Heat transfer to hydroponic units??

[Sluggernaut]

If I pump filtered toilet water to a hydroponic farm will it heat up the area around it?

What if i use abyssalite pipes?

What if i make insulated abyssalite pipes?

Is the reverse true? If i cool the water first will it cool the area around the hydroponic farms?

[The Queen Salis]

hadn't experimented with these yet, but putting hot water into farm tiles heated the area, so when the boiling water passes through these abyssalite pipes and enters tiles, I think it will heat the area

[PhailRaptor]

Originally posted by JERK Blastomite:

If I pump filtered toilet water to a hydroponic farm will it heat up the area around it?

All objects and substances will attempt to dissipate heat, striving to reach an "average" between the extremes. So yes, the heat will "leak" from the pipes to the air or blocks around it. And it will also heat up the plant in the HydroBox, which then has the potential to affect it's growth.

Originally posted by JERK Blastomite:

What if i use abyssalite pipes?

What if i make insulated abyssalite pipes?

Abyssalite is special. It will 100% block all transfer of heat, both between itself and neighboring substances, as well as between contained substances and the surroundings. In this case, you will not warm the area around your pipes. You will, however, still warm the plant and HydroBox. More so, in fact, because now the built up heat is not being dissipated anywhere the pipes are Abyssalite.

Originally posted by JERK Blastomite:

Is the reverse true? If i cool the water first will it cool the area around the hydroponic farms?

Yes. This is the same principle that the Hydrogen Cooling Systems people build use. Cool a specific medium in a localized environment, then send that now cold medium through pipes. The medium will absorb heat from the surroundings it passes through, before returning to the cooling room to remove the heat again.

[AquaX]

The main thing you need to know is the thermal conductivity. All items attempt to reach an average temp which is based around everything it touches. How much/long it take depends on the thermal conductivity. The highest is Wolfimate and lowest is abysslite.

[Ackranome]

Put your farm in a cold biome I guess?

[Reaniel]

I don't think they changed the mechanism where water stored inside of the farm tiles is pretty much isolated and wouldn't interact thermally. Otherwise, it'd be impossible to grow wheat. All you need to make sure is that the pipes are insulated on the way to the tiles, but once inside the tile, the temperature of the water wouldn't heat or cool down the surrounding.

[GD]

Isolated Pipes muliply the possible isolation of the material it was build from. But the main-factor still is Thermal Conductivity of the material. So a non-isolated Abyssalite Pipe is still way way way more effective than an isolated Granit-Pipe (Granit is very bad isolator but good for exchange heat/cold) ... because of it's Thermal Conductivity Factor.

EDIT: Mathematical speaking: Isolated Pipes divide the Thermal Conductivity of the material by a value ... I'm not sure, but it think it was 4-times or so. But it also requires 4 times the materials to build.