cooling farm room

[john.577]

Hello everyone

I know you can cool a room by running pipes with "cold" gas or "cold" water pipes

I wanted to know if we cool the water pipes that pass in the "hydroponic farm" it cools the room?
Or do I have to put them in the middle of the room?
what is the best material to use for pipes? obsidian?

other little question by the way:
whatever type of materials I use the slab are always in "white" it's a bug ?? it's a bit of a shame I do not know if I isolated the parts for example

[wahlencraft]

Longer pipes means longer time for the cooland to cool the room (if the coolant is cold enough of course). So running pipes just through the hydeoponic farms will cool the room to some degree but I would recommend running pipes through the entire room. I would reccomend using hydrogen as coolant since it does not freeze (technicaly possible but not a problem) and the gas pipes does not interfere with your water pipes.

Im not that good at materials in this game but I think there's something about the gas in the pipe limiting the heat transfer rate meaning that the material used for cooling pipes does not mater. (Material for insulated pipes does mater though)

Do you use insulated pipes or just ordonary pipes with a insulating material? Insulated pipes is thicker (requires more material to make) and has a insulating bonus added to what material its made of.

[Ambrsale]

To choose pipes material just carefully read material description.

Sedimentary rock is thermally reactive or smth like this, and this way sedimentary rock let fast heat transfer.
Ingenious rock is opposite material, which is hard to transfer heat, but still transfer a bit
Abyssalithe is well-known for its thermoisolation, it is almost do not transfer heat. But really transfers, but really tiny amonuts.

So if you want your pipes to transfer heat fast - use sedimentary rock or similar material.
If you need just a good thermoisolation - use ingenious rock or similar
If you need the best possible thermoisolation - use abyssalite thermoisolated pipe/tile.

[SamuraiJones]

Heat (or cold) will leak through pipes and walls. Pipes near the farm will help, but pipes in the farm would be better, because then you can insulate the walls.

Think about where the heat's coming from. If you've got cold pipes outside on the left and hot batteries on the right, then the right half would be significantly warmer. On the other hand, if you have cold pipes between the hot batteries and the farm, then it'll kinda protect the whole farm.

It depends how much heat you need to pull out of the farm. My old mega-base had cold pipes inside with insulation around the outside, and I had to put a temp sensor on the pipes because almost no heat got in, and the pipes were so cold they'd freeze the plants.