Boiling water for steam engine

[b0nehead]

I try to make a room with a hotplate of tungsten. Under the tungsten hotplate i put two aqua radiators whatever they're called. Those machines should hit 170C but the room barely hits 100C and they overheat. I'm assuming the actual machine is hotter than the surrounding temp so i try to transfer tthe heat from the machine with hydrogen gas and also assuming the liquid pump through it will cool the machine but it doesn't.

It will run without the automation thermoprobe until it overheats. I've also tried the water heater cylinder thing but that cuts off straight away before it hits 80C if i remember right.

Is there any other way to heat liquids besides magma and relying on gas heat transfer from a heat producer? There is lots of cooling options but not much for heating. Google not much help.

[SakuraKoi]

Did you try making glass? The liquid should be extremely hot if I am not mistaken (I have yet to try though ... but I guess I can take a break from making POIs)

[b0nehead]

Would i not have to heat sand in that case? Would be even hotter than the 115c for the steam.

Trying to find up a way to just boil water.

[SakuraKoi]

The Cosmic Upgrade implemented a machine (namely, Glass Forge) which is able to produce molten glass but due to the fact that 2k power transformers are not a thing... I will remake my heavy industry destrict later and then drop it into the polluted water/water mix in the abyss below

[Andrewbh2003]

Originally posted by SakuraKoi:

The Cosmic Upgrade implemented a machine (namely, Glass Forge) which is able to produce molten glass but due to the fact that 2k power transformers are not a thing... I will remake my heavy industry destrict later and then drop it into the polluted water/water mix in the abyss below

pretty much this the glass forge outputs glass at around 1700_ degrees so just drop a bunch of glass in a water reservoir and it will do 2 things

1-cool the glass enough to use

2-make steam to run a turbine

[Blauling]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/457140/discussions/0/1692669912389963961/

11 min video

[b0nehead]

Found a much simpler solution. Installed steel radiant pipes directly into magma and ran a pipe rod right to my upper base. Non reactive wall on each side of the pipe and flood between the walls with chlorine so it doesn't lose the temp from the core. You can run a hot 1600C empty pipe from the magma core to your base. Clean and renewable.