Transmitting heat across distances in effectively a vacuum doesn’t work too well.
Just look a the size of the radiators the ISS has to have, and they’re not even sending heat anywhere in particular, that’s just getting it off station
The mirrors on Earth don’t transfer the energy using the air between the mirror and the collector, they just bounce the spicy photons which can travel even better in a vacuum.
I wonder if it could be worth it to make one of those on other planets/the Moon one day. No birds to worry about there.
Solar panels are still cheaper and easier. Most spaceships and probes rely on them.
Yea, I should have guessed as much.
Not a lot of atmosphere on the moon.
Transmitting heat across distances in effectively a vacuum doesn’t work too well.
Just look a the size of the radiators the ISS has to have, and they’re not even sending heat anywhere in particular, that’s just getting it off station
The mirrors on Earth don’t transfer the energy using the air between the mirror and the collector, they just bounce the spicy photons which can travel even better in a vacuum.
Or in the Atacama, the Desertiest desert on earth!
Where the gigantic Cerro Dominador Termosolar Power Plant opened a couple years ago.