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How much power would a square meter at 1400C shed from convection?

>>wat100+(OP)
Not much in space; There's almost no matter to convect!

>>wat100+(OP)
A sports car radiator has about that size and dumps 1 MW without boiling the coolant.

>>wat100+(OP)
I dont have firm numbers for you since it would depend on environmental conditions. As an educated guess though, I would say a fucking shit ton. You wouldn't want to be anywhere near the damn thing.

>>fsh+hb
A car's "radiator" doesn't actually lose heat by radiation though. It conducts heat to the air rushing through it. That's absolutely nothing like a radiator in a vacuum.

>>alexti+Qe
That's the point. Forced air cooling is way more efficient than radiative cooling.

>>alexti+Qe
The question was about comparing the 1400KW of radiative cooling to how much convective coolig you could get from the same radiator on Earth.