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for a square solar array of side length L, a pyramid height of 3*L would bring the temperature to below 300K, check my calculation above.

people heavily underestimate radiative cooling, probably because precisely our atmosphere hinders its effective utilization!

lesson: its not because radiative cooling is hard to exploit on earth at sea level, that its similarily ineffective in space!



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