Natural Gas Geyser Farming Help

[Warl0rd25]

I've encountered my first Natural Gas Geyser and setup a system to constantly pump out the gas to generators and feed my entire base off this (which should be infinite power). However, I've noticed the temperature of my geyser room keeps growing and growing. I moved my pump down below the geyser and set up some wort/tempshift plates on it to keep it from overheating, but I'm not sure how to handle the top half.

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Assuming the solution will be to create a separate fertilizer farm to produce the majority of the gas and just consume tiny amounts from the geyser to keep the temperature down, but I'm hoping there's a way to just strictly use the geyser by itself.

I have insulated abyssalite pipes and insulated tiles, and then the regular tiles are made out of idgenous rock. My tempshift plates are made out of dirt.

[AquaX]

If your still in the main branch of the game, the geysers always emit hot gas/liquids. The reason the gas/liquid temp was lower for a time was because the heat was transferring to the surrounding area. The instant you sealed the geyser with abysslite, the heat has nowhere to go so it builds up. So you either cool the liquid somewhere else, let the heat bleed out through non abysslite walls or dump ice into it once in a while or place wheezeworts near the geyser if it emits gases.

[Warl0rd25]

Thanks for the quick reply! Do you think it's smart to have such an open area around the geyser to fill up? Or more so to compact it down. I have a steam geyser I also took over -- I set up an automated system to where I let so much water out at a time which helps keep the geyser from constantly pumping out hot steam/water. Think that could apply here too? Gas doesn't flow quickly like water so I'm thinking it wouldn't keep up.

[Evilsod]

I don't think the answer is a simple yes/no.

Bigger area lets you store more Natural Gas before it hits max pressure. If you aren't using it that much you'll generate a nice stockpile of it. But equally, a lower average gas pressure will make Wheezewort cooling less effective.

But then I have still never managed to actually get round to creating the infrastructure to use a bloody Natural Gas Geyser, or Natural Gas in general for that matter so take that with a pinch of salt.

[AquaX]

It's a matter of are you consuming more than its production between both its active and inactive periods.

The old gas geyser outputs 100g/s if you calculate the active and inactive periods. This does not include the gas already created before you tapped into it.

[Warl0rd25]

I replaced the top/right/bottom insulated tiles with idigenous and it bleeds the heat out as suggested earlier. Stays around 150F now which is MUCH better. I also sat up a fertilizer system to help support the Natural Gas demand and now the geyser is no longer pumping out heat like mad. Thanks for the help.

[AquaX]

Originally posted by Warl0rd25:

I replaced the top/right/bottom insulated tiles with idigenous and it bleeds the heat out as suggested earlier. Stays around 150F now which is MUCH better. I also sat up a fertilizer system to help support the Natural Gas demand and now the geyser is no longer pumping out heat like mad. Thanks for the help.

try to drop the heat to around 70ish and then add wheezeworts and change those tiles back to abysslite. 2-3 worts should handle 1 geyser.

[Warl0rd25]

Put the worts directly next to the geyser? I have 2 down low near my pump. Do you think I should put tempshift plates around it too?

[AquaX]

Originally posted by Warl0rd25:

Put the worts directly next to the geyser? I have 2 down low near my pump. Do you think I should put tempshift plates around it too?

You dun really need it near your pump since 1 air pump is already way more than you should actually take. Tempshift isnt really needed. Just place 2 worts within equal amt of distance and the temp should drop down to more safe lvls.

[Jerry_Riggings]

Originally posted by AquaX:

Originally posted by Warl0rd25:

Put the worts directly next to the geyser? I have 2 down low near my pump. Do you think I should put tempshift plates around it too?

You dun really need it near your pump since 1 air pump is already way more than you should actually take. Tempshift isnt really needed. Just place 2 worts within equal amt of distance and the temp should drop down to more safe lvls.

Your best bet is actually to leave the worts near the top. Cold drops and heat rises. The hottest spot will naturally be the top left with the coldest being the bottom right. You want your worts to be as far away from your pump as possible because the pump creates a vaccum which makes your worts worthless. If you leave them up top it will drop the cold to the bottom right from the top left.

On avarage 1 old natural gas geyser will support 2 1/3 natural gas generators.

[Warl0rd25]

Ahh thanks! I have read several articles talking about using Hydrogen to have cool air because I guess it heats/cools quickly? Does Natural Gas behave this way too? I will take the tempshift plates out and move my worts up to the top.

Regardless of it only being able to power 2 1/3, it's still enough of a "free" power supply that I don't have to keep hooking up coal or walking generators around in case things run out of juice (aka self-powered electrolyzer system runs out of juice when base gets pressurized and it can't pump anymore oxygen/hydrogen out). Started using Smart Batteries for those as they have much less runoff and don't keep burning coal when fully charged.

[ModalMorphling]

The gas geyser, makes gas for 2.5 Gas generators, so if you have 3 generators, and your pump + generators are "Gold amalgan" also, then no problem with temp, since youll be consuming it into power :-)

You'll have a new problem tho, "poluted water" - but thats a different story xD

[Jerry_Riggings]

Poluted water has so many other uses though.

[AquaX]

Originally posted by Jerry_Riggings:

Poluted water has so many other uses though.

It does have a lot of uses but it depends on what you think is viable.
Currently I recall is:
Boil it for steam and dirt.
Pepper plant need it.
Sieve it for clean water
Send it to fertilizer maker.
Coolant for metal refiner.

[Jerry_Riggings]

Originally posted by AquaX:

Originally posted by Jerry_Riggings:

Poluted water has so many other uses though.

It does have a lot of uses but it depends on what you think is viable.
Currently I recall is:
Boil it for steam and dirt.
Pepper plant need it.
Sieve it for clean water
Send it to fertilizer maker.
Coolant for metal refiner.

Don't forget you can also -
allow it to evaporate into poluted oxygen which can be used for other purposes or just breathed