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[~Neri]

Why don't any of the mechs have extendable fins to radiate internal heat from the reactors?

[Flying Dice]

For some of them, at least, because it would probably screw up their stealth functions; radiating more heat over a wider area turns you into a larger target for IR scanners, and the spines themselves would make you stand out more on visual-spectrum and radar scans.

I'll take this moment to be incredibly thankful that we aren't running with heat restrictions as stringent as Battletech pilots have.

[Again_Dejavu]

G is attempting to contact y'all

[~Neri]

Well the spines would be extendable, so they can retract for stealth.

Kiren lacks a phone.

[Rolepgeek]

Well the spines would be extendable, so they can retract for stealth.

Kiren lacks a phone.

Difficulties with that lie in the space to put them, and secondary cooling systems while in stealth mode, which probably takes more power than being out of it...

[~Neri]

Could always switch to a liquid cooling system also.

Actually, I'm going to get some stuff integrated for longterm missions. Batteries and extendable Solar Panels being some of the things. As well as things for personal survivability.

[Taricus]

Ah, the benefits of fusion :3

[GiglameshDespair]

Could always switch to a liquid cooling system also.

Actually, I'm going to get some stuff integrated for longterm missions. Batteries and extendable Solar Panels being some of the things. As well as things for personal survivability.

Even with liquid cooling, that liquid's stored heat has to go somewhere. A fridge produces a lot more heat than it removes from the food inside - it can dump that heat into the surrounding atmosphere. If you read what I wrote about power stations, they use water cooling to cool the coolant. That's why they're located near coasts - so they can cycles seawater through their systems and get rid of heat that way.

The mech is doubtlessly already using a liquid (either super-pressurised water or gas pressuirsed into liquid) coolant system. It's coolign the coolant that's the problem, and the only way to do that is air, really.

Extendable fins might work, but they'd be fragile, highly obvious, and impratical in combat.
Heat sinks could do if you then ejected them from the mech, a la mass effect, but then you only have limited amounts of those.

G is attempting to contact y'all

Christ, man, give people a few sentences between each other. Yeah, people won't answer back instantly.

Ah, the benefits of fusion :3

I would imagine they actually suffer the same problems, to be honest, but they can be shut down more easily. I'm not perfectly sure though, I'd have to look iin to it. It's harder because fusion reactors doesn't exist outside the lab.

[Taricus]

Well, I don't have to worry about a cold fusion reactor blowing up, now do I?

[GiglameshDespair]

Cold fusion is false, anyway, so science doesn't apply  . But since it's still producing heat... yeah, you might have to worry, depending on how it works. It most likely be used like a conventional fission reactor, so you could have the same problems.

[Rolepgeek]

Could always switch to a liquid cooling system also.

Actually, I'm going to get some stuff integrated for longterm missions. Batteries and extendable Solar Panels being some of the things. As well as things for personal survivability.

Even with liquid cooling, that liquid's stored heat has to go somewhere. A fridge produces a lot more heat than it removes from the food inside - it can dump that heat into the surrounding atmosphere. If you read what I wrote about power stations, they use water cooling to cool the coolant. That's why they're located near coasts - so they can cycles seawater through their systems and get rid of heat that way.

The mech is doubtlessly already using a liquid (either super-pressurised water or gas pressuirsed into liquid) coolant system. It's coolign the coolant that's the problem, and the only way to do that is air, really.

Extendable fins might work, but they'd be fragile, highly obvious, and impratical in combat.
Heat sinks could do if you then ejected them from the mech, a la mass effect, but then you only have limited amounts of those.

Non retractable fins, on the other hand, look badass, can mount jets, and fill the function of impaling enemies who try to sneak up on you.

[GiglameshDespair]

Any fins would have to be thin out of neccesity, and require pumps to get the liquid cooling through them. Means your cooling would easily be damaged, and then you'd have to run at lower capacities to balance out the reduction in heat-removal.

For some of them, at least, because it would probably screw up their stealth functions; radiating more heat over a wider area turns you into a larger target for IR scanners, and the spines themselves would make you stand out more on visual-spectrum and radar scans.

I'll take this moment to be incredibly thankful that we aren't running with heat restrictions as stringent as Battletech pilots have.

All this still applies, as well.

Wings, glowing red with heat, could still look massively badass as well. Especially if you were flying.

[Again_Dejavu]

Would y'all mind If I made the scrapyard G is at a safehouse type place?

[GiglameshDespair]

I'm assuming we were hired by the new colony authorities, and they would own military bases with defences and hangars, so I imagine they'd billet any hired troops there.

[Rolepgeek]

Any fins would have to be thin out of neccesity, and require pumps to get the liquid cooling through them. Means your cooling would easily be damaged, and then you'd have to run at lower capacities to balance out the reduction in heat-removal.

I think more of spikes than fins.