eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · vor 7 TagenAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square81linkfedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down114
arrow-up1254arrow-down1external-linkAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comeicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · vor 7 Tagenmessage-square81linkfedilink
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·vor 7 Tagen you can only vent heat in infrared Yeah, when you heat something, it emits infrared. Kind of the nature of hot things.
minus-squareDavid J. Atkinson@c.imlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·vor 7 Tagen@phutatorius @technology So, a high-efficiency thermoelectric generator, powered by #datacenter heat directly, might be a win-win. I don’t understand why the current (jk) #technology efficiency is still so low. Surely someone must be working on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric/_generator
Yeah, when you heat something, it emits infrared. Kind of the nature of hot things.
@phutatorius @technology So, a high-efficiency thermoelectric generator, powered by #datacenter heat directly, might be a win-win. I don’t understand why the current (jk) #technology efficiency is still so low. Surely someone must be working on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric/_generator