Radiators versus Metal Tiles

[beowulf2010]

So, I'm playing around with ways to cool down other things and just wondered if there is a consensus on the best way of pulling heat out of another room using a Wheezewort and/or AETN cooled hydrogen room. 

The options that occur to me are as follows:

1) Pump the hydrogen into a radiator in the other room. Drawback is needing constant power. 

2) Using bridges, cycle hydrogen through radiators in both rooms. Pros: No power.

3) Pump the substance in the room to be cooled through a radiator in the hydrogen room. Drawback is that pumps melt. 

4) Using bridges, cycle a liquid through radiators in both rooms. Drawback is the liquid might freeze in the pipes. 

5) Use a conveyer system to transport diamonds or similar material as a radiator in both rooms (Neotuck style). 

6) Use metal tiles and temp shift plates to directly transfer heat between the rooms. Benefits is that it's easy to control the target temperature via automated doors and vacuum. Downside is the rooms must be adjacent. 

The specific situation I'm playing with right now is cooling down hydrogen from a geyser enough to be able to pump it to other parts of my base. 

Am I missing any other effective options? Just trying to figure out how I want to do this without getting used to systems that should be fixed at some point.

(I have no problem with the Borg Cube, I just know that if I start using them, I won't be able to stop and will cause myself issues when it gets fixed so I'm choosing to not use it.) 

[Yoma_Nosme]

9 hours ago, beowulf2010 said:

 The specific situation I'm playing with right now is cooling down hydrogen from a geyser enough to be able to pump it to other parts of my base.  

A few questions. How cold do you need the h2? What do you want to cool?

If you want to cool just to ambient 20-30°C then use polluted water or clean water or petroleum or oil if you have it with an aquatuner inside radiator pipe since it's the easiest way imo. 

If not please elaborate some more on what your goal is.

If you "have to" use the h2 because you want to use a mix of aetn to prime it to a certain temp and then use thermo regulator(s) to get it to the temp you want so you have a bigger throughput than with aetn only.

One last thing. I would go for aquatuner. Use the h2 for power (h2generator) and aetn. Aetn to keep temp a waterpool or any liquid(I would choose p-water or oil or petro) at temp of 16 degrees above freezing and then pump it through the aquatuner. 

Cheers.

[beowulf2010]

The only "target" temp for the hydrogen (or anything for that matter) is to get it consistently under 125 degrees so that a gold amalgam pump won't overheat. 

Mostly just looking for a starting point for the 2 or 3 more effective radiator style cooling systems for playing around with geyser pre-cooling. 

I guess a better way of asking my question is if a gas radiator will ever be powerful enough to be effective at geyser pre-cooling? If not, does the high power cost of aquatuners prohibit a liquid radiator system from being a good tool? Or should I just go straight to a conveyor radiators and/or metal tile directly transfer system? 

I have a fascination with designing smaller generic purpose modules and putting them together later for more complex tasks. I'm in love with the idea of having a pair of pre-designed rooms to slap down next to any boxed in "hot" geyser and knowing that I don't ever have to worry about "wasting" gold on repairing overheats on the pump. 

And thanks for reminding me how easy it is to avoid freeze in pipe issues with automated aquatuners. I was distracted by wheezewort and AETN based cooling I forgot about aquatuners as a cooling source of liquid for radiators.