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cucumber3732842today at 5:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

Could they run the chips at "normal" temperatures and then heat pump that all into some other mass that lives at "aerospace alloy" temperatures and radiates it away more efficiently?


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PowerfulWizardtoday at 6:31 PM

I think it's possible, I'm not familiar with what's really been tried but I see that there are some publications on it, for example there's an ESA project under way: https://connectivity.esa.int/archives/projects/heat-pump-cen...

spaceclaytoday at 9:18 PM

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