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josifrees posted...

I have a very weird seed with irregular oil, geoactive, and crashed satellites on a tree asteroid. The stuff is nice but it is really hot. I need to run an aqua tuner but I dont have the research to put a steam turbine on top of it yet so Im just going to put it in a shit ton of co2 and hope the mass can do something

CO2's a bad move. It doesn't conduct heat well, meaning all the heat generated by your aquatuner (and they generate a LOT of heat) won't be dispersed and your it will quickly overheat. Building your aquatuner in a large pool of water can serve as a stopgap until you've researched steam turbines, though I'd slap a thermal sensor in the water to cut it off before it gets too hot (and especially before it evaporates).

If worse comes to worst, you can just let your base heat up. Dupes may not like the heat, but they won't suffer heat exhaustion or get scorched until temperatures get well out of hand. Insulate and cool your farms since crops are temperature sensitive and you should be okay for a good long while.