Vamshi_goud Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 I just found a cool steam vent and I want to use its water to produce electricity and oxygen, but I'm worried that it may produce hot oxygen and I want to send it to Ice biome. The only way to send it to ice biome is through my base, So I'm worried that it may spread heat in my base... Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobruk Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Don't worry about using hot water to produce oxygen - electrolysers produce oxygen at a fixed temperature regardless fo the temperature of the water sent. Make sure to use insulated igneous rock (or better - abyssalite) to transfer the hot water into your electrolysers if it's hotter than 70 degrees or else you'll be slowly heating the machinery. And yes, insulated pipes do spread heat, but they do it slower or quicker depending on what material you used. This is so because the pipe will then have 10% of that materials normal thermal conductivity. Therefore building insulated pipes from granite is still better than using plain granite and will slow the heat transfer, but won't stop it completely. Mind you, insulated abyssalite has such a low thermal conductivity that we can more or less agree that its transfer is miniscule and we ignore it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamshi_goud Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 Which material should I use to minimize the heat spread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psusi Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 4 minutes ago, Vamshi_goud said: Which material should I use to minimize the heat spread? Tobruk already said to use igneous rock or abyssalite. I'd save the abyssalite. Ceramic is also a very good insulator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfc Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Abyssalite if you have a lot, or use igneos rock since there's a lot of it and i feed it to my stone hatches plus you can get more from cooling lava Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredhp Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 I use igneous rock for almost every pipe. I use Abyssalite only for special designs, like gas pipes for a oxygen liquidizer, or liquid pipes for the old oil to ng gas converters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacost Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 6 hours ago, Tobruk said: Make sure to use insulated igneous rock (or better - abyssalite) Aren't normal Abyssalite pipes just fine? Insulated Abyssalite pipes strike me as a waste of material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobruk Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, Lacost said: Aren't normal Abyssalite pipes just fine? Insulated Abyssalite pipes strike me as a waste of material. No, non-insulated pipes exchange heat based on the AVERAGE of the two thermal conductivities. Insulated follows the old formula of picking the lowest of the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasza22 Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 I tend to use ceramic but it takes ages to get enough of it for a long pipeline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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