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Long distance underground heating extender
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9 Oct, 2022 @ 7:06am
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Long distance underground heating extender

Description
This mod is mainly for people (like me) who use big central heat sources (e.g. nuclear heating plants, big coal heating plants, ...) and would serve more cities around it. I mainly made this mod for the nuclear heating plants and the combined nuclear heat- and power plant, which originally serves also towns many km away from the plant, so I want to make this mod to play more realistic with central heating. The other thing is, that similar mods currently work only with ground level and no underground models, which is very confusing sometimes and blocking houses built on top of the connections..

The mod works as heat pumping station but depht can be adjusted. The mod includes:

* 250m extender (-3m, -6m, -9m, -12m, -18m, -24m)
* 500m extender (-3m, -6m, -9m, -12m, -18m, -24m)
* 750m extender (-3m, -6m, -9m, -12m, -18m, -24m)
* 1000m extender (-3m, -6m, -9m, -12m, -18m, -24m)
* 1500m extender (-3m, -6m, -9m, -12m, -18m, -24m)
* 2000m extender (-3m, -6m, -9m, -12m, -18m, -24m)

You can just choose one of them and then change the height with E and Q.

For the long heating extenders, if you are too far away from point 0, you need to adjust your camera to the tiny pumping station house above ground, so you can see the connections.

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DirrrtyDirk  [author] 7 Jul @ 11:38am 
@jsc: With the underground heating pipes. You also need a rural substation near it so provide power for the pump.
jsc 6 Jul @ 7:36pm 
How to connect them bro
DirrrtyDirk  [author] 25 Dec, 2023 @ 7:58am 
Sabotabby Sounds like you connected it the wrong way. Was there the same amount of pipes on both sides connected? Do you have a electricity connection?

Since the extender is practically one building, the underground pipes can’t loose any heat. It is basically just a pump.
Sabotabby 24 Dec, 2023 @ 4:03pm 
I thought it was going to be great but the drop in temp is insane. my heating plant is consistently at 75-85C water temp but the heat exchanger 1.25 kilometers away is 5C???

its completely impractical
des 26 Aug, 2023 @ 1:06am 
@jakob02
make sure your input pipe capacity match your output pipes. e.g. if you have only one 300m3 pipe from the plant, the max total output will be 300m3 - so if your output is 3 small exchangers with 100m3 pipes it should work fine. but if it's large exchangers with 300m3 pipes, you would need also 3x300m3 input pipes to provide sufficient flow for all exchangers.
jakob02 8 Apr, 2023 @ 4:07pm 
It ist a nice idea, but i actually experience the problem, that if you connect the Heating producers on one side and 4 heat exchangers on the other side, my people freeze. And i only have 3 heat exchangers connected. Of possible 6!!!