Can someone explain Abyssalite piping to me

[chackacraft]

I've built my air piping out of Abyssalite to help with cooling the food farm, however i notice that some sections are scortching, some are chilled. why is that?

[Beowulfe]

It may have depended on the specific pieces of Abyssalite that your dupes built it out of, I think the objects retain the heat of the materials they were made out of when they're created. You may have mined some really cold and really hot abyssalite at different points. It's a little hard to control at the moment, unfortunately.

[terrachronos]

It might have something to do with the temperature of the abyssalite at the time of construction. It is very good at retaining the temperature it has.

 

Which at the same time makes me wonder why you are trying to use pipes made of a highly insulating material to cool off the surrounding area, you'd want a heat conductor for that like wolfram.

[terrachronos]

1 minute ago, Beowulfe said:

It may have depended on the specific pieces of Abyssalite that your dupes built it out of, I think the objects retain the heat of the materials they were made out of when they're created. You may have mined some really cold and really hot abyssalite at different points. It's a little hard to control at the moment, unfortunately.

That's a pre-thermal update feature. After the thermal update constructed tiles and buildings have gained the ability to change their temperature.

[chackacraft]

Thanks Beowulfe and terrachronos

and terrachronos - i see what you mean, i was thinking of making the gas travel at a low temp, but i wasn't thinking of how to make the piping release the cool temped air from the piping. 

back to the drawing board

[Beowulfe]

3 minutes ago, terrachronos said:

That's a pre-thermal update feature. After the thermal update constructed tiles and buildings have gained the ability to change their temperature.

I know, but their initial temperature at time of construction is what I was referring to. As your post mentioned. I said exactly the same thing you did, I think.

[MoMuffins]

4 minutes ago, terrachronos said:

That's a pre-thermal update feature. After the thermal update constructed tiles and buildings have gained the ability to change their temperature.

Abyssalite doesn't change its temperature after construction.  The temperature of abyssalite can only be changed right after deconstruction.  There is a very small window of time where the abyssalite item will exchange heat with its surroundings.  Regardless, hot or cold abyssalite will not affect its surroundings when constructed.

[Lafara]

Abyssalite Thermal Conductivity 1E-05 is 0.00001

Granite     Thermal Conductivity 3.39    is 3.39000

If you looking for cooling Gas Pipe , goes for Granite or Sandstone.