Extremely Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 anyone know a good way to make a steam room with tepidizers? I thought they'd work brilliantly until I noticed that they overheat and breakdown at 75 degrees. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/76529-steam-room-with-tepidizers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoMuffins Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 You can not make steam with it. It can only be used to pre-heat water to 85C if you use gold amalgam. After that you need to heat it with some hot buildings. Batteries (small or large) seems to be a no go. I've tried many different builds. Sometimes they work, but most recently, they do not work well enough. Even if they do, the issues then becomes how do you stop them from breaking with the current materials. If you are steaming polluted water, there is a very high chance your gold amalgam buildings will overheat due to the small temperature margin between boiling temperature of the polluted water and overheat bonus with gold amalgam. If you are steaming water, then you can safely use gold amalgam buildings. Currently, the best free heat source is small batteries since they provide 30W for a space of two tiles vs 20W for space of 4 tiles with the large batteries. However, as I've stated, they have issues with providing reliable heat. They don't provide much heat flux and is very susceptible to cooling. When they do, you get a cooling cascade that takes forever to resolve. The next best solution is to use coal generator. They will for sure heat up and quite fast too. However, you will need a renewable source of coal and carbon dioxide processing. Furthermore, you will still run into issues of overheating. Thus, it is not worth it to make steam right now, at least until the overheat bonus for wolframite is added and a more controllable heat source like the liquid tepidizer but dedicated for higher temperature use. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/76529-steam-room-with-tepidizers/#findComment-887721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkDeny Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Same here, no good and stable way to make steam from polluted water anymore, unless (probably) you have found magma. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/76529-steam-room-with-tepidizers/#findComment-887752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extremely Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 16 hours ago, DarkDeny said: Same here, no good and stable way to make steam from polluted water anymore, unless (probably) you have found magma. can barely find any magma, but i noticed that sand can now be found outside of the starting biome. I think the most efficient way is either the hydrogen bubbler or using a purifier. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/76529-steam-room-with-tepidizers/#findComment-888205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chervsaper Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 I have small boiling chamber quite higher than magma - just igneous rock about 450 deg.C. and it works, slowly, about 500 g/s, and i just have to be patient... There is Ph vapors deeper, i hate it. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/76529-steam-room-with-tepidizers/#findComment-888458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimgaw Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Tepidizer has over 20kW heat output. You CAN make steam with. Hell I think you could melt rock with it. The secret to working is dripping and keeping it cool on 3 other tiles it occupies. http://m.imgur.com/a/OyamC Not my screenie, but with same setup in my save regular steam reaches ~15kg per tile in 2 cycles without any breakages. Polluted water is more risky but very doable. As a side note I managed to get small (200g) blob of CO2 to over 50k C with this setup. I'm not sure of it's only CO2 behaving weirdly or just small amounts of any gas (substance). Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/76529-steam-room-with-tepidizers/#findComment-888479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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