• athatet@lemmy.zip
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      6 hours ago

      What you don’t understand is the size requirements those radiators would need to have to cool an entire data center.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Tell me you don’t know how radiators actually work without telling me. They dissipate heat via convection through the air surrounding them or gasses in general. What does space lack a significant amount of?

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        Yeah so there is some confusion here. The are radiators on cars or in houses, but those are more accurately heat exchangers. Then there are things like heat lamps, which are really IR radiators that convert electricity to infrared light that feels hot.

        Most of the heat you feel at a camp fire is radiant from the flame, unless you are down wind and feeling some convective heat, but most of that heat goes straight up with the smoke.