Heat Pump

[Xadhoom]

i would like to have a possibility to easier transport heat around.

 

my suggestion is to add a compressor, where you have a high pressure and low pressure side that allows you to transport heat around, just like it works in a fridge, freezer or AC. i think this should use metal pipes, for dealing with both low and high pressure and they need to be able to handle liquid and gas states and have high heat transfer, like a finned pipe?

[brummbar7]

Is there a specific situation you have where thermoregulators don't work?  I mean, the current state of the game means people are mostly trying to get rid of heat, and it seems like regulators and wheezeworts do that pretty well.  I don't know that more pipe types would add much to the situation.   I do agree heat exchangers of some sort would be nice.

[Xadhoom]

27 minutes ago, brummbar7 said:

Is there a specific situation you have where thermoregulators don't work? 

what i'm thinking of more specific is farms, i want to cool my sleet wheat farms, but also heat my pepper plants. and instead of wasting energy on 2 tasks. better use small amount of energy to move a lot of energy from one place to other place.

my reasoning for more pipes is that both gas and water pipes have rather bad thermal exchange to really use it well for a compressor. also, gas pipes atm cant handle liquids, and if you use a compressor you usually have 1 gaseus side and 1 liquid side.

 

another thing i guess would be a Ammonia cooler.

i also recall i saw coolers in a factory near where i lived where they used steam to transfer heat away, i don't recall how they work, but they did.

[Masterpintsman]

I would like to have actual adiabatic (de)compresseion to play with... hope dies last.

[Coolthulhu]

That finned pipe idea sounds quite useful. Alternatively some different kind of radiator that connects directly to the pipe and not just to the gas it sits in (most objects don't "touch" anything except for the gas/liquid they're in).

Currently we have to build all those ugly winding pipes and the only way to improve conductivity is to switch to sandstone and add more pipe segments.

[Kasuha]

I would be fine if heat transport between contents of the pipe and the pipe itself stopped being so unbelievably slow. Insulated pipes could stay as they are but in normal pipes, heat exchange between pipe and its contents should be faster than heat exchange between the pipe and the environment.