this comment from me, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045350. I didn't see a way to send you an email.
I'm just an average software engineer with no space exp, you seem to be the opposite.
Going back to your comment, so I guess I'm wrong to say there's no solution. But is it feasible today to dissipate energy from cheaper, smaller hypothetically practical data-center satellites in space without being incredibly expensive?
SpaceX puts up 30 starlink satellites in one launch and they can do it over and over, make them cheaply, retire them, control them. I only have theoretical knowledge from reading a few popular mag articles about this, they suggested that the cost (for launch) of having say long radiator spikes to dissipate the energy would be too expensive to put into orbit, assembly might be a problem too.
So are there practical solutions to getting rid of the large amount of heat that a space datacenter would produce? That aren't prohibitively expensive, fragile, etc? I thought it would require inventing new solutions. Love to hear your thoughts.