Refrigerant
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So, maybe its because I am dumb when it comes to reading, but... How exactly do you cool something with Refrigerant?
Maybe the effect was too small, but it seems like it is not cooling anything, despite its description saying that, as long as its pressure is low enough, it should.
I would love to use it more, but at this point the only thing I could use it for is as a reactant in small nukes, where it then releases a lot of fire and toxic gasses, which will then start eating away the environment.
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Its description says that it heats up in a high-pressure environment, which also implies that it cools down in a low-pressure environment. What its description (apparently) fails to convey is that it does this once. It doesn't magically stay cool when in a low-P env.
The idea is that you let the cool refrigerant take the heat from a (not necessarily hot) surface in a relatively low-P environment, transfer it to a relatively high-P environment where it heats up, cool it down there by some external cooler (the point being that this cooler wouldn't be able to cool the first surface to as low a temperature as it's able to cool this one in the high-P environment), transfer it back to the low-P environment where it cools down more, and do it all over again.
I realise that it sounds complicated when compressed into a single paragraph. You could try googling how fridges work. RFRG/RFGL is supposed to mimic the stuff that circulates in fridges.
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So, its basically mimicking an actual heatpump.
That makes things interesting but also fairly complicated.
I will see what I can do.
