Uh, did you read what you quoted?



the solar wind is so unbelievably sparse that you'd have to be silly to factor it in here. do you have any idea how large a solar sail needs to be to pull a tiny little mass, like, say, 1kg?

and we are talking about radiators. a radiator will basically not function in a vacuum, simple as. there simply isn't nearly enough matter in space for thermal energy to ever transfer in significant amounts. if you wanted to cool off in space, you would have to use very different methods, such as turning that thermal energy intro electromagnetic radiation.

also, please read what you quoted again. heat is *not* being directly transferred from the sun to space to the earth. it is radiation striking the earth and energizing its particles. the space between the earth and sun is still pretty much 0-¦K.

here, go buy a thermos. put scalding hot food into it, seal it, and let it sit there for a few hours. open it up later. you just witnessed how any object encapsulated in a vacuum (almost encapsulated, in this case) will not cool off. If a "radiator in space" worked, then the thermos would cool off just as quickly as if it were a metal jug.

Yeah... how exactly are nuclear reactors cooled again?

and we are talking about radiators. a radiator will basically not function in a vacuum, simple as.

the space between the earth and sun is still pretty much 0-¦K.

here, go buy a thermos. put scalding hot food into it, seal it, and let it sit there for a few hours. open it up later. you just witnessed how any object encapsulated in a vacuum (almost encapsulated, in this case) will not cool off. If a "radiator in space" worked, then the thermos would cool off just as quickly as if it were a metal jug.

Hmm... seems horribly inefficient when compared to convective cooling... I wonder if some sort of a dummy load to suck out the most energy kinetically as possible would suffice to cool the secondary enough... of course the energy captured by the dummy load would still have to be dealt with...

there are zero particles in a vacuum, hence zero ways to radiate heat. space does have some particles in it, but they are so few and far between that it would be meaningless. heat is vibrating particles. they aren't part of a radiator system. they are either solar panels, heat *gatherers* (absorbing sunlight), or just there for the same reason everything in EVE looks the way it does - because an artist thought they looked cool.

I'm picking up a lot of radiation...
they're operating without core
containment. Well, that's feng kuang de,
that's suicide...

Proof positive Minmatar are Reavers

No. Heat is a form of energy. In matter, it generally manifests in the form vibration GÇö kinetic energy, if you want to simplify it.

You mean liquid vacuum huh? Dont forget that there is no usual physics in New Eden Universe.
Besides there is lot of objects in EVE space that you cannot call "usual vacuum' like gas clouds, for example.

I don't know almost anything about EVE lore, but if what people are saying about Minmatar using nuclear reactors is true, then the radiator idea still doesn't make sense. Yes radiators can radiate heat without convection, but on something like the ISS or the Apollo missions. The ISS does not have to radiate heat from a nuclear reaction. Radiation is so inefficient there is no way it would be able to effectively cool a nuclear reaction.

o_o Kind of scary how many people don't understand how heat is transferred though. Either way I will just pretend they are speed fins and all the Minmatar pilots are teenagers.

I don't know almost anything about EVE lore, but if what people are saying about Minmatar using nuclear reactors is true, then the radiator idea still doesn't make sense. Yes radiators can radiate heat without convection, but on something like the ISS or the Apollo missions. The ISS does not have to radiate heat from a nuclear reaction. Radiation is so inefficient there is no way it would be able to effectively cool a nuclear reaction.

o_o Kind of scary how many people don't understand how heat is transferred though. Either way I will just pretend they are speed fins and all the Minmatar pilots are teenagers.