Couple of Questions for Hydrogen Vent/Automation

[crbd115]

So I have 2 hydrogen vents on my map and was going to try to set up a way to use some of the heat but that led me to my first question. Is it even worth trying to utilize the heat if it produces such little mass? I know it was sort of buffed recently I'm just wondering if its even worth putting a steam vent set up over it to cool it / generate a little power. If yes then my second question is towards the automation I was trying to set up for it. I was going to set up a thermo sensor with a 3 door airlock so that when it gets too hot the 3 doors close and then the middle one opens afterward which creates a vacuum to keep any of the heat back until the steam generator had cooled it. I thought I had gotten this to work a long time ago but now I can't seem to get it to work. Not sure if something changed recently for how automation works or if I'm just forgetting something but I'm stuck. 

[dallion]

the first question, I think you may consider handling Hydrogen with Hydrogen generator (this is worthy as it was buffed ), even 500C is a pretty high temperature, but generate power with gas heat is not good method, due to the pathetic mess of it

 

The second question, you should check if all three doors were closed, then you opened the middle door, this was a vacuum, or you should check the material layer if there was gas in the middle dorr

[nakomaru]

Not worth it. Build your steam turbines around volcanoes and a tuner in them to soak up nearby heat like the H geyser.

[DonDegow]

@nakomaru is right, cleanest way to handle it is pulling heat away from it and maybe some other geysers/volcanoes to centralize the heat under a turbine.

I usually simply burn the Hydrogen and don't bother with its temperature but recently produced way too much power and accidentally let it accumulate; destroying the steel gas pump inside... Better use a soft cooling loop.

[Lilalaunekuh]

I have some steam turbine / aquatuner setups scattered around my map and most of them don´t run full time.

[And I try to keep them below 190°C to maximize the power generation even if the heat production fluctuates.]

 

=> Route my hydrogen before I burn it through a steam chamber.

 

Burning 180-200°C hydrogen isn´t an optimal utilization of the heat, but it´s a bit free power.

For an "average" hydrogen vent (after the rebalancing) we are talking about 80W if you cool the hydrogen down to 200°C.

 

=> A perfect hydrogen vent could yield up to 130W if we cool the hydrogen down to 125°C