"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."
We can’t fit tens of thousands of massive radiators floating around up there. The ISS has 27.2 meters / 88 feet of ammonia filled radiators that is able to expend… 56kW of heat.
Your 125 average is 2 and quarter times more that the ISS loop meaning we would need to launch up with each shitty satellite an additional 73 meters / 235 feet of trusses, support beams, gold and copper paneling and ammonia filled loops for each individual satellite.
Oh right and you want tens of thousands so at a reasonable 20,000 of those we need 1,500KM of radiators alone which is the radius of the fucking moon.
No, it won’t be that, cause its just as dumb and unfeasible.
A dara center is more than 100Kw.
You’re right, its going to be 10s of thousands of these smaller 125kW avg dishes, but they only need to solve the problem at the scale of 150kw peak.
We can’t fit tens of thousands of massive radiators floating around up there. The ISS has 27.2 meters / 88 feet of ammonia filled radiators that is able to expend… 56kW of heat.
Your 125 average is 2 and quarter times more that the ISS loop meaning we would need to launch up with each shitty satellite an additional 73 meters / 235 feet of trusses, support beams, gold and copper paneling and ammonia filled loops for each individual satellite.
Oh right and you want tens of thousands so at a reasonable 20,000 of those we need 1,500KM of radiators alone which is the radius of the fucking moon.
No, it won’t be that, cause its just as dumb and unfeasible.
The ISS is rated for 84kw and runs substantially cooler, they wont actually be that big. They will be smaller than the ISS whatever they end up being.
The temperature of the radiators scale to the 4th power.
It was more of a, it this is the worst case limit.