how do you cool down steam ???

[Angry Potato]

I just found a steam geyser
but I can't turn 100% steam into water

[Stonehammers]

Use radiant liquid/gas pipes with cooler liquid or gas in them to cool down the steam?

[leaderdog]

until you have higher research, just dig a bit of space down from your steam geyser, and let the water settle. Put a gold water pump in there and pump out the water you need (it will be around 60-70 degrees so you'll want it to settle to cool elsewhere for a while.

Later then do as mentioned above if you haven't figured out other ways. :)

[Elementium]

insulated tiles, let a vacuum between your 2 group of insulated tile + 1 door in order to let no heat transfer when you can't deal with it.

when you can use cooled hydrogen, or pollute water from your colony in order to transfer heat into then use heated hydrogen in your generators for example.

[SKull]

You just need something cool to cause it to condense. Pipes as stated above, or using worts or something else that will cool the surrounding tiles from the outside. You can't use abyssalite tiles then, but it works pretty well as long as you don't. You can also build ice sculptures inside the tank. It will both cause condensation and melt ice. You do have to rebuild it regularly of course, so this works best if the geyser is near a cold biome.

[Angry Potato]

Originally posted by Stonehammers:

Use radiant liquid/gas pipes with cooler liquid or gas in them to cool down the steam?

what liquid/gas would you recommended ??
THANKS~

[Hedning]

Use your bathroom water. If you have a plumbed bathroom you are creating quite a lot of polluted water that needs sieving. Take it on a detour to the steam vent before you sieve it. The sieve will reset the temperature of the pwater down to 40 degrees no matter how much heat it took from cooling the steam.

Or use wheezeworts. Breathing steam is more efficient even than H2. Just be ware that they stop breathing if they get too hot, however if you uproot and replant you reset their temperature, and they are pretty massive so they take a while to change temperature.

[Maniac Trudovik]

Just were testing how to cool the down, its hard (even 12 plants that cool down the gase cant actualy cool down it to low temp, I were testing it a lot.... only way is use some type of gas and make it hot, than just trow it into the void, problem is that is rlly bad idea, only way is oxidizer working only to heat down oxigen and then use it to cool down the water and then say bb to oxigen xD, but for evry kg of water u get 800gr of oxigen, also if u use hot water u can delete some of heat for free. Cooling down the ozigen and than just deleting it/keep it in bugged cels (vent+litle of water), there u get ur tonns of oxigen with ♥♥♥♥ as hot temperature (saddest part that u will be dealing with time bomb, if devs will fix that and ur oxigen will get free, YOU GET ♥♥♥♥♥)

[L37]

There are many ways. From using slush geyser water (or any other p-water you could find) to using some combination of sieves skimmers and aquatuners or using AETN/wheezeworts.
But most important thing IMO is - stop thinking about map as a closed system because it is not. Insulate areas that matter (like a base) and simply dump heat elsewhere if you cannot think of way to delete it at given point in time. Nothing terrible will happen, and it will make things much easier in the beginning.

[ExavierMacbeth]

I usually use 3-4 weezeworts in a hydrogen chamber & a radiant hydrogen filled pipe running between it and the chamber I let the steam geyser dump into. As the steam passes the few pieces of radiant pipe in the tank it condenses extremely quickly... You don't even need to make the whole thing radiant, just 3-4 pipe pieces (though I would make everything in the hydrogen tank with the worts radiant so they re-cool faster)

If you also vacum the chamber you can prevent the geyser from hitting max preasure. Just be sure to either use an automation switch (to detect steam) or manually turn off the vacume pump to make sure you don't accidantly pump the steam out of the room. Automated I usually use a Gas Detector set to steam & a "Not" gate to flip the signal so it only turns the pump on when it doesn't detect steam near the pump :)

Tip: If you use a Gas Valve with the radiant pipe & leave about 4-5 pipe pieces worth empty of gas you can make the hydrogen in the pipe endlessly flow in a circle through the pipe without using any electricity :P

[SKull]

It is annoying when you change your question when it gets answered. You originally asked how to cool down steam, not geyser water.

[Hedning]

Originally posted by SKull:

It is annoying when you change your question when it gets answered. You originally asked how to cool down steam, not geyser water.

Answer to both is pretty much the same: Use bathroom water down to 40 degrees. After that it depends on what plant it is for.

[SKull]

Originally posted by Hedning:

Originally posted by SKull:

It is annoying when you change your question when it gets answered. You originally asked how to cool down steam, not geyser water.

Answer to both is pretty much the same: Use bathroom water down to 40 degrees. After that it depends on what plant it is for.

It's not the same. You can't pump steam into a sieve because it is not liquid.

[Angry Potato]

Originally posted by Hedning:

Use your bathroom water. If you have a plumbed bathroom you are creating quite a lot of polluted water that needs sieving. Take it on a detour to the steam vent before you sieve it. The sieve will reset the temperature of the pwater down to 40 degrees no matter how much heat it took from cooling the steam.

It worked !!!
It's suitable at first beginning ~
I'll try hydrogen later
Thanks~

[Angry Potato]

Originally posted by Soketsu:

insulated tiles, let a vacuum between your 2 group of insulated tile + 1 door in order to let no heat transfer when you can't deal with it.

when you can use cooled hydrogen, or pollute water from your colony in order to transfer heat into then use heated hydrogen in your generators for example.

What about building normal tiles around the steam geyser to seal it, then use gas pump to draw the whole area into vacuum.
Would it work ???

[Angry Potato]

Originally posted by SKull:

You just need something cool to cause it to condense. Pipes as stated above, or using worts or something else that will cool the surrounding tiles from the outside. You can't use abyssalite tiles then, but it works pretty well as long as you don't. You can also build ice sculptures inside the tank. It will both cause condensation and melt ice. You do have to rebuild it regularly of course, so this works best if the geyser is near a cold biome.

Ok~I'll go get some worts
Maybe it will work pretty well if I combine with all the other methods
Thanks!!