Turn Cool Steam Vent Into Water Geyser Using SPOM Room Without Extra Effort

[goatt]

Assume you use one or more Self-Powered Oxygen Module (SPOM), you just put one on top of a cool steam vent (and put the cooling room at the farther end if you have one, i didn't have a O2 cooling room). And boom, you got a water geyser, without extra effort, still got water and O2 of roughly same temp (90C is about the same as 70C lmao).

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My current game has this and I experimented this, it turned out to be fine. 200 cycles in, no problem. But I didn't test in debugging mode.

[InternetGuy]

Interesting. Never thought of using the electrolyzer's hot output as coolant. thanks.

[Saturnus]

5 hours ago, InternetGuy said:

Interesting. Never thought of using the electrolyzer's hot output as coolant. thanks.

Well. It doesn't work in a controlled environment without external additional cooling as the SHC of oxygen and hydrogen is far lower than steam. So if you were to use all the output from the steam vent in the electrolyzer the resulting temperature would be 101.5C, ie. not enough cooling to condense the steam just by the gas output of the electrolyzer alone.

[goatt]

7 minutes ago, Saturnus said:

Well. It doesn't work in a controlled environment without external additional cooling as the SPC of oxygen and hydrogen is far lower than steam. So if you were use all the output from the steam vent in the electrolyzer the resulting temperature would be 101.5C, ie. not enough cooling to condense the steam just by the gas output of the electrolyzer alone.

Now it works in game, you had to point out it doesn't work in controlled environment. However, I still think it's quite neat.

[Saturnus]

12 minutes ago, goatt said:

Now it works in game, you had to point out it doesn't work in controlled environment. However, I still think it's quite neat.

It is awfully close to being balanced enough that the steam could be consistently condensed. So just a few tiles of starting water at 40-50C would probably mean it'd last several hundred cycles without issue but eventually it would fail. A single wheezewort would easily make up for the difference though.

[goatt]

22 hours ago, Saturnus said:

It is awfully close to being balanced enough that the steam could be consistently condensed. So just a few tiles of starting water at 40-50C would probably mean it'd last several hundred cycles without issue but eventually it would fail. A single wheezewort would easily make up for the difference though.

you still miss the point. The "control environment" doesn't exist, unless you don't have water sieve to produce normal temp water, as well as put all your woots away in compactors, as well as some other stuff such as skimmers and algae distiller, and O2 cooling rooms, I just mention a few here. These things are not always in closed rooms and they will always bring the temperature down more. That's why it will always work in game, not in your controlled environment.

[Saturnus]

7 minutes ago, goatt said:

That's why it will always work in game, not in your controlled environment.

Nope. If I encase it all in super insulation tiles. It will fail eventually. 

[goatt]

I totally agreed and agree with you. But it will work in game. That’s why I said and say you miss the point.

[Saturnus]

29 minutes ago, goatt said:

I totally agreed and agree with you. But it will work in game. That’s why I said and say you miss the point.

Nope. Please explain how I can have missed the point when I literally already started it will take minimal external cooling to make it work?

[goatt]

13 hours ago, Saturnus said:

Nope. Please explain how I can have missed the point when I literally already started it will take minimal external cooling to make it work?

Yeah you are right I misread