Easiest Way to Cool Geyser Water

[cyboogie king]

This is probably one of the easiest, most simple ways to cool geyser water, requiring no energy at all! (except for pumps and stuff): Build a large tank in the ice biome. Make sure to spam the top with ice sculptures. Make sure to not sweep any of the ice that fell to the bottom while digging out for the tank. (Sweep polluted ice) Pump all the geyser water that can fit into that tank, and watch the water turn to a cool crispy 5 degrees celsius or lower in the span of 10-20 cycles.

[AquaX]

Another way is solid co2 cooling with the heat nullifer. Nullifer turns the co2 to a solid which drops into the tank of water. That forces the water to give out heat to heat up the co2. The co2 leaves the water and repeats.

[Astasia]

You don't even need to pump the water into the ice biome if you find a geyser at a higher elevation. Just build a path for it and let it flow down into the tank. Clean cool water at 0 power cost.

[AquaX]

Originally posted by Astasia:

You don't even need to pump the water into the ice biome if you find a geyser at a higher elevation. Just build a path for it and let it flow down into the tank. Clean cool water at 0 power cost.

That 1 is based on chance. 9/10 your geysers will either be below the nullifer biomes or too far that you need to section off a bunch of the world to do it. That will also cost you loads of abysslite which you can do the same w/ a water pipe for less cost and only 1 water pump. With 2 gas geysers, you should already have enough pwr to have all basic functions needed.

[Astasia]

There's no reason to use abyssalite, granite tile is fine. Biomes are usually pretty well scattered around a map, having a frozen biome pocket near the bottom half of the map isn't anywhere near as uncommon as you make it out to be. You don't need access to gas geysers, large power systems, or any advanced research, you can very easily and very quickly setup unlimited water for your colony with just a small bit of stone making you free to expand at whatever pace you want.

[AquaX]

Originally posted by Astasia:

There's no reason to use abyssalite, granite tile is fine. Biomes are usually pretty well scattered around a map, having a frozen biome pocket near the bottom half of the map isn't anywhere near as uncommon as you make it out to be. You don't need access to gas geysers, large power systems, or any advanced research, you can very easily and very quickly setup unlimited water for your colony with just a small bit of stone making you free to expand at whatever pace you want.

You think granite is fine but the heat from the steam geyser will bleed into the environment from any material except abysslite. If you like biomes to reach 60-90 degrees you would want to use abysslite. Also a good tip to notice is that electrolyzer and carbon skimmer does not rely on water temp on their byproduct. It is somewhat based on the machines current temp. So as long as the machines are cool, the gas and waste products are cool too.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by AquaX:

You think granite is fine but the heat from the steam geyser will bleed into the environment from any material except abysslite.

That is the entire point. That's how you cool it down quickly.

I did this in my game long before I was worried about electrolyzers or carbon skimmers. It's a super early game strategy.

[AquaX]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Originally posted by AquaX:

You think granite is fine but the heat from the steam geyser will bleed into the environment from any material except abysslite.

That is the entire point. That's how you cool it down quickly.

I did this in my game long before I was worried about electrolyzers or carbon skimmers. It's a super early game strategy.

You do know that is only a stop gap measure. At first, the environment will cool the water a bit. But over time, the environment won't be able to and the water AND environment will only get hotter.

[Astasia]

Not really. Like I said this is something I did very early game, and like 100 cycles later the temps in the area are still roughly the same. After I first dropped a big pool of hot water down the temps spiked and it was like 40C a few blocks out around the outside of my tank in the frozen biome, but then it dropped back down to cold temps and never became an issue. There was no melting of the biome or anything. Perhaps after 1000 cycles it could become a problem, but honestly after you first tap into that first water geyser the game is won anyway.

[Othobrithol]

Eventually entropy always wins.