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Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but the Carnot limit on thermal efficiency is So the maximum possible efficiency would by 99% in this case, so you'd only need to absorb around 60 kilowatts of heat for the entire journey? Note that you could vent it afterwards, its just being stored long...

So it should be technically doable?

Since the idea is to keep the ship, except the small crew pod, which is inside the ship, at ambient space temperature, it would be around three kelvin. The apparatus to convert the thermal energy to electrical energy and the storage medium would be at the ambient ship temperature, and inside the...

Hello! I was wondering if someone could take a look at this idea and tell me if there is something wrong with it: In attempting to shut down every part of a hypothetical spacecraft except some sort of highly insulated crew pod, the total amount of heat produced over a period of time is...