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Re:A technical look at the Dragonfly Titan mission by jacobush on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @04:18PM (#20339044)
I guess, but it all (well, 99.999999% and more) gets converted to heat anyway when you use the electricity. So ... I don't understand.
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Re:A technical look at the Dragonfly Titan mission by lmilcin on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @06:06PM (#20339821)
I guess the reason might be it is pretty difficult to make efficient conversion from heat to electricity that would also be very reliable.
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