Talk:Lunar Radiator

It is still to be determined the efficiency of the system. Vacuum on the moon will not allow a proper cooling. The only output of the system is infrared radiation. The point is how the infrared radiation will scape properly the radiator given the fact that the radiator is practically covered.

A solution would be to uncover the radiator during the night.

Another solution would be to cover the radiator with cold and compact regolith and replacing it once it reaches more than the needed temperature.

The average temperature underneath the surface is -23 degrees Celsius. During the nigth the regolith can reach -153 degrees Celsius.

(There is no actual data about how cold is the interior of the moon below 20 meters and volcanic activity is still something unknown yet).

During the day the radiator could be covered with cold regolith from the night. And during the night the heated regolith could be removed and replaced with cold regolith again.

Yesterday I was reading the microfiches of the handbook of lunar materials. It is really unknown the termodynamic behavior of the regolith underneath the surface.

I can be wrong...

--Jotagiraldez 20:00, 6 November 2010 (UTC)