Warming cool slush water

[Myriad]

Polluted water comes out of the geyser at about -10°C, so you can't pump it directly into a sieve. I'm experimenting with ways to warm it other than dishing out 960W for a tepidizer.

Now here's the problem with my experiment... I wouldn't be asking this question right now, except my geyser just went dormant for the next 64 cycles!!! Figures....

My idea was to pump the -10° water directly into a metal refinery, then dump it into a pool I can draw from for my other needs. But I can't test it! I don't know if it will bust a pipe or even the volume I can produce out of it.

Can someone tell me if that will work, and if not, what's a good option to warm it up to 0°? My base is still in the early phases and I don't even have hydroponics or even heat issues yet.

[madcow]

Using it for refining is fine as long as it doesn't raise the temps to the coolant's boiling point.

Here's a chart on how each type of metal you are refining will raise each "batch" of coolant for different liquids (chart is towards the bottom; you will need to expand the link to see chart):

https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Metal_Refinery

[Myriad]

Ok thanks! I just want to plan and lay my pipes out for when the geyser becomes active again.

[believor in Prawn]

if you find another geyser you can cool it pretty well with your slush geyser while also getting warmed slush

[Xilo The Odd]

another thing to use it for, pump ALL your air through a tank filled with this cold liquid. use radiant pipes. this will warm that liquid up below freezing and chill the air. helping you combat heat within your base. its not the best solution but it can be very handy to exploit early on.

otherwise yeah using it for smelters first is a good way to go.

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by Myriad:

But I can't test it!

Of course you can! That is why there is sanbox mode which you can enable any time you want. This is the best way to efficiently learn game mechanics.

[believor in Prawn]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Originally posted by Myriad:

But I can't test it!

Of course you can! That is why there is sanbox mode which you can enable any time you want. This is the best way to efficiently learn game mechanics.

also to addo n to what he said i suggest installing "bri's infinite sources" so you can get power instantly in debug

[Myriad]

I've never used sandbox mode before. I just had a look for it and it's right there in options. How about that...

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

another thing to use it for, pump ALL your air through a tank filled with this cold liquid. use radiant pipes. this will warm that liquid up below freezing and chill the air. helping you combat heat within your base. its not the best solution but it can be very handy to exploit early on.

otherwise yeah using it for smelters first is a good way to go.

I wonder what would be better.. Pump all your air through the cold water, or pump the cold water through the warm air... hmmm. Lol

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Myriad:

I've never used sandbox mode before. I just had a look for it and it's right there in options. How about that...

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

another thing to use it for, pump ALL your air through a tank filled with this cold liquid. use radiant pipes. this will warm that liquid up below freezing and chill the air. helping you combat heat within your base. its not the best solution but it can be very handy to exploit early on.

otherwise yeah using it for smelters first is a good way to go.

I wonder what would be better.. Pump all your air through the cold water, or pump the cold water through the warm air... hmmm. Lol

based on heat transference, using gas pipes through water ends up being better. atleast in my expereince its easier to setup a loop that you run. this is if your trying to reduce your overal temp in one spot though or keep a farm from getting too hot.

if you didnt mind the slight decor penalty, you could run radiant pipes and run a water loop for a specific room though. but if you cant purge those pipes because of an overflow of your cooling system your stuck with that room becoming cold. both work but depending on your intent of use one is better than the other. atleast early on. later you'll be using the aqua tuner and HVAC for those kinds of things.

[Monoxide]

What you suggested should work (id be careful with steel though), but I would probably put an endless loop of water going through all your bedrooms/living area floors with radiant pipes and then have another end go through the slush with radiant pipes. This would cool the water in the pipes and raise the temp of the slush. Boom. Free radiant AC.

Fully depends on the heat within your base, or if you even need cooling depending on temp of map. Just an idea.

[Hedning]

The way I use is I just mix it with some other water source. 50-50 and the slush will be warm enough. If you run a 50-50 mixed pipe through some metal tiles you're using for run speed then that temperature will equalize very quickly.

[Synth101]

The 1 game i had, i had way too many water sources, polluted water, slush and brine, and on top of that i had 3 vents, so i quickly figured out that the vents needed to be cooled or ill be heating my base very quickly, so i mixed brine and salt, and took their pipes to the natural gas vents (i had 2) and the polluted water to the hydrogen vent (1), it does get the water nice and heated but the problem is that the vent gets cooled after a few cycles then you have to wait till it heats again, also my vents went dormant for almost 90 cycles at a time

[JadeFalcon]

I can't remember the specifics but it was a base a few restarts ago that I was working with a similar geyser trying to warm it up for a spom and used two space heaters and some radiant pipes through metal plates and it brought it up enough so it stopped freezing things and they only use i think it's 120w each.

[Rusky have sucked]

you can use your cold polluted water as coolant (free AT light version) or geotune geyser. Heating liquid to use is inefficient

[The Queen Salis]

I use that to chill geyser steam and as a general base coolant

[Cotaks]

make a spom out of it, hope the coolslush generates 2k/s so you can make a double spom.

Use the water to cooldown the oxygen created, into a sieve, into the electrolyser(s). Exces water will also be warm enough to be used in your base.

This way your spom is self sustained and self cooled at no additional cost beside the first time setting/builing it up.

With other words, free cold breathable clean air!