2026-04-04 02:29 UTC
How the heck do you dissipate 240 MW of heat in GEO. That's the main hurdle I think.
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@ra6bit@infosec.exchange 2026-04-04 02:31
-tears another page out of the Doomsday Device Workbook, crumples it up and chucks it- Stupid heat limitations
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@artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay 2026-04-04 02:34
@ra6bit excuse me, it's more like 800MW, since you have to dissipate the heat lost to inefficiency in the solar panels
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@Catfish_Man@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 03:06
@ra6bit you only need to fire it once, so using an ablative heat sink seems feasible. Way easier to get rid of heat if you can just jettison stuff after heating it up.