Pip cooling
Just thanks to amount of Pips I have in my nature reserve (about 100), the room is about 5 C cooler than the rest of the base.
Posted Sep 29, 2019, 6:50 PM UTC
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Dreckos are also notable.. 60C with a decent thermal capacaty, don't remember the conductivity.
How does temperature regulation work for critters+dupes? I imagine it's trying to reset to their default value, but how fast?
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I noticed that my drecko overflow room (filled with hydrogen and a shearer) started getting pretty hot. I thought it was the shearer, but I guess it might be all those dreckos in cramped quarters?
Edit: WAIT. Is this why I always eventually have a pesky overheat on the Dreckos' mealwood? Holy hell.
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Haha, yea probably.
I just tested heating with dreckos on an island that I had before that got quite hot. It wasn't so hot to begin with here. I ran the game while doing other stuff, temperature equalized. However baby Dreckos spawn at 60C regardless of egg temperature, this is the source of the heat.
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Aw man, I need to rethink some things.
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why though?
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I've been using gulp fish to help maintain the temperature in my cold water tank. They're born below freezing, then equalize with the water. I think when they turn to adults they're below freezing again. I saw a video that compared the cooling power of a single fish to that of a cool CO2 geyser.
CO2 has abysmal heat capacity, which makes it almost useless for cooling.
I know, that's why I said a single fish has the same cooling power.
Just thought I'd contextualize it for anyone not up to speed with the way that sort of thing works.
Ok. Yeah, I've got around 6 gulp fish right now, the aquatuner still does the bulk of the work. But they "help". One of these days I'll actually breed the fish and see if I can get significant cooling when I scale up. I want the eggshells and meat anyway.
Yes, I know cooling your water is usually a pointless waste of energy, that not much requires cold water. However I am using it as part of a self-regulating cooling loop that also supplies my bathrooms. It mixes cold and warm clean water as needed to keep my base at a comfortable 23 degrees. I also plan on building a sleet wheat farm and will need the cold water there.