0xFADE Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 It seems pretty obvious now but gas pressure will also stop a liquid based geyser. I was wondering why my copper geyser wasn't doing anything. I let the coolant get too hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotuck Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 this is why water makes poor coolant for metal volcanoes better to use oil or petroleum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xFADE Posted November 9, 2018 Author Share Posted November 9, 2018 It isn't really a problem. Like I said I let it get too hot. It is more than enough mass to offset a lot of heat. Just not if I let it get too high. I did oil before and it was worse. Keeping the pool under 80-90 is fine. I let it go to 95 and didn't bother keeping up with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulwind Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 10 hours ago, Neotuck said: this is why water makes poor coolant for metal volcanoes better to use oil or petroleum Admittedly water is not a good choice, but it's a heck of a lot easier to recondense steam than sour gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotuck Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 4 minutes ago, Soulwind said: Admittedly water is not a good choice, but it's a heck of a lot easier to recondense steam than sour gas. It's also harder to boil oil/petroleum than water. In my experience a single aquatuner loop can handle the heat from a metal volcano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xFADE Posted November 9, 2018 Author Share Posted November 9, 2018 It does. Again if I kept the water around 40c or less like I normally do then this would have never happened. Metal volcanos don’t put out enough heat to be a problem. I don’t have a cold polluted water source on this map. back when I used crude before I noted the cooling had to be on a lot more than with water. Very likely because of the lower heat capacity of oil so the tuner doesn’t really remove as much heat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psusi Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 2 hours ago, 0xFADE said: It does. Again if I kept the water around 40c or less like I normally do then this would have never happened. Metal volcanos don’t put out enough heat to be a problem. I don’t have a cold polluted water source on this map. back when I used crude before I noted the cooling had to be on a lot more than with water. Very likely because of the lower heat capacity of oil so the tuner doesn’t really remove as much heat. You could keep the main bath petroleum and run a closed water loop through it from the aquatuner. Then you get the best of both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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