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>>lawren+(OP)
Nice, should also solve global warming when the radiators they propose to dissipate a GW of waste heat blot out the sun.

>>kristj+Q2
> radiating towards deep space

Literally ctrl-f heat in the pdf.

>>Feepin+O3
Yeah another poster did the back of the napkin math to find the area these radiators would have to have: twice the size of the pentagon. Launch cost: 30 billions.

This kind of pdf is what you get when your genius startup doesn't have a single engineer with half a brain and everybody does enough coke to believe you can beat physics with sheer enthusiasm.

That, or it is calculated fraud.

>>atoav+f6
Price depends on mass, and mass per area depends on conductivity, no? Maybe they have something cool going on with the material.

I should really get an AI to remake Guesstimate as a self-hostable site...

>>Feepin+Va
You really think that? They have a material that has magical properties, is cheap enough, can produced by the ton and hide it just to make a space data center?

I am btw. not even sure if thermal conductivity is the limiting factor here, they still need to radiate that out and that is a function of surface area if I remember correctly.

Edit: Higher thermal conductivity helps with the thermal dissipation within the radiator, it does not affect the area of the radiator needed. Although it could affect weight if you roll it out thin enough. Still, this is quickly becoming the opposite of "simply putting a data center into space" and more like "decades of research on other topics". And AI is the vehicle to sell that.