The fury of the Geyser

[erdmn]

I've found now 6 geysers around my rock, two of them I've been able to enclose in Abyssalite Insulated Tiles/Tiles with no issue. Currently, I have a third one that is actually breaking the tiles

[Breizhbugs]

Make a dam of 3 tiles made of abyssalite. Close the gap on the side and make the roof higher and use airlock to close all. The geyser stop emitting water when the water submerge it.

 

[Lifegrow]

I normally like to go 4 thick for the over-kill factor - 2 layers normal, 1 layer insulated, then final layer on the outside of normal.

My biggest concern is how to cool the water without using hydrogen :

[MoMuffins]

Geysers do not stop venting water when submerged.  The newly vented water just discretly merge into the surrounding water.  This is the reason people find water tiles around geysers with epic amounts of water or steam.

There are three ways to cool liquids.  The first uses hydrogen as a working fluid to carry heat away from liquids through indirect contacts of liquids and gas pipes.  The second uses wire bridges to conduct heat between two liquids separated by a barrier to prevent them from mixing.  These wire bridges are acting as either cold or hot fingers.  The cold liquid can be made by percolating them through ice biome or using the first method.  There isn't yet a building dedicated to the cooling of liquids.

The last method exploits a bug with the filtration building.  It will take polluted water at any temperature, obviously must not be at phase change temperature, and produce water at 40C.

Honestly though, there is really no use to cool water down.  Just run the pipes through the walls or use abyssalite insulated pipes.

[Sicclee]

48 minutes ago, Fatmice said:

Honestly though, there is really no use to cool water down.  Just run the pipes through the walls or use abyssalite insulated pipes.

Doesn't hot water turn into hot oxygen in the electrolyzers? It seems cool water would be an easy way to provide livable temps via your central air system. 

Also, will it scold in the shower? 

Truth be told, I've used debug to paint in 60*F water twice now because I don't have my cold hydrogen setup yet (which is proving to be harder than I thought) . I'll look into the wire bridge method, thanks! 

[Lafara]

21 minutes ago, Sicclee said:

Doesn't hot water turn into hot oxygen in the electrolyzers? It seems cool water would be an easy way to provide livable temps via your central air system. 

Also, will it scold in the shower? 

Truth be told, I've used debug to paint in 60*F water twice now because I don't have my cold hydrogen setup yet (which is proving to be harder than I thought) . I'll look into the wire bridge method, thanks! 

I use 80 C water to fuel Electrolyzer , Shower , WC.

Electrolyzer emit hot oxygen ... I did cool that electrolyzer with liquid Oxygen (-183 C) thrice, it still emit hot few cycle later.

Shower and WC also sewage hot polluted water , So do the air surrounding it. But Shower WC itself work fine.

 

If you don't mind +15% stress per cycle from Hot climate. just don't mind it.

[PickPay]

Hot water from Geysers is heating up my base so Im also looking for methods to cool it down. Currently using Carrots and Oxygen pipes through my water tanks but its not enough. Melted all dug up Ice which helped as well. Changed all my pipes in base to Insulated Abyssalite will see how that goes.

[Mijae]

2 hours ago, Fatmice said:

Geysers do not stop venting water when submerged.  The newly vented water just discretly merge into the surrounding water.  This is the reason people find water tiles around geysers with epic amounts of water or steam.

My geysers have definitely stopped emitting steam when fully submerged.  I suspect the real reason the large pools of water are found is because the steam can over pressurize (possibly due a similar reason we can exploit gas vents that are partially submerged? I haven't verified).  If that steam cools it will create high volume water tiles.  However, the steam can be stopped completely.

[heckubis]

the steam instantly cools to become water. the water is colder and has enough mass to instantly cool the steam to water while under water. it dosnt stop the process there is just a few steps that happen almost instantly like the contaminated geysers they don't produce contaminated water they produce clean water and steam that instantly gets converted to contaminated 

[MoMuffins]

3 hours ago, Mijae said:

My geysers have definitely stopped emitting steam when fully submerged.  I suspect the real reason the large pools of water are found is because the steam can over pressurize (possibly due a similar reason we can exploit gas vents that are partially submerged? I haven't verified).  If that steam cools it will create high volume water tiles.  However, the steam can be stopped completely.

I walled a geyser in on all four sides and painted 1000 kg of water into the 2x2 area.  Went away then came back a dozen cycles later to check on mass.  There was a clear increase in the mass for water.  The steam vented by the geysers are immediately condensed into water and burped out at once with the water that the geyser also vented.

[Mijae]

I just ran another test again.

Here is 6 cycles.  I even caught the steam venting animation going off in my second screenshot.  There is no increase in any of the tiles though.

[MoMuffins]

Okay, so it does stop for both water and polluted water.  In a 2x2 enclosure, liquid kept increasing until the top tiles were around 1020's kg in mass.  After that it appears the mass prevent further increases in pressure.  Maybe the pressure exerted by the mass is greater than the pressure exerted by the geyser.

 

[Abercharr]

i use ice to cool down the water from the geyser
i drop ice on a 100 C tile ( or container ) and becomes cool water mixes with hot and then i release it down to my water supply

[Sicclee]

1 hour ago, Abercharr said:

i use ice to cool down the water from the geyser
i drop ice on a 100 C tile ( or container ) and becomes cool water mixes with hot and then i release it down to my water supply

 

How much ice do you use to keep cooling down the water, and how are you making the ice?

[Abercharr]

if it does not melt cause its too much ice i move it from container to container in smaller doses,

i am mining ice from ice bioms, i haven't created ice ( its a temporary solution until you manage to have the power to steam the polluted water)

[Lifegrow]

Guys, the geysers will ONLY emit either water or steam if they are not fully submerged. However, this can be misleading based on the graphic in-game. For example, I have 4 geysers in close proximity to one another, 3 of them are submerged, but the highest one is not. This highest geyser, we will call Bruce. 

Bruce is a chunky geyser, he overflows (visually) into 1/10th of the row of tiles above him. This means that providing that row of tiles is left free of either water or highly concentrated gas - then Bruce is free to occasionally blow his load and feed my liquid pump (which is also placed to suck water from this 1/10th tile line. When Bruce erupts, I normally collect between 80-150 kg of water, by only exposing this upper most row of tiles.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post a link to this (mods, kindly remove if not) but here is the vid.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/133403826?t=04h58m45s

I've sat and watched the geysers visually build pressure, and erupt with the "spewing water" animation and neither the water amount, nor steam in the room increased. Again, this can be seen clearly in the vid.

I have since lowered the pump and have begun to tap into the lower geysers, whom we shall name Sharon and Maggie - however i've yet to document exactly what they'll be producing.

I hope this helps those of you who are looking to break into your geysers - in short, as long as you keep them fully submerged, the water level wont increase - provided the room is pressurized.