MadnessASAP 3 days ago

I dont have firm numbers for you since it would depend on environmental conditions. As an educated guess though, I would say a fucking shit ton. You wouldn't want to be anywhere near the damn thing.

baobrien 3 days ago

Not much in space; There's almost no matter to convect!

fsh 3 days ago

A sports car radiator has about that size and dumps 1 MW without boiling the coolant.

  • alextingle 3 days ago

    A car's "radiator" doesn't actually lose heat by radiation though. It conducts heat to the air rushing through it. That's absolutely nothing like a radiator in a vacuum.

    • fsh 3 days ago

      That's the point. Forced air cooling is way more efficient than radiative cooling.

    • tsimionescu 3 days ago

      The question was about comparing the 1400KW of radiative cooling to how much convective coolig you could get from the same radiator on Earth.