11. degrees, and that the whole business with the supercompressor and the vaccum seal was, in point of actual fact, an absolute waste of time. You might begin to realise that the entire structure is continuing to cool past what you expected, with oxygen being continually emitted at around 13. The vaccum seal will not close again, at first.Īt second, it will continue to not close.Īt third, the not-closing might start to worry you.

Because nothing says 'comfort' quite like a pressurized gas explosion.Īfter this, the machine will continue to operate. This seal will open when the device is fully primed, exploding thousands of kilograms of pressurized oxygen, cooled to a nice comfortable temperature, directly into your base. Priming the system for the first time will take a lot of cycles, during which time the oxygen pressure will continue to build up. This is okay: eventually the system will reach the designated temperature, and the vaccum seal will open. In addition to the temperature transfer across the tungsten tiles, the pipe radiator in the background also helps pre-cool the oxygen. I can't tell you how much exactly will be needed, just keep pumping the stuff in until you can't get any more through the vent. Like the oxygen, temperature transfer is limited by density. The cooling itself comes from the wheezewort room, which contains 4 wheezeworts in pressurized hydrogen. After a while it will start to cool, and the cooling will only accelerate as the pressure continues to climb. Meanwhile, the rate of temperature transfer between the oxygen and the tungsten tiles below it will gradually increase, as the oxygen's density increases. The heat from incoming oxygen (from the vent) will be constant: 888 grams at 70 degrees celcius. Gradually, this space will fill up with an absolutely ridiculous amount of oxygen. The compressor continually pushes oxygen from the vent to the 2x1 space with the thermo sensor in it. Since a high pressure gas-vent is necessary here, you will need plastic for this build. The oxygen, meanwhile, is pumped through to the super-compressor. I'm using it to make sure the wheezewort room stays topped up with hydrogen, since the worts have an annoying tendency to eat gases when you save and load the game. The valve on the hydrogen pipe is set to 400 grams/second, allowing a tiny bit of extra hydrogen to be siphoned off for storage. It's still self-powering without it. The hydrogen generator converts the hydrogen to power to continue running the electrolyzer and pumps. Hydrogen floats up to the topmost pump, oxygen down to the bottom two. On the left hand side of the build we have a fairly standard self-powering electrolyzer. Running the oxygen past 6 tungsten tiles is more than enough to cool it. I severely underestimated the rate of temperature transfer between the wheezewort room and the oxygen tunnel: all the doors and automation elements in the build are completely unnecessary. It works, but it's unnecessarily complicated.

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