PSA: Heat / Cooling Dynamics and Mechanics

[YoldaDup]

After numerous tests using shift plates and other buildings like doors and cabling out of wolframite (W), here is a PSA to people struggling with cooling.

Heat moves (passively) Horizontally and vertically very SLOWLY.

• This is good, or a cold / hot Biome would bleed into you base by cycle 10.
• This is bad for the heat in your base you want to move to other sections.
• You can build a small bridge of adjacent shift plates out of wolframite (W.), and heat would not travel through it at any useful meaningful rate.
• A long Heavy watt wire (or any structure of multiple buildings you can think of) made of (W) at 70c on one end, will not move the heat to the other end (will not equalize on its own) at any meaningful/useful rate.

Heat moves QUICKLY among items that are on top of each other.

• Put a shift plate of W. behind a hot building made of W too. You will see heat equalize among both in a few seconds.
• Gas On top of hot items will equalize quickly too.
• All liquid/gas cooling systems exploit this, the flow is moved on top of and away from hot / cold things.

This implies:

• Passive gas moving around can heat up and cool down based on what it is on top of, then move away and spread heat that way.
• Items touching each other heat /cool less by mere proximity, than by air flow around them (WW plants help with this).
• Shift-plates help increase area so that superposition of items/gases/liquids increases and help thermal change too.
• Physically moving air/liquid with pumps on top of hot/cold stuff is the fastest way to equalize temps. 
• Dont rely on heat trasnfer from things touching.

[bzgzd]

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(for people like me that didn't know, to save you time searching what it means)

 

[Bloxxed]

If I am dripping chilled water on top of hot machinery, does this mean I should add W tempshift plates? Will that impact the rate of heat transfer, even though the machine is touching both the atmosphere and a layer of water?

[GreatGameDota]

3 minutes ago, Bloxxed said:

If I am dripping chilled water on top of hot machinery, does this mean I should add W tempshift plates? Will that impact the rate of heat transfer, even though the machine is touching both the atmosphere and a layer of water?

The machine will have to heat up more so then the machine will take longer to heat up. But if your cooled water combats the heat from the machine effectively than the water will start cooling the the shift plates and cooling the machine.