• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    No atmosphere means very little thermal radiation is pulled from radiators.

    I imagine the best bet would be to drill into the surface of the moon and sink your radiators into the ground, fill the gaps with a material that transfers heat well.

    Easiest version of that would probably be to lay the radiators on or just below the surface and bury them in a regolith concrete mixture of some sort. Probably not as efficient as drilling straight in, but way less complicated I imagine.