Space and Heat

[Lesser Evil]

How to prevent structures from overheating in space ? I have large power transformer, standing on refined metal tiles (lead), transformer keeps warming up, going well beyond 100 degrees, but the tiles it's standing on remain at 40 degrees.

[fractalgem]

Run coolant in pipes past them. make sure the pipes occupy the same tile.

[ArcZero]

I think structures in space don't exchange heat with ground tiles.

Had a solar panel on metal tiles conducting all the way to an ice biome, metal tiles cooled down, solar panels won't.

[Elevrai]

Originally posted by fractalgem:

Run coolant in pipes past them. make sure the pipes occupy the same tile.

You'll need a liquid to occupy the tile with the building. One single gram of liquid water is enough to link the pipe with the building.

[fractalgem]

Originally posted by Elevrai:

Originally posted by fractalgem:

Run coolant in pipes past them. make sure the pipes occupy the same tile.

You'll need a liquid to occupy the tile with the building. One single gram of liquid water is enough to link the pipe with the building.

Ah. Did not know that, thanks!

[Bokonon]

Originally posted by fractalgem:

Originally posted by Elevrai:

You'll need a liquid to occupy the tile with the building. One single gram of liquid water is enough to link the pipe with the building.

Ah. Did not know that, thanks!

Yup, without some medium there is no way for the heat to transfer. OP, it was me, I'd build a small room and fill it with some kind of gas (hydrogen is best but others will work) then run cooling pipes through the room.

[GMC]

Originally posted by Candy Squirrel:

How to prevent structures from overheating in space ?

Don't put them in space. Either put them in the closest non-space biome, or build a room backed with drywall and give it an atmosphere (any gas will do). For small amounts of heat production, you can use wheezeworts to keep the room cool; for larger amounts, either build a cooling loop or just vent the gas to space when it gets too warm and replace it with cooler gas. By the time you're building on the surface, you probably have plenty of spare CO2.

[Lord Helios]

couldn't you use a drywall to transfer heat?

[Bokonon]

Originally posted by Lord Helios:

couldn't you use a drywall to transfer heat?

I don't think so without some gas or liquid to transfer the heat. That's my understanding anyway ...

[Lord Helios]

Originally posted by Bokonon:

Originally posted by Lord Helios:

couldn't you use a drywall to transfer heat?

I don't think so without some gas or liquid to transfer the heat. That's my understanding anyway ...

I'm gonna test that theory

[Bokonon]

Please let us know the results, I'd love to know for sure.

[Lord Helios]

Originally posted by Bokonon:

Please let us know the results, I'd love to know for sure.

So, turns out that drywall doesn't exist... at least not in the sense of thermal dynamics I put a solar panel and a battery in a room with drywall. At first I left it as a vacuum and it didn't transfer heat, then i added oxygen still no transfer finally to really make sure it can even change temp I added iron gas and not a single degree drop.

Its mostly a cosmetic and serves one purpose to prevent lose of gas.

[Bokonon]

Originally posted by Lord Helios:

Its mostly a cosmetic and serves one purpose to prevent lose of gas.

I was pretty sure this was the case but where they're in the same build menu as the tempshift plates I thought there might be a chance.

Oxygen really should have worked, any chance it was already as hot as the solar panel/battery?

[Lord Helios]

Originally posted by Bokonon:

Originally posted by Lord Helios:

Its mostly a cosmetic and serves one purpose to prevent lose of gas.

I was pretty sure this was the case but where they're in the same build menu as the tempshift plates I thought there might be a chance.

Oxygen really should have worked, any chance it was already as hot as the solar panel/battery?

it was a flat 20c, when i threw iron gas into the containment, everything but the walls went super hot

[Just a dog]

Originally posted by Lord Helios:

Originally posted by Bokonon:

I was pretty sure this was the case but where they're in the same build menu as the tempshift plates I thought there might be a chance.

Oxygen really should have worked, any chance it was already as hot as the solar panel/battery?

it was a flat 20c

One spoonful at a time is going to take a while... Got a screenshot? What material was the drywall made from, what's the configuration, what is the mass of the oxygen. What the the other temperatures?

Liquids can occupy a single drywall tile with a single tile underneath in space. gasses will get sucked into the vacuum. For gas based cooling you either need a fully closed room or to dispose of them in which case they'll need to be able to transfer heat fast.

[Lord Helios]

Originally posted by KucheKlizma:

Originally posted by Lord Helios:

it was a flat 20c

One spoonful at a time is going to take a while... Got a screenshot? What material was the drywall made from, what's the configuration, what is the mass of the oxygen. What the the other temperatures?

Liquids can occupy a single drywall tile with a single tile underneath in space. gasses will get sucked into the vacuum. For gas based cooling you either need a fully closed room or to dispose of them in which case they'll need to be able to transfer heat fast.

My bad, I must have jumped the gun. I filled the room with oxygen as much as i could then proceeded to poor in iron gas. The funny fact is that the gas doesn't transfer to the drywall, everything else did.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1831259428

But its fascinating on how insulating drywall is, i just used simple sandstone and barely budge unless it was touching the bottom block/machines