I know I need a picture, but I'm simply to busy to find one so I'm going to rant and give you a couple of websites for research about just how silly showing a picture of the space station in Earth orbit and then quoting a "temperature for space" and using it to try and refute a statement about solar panel temperatures within an atmosphere.
The image of the space station and then the badly misleading quote about the temperature of space followed by "A fox rotting your brain" just no. No NO! NO!
You do know that the space station or all powered bodies in space have a heat rejection problem, they after all are placed in what is probably the best insulators and can only reject heat as radiation. The solar panels on the space station require active cooling and the crew must act quickly if the pumps ever fail.
I think the temperature you quoted "for space" is related to the residual background radiation and has a large number of assumptions that are not in any meaningful way related to the solar panels on Earth's surface or even to a set of solar panels placed on a space station in near Earth orbit and only roughly 93 million miles from a strong energy source. To say nothing of the changes to heat radiation caused by being in Low Earth Orbit.
A inert body far from a energy source like the sun will eventually reach a balanced thermal state where the thermal radiation released will equal the background radiation absorbed and the object could approximate the temperature you quoted.
Space can't really be said to have a temperature as you think of it in a atmosphere, the "temperature" for space usually quoted is under the current most accepted theory related to the residual microwave noise supposedly created from the initial "BIG BANG!!!!!!!!"
Using that temperature "for space" along with a quote about the temperature working range of solar panels is... is...
I can't come up with a example to show you how bad OFF! that was.
HERE READ THIS!
https://www.space.com/21059-space-statio...aphic.html
also for a much more FUN!!! site with many more details about space and objects within space.
study the articles that can be found here
I highly recommend finding the articles about "cloaking" or hiding space ships in space to get an idea about space temperatures.
https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
HDM
The image of the space station and then the badly misleading quote about the temperature of space followed by "A fox rotting your brain" just no. No NO! NO!
You do know that the space station or all powered bodies in space have a heat rejection problem, they after all are placed in what is probably the best insulators and can only reject heat as radiation. The solar panels on the space station require active cooling and the crew must act quickly if the pumps ever fail.
I think the temperature you quoted "for space" is related to the residual background radiation and has a large number of assumptions that are not in any meaningful way related to the solar panels on Earth's surface or even to a set of solar panels placed on a space station in near Earth orbit and only roughly 93 million miles from a strong energy source. To say nothing of the changes to heat radiation caused by being in Low Earth Orbit.
A inert body far from a energy source like the sun will eventually reach a balanced thermal state where the thermal radiation released will equal the background radiation absorbed and the object could approximate the temperature you quoted.
Space can't really be said to have a temperature as you think of it in a atmosphere, the "temperature" for space usually quoted is under the current most accepted theory related to the residual microwave noise supposedly created from the initial "BIG BANG!!!!!!!!"
Using that temperature "for space" along with a quote about the temperature working range of solar panels is... is...
I can't come up with a example to show you how bad OFF! that was.
HERE READ THIS!
https://www.space.com/21059-space-statio...aphic.html
also for a much more FUN!!! site with many more details about space and objects within space.
study the articles that can be found here
I highly recommend finding the articles about "cloaking" or hiding space ships in space to get an idea about space temperatures.
https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
HDM