Advanced Heat Management Concepts
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Advanced Heat Management Concepts
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| Scientists consider novel ways of containing and removing waste heat from our spacecraft. | ||||||||||||
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| One cannot simply open a window while on a spaceship. As such, there is no simple way of releasing the accumulated heat of several dozen human bodies and countless computer systems, reactors and weapons - but if it is not removed, anyone onboard will soon die of extreme heat prostration, while the ship itself will ultimately melt. Conduction, convection or radiation are the only possible means of thermal energy transfer, and of those only radiation is currently feasible within the empty vacuum of space. This means radiators, but unfortunately that means bulk, which is itself deeply undesirable. However, liquid droplet radiators appear to be the answer we need. By replacing a solid surface radiator with one that sprays cooling droplets (which are then recaptured and reused) across large, thin radiators, we can reduce the mass from approximately 1300kg to under 100 kg. This does require special liquids with a vapor pressure so low that they can resist evaporation before recapturing, but our latest breakthroughs in this field have resulted in droplet supplies that will last several decades before needing to be replaced. Meanwhile, theoretical future nano-materials will ultimately reduce both the size and the mass of the radiators. | ||||||||||||
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| Gas Core Fission Systems • Mission to Venus • Visible Combat Lasers • Quantum Computing • High-Temperature Superconductors • Nuclear Fusion Methodologies | (100%)Nanotube Filament Radiator • (50%)Lithium Spray Radiator • (50%)Molten Salt Heat Sinks • (100%)Ionic Dust Radiator • (100%)Thermal Mining Techniques • (100%)Cobalt Dust Radiator • (100%)Exotic Heat Sinks • (50%)Gallium Mist Radiator • (100%)Exotic Spike Radiator • (100%)Sodium Heat Sinks • (100%)Potassium Heat Sinks • (100%)Tin Droplet Radiator • (100%)Lithium Heat Sinks • (33%)Hybrid Air-Breathing Rockets • (100%)Solar Mirror • (100%)Dusty Plasma Radiator | |||||||||||
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| "You are a shining star. You are a burning sun. And within you burns an eternal flame. When that flame touches another, nothing in this world can stand in its way." Superior Judith Howell, The Servants Module 3, Chapter 4 of the Burn Brighter improvement course | ||||||||||||
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