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So it's kinda weird that we have the whole "hot/cold" fuoroketone on the planet where you need to heat things and no way to heat things with it?

I'm thinking it should be a bit of cryogenics/metallurgic science, fluoroketone heat exchangers to heat/cool fluoroketone and insulated pipes/tanks to go with it. An elegant way to get underground heat pipes I think.

Making a special heat exchanger to take cold fluoroketone and output hot doesn't seem difficult at all, but I am not quite sure if the reverse is as straightforward. Can heat exchanger be set up to output heat instead of taking it from the heat pipe? Would it have to be a funny-shaped burner tower underneath? Can pipes/tanks be filtered to only accept two liquids so that presence of insulated pipes and tanks wouldn't remove all need for regular pipes on Aquilo?

It’d need to be a compound entity of a fixed-recipe assembling machine and a reactor. Assembler takes hot fluoroketone and makes cold + a dummy fluid for energy; the dummy fluid gets dumped into the reactor entity to generate heat and the cold fluoroketone gets output out as you’d expect.