A few secrets to cooling water geysers

[Jerry_Riggings]

So I've seen that several people have trouble cooling water from steam geysers or cooling their base in general so I'm gonna put in a few methods that work for me and see how many other ways people can add to it. (I'll edit to add in other methods that people use)

1. Keep the steam geyser submerged in water. That simple. Steam has almost no power to change the temprature of things around it but takes massive energy to change it's temperature. So make sure the geyser is submerged in it's own water. It will maintain about 30c all on it's own. (if you cover more than half of the geyser it slows down production considerably)

2. Late game when you decide you wanna make a hydrogen bubbler system to cool and purify poluted oxygen into liquid oxygen just use some abysalite insulated pipes to transport that liquid oxygen into the bottom of your hot water pool. (This will have the added benefit of raising the temperature of your oxygen fast as the water cools.)

3. wrap your steam geyser in wolframite gas permeable tiles with enough room for the water to go down (3 tiles down) and place weezwarts on the outside or cold poluted water in an ice biome. It cools the tiles and that cools the water.

4. Put 3 weezwarts above the geyser with wolframite mesh tiles holding them up and drip feed water from the bottom of the pool through the weezwarts. (It's slow but seems to work.)

That's all I've got. Anyone use other methods?
A good set of information to keep in mind from

Originally posted by GD:

As far as I have noticed it is always:
- Rising Pressure
- Emitting Steam at 666.7 g/s
- Water at 60 kg/s
- Overpressure Steam 500 g/s

Methods suggested in the comments

Originally posted by chemie:

No need to cool. transport in abssyite pipes to where you need it. Plants, scrubbers, O2 showers, toliets can all run 95C and have no impact on heat in base as long as it is in abssyite (including the polluted discharge)

[PhailRaptor]

I had a map where a Steam Geyser was conveniently located immediately next to where my sleeping quarters go, which is directly above where my Clean Water resevoir goes. I simply made the resevoir a little wider, and made a vertical shaft to the Geyser out of Abyssallite Insulated Tiles. I then planted a series of Wheezeworts in Abyssallite Flower Pots on some Mesh Tiles in the shaft.

I'm not sure exactly how effective it was, but I had nother cooling measure. Before I opened up the Geyser to fill the resevoir, I built some boxes out of Gas Permiable Tiles, each with a Wheezewort inside it. As the water level rose around the boxes, it eventually closed them over, creating self contained cooling units.

[GD]

How much of the Geysr do you cover it with water? Only the lower 3 tiles or more? Do you not reduce the amount of Water if the Geysr cannot emit Steam anymore only water?

As far as I have noticed it is always:
- Rising Pressure
- Emitting Steam at 666.7 g/s
- Water at 60 kg/s
- Overpressure Steam 500 g/s

So far my strategy was not to touch the Geysr as it is a neverending heat source and try to avoid steam in the chamber. Steam is evil, it can store immense amout of heat (2 times of Hydrogen) and has even more thermal conductivity than Hydrogen. As long as steam is in the chamber and touches the Geysr it conduct heat to itself and the water heating all up and stay like this forever.

So my strategy is to cool the Steam as fast as possible and do not let anything touch the Geysr so it cannot spread it's heat.

To that end I place it in a vaccum chamber of Abyssalit and place a single liquid wolframid pipe with polluted water ~30°C circulating with outside pool over the first row above the Geysr to force the steam to immediatly condensate. So the hole chamber is 80% vaccum and 20% water most of the time (2-3 tiles below the geysr where the pump is standing in always covered with water to avoid the temporary heat increases to the pump). But when inactive nothing touches the Gysr no pipe no pump no tile and no gases.

Water stays at 70-75°C all the time and Geysr is not obstructed so 100% usage. Heat increase of the polluted water is minimal .1 °C as long as steam is emitted but that's only for short times.

[Jerry_Riggings]

Originally posted by GD:

How much of the Geysr do you cover it with water? Only the lower 3 tiles or more? Do you not reduce the amount of Water if the Geysr cannot emit Steam anymore only water?

If you cover more than half it slows down production considerably but that also gives you more time to cool things since while it's blocked it's not generating extra heat.

Originally posted by GD:

As far as I have noticed it is always:
- Rising Pressure
- Emitting Steam at 666.7 g/s
- Water at 60 kg/s
- Overpressure Steam 500 g/s

Putting this up top

Originally posted by GD:

So far my strategy was not to touch the Geysr as it is a neverending heat source and try to avoid steam in the chamber. Steam is evil, it can store immense amout of heat (2 times of Hydrogen) and has even more thermal conductivity than Hydrogen. As long as steam is in the chamber and touches the Geysr it conduct heat to itself and the water heating all up and stay like this forever.

So my strategy is to cool the Steam as fast as possible and do not let anything touch the Geysr so it cannot spread it's heat.

To that end I place it in a vaccum chamber of Abyssalit and place a single liquid wolframid pipe with polluted water ~30°C circulating with outside pool over the first row above the Geysr to force the steam to immediatly condensate. So the hole chamber is 80% vaccum and 20% water most of the time (2-3 tiles below the geysr where the pump is standing in always covered with water to avoid the temporary heat increases to the pump). But when inactive nothing touches the Gysr no pipe no pump no tile and no gases.

Water stays at 70-75°C all the time and Geysr is not obstructed so 100% usage. Heat increase of the polluted water is minimal .1 °C as long as steam is emitted but that's only for short times.

This is all stuff I needed to know. Thanks a ton

[chemie]

No need to cool. transport in abssyite pipes to where you need it. Plants, scrubbers, O2 showers, toliets can all run 95C and have no impact on heat in base as long as it is in abssyite (including the polluted discharge)

[Jerry_Riggings]

Interesting.

[Alzein]

in my current map i have a lot of steam geysers. one of them for the showers, toilets, and air scrubber, just build insulated tiles around the geysers, liquid pump using gold amalgam, and insulated pipes going around my base for some heat distribution. for cooling the geyser i found some way for instantly cooling down the heat. http://imgur.com/a/HVqTH here the link a few days ago i post on brothgar youtube channel.