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1. Reuben+o1[view] [source] 2025-10-22 11:34:42
>>jonbae+(OP)
Last time these folks were mentioned on HN, there was a lot of skepticism that this is really possible to do. The issue is cooling: in space, you can't rely on convection or conduction to do passive cooling, so you can only radiate away heat. However, the radiator would need to be several kilometers big to provide enough cooling, and obviously launching such a large object into space would therefore eat up any cost savings from the "free" solar power.

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2. NoPick+4a2[view] [source] 2025-10-22 22:08:40
>>Reuben+o1
The Github paper seems to indicate they have considered the thermal aspects fairly heavily and mention that "conduction and convection to the environment are not available in space".
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