07-30-2014, 07:54 PM
(07-30-2014, 07:33 PM)stevebowers Wrote: Of course this cooling still requires a heat dump of some sort.The "interior" of the Bubble would work for that application; since the Bubble is made of statites rather than being a solid shell, any heat released to the inside would radiate to the outside through the spaces between the collectors. The volume of empty space within the Bubble, and the vastness of interstellar space beyond it should be enough to diffuse the heat to insignificant levels.
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