Steam Geyser Warmth?

[Mav]

Hello There,

I know about building power generators ontop of the steam geyesrs.

What if i built a small room around the geyser, would it automatically create warmth?

[psanni]

Your pawn will fry. To death if you don't move it.

[Emmote]

Yeah, if you build a small room around it, and don't have a vent to let the heat out, it will cause a fire eventually.

[Mush]

i wonder if you could use them as central heating without using mods.
in theory it should be possible but i don't know how the game would distribute heat over such a fragmented area.

[Emmote]

Heat works with a single enclosed space being entirely the same temperature throughout, and it'll bleed temperature out at a certain rate based on insulation.

But if you build a geyser in your main room, it will act as a heater, though not as powerful I don't think, and it won't stop at a certain temperature like heaters do.

You certainly can use them as heaters, but unless you built your base to begin with on top of a geyser, I wouldn't recommend it.

[Mav]

Well I was thinking of building just a small green room around it so i don't haver to use a furnace to heat it, maybe if i build a vent to the outside with a certain size space there will be a sweet spot where the temp will even out to 20c?

Obviously once i have the research completed for the geothermal power stations i'll just swap it with that then.

[Mush]

Originally posted by Emmote:

Heat works with a single enclosed space being entirely the same temperature throughout, and it'll bleed temperature out at a certain rate based on insulation.

But if you build a geyser in your main room, it will act as a heater, though not as powerful I don't think, and it won't stop at a certain temperature like heaters do.

You certainly can use them as heaters, but unless you built your base to begin with on top of a geyser, I wouldn't recommend it.

your first two points are what makes me doubt the viability of the idea but i might try it.
coolers would be needed to keep the temperature stable and that in itself creates a secondary question.
would the power consumption of the coolers be better or equal Vs using coolers and heaters.

it would be worth trying just to see how far you can push the heat coming from a single vent, using coolers to spread the heat around your base.
everything would have to be connected and that could be a pain in the rear end.

[primobrainlet]

you could, theratticly do it, BUT be careful, if that room breaks and is connected to your colony, you will ♥♥♥♥ yourself x100

[PolecatEZ]

I effectively did use one for central heating until I researched geothermal. When you do that, you unroof it, build the power plant, and then you can put heaters everywhere.

If you put it in a room by itself and then run 1x long straights (with a vent on either end), they have a lot of heating kick but nothing deadly. You have to be very careful about managing total volume - every room you add and every bit of wall surface contacting the outside will drop your stable heat little by little.

[BanDHMO]

Yes and it works really well for indoor growing in northern climates. Put a power plant on the vent, put a solar lamp nearby for a field, and surround the whole thing by a wall or two. Keeps the plants warm and lit day and night, winter and summer. And if it gets too hot in the summer, just leave a door open.

[Zalzany]

Originally posted by Tasty Mushroom:

i wonder if you could use them as central heating without using mods.
in theory it should be possible but i don't know how the game would distribute heat over such a fragmented area.

I use vents all the time to make heat spread out, I have like 3 heaters in the main rooms like the dining room and my kitchen wich is close to the freezer anyways. Then I put one i nthe main hall and then vent every room but the cooler so it is possible to make a few heaters last quite a bit, but as you expand and it gets colder you will have to put a new one or two in at some point. Like mid game I end up with one big wide main hall with 2 heaters that heat up all the bedrooms with a vent to the dining room and crafting area, and dining room always gets its own heater for me becuase its the one room I want as pleasant as possible.

[Monarch 🍕]

Put it this way the Steam Geysers will keep a 14x14 room warm enough in icesheet temperatures.

[Libra]

It's a good way to keep crops alive during solar flares in arctic environments, however I would never do it in warmer climates. The heat builds up very quickly and doesn't stop. I had a room hit over 100C once during a heatwave.

[Concrete Galoshes]

I use geothermal spots for heat, and just close them off during the summer.
I also recycle heat from the A/C units.
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