Food cooling water

[doot_toot]

I looked around but didn't see this mentioned anywhere. You can just build a bunch of fridges in a tower, in a vacuum, let them cool some food then dump it in water. Maybe it's a bug with the fridges?

 

Just dump the food in, let it equalise, then put the food back in the fridges and repeat. 3 dumps took a tonne of water down to room temperature, and this is just a simple small setup I built to test it.

 

Broken maybe?

[Oozinator]

37 minutes ago, doot_toot said:

Broken maybe?

You dump 8x100kg of food at4° into the water x3 times. Feels not to wrong for me, when things go equal.

[snormer]

2 hours ago, Oozinator said:

You dump 8x100kg of food at4° into the water x3 times. Feels not to wrong for me, when things go equal.

The previous part is the broken one, where the food is cooled to 4°

Indeed, currently refrigerator logic is broken/flawed

• They cool any content to 4 degree, no matter powered or not.
• The cooling process is of a "cheating" type, the content heat is not transferred to surrounding nor the fridge itself. It is just destroyed same as Thermo Nullifier or drop-cooling operates.
• The fridge itself produce measly two-and-half Watt heat when operated, no matter the content. Not nearly enough to compensate destroyed heat. Plus, even this heat it produces only if powered.
• The food in it spoils no matter the temperature so the logic is a bit flawed. The only thing a powered fridge do is apply "Refrigerated" flag to the food inside. This one stops spoilage (OR sterile atmosphere, but it works the same without fridge), the actual food temperature is unrelated completely.

This makes the refrigerator a perfect heat-destroying machine right now. You can cool anything you want with it. The only downside is 100kg capacity limit, but you can build LOTS of fridges and stuff it with something non-spoiling or cover it all with CO2/Chlorine. All edible stuff has same 3.47 J/g/K Specific Heat which is only slightly below clear water.

12 fridges in a row and you are cooling 1 ton of water to 4 degree with no power or heat cost, and do it lightning fast on top. Fridge need less than half-cycle to equalize temperature, so for 100kg content it destroys heat somewhere in tens of kW range.