Space radiators and other cool things

[everything-is-nominal]

Hello,

First of all, i want to thanks squad for their 1.0 release, it's really a great success !

Now, with all the heat problem, i would like to suggest radiator to be part of the game, we could also have active and passive cooling :

the passive cooling thing :

First we could have radiator : it would look like solar panels that we could spam everywhere around the vessel and as the time fly, they would cool down the vessel (with of course a limitation of how fast one would be able to cool a part of the vessel) and the farther they are from a part, the slower this part will cool down.

Here is an example of what it look like in space http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2001/03/13/ast21mar_1_resources/radiators.gif

we could have small one and big one.

We could also have a heat collector ; a piece that weighs a lot and that takes all the heat of the space craft to only one place before overheating. The only way for it to not overheat too fast would be to put radiators around it.

The active cooling thing :

It would be a piece that in order to work would use electricity and cool things pretty fast, BUT because physic is not very nice with us, if we cool something, we have to heat something else in return. So it would be a piece to cool for example engines and would have in exchange to heat other part of the vessel.

For example, we have a part of the vessel that is near overheating, we would then active the active cooling piece to cool down the part very fast and in exchange, would heat up the rest of the vessel.

We could also have something to produce electricity with the heat produced in the vessel : in fact it would be a piece that in contact with a hot part and a cooler one, would produce electricity (in fact, a stirling engine). Of course the cooling rate would be lower than any other technique, but would produce electricity in exchange.

Here is a gif of what nasa came upon electricity production in space with a stirling engine http://www.photology.fr/moteur_stirling/strllinear/infinia_linear.gif

P.S : sorry for the grammar, i tried to correct all the mistakes I could

[Mister Kerman]

I'm all for a radiator part like the foldable style mentioned in this thread.

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