07-30-2014, 05:05 PM
(07-29-2014, 05:54 PM)stevebowers Wrote: Yes, but the radiating surfaces still have to be large enough to dump the heat. Perhaps you could cycle the waste heat out to the star's Oort cloud to radiate it there. But the star's total luminosity doesn't change, unless you engineer the star deliberately. In fact, if you are running a refrigeration system, that results in an increase in total waste heat emissions, rather than a decrease.I suspect that you are thinking that the radiator must be somewhere near the structure and/or external to it.
The 'EEC' part of the HEEC classification refers to the amount of energy each civilisation absorbs and re-emits, the temperature of that re-emission is only relevant to how easy they are to detect.
Why not just dump your waste down a wormhole, the far end of which is conveniently located to avoid suspicion?
Or into a black hole inside the megastructure? Any inconvenient gravitational radiation could be made to mimic that from naturally occurring objects.
I'm sure there must be other solutions to the waste heat problem.