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fookertoday at 12:55 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Figuring out how to radiate a lot of waste heat into a vacuum is fighting physics.

Radiators should work pretty well, and large solar panels can do double duty as radiators.

Also, curiously, newer GPUs are developed to require significantly less cooling than previous generations. Perhaps not so coincidentally?


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doctorwho42today at 1:30 AM

Well there lies the rub, solar panels already need their own thermal radiators when used in space ...

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kristjanssontoday at 3:03 AM

1kW TDP chips need LESS cooling?

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