• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Of all the things to kick-start industry on another planet, isn’t a nuclear fucking plant the most complex?

    • SlothMama@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Yes but also no, might be significantly easier to cool for instance and no environmental concerns.

      I got downvoted by people without critical thinking skills. A plant on the moon isn’t in space, it’s on the moon, a large cold rock, I don’t understand why no one charitably understood you can dissipate heat into the actual moon which is not warm and quite cold.

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        3 months ago

        It is notoriously hard to cool things in space. There’s no water or air to dump the heat.

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          3 months ago

          Can you elaborate more? I’m under the impression space is very cold, and the heat would get sucked out like I wish I was, at least once before I eat shit.

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            3 months ago

            the cold is helpful but moving the heat, but is the hard thing getting it away from the space craft. Since there is no atmosphere to take away your heat it just kinda sits there. If it is getting the suns rays it can be even more difficult. so basically it is quite hard.

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            3 months ago

            Space is cold and not dense. Heat needs to move from a high energy medium to a low energy medium to be dissipated. Since there isn’t any matter for the thermal energy to be transferred to, cooling in space is actually quite difficult.