Torham234

In my tests, batteries were very good at absorbing heat, but bad at radiating. If they are mounted near the engine, they will absorb the heat quickly and overheat and explode, since they have only 1000 degrees heat tolerance. Edit: One last test I ran yesterday before bed is suggesting you can also insulate parts of your craft. The nuke with the spacer (the lower fuel tank was empty, and is there just to attach the fuel line) worked well at first, and you can see on the left, the main fuel tank barely heated up after the burn. The engine was however really really hot, and the system continued to equalize for a very long time(about 3-4 times as long as my conventional radiators) and topped of at 760, which is still 100 degrees less than the control. I think this system could be used if the heat radiators are not an option for some reason, but will not withstand long burns, as the nuke will simply get too hot and explode.

Ohh I have some! So, Heat. I have been working on a good radiator to get rid of that pesky heat. It seems the best part to use are the wing sections. They have naturally high heat resistance, they are very low mass, and great surface area. Its a win, win, win scenario. I have been running some test of cooling the nuke engine. Each of the screenshots was taken when the fuel tank at the center maxed out at the temperature and started cooling down. The lower left corner is the control. As you can see, one of the wing sections actually managed to cool the tank down WHILE the nuke was still firing. the beam section(top left) only seems to be working great, but I quickly found out that they are only good at accumulating heat, and they are very bad at radiating it. Also they are really heavy compared to the rest of the parts. For comparison, the "official" solar panel suggestion is a really last option scenario, It clocked in around 840 degrees... http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b514/yes753cac/Radiators_zpswynzbrwq.jpg~original' alt='Radiators_zpswynzbrwq.jpg~original'>

I am having a blast.

Solar panels are actually REALLY bad radiators though. Here is some samples I have done so far. The best by far are the aircraft wing sections. They are very light and very heat resistant, and have great surface area and heat radiation capability. Each screenshot was taken when the temperature maxed out and started decreasing. As you can see the wing section managed to cool the nuke while still running. The one on the lower left corner is the control, with no radiator. http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b514/yes753cac/Radiators_zpswynzbrwq.jpg~original' alt='Radiators_zpswynzbrwq.jpg~original'>

They easily overheat to the point of destroying connected parts like fuel tanks. I am at the moment developing a heat radiator for the nuke, but this itself adds a lot of weight to already very heavy engine. I really do not see the temptation to use nuke for short haul or small probe missions. As for the big missions, yes that is why we (humans) were trying to develop it since 60's. It is a good concept. Also it is deep within the tech tree in KSP, you have to do quite a few missions before you get it.

You are kidding right? this engine was specifically developed for vacuum use only. It is very lightweight and offers one of the best (if not the best) Vac ISP, short of the nuke.

The hype is manifesting itself into the real world!!

I am detecting a slight elevation of anticipation in the community. Is something interesting happening today?

this thread is growing faster than I can read it. I am posting a message for myself here, and I want to know where in the future I will encounter it. Im at the page 479 atm.

At work, and still checking on news. I finish 4 hours... wink wink, nudge nudge...

Why was a server migration scheduled for the release day? Is it to cope with the high download rates?

I am really saddened to see post like this on KSP forum. Essentially, your entire complaint boils down to having to adjust for the correct prefix. I thought better of KSP players.

past midnight here...

Ohh, I wasn't unhappy about it. I was just posting a new bit of info I have observed. I for one am really excited about the whole resource thing. It gives me perfect excuse to set up large bases in different parts of the solar system for refuelling. I think it will definitely be more fun than just bringing your fuel on all trips, or just trucking large fuel tanks around the solar system.

So what you are saying is Kilonewton is the same as Kilometer, or a Kilogram. Seems all SI to me...

They rebalanced the ISP on all the vanilla engines, probably to take them down a notch to compensate for FAR atmo.

So, seeing the new temperature system at work today, I am expecting that Eve landers will roast after a while in the intense heat, Moho's day side just the same. That will put a damper on peoples visions of mining Eve for the return trip.

that one might be tricky to squash. It depends on how the occulsion is calculated. It could need a partial rewrite of the code, in which case I would guess next patch after the release.

Wow, Scott was getting massive amounts of ore from an asteroid. he filled his ore container with 1 drill and on no time acceleration in just under 2 minutes. Capturing and redirecting asteroids is really gonna be a thing....

Really? Is that the best use of time you can think of?

Thinking about the ton of info at the stream atm, I think we can manufacture our own heatsinks from for example the structural metal plates. They are mostly just solid iron and large surface area. Harvester just said that heat respects conductivity, so a rack of metal plates should work very well for cooling ...

yes, much better than his yesterdays. You can definitely see he has had some time to prepare. Also, he is quenching some burning questions for a lot of people

As I understand it, some parts naturally generate a lot of heat. From what I have seen, Nukes and drills overheat quite quickly. Now the heat radiates through the craft and dissapates into the environment. Having lots of parts on/close proximity to the drill will let the heat propagate faster. Also, Roverude mentioned that solar panels act like passive heat radiators(logical enough, given the large surface area). Also I have seen the temperature go down rapidly during the night, so I presume being in full sunlight has an effect on your craft. Also, WinterOwl mentioned that planets and environments have ambient temperature. This would make Eve even more deadly than it ever was...

Ah, my bad than. I saw his output go down, and the percentage of the concentration went down from around 2.42% to 2.03%. That must have been the result of sample analyzing refining the scans, it refined the estimated concentrations. I really like it so far, you have to do a lot of ground work to properly set up a refilling station.

Well, I didn't want to be the first one to say it out loud, but yes. From what I have seen most of the people playing on the stream were not very good at it, to say it in a nice way. I keep ragequitting the stream as they make very obvious and elementary mistakes all the time.