Surface Aquatuner

[BlueLance]

This is more of a theorycraft than anything, if you have large amounts of polluted water, do you think it is viable to run an aquatuner just below the cosmic biome and fill the room with polluted water? Any steam generated would be lost into space meaning you would not have to worry about where the heat goes, Just have to worry about protecting the device. As long as you have the polluted water you could dump large amounts of heat into space.

[Miravlix]

You don't dump the heat, you erase liquid and gas in the "vacuum" biome.

 

So the aquatuner would end up in "vacuum" and overheat because it can't transfer heat to nothing.

[Michi01]

36 minutes ago, Miravlix said:

You don't dump the heat, you erase liquid and gas in the "vacuum" biome.

 

So the aquatuner would end up in "vacuum" and overheat because it can't transfer heat to nothing.

I think BlueLance didn't mean directly dumping the heat into space, but rather doing it indirectly by heating up the polluted water and then letting space delete the resulting steam.

[BlueLance]

1 hour ago, Miravlix said:

So the aquatuner would end up in "vacuum" and overheat because it can't transfer heat to nothing.

I did state to have the aquatuner below the cosmic biome, and like Michi said, the plan is to dump heat into the liquid and let the cosmic biome above it remove the steam.

But I think its viable as long as you can protect it and have the polluted water. 

[Neotuck]

possible but wasteful 

[PhailRaptor]

While yes this does work, Water in any of it's forms is far to valuable to waste this way.

[BlueLance]

True, But heck you could make use of it with any liquid, just needs automation to shuttle it off into space XD I don't usually suffer with heat issues, was just something I thought of which could b rather different

[chemie]

The only worth ejecting is CO2.  Water, h2, Nat gas, are all too valuable

 

[KittenIsAGeek]

2 minutes ago, chemie said:

The only worth ejecting is CO2.  Water, h2, Nat gas, are all too valuable

 

Co2 to slicksters to augment leaky oil fisures for petrol gens...

[chemie]

Just now, KittenIsAGeek said:

Co2 to slicksters to augment leaky oil fisures for petrol gens...

If you want.  If anything cosmic has made any ranching even less useful from my perspective.

[KittenIsAGeek]

1 minute ago, chemie said:

If you want.  If anything cosmic has made any ranching even less useful from my perspective.

How so?  Critter management is much easier, the extra eggs go for food and lime, and most critters emit some sort of useful waste product.

[TOOK14]

The only way this works is with a gas, as liquids won't dissipate into the vacuum, but anything truly abundant in the temperature range that machinery can handle is either too valuable to delete, or is better used elsewhere.  Chlorine, if you have a vent for it, is the only thing I can think of that would be worth doing this with, and good luck getting that to work efficiently.  I think you are better off just sinking that heat into the CO2 pumping into your slickster ranch to maintain molten slickster temps, or into a fuel on its way to a generator.

[Neotuck]

1 hour ago, TOOK14 said:

as liquids won't dissipate into the vacuum

if there is outer space in the background, it does