Stationeers Hot planet base cooling

One of the biggest issues with hot planets is obviously the heat or more to the point, how to cool your base. This video shows a few cheese free ways that I have been experimenting with. As it thrins out coolingt he base is relatively simple. Cooling the water is a problem that is 100 times harder.

[Jaryd]

I really like how the cooling solution goes from something that's just enough to cool a room, to something that looks like an industrial level machine at 11:40

[ArchieHalliwell]

Your air conditioner on vulkan with the counterflow heat exchanger is similar to a Joule-Thomson cooler. You don't need a heat exchanger for a regular heat pump, but it allows for a greater temperature differential.

[Tomd]

Here in AZ, we also had to think about cooling around xmas this year. It was a nice 75F on xmas during the day, and just on the 3rd day of 2025, it was almost 80F in January! 😵‍💫

[anotherone]

hi Mick, I see you're using a composter for H2 production. According to the wiki the production of charcoal releases H2, which is an alternative to the composter without water consumption. It also cools down a furnace to about 210 C for the production of charcoal.

[eli]

Phase change scales with the volume of gas/liquid and how far you can take that volume away from its equilibrium. On vulcan, I built an open-cycle cooler using your method with liquid inlets and passive vents. Instead of a heat exchanger, I pump the liquid pollutant out of the final stage once it reaches 20C and store it. Anything that needs to be kept at 20C is connected to the storage with heat exchsngers. If the tank heats up over 21C, a purge valve turns on and boils off liquid until the temp drops back down.

I'm thinking of rebuilding it as a single stage which operates in pulses, it might waste less cooling capacity than multiple stages separated by 1-way valves.

[samuraidriverx]

Best wishes Mick.
Every intro for me i still think Hello and welcome back to mars.😬
Totally agree with you on vulcan, its so easy to cool your base.
Venus is just a painfull mess, i started sorta cheesing it using Elmo's hot/cold AC with volume pump system last time i played it.
hours of experimentation with evaloration chambers all ended in failure.
Might give it another go.

Have you ever considered doing a playthrough as Zrilian?

[dk-renegade]

You can degass Charcoal with a furnace to cool down pollutant to make it liquid, it requires only about 100 degress to degass charcoal and other metals.

[Bradrackas]

HNY Mick! Wondering if there’s any efficiency to be gained with the AC units given the layouts that Elmo explored in his ‘Let’s talk about cooling’ vid a while back?

[Pompeij]

12:10 for me to understand it fully, those up and down valves in the closed yellow system between are for savety, right?
I mostly understand what is happening, but not enough to build my own :/

[JPMistic]

mich + splitsie vs burtal starts, sounds fun

[aaronpaul]

First you had a few valves stuck closed ... second i wonder if you can run multiple condensation rooms with one way valves and a larger fan sucking from the other end to reduce the power consumption.

[tonofrej]

Mick. Use 90 percent of volatiles and 10 percent of O2 and combustor will produce lower temperature on the output but same volume of steam

[Sworn]

just 1 ac with press reg at 115, 1 pipe lenght, output of the ac with one way valve to the world.
Input on the press regulator has to be an active vent. Waste to a one way valv direct to the world

This cool down a base, oxygen, waste, etc. It cools very fast, but it has very little in it, so it can't handle huge amount of stuff at the same time, but it does win over natural heating of the base, for the cost. Well some might still say it is an exploit, which I don't desagree 🤣

[BayalinAlamain]

Mick, I’ve never really understood the reason to use a counter flow heat exchanger. How does it work differently than a reg heat exchanger?

[dbmaster]

35:45 it was me! :D

but i only got one room at the end of a heat exchanger chain to cool the water even more before giving it to a evaporator and the air that got sucked in also cools my next stage with the pollutant where all begins again

and would it make sense to place radiators into the room with the drain?

and how would you design an condenser with similar design? im currently putting everything into a tank and wait for the water to condense while constantly exchanging the "air" around it thru a filter, haven't found a better way to exchange heat between gases yet


EDIT: have you kept an eye on the pipe size on the active vent? im not exacly sure atm but didnt they needed to be 8000L+ for the vents to be able to stay at max power? same with the side where the drain is, i think

[Swennootje]

I'm using the Elmo setup with 2 ac's Hot/Cold setup with volume pumps and then the vulcan phase change setup. With this simple build i can go to 6/7 Kj latent heat export. I think mabye with some extra ac or bigger pump i can stress this further. Haven't test it yet because i just started the base.

[sctjkc]

And then we have Splitsie making use of multiple condenser-evaporator closed loops with CO2 in series to cool his base on Venus...

[AnonNopleb]

Hmm, not sure about the whole Winterspawn farm. Did you compare your setup to only the 2-stage H2O/X phase change cooler without the winterspawn farm? I imagine the additional farm costs a lot of water that then has to be created and cooled back down again.
Winterspawn are also pretty much late game and presumably the Stationeers devs want to get rid of them.