TL;DR: Does the temperature of a heatpipe connected to a heat exchanger actually matter, as long it is above 500 degrees?


No. The actual temperature doesn't matter, as long as the heat pipe is hot enough.
The heat exchanger does not work faster or more efficiently or in any way better as the ...

Neat!

In the hot water example, presumably you meant:

Klonan wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 3:07 pm 90C water -> 160 165 Steam = 120/s

Hi Klonan,

I ran into this in the vanilla base game also (2.0.7+) playing around with infinity-pipes.


I made some error in the physics or thermodynamic logic,


Sounds like you are aware that this is a bug, so I can skip the lengthy discussion trying to convince you that the current behavior ...