inaD Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 I recently started playing the game and I encountered my first cool steam vent. The water comes out at about 66 degrees celcius and I'm able to cool it down to about 30 degrees by using long piping but I want it to be around 20-25 to use in my plant farms. I've seen guides that suggest using ice biomes or wheezeworts but they're all for making your water really cold. Are there any other ways of cooling down the water to the temperature I need for my plants? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/90450-cooling-down-water-to-use-in-farm/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggbert Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Ice Biomes and wheezeworts are the way. They are for great for lowering the temperature of water a lot or just a little. The easiest fix is to create a cistern in the ice biome. Use granite tile. Fill it up with water all the way with geyser water then turn off the valve. Let the water just sit there and wait until it gets to the temperature you want. Then wait a little longer until it's about 5 degrees cooler than what you want. Now pump the water to your farm and any time your water level drops a bit low, then add more from the geyser to the cold cistern. You can use automation to turn this on and off automatically. If you do it right the new hot water will merge with the existing cold water but not increase the temp so much that you end up with a problem. The other way to do it is to create an insulated room preferably full of hydrogen with wheezeworts. Then pump the hot water into this room and use a thermal aquatuner to transfer the heat into the hydrogen where the wheezeworts can absorb it. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/90450-cooling-down-water-to-use-in-farm/#findComment-1032326 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chemie Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Aquatuner. Submerge in some Polluted water. Or use polluted water to sieve to aqua tuner Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/90450-cooling-down-water-to-use-in-farm/#findComment-1032328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypher-7 Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Another way to speed up the cooling is to build storage containers inside the pool of water you are cooling. Inside store all the ice and snow from the cold biome. The thermal mass of 20000 kg of ice will help bring the hot water down. As the ice melts you just get more really cold water. If you need this process to work faster you can build rows of mesh tile and build ice sculptures on them. Although, another use of the water could be just dump it into an electrolyze rather then trying to cool it at all. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/90450-cooling-down-water-to-use-in-farm/#findComment-1032336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
monster3d2015 Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 On 5/2/2018 at 12:17 AM, KittenIsAGeek said: So I decided to try using the new in-pipe thermal sensors to create a feed back loop allowing a single Thermo Aquatuner to bring a feed of liquid down to a specific temperature. Using the free oil from a leaky oil fissure, I decided to create a pool of petroleum at around -50c. Other uses include sending cold water to sleetwheat. For the petroleum pool I want, the process is somewhat slow. As it comes out of the refinery, petroleum is about 74c, so it has to go through the aquatuner about 9 times to reach -52c. Reveal hidden contents On the left is a variation on @Luminite2's Method 2 cooling system. Rather than pumping coolant somewhere, I placed an aquatuner in the cold side to feed the petroleum through. I'll not go into the details for that portion of the system and just focus on my feed back. The location I built was not the best for easy pipe laying, so here's a simplified version. Reveal hidden contents The thermal sensor is set to "above -45c." As long as the temperature is above -45c, the liquid shutoff remains open, passing the petroleum back into the aquatuner. The bridge connects after the shutoff, so that new petroleum will only be added if there's room for it. Once the liquid drops below -45c, the valve closes and the cold liquid spills into the reservoir. For power reasons, I used a NOT gate in the cooler to make sure that only one of the aquatuners will run at a time. So far, it works like a charm. The average temperature of the output is about -50c, right where I wanted it. Hope this idea is useful to some of you. I am not sure how to link to another topic but that quote is from a thread called "precision cooling". This is perfect for sleet wheat. Check out that topic. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/90450-cooling-down-water-to-use-in-farm/#findComment-1032342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabrute Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 right click on the line at the top of a post, then click copy link or copy link location Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/90450-cooling-down-water-to-use-in-farm/#findComment-1032343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenIsAGeek Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 10 minutes ago, monster3d2015 said: I am not sure how to link to another topic but that quote is from a thread called "precision cooling". This is perfect for sleet wheat. Check out that topic. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/90450-cooling-down-water-to-use-in-farm/#findComment-1032347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
monster3d2015 Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 ^ There it is. Thanks guys. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/90450-cooling-down-water-to-use-in-farm/#findComment-1032381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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