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  • #1620
    Andrew Palfreyman
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    Doubts are raised here on the cooling issue
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5266229
    Anyone care to comment?

    #13454
    delt0r
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    Industrial scale cooling is indeed not small and also not light, mostly because that’s the cheapest way to make it on the ground. If fact far to many people here obsess over the FF being able to fit in a garage or some such. Even the required shielding would preclude that. So yea the kind of heat that needs to be dissipated is significant and won’t result in a compact design. But on its own it should not be a problem.

    The problem will be if all that heat is in hard to remove places. ie in the Onion for example.

    Assuming it works of course.

    #13456
    Andrew Palfreyman
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    Skylon found a nice cooling solution. Not cheap, though

    #13457
    delt0r
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    You mean the liquid hydrogen cooled combined cycle engine? Yea does not solve the same problem.

    #13459
    Andrew Palfreyman
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    Thinking more along the lines of their micro-capillaries

    #13460
    delt0r
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    Right. Yea power-station level cooling is about overall lifetime costs, in fact location of modern power plants is often selected based around cooling. Typically using more area does not cost much compared to using say bigger heaver, but cheaper and easier to maintain cooling solutions.

    #13463
    Matt M
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    In south Florida – Power stations dump excess heat into lakes and rivers. In one case,
    the Manatee have identified the outlet feed and have adopted it as a Sea Cow Spa.

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