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    23 months ago

    Vacuums are bad at dissipating heat.

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

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      3 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.