That ph2o from the reservoirs runs through the metal tiles, and over time drops down to 23c. From that part of the loop, it then passes into the large cool h2o pool next to the reservoirs. It loops through there in a snake. This ensures that the pool stays ~24c even when we add warmer h2o to that pool.
The pool also has radiant *gas* pipes running through it, therefore ensuring that o2 production is *also* at ~24c.
Just above the metal tiles there are two mechanized airlocks, then a whole square bounded by manual airlocks, all from gold amalgum. That square is infinistore for bring from a cool salt slush geyser, at temperature -10c.
The thermo sensor in the little hole in the metal tiles? It opens those two mechanized airlocks when it's cold enough -- 23c -- and closes them again when it needs more cooling.
It's what we call a "heat injector", tho in this case it's injecting cold.
That ph2o from the reservoirs runs through the metal tiles, and over time drops down to 23c. From that part of the loop, it then passes into the large cool h2o pool next to the reservoirs. It loops through there in a snake. This ensures that the pool stays ~24c even when we add warmer h2o to that pool.
The pool also has radiant *gas* pipes running through it, therefore ensuring that o2 production is *also* at ~24c.
For the moment, the loop is very small, it just drops down out of the cool h2o pool and returns to the reservoirs.
*But* that's why we have about 7 tons of ph2o in those reservoirs.
In phase 2 of the cooling rig, we will make those 7 tons run throughout the base and guarantee that *it* stays at about ~25c.
This is, admittedly, a tedious build. But it's not rocket science, needs no space materials, and will cool my base forever.
Start with those two liquid reservoirs on the lower left of the image. They about 1.5 filled with ph2o we have laying around the base. It starts at 35c or so, but it doesn't stay that way.
It runs in a loop, and as it leaves the reservoirs, the next place it goes is to those metal tiles just above it. It doesn't really matter what metal, I used copper mostly. Inside those tiles, it's running in radiant pipes.
Notice the hole in the metal tiles w/h2o and a thermo sensor.
