Timeline for Could ships in space use a Steam Engine?
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| Oct 14, 2016 at 21:04 | comment | added | ohwilleke | A fair point. Still some amount of infrared radiation must escape the ship, somehow - perhaps that would have to be incorporated with a heat exchanger and the soot removal system. | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 8:12 | comment | added | kubanczyk | There is no "chill of space". Instead you have a near-perfect isolation, which means it's hard to release any heat away from the ship. For real space vessels the overheating is a major design problem. | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 7:20 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 14, 2016 at 7:20 | history | answered | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |