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Everitt Mickey <evmick@pnv.net> wrote:
> I was dreaming of a laser beam to space offloading excess Btu's into the
> void....
David Brin, "Sundiver" (1980).
This has been discussed in rec.arts.sf.science, and the consensus
was that it is thermodynamically impossible. A laser beam has low
entropy, so you can't use it to get rid of waste heat.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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