India considers joining Russia, China to build nuclear plant on Moon
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Rivals India and China are said to be keen on joining a Russian project to build an atomic power plant for a human base on the Moon.
  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Vacuums are bad at dissipating heat.

    They’re also very good at not stopping infrared radiation.

    • InvertedParallax@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The IR band gap is high enough that you’d need really efficient heat pumps to keep things radiating well. Otherwise the heat pumps generate more heat than you can radiate.