Hold off on the Orion-14 rescue mission, this isn't Columbia yet, but makes
for a good sequel.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 3:28 AM Uwe Klein <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 16.06.2018 um 18:28 schrieb Craig Fink:So, it's t^3 for increasing temperature and efficiency with area
And the only way to cool something in space is radiation, meaning the
hot side of the multistage refrigeration system is system needs to be as
hot as possible to shed the heat.
an excellent Suicide machine. :-)
increasing radiator temps decreases Carnot efficiency
( though: Carnot eff. decreases linearly while
radiative transfer works with t^4 )
instead:
increase the radiative area ( and thus the coupling
to space background temps.)
