Gas giant suit
Gas giant suit posted in Equipment, Cybertech and Weapons forum comment posted by cobalt_phoenix | Author |
| For another purpose, I've suggested a device called a quark heat sink, which is basically PL 7+ suspending the second law of thermodynamics for some period to stuff heat into some sort of repository. Others have suggested, seriously as far as I can tell, having a heat exhaust laser pointing up out of the atmosphere. |
So an idea that may prove interesting in cooling may be to use energy shielding to act like a
vapor-compression refrigerator.
The idea is that the shield would allow atmospheric gases through, but at a low rate and with a compression & expansion phases. For example, a modified deflection inducer would form a bubble of gravitic fields around the object, causing the atmospheric gases to be compressed due to the gravity, with only a small amount allowed to actually push through the bubble. Once there, the lower atmospheric pressure (likely captured while at a higher, colder, thinner atmospheric level) would cause the gas particles to draw in heat to allow them to expand into the reduced pressure space around the hull.
If you could then ionize the gases within the bubble, you could then use magnetic fields to push the cooled gases back out of the bubble, causing the bubble to maintain a pressure below the normal atmosphere.
You could also use particle screens, with the screen itself ionizing, compressing, and slowly releasing particles into the bubble area. It wouldn't need to be that large of a bubble, either, just as long as it was cold enough.
The reduced pressure would also make it easier on the hull to withstand the environmental pressures, and could even help to make it buoyant. There is even a possibility that this is used to adjust the buoyancy of the suit/pod/whatever, expanding the field of low pressure to allow it to rise and contracting to cause it to fall within the atmosphere.
Of course, an ablative shield would also work very well with this idea.
I do think this would require considerable power, though. At the very least a fusion reactor, and maybe even a mass reactor or better.
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