Actually, there was a similar suggestion last month: Heat conductors
I think it's already possible to do something similar to what you describe, using liquid heat exchangers, hot coolant, and fluid regulators (or liquid pipes from another mod like BuildCraft)
Actually, there was a similar suggestion last month: Heat conductors
I think it's already possible to do something similar to what you describe, using liquid heat exchangers, hot coolant, and fluid regulators (or liquid pipes from another mod like BuildCraft)
1. Liquid heat exchangers can only cool down liquids, not heat them up.
2. It's harder than just adding more heat generators.
Heat insulation would have to be done using some other material than rubber though.
But heat pipes would be nice. Heat loss of 1 hu/t per block aswell.
Heat if unused is just wasted on IC2. Maybe it could build up and overheat the producers, leading to explosion like the steam generator (which btw need some changes to accept more flexible values of heat)
I re-suggest using graphene instead of copper as the conducting material, made with a carbon plate for 8 graphene dust or a diamond dust for 32 graphene dust in a thermal centrifuge, as for the insulator, why not aerogel, it's a very good insulator IRL if I'm correct, but I dunno how it's made though XD
1. Liquid heat exchangers can only cool down liquids, not heat them up.
I stand corrected. The block is poorly named then. I would expect a "heat exchanger" to be able to work both ways.
As far as the insulator, what about construction foam? (in a cell or universal fluid cell as part of the recipe for the pipes) Or for aerogel, maybe construction foam combined with compressed air?
Also, I have to agree with what some said in that "heat conductors" thread - transferring heat over distance should involve some sort of fluid that would need to be either cycled back to the source or renewed (in the latter case, the used fluid would be released into the world somehow).
I think the ability to heat coolant using the exchanger using input heat should be allowed. Aswell big copper heat pipes for short distances.
*Big Composite Graphene cables SpwnX :3
need some changes to accept more flexible values of heat
The pressure valve does that (mostly). It's the generators only using units of 10 that are more inflexible.
The pressure valve doesn't increase the amount of steam, thus you insert more heat for the same amount of steam. We would have to use decimal fractions of water input (0.00 mB/t).
That is true. Having 0.01mb of water flowing through a tick is a kinda crazy small though, since it would take 100000 ticks to use 1 bucket of water, which is 5000 seconds 
However it is necessary to adopt flexible heat inputs.
That is true as well.
