You know, you COULD make a stacker for each machine... or, you could invest your time in running chutes from your machines into a ballpit, so that you can still have the entertainment of items colliding, but also be able to walk through your base easily. Bonus points for throwing all your floorage into the pit, and proudly telling Shadow that you cleaned up your base, before revealing the eldritch horror in the basement.

The problem with the pollutant cooling loop (if I understand the setup etc correctly) is that you are trying to cool 100 degree CO2 with 400 pollutant... it doesn't matter what your set-up is or if you have it set up correctly/incorrectly; you're going to be adding a massive amount of energy into the system until you cool that down sufficiently. Running the pol through a temp A/C unit before you pumped it in would have saved you *a lot* of headache

I think you need to add “IT’S EVEN HOTTER” to the soundboard to play whenever things are just weird. And so far from the weekend’s stream-a-palooza we’ve gotten frenetic alien shooting and now (mostly) chill building.

I like the idea of a room of shame lol. For example a 1 block room that your skulls go into. You conveyor them in so they roll around, and eventually the room fills up. You end up with a unique centrepiece in your base.

the heat exchangers in the middle of your phase change loops are mostly *undoing* the work the phase changers just did - you transfer heat into the gas in the evap chamber, which is supposed to be transferred out of it in the condensation chamber, but instead the heat exchanger short-circuits that by dumping the heat back into the liquid!

Something to think about that I've seen done elsewhere for the heat pool / dump to outside bit: make a large tank and set up two pumps. One pump (or powered vent in this case) is set to fill the tank only at night (so you are minimizing the heat content you have to deal with), and have it fill to only around 4.5 MPa. The other pump is set to dump the air outside only when pressure exceeds 5 MPa and the temp is about 30 degrees warmer than the night temp (i.e. the storage tank is full and has warmed up, setting the cutoffs to wherever you are comfortable). The whole point is now you have a reservoir to work with that is at the coolest environment temp that you have to deal with.

The reason why your pollutant cooler was not working was because you kept panicking. Pollutant needs to run above 5.6MPa to work correctly, and it did for a few seconds (at 1:38:57 you can see temperature dropping by 1*C every 2 seconds), but every time it was there (or almost there) you kept removing pressure (first by adding that extra tank and then by setting the safety valve to 5.5MPa

New starting gear is kinda interesting. They have tuned to encourage using certain things. But they have a lot of backup power generator stuff gas and coal. Lot of things in handy packs. I kinda like it.

You should set the codensation chamber to a lower pressure than the purge valve. Otherwise you try to build pressure that always bleeds of. (Not sure if you did this later in the video)

The pollutant loop is just too hot. It will do all sorts of weird things until it gets to a stable operating temperature. It can only even begin to make liquid at 153C @ 5.8Mpa. I'm not sure what your target is, but ideally, you want to cool the gas to around that temp before you pump it into the system. Def to be expected that it would be doing crazy things. Just have to let it stabilize.

Splitting I believe you still have a bunch of pipes in the spare backpack on the gas room floor. As well you are taking heat from and putting it back into the same pipes

Gem, Ginny, gift... Sounds fine to me

the heat exchanger in the middle is making the hot gas coming from the evaporation chamber heat up the colder water which makes the system more inefficient and more likely to explode. You do not want that heat exchanger

thanks splitsie perfect timing just put the Kids to bed.... looks like will be up to midnight tonight

Do you think it might be worth putting emergency overpressure relief valves on the various pipe networks in the base? Depending on the gas, perhaps to outside so you don't end up with toxins in the air inside

Inline Liquid tanks are the problem - the gas is evaporating in the pipes, rather than staying a liquid. This means the the evap chamber cannot work. Remove the inline liquid tanks, make sure there is enough pressure to keep the liquid coming from the condenser liquid and it will start working. To be clear - the inline tanks are acting like evaporation chambers, BEFORE the evaporation chamber. This is not what you want.

The video we were told would not exist... but does anyway!

for the BINGO card, setting up a deep miner (happens much less often but still enough to mention)

Glad to see phase change heatpumps have been going well for you. So next time you do a group stationeers terraforming, you will be the Phase Change Heat Pump Specialist right? Surely not even TFE could cause one of these to explode. Chances are you may be able to remove an AC device from the upper end and take water down from closer to 330C instead of the three you have getting down to about 250C. If your base gets bigger the bottleneck would be the AC that is connected to Venusian temperatures since that one may be capping out at roughly 5kJ of thermal energy being moved. Do you plan to put heat pumps in parallel to increase the cooling throughput? You also should be able to remove the AC after the pollutants phase change device, but it is kind of acting as a buffer from outright hitting the pollutants evaporation chamber from super heated gases, which could cause a rupture. If you really want to try to push the phase change heat pumps, you can try to pressurize the liquid pipes with Nitrogen for the water and pollutant loops, that way you can keep liquids from the condensation valve as liquids. The caveat to this though is that you have to be really careful not to let the evaporation side far exceed the max condensation temperature or liquid pipes will pretty much go boom. Edit: I will say that when you added the extra liquid in-line tank, you helped prevent boom, but most of your liquids evaporated into that space and didnt really accomplish much. It wasnt until you absolutely moved the pipe to after the counterflow that you had more than enough liquid pollutants to cool the entire system down. Edit2: Looks like you may not have needed the purge valve, it seemed like the water was still trying to get all the heat out from the 400C pollutants it had to rapidly cool as well as the extra 6kJ that the evaporation chamber was eating up and moving to the condensation chamber. The safety feature of it is good considering you have been having some pretty large temperature swings. Edit3: Any reason you aren't using a powered vent to pressurize your greenhouse with CO2? Should be much faster than a volume pump as the pipe network empties... not sure if a turbo volume pump would be much faster with a highly pressurized pipe network. Edit4: Advanced Civilization in Venus must be holographically projecting storm winds into your base.

splitsie you could use a pipe mixer and mix the CO2 and nitrogen togeather and only use one pipe

why not separate all your gases due to temperature ? split them into containers so you can use them for other uses .

are we planning on terraforming venus?

I’ve never seen a dog that wasn’t driven by food, haha, is she broken? Or just well feed? Haha

Wow Splitsie What a mess you got there since when was you so disorganized like that.. doesn't that drive you crazy being that way. Clean up and Organize that "Mess" and I'll sub the channel?