ONI: It's c423. I'm nearly done with this wavy space frame from Tony Advanced. This is a quarter of the sky. 
The concept: have a thin layer of petroleum constantly running down that staircase. When the doors open, the regolith drops at 300c, and rapidly dumps its heat into the petroleum and the tempshift plates.
The now very hot petroleum is pumped into a steam turbine chamber, which gives some power, but also deletes the heat. Unusually, this is a pure heat-deletion rig, no active cooling.
The heat is dropped quickly enough that we get to below 275c, which is what we need for all the stuff above the wall, which is made of steel.
I have *zero* idea whether this is going to work. :)
Prolly turn it on in about fifteen cycles or so.
Prolly turn it on in about fifteen cycles or so.
The secret beauty: Nothing above that staircase blocks light, so my scanners and telescope work quite well below it.
Only small changes otherwise since the last tweetstorm: I now have an infinite natural gas reservoir and an infinite petroleum reservoir. I'm also making an infinite h2 reservoir as I work on this space thing. After it's running, I'm probably going to go for a petroleum boiler.
Oh, and one more side project: shove vole ranch, not so much cuz I need meat or eggs, as cuz if you leave them alone they'll chew through everything up there.
Change of plans: I studied some shove vole rigs and math, and those little bastards are golden. Just *one* breeder stable will feed my entire population at almost zero labor cost. I'm going to make that a higher priority. Once it's going, I can gradually shut down my hatches.
I have 250 tons of coal, and ultimately coal isn't going to be a main power source, so I'm going to jiggle the energy distribution to start using it heavily.
(One of the positive aspects of the big industrial brick + power plant rig is that the batteries let me set generator priority rules.)
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