XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: sky.diver@moonbase.alpha
In article <3slul1dq4i16u8dal5tjjgqclhuoso9arh@4ax.com>, Jack Bohn
wrote:
> Rich wrote:
>
> >Check this out. This is the kind of material they want
> >to build the transport system for the "Space Elevator" with.
> >
> > 'Buckypaper': stronger than steel, harder than diamonds
> >
> >Working with a material 10 times lighter than steel - but 250 times
> >stronger - would be a dream come true for any engineer. If this
> >material also had amazing properties that made it highly conductive of
> >heat and electricity,
>
> Running something highly conductive of heat up from the equator
> to the cold of space... What would the effects of that be?
None to speak of. Thermal energy must move from hot areas to cold, but
what's the heat going to do at the top? It can't escape via conduction
or convection - that's why vacuum bottles (ThermosŪ bottles) maintain
internal temperatures so well. At these low temperatures (less than a
few hundred degrees), not much heat will be emitted as infrared
radiation, either.
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