Is it possible to make a Vent perma-dormant?

[S Y]

Hello!
I recently tried to make some power out of Natural Gas vent, but after some time it just stopped erupting at all, this goes for more than 30 cycles already.

Can anybody explain what is happening and why? Did I do something to the vent so it stopped erupting? How to fix it? Purple tiles are Ceramic. Thanks in advance!
My build looks like this :

 

[pnambic]

You've analyzed it, so look at its info box. The way these things work is: they alternate between "erupting" and "idle" about every half cycle or so for like 75 cycles, and then they go dormant for another 40 to 60 cycles. While dormant, they don't erupt. The info box will tell you both the eruption/idle pattern as well as for how long it'll be dormant.

[S Y]

It says "Active Period: 92.9 cycles every 140.4 cycles, Next activity: 0.5 cycles", okay I got it, the vent will "sleep" for 140.4 cycles. Not very reliable source of power, if you ask me.

[pnambic]

58 minutes ago, S Y said:

It says "Active Period: 92.9 cycles every 140.4 cycles, Next activity: 0.5 cycles", okay I got it, the vent will "sleep" for 140.4 cycles. Not very reliable source of power, if you ask me.

Nah, the vent will provide gas for 92.9 cycles, then go dormant for 47.5 (92.9 + 47.5 is 140.4).

It's up to you to make it reliable, by not using more while it's active than what it says in the "average output" section, and storing the rest to get you over dormancy. A typical natural gas vent can run a little more than one generator continuously that way. It ain't much, but it's honest (and free) power.

[S Y]

Yeah I see, 1 generator's power output is consumed to power gas and liquid pumps and the gas filter, while other generator provides 800W which is only 2 manual generators which is much, much less trouble building and eco-frienly, too.
Nevertheless, the problem will solve itself - its overheating and soon will be destroyed anyway, I only hope I wont lose resources spent on building this setup.

First try failed, but I was warned, so no complains.

[blakemw]

It's literally free power though. And you get some bonus pwater which is at the right temperature for growing Pincha Peppernuts.

And the Vent produces heat but if you were to run an ST/AT the power required to remove the heat is like 20 W, so you'd spend like 2-3% of the power generated on cooling.

Also the Natural Gas is needed for using the Gas Range for advanced cooking recipes.

Now, here's the main trick to Natural Gas Vents: DON'T INSULATE THEM! The actual amount of heat produced is puny and easily soaked by natural terrain for hundreds or thousands of cycles or removed by an ST/AT. But if you make a perfectly insulated box, then that relatively puny amount of heat will be enough to heat up the stuff you build inside the insulated box. Furthermore, the Natural Gas Generators should be built outside the room, this is because they have the property of emitting polluted water at building temperature, or 40 C, whichever is higher. So if you heat the building up you're actually multiplying heat, it's still a relatively puny amount of heat so isn't the biggest deal, but it's a pointless antioptimization, keep the Natural Gas Generators at 40 C or below.

Volcanoes and some Vents should be insulated but the Natural Gas Vent produces so little heat it's really better not to insulate it. Like you can insulate it if you make everything out of Steel, but it's practically a waste of steel to actually do that, more like something you do if you have more Steel than you know what to do with.

[asurendra]

Well, two manual generators consume 120kg of oxygen every cycle. Nat.gas is much cheaper source of energy

[Im_not_Included]

11 hours ago, asurendra said:

Well, two manual generators consume 120kg of oxygen every cycle. Nat.gas is much cheaper source of energy

Literally made me snort. Puts so much stuff into perspective!