It’s very odd to think of something extremely hot but with almost no density, and therefore very little heat transfer.
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Then there's the fact that heat is very difficult to get rid of when in space. The ISS's radiators are much bigger than its solar panels. If you wanted to have a very-long eva spacesuit you'd have to have radiators much bigger than your body hanging off of it. Short evas are handled by starting the eva with cold liquids in the suit and letting them heat up.
All of the mockups of starships going to Mars mostly fail to represent where they're going to put the radiators to get rid of all the excess heat.
> An absorption refrigerator is a refrigerator that uses a heat source to provide the energy needed to drive the cooling process. Solar energy, burning a fossil fuel, waste heat from factories, and district heating systems are examples of heat sources that can be used. An absorption refrigerator uses two coolants: the first coolant performs evaporative cooling and then is absorbed into the second coolant; heat is needed to reset the two coolants to their initial states.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-refrigerati...
> Fishermen in the village of Maruata, which is located on the Mexican Pacific coast 18 degrees north of the equator, have no electricity. But for the past 16 years they have been able to store their fish on ice: Seven ice makers, powered by nothing but the scorching sun, churn out a half ton of ice every day.
There is no physical process that turns energy into cold. All "cooling" processes are just a way of extracting heat from a closed space and rejecting it to a different space. You cannot destroy heat, only move it. That's fundamental to the universe. You cannot destroy energy, only transform it.
Neither link is a rebuttal of that. An absorption refrigerator still has to reject the pumped heat somewhere else. Those people making ice with solar energy are still rejecting at minimum the ~334kj/kg to the environment.
An absorption refrigerator does not absorb heat, it's called that because you are taking advantage of some energy configurations that occur when one fluid absorbs another. The action of pumping heat is the same.
Giant radiators don't make ice.
The proposed method of pumping heat into someplace hot to make it hotter doesn't work. But there area definitely ways to do solar powered ac for cooling.