Insulated Pipe Sandstone VS Normal Pipe Igneous for Heat

[MythN7]

So in my very early days, when I have no ways to destroy heat, and want to keep my core area as cool as possible when I set up my 1st water sieve. which of the 2 pipe types would be better to run the 40C water threw when having to pipe threw the areas i want to try and keep at 25C?

I know Igneous Insulated would be best, but at this point in the game, that amount of volume is just not easy as I want to get toilets up asap.

[rav]

i wouldnt run 40°c liquid to parts of the base you dont want to be heated. either insulated pipes or put pipes into insulated tiles would be my solution

[MythN7]

Originally posted by rav:

i wouldnt run 40°c liquid to parts of the base you dont want to be heated. either insulated pipes or put pipes into insulated tiles would be my solution

ya, but would like to know the answer to the actual queston on which of the 2 pipe / mineral combo types would distrib less heat from the fluid to the room its in?

As I want to keep my bathroom somewhat close to the portal they like to hang out in at down time.

[zOldBulldog]

TLDR: Igneous Insulated.

Why:

Initially I avoided even digging into the "heat = yellow" area and much less the red, unless the path was such that it reduced air flow and had a few mechanical airlocks. I used NO PIPES at that stage.

Very quickly I got the ability to make insulated tiles and pipes and used IGNEOUS INSULATED "base walls" and pipes, plus kept as much heat generating equipment out of the starting "heat = green" area. I also avoided bringing hot materials into the base as much as possible.

The result was that by cycle 100 or so the warmest temperature inside the walls was around 28C with no cooling of any kind.

About then I found my first wheezewort. I created a tiny oxygen diffuser room with the wheezewort inside to cool the air, it fed my exosuit docks and the excess went into my base.

Just with that the base cooled down to around 26C by around cycle 200. Yes, ONE miserable wheezewort cooled my whole base down!!!

Of course I am now a huge fan of igneous insulated walls and pipes.

[Angpaur]

If you want to block heat in pipes then you need to always use insulated, as it uses lower conductivity to calculate heat transfer. Normal/radiant pipes use avarage conductivity with its contents.

[fractalgem]

For 40 degree water, it probably won't matter much which insulated pipe material you use. If you had to pipe 80-95 degree water past temperature senstive stuff like mealwood, I'd recommend ceramic insulated.

You can get away with quite a bit of heat flowing into your base as long as you don't do silly stuff like dig out and sweep an entire caustic biome into your base.

Also, the seive no longer outputs 40 degree water-it outputs at the input temperature, maybe slightly higher.

[Blake Walsh]

Don't worry about what kind of insulating it is. The difference between insulated and uninsulated is very large, the difference between igneous and other rocks for insulation is not very large (that is any kind of insulated pipe will reduce heat loss by something like 98% compared with standard pipe).

Also remember it's super trivial to replace one kind of pipe with another, pipe replacement does not cause fluid to escape the pipes. So if you later want to go the extra mile and replace sandstone pipeing with igneous it's very easy to do so.