A Science Vision report about living on the Moon - how it can be done.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike"
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> I'm not so sure. I don't see a big difference between a heat radiator
> operating edge-on to the sun at a lunar pole and one closer to the
> equator. I guess there would be slightly more IR flux coming up from
> the ground closer to the equator than at a pole, but I think sunlight,
> rather than that, would be the primary factor in this.
>
> In fact, one might argue that the polar radiator would require more
> complicated construction than one further from the poles. I imagine a
> polar radiator would have to rotate on its axis once each lunar day.
> One further from the poles could be built in a fixed ...

Hi Mike,

I was thinking along the lines of a horizontally oriented radiator
in the permanently shadowed crater. I suspect that your right about a
vertical radiator "edge on" to the sun and radiating sideways. I wonder
how much the reflected and re-radiated IR from the sunlit surface of
the moon would reduce the heat rejection capacity of the radiator. I
wouldn't be surprised if someone has already made this calculation.

Chris