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Beam Cooling by Windspren

Windspren
Windspren
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20th Nov 2020
20th Nov 2020
Another esoteric cooling system, using beams of particles to transmit heat between two surfaces. Proton cooling is better at transmitting heat from an object, but photons can travel faster without any of the issues of proton collision
cooling beam heat heattransfer

Comments

  • nobodyagain
    nobodyagain     10th Nov 2023
    sombody should really use this for a full size reactor in some way.
  • mixer001
    mixer001     23rd Nov 2020
    Interesting way of heat transfer. I thought it wouldn't work with ambient heat on, but It only needs to be encapsulated in 2px of insulation on each side of the beam. Also, hello fellow Stormlight archive fans!
  • hujhgjt
    hujhgjt     22nd Nov 2020
    heating up the reactors to around 1200 makes it unstable, which then the boyl starts expanding, which in turn makes the uran heat up, and it just keeps on going
  • Chemlab
    Chemlab     21st Nov 2020
    If you add FILT next to the 2 ends of the photon beam, the beam will cool better
  • Zekeny
    Zekeny     20th Nov 2020
    very interesting +1
  • Sandboxvoid
    Sandboxvoid     20th Nov 2020
    easily wrecked by N-grav based things unfortunately, so it would be hard for this to function if there were any gravity generating particles on the save (unless you use Ngrav wall)
  • Sandboxvoid
    Sandboxvoid     20th Nov 2020
    So basically kinda just remote cooling, seems like a simple but useful idea, wonder why I don't see this more often. +1
  • JadetheShade
    JadetheShade     20th Nov 2020
    hey Windspren nice creation!
  • Windspren
    Windspren     20th Nov 2020
    This is useful for reactors because proton beams can heat water pools internally, while relying on heated surfaces can produce steam explosions and instabilities in the boiling chamber.