His biggest concern seems to be the matter of heat dissipation, which brought to my mind the scene in Heaven's Reach (I think), where the communication (?) laser is used to cool the ship, which is under attack. It's been 5+ years since I read them, and I don't have the books handy, so forgive me if I'm mis-remembering things.
Sundiver actually, and indeed the communications laser.
Anyway, does anyone remember how that laser cooling worked? Is that reality-based, or posited on some nonexistent future technology?
It works on the principle of a heatsink. A bit like the refridgerator. As far as I got it, they heat up one spot/part of the ship with the communicationlaser and then let the heat flow towards a cooler zone, being the sun in case of the novel. Does it work....? No idea. But it sounded like flaky physics/material sciences were applied. Not sure though.
Sonja GCU: On topic
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