unkempt mist
Polluted water should evaporate into 10% Pollution-Gas and Steam.
This would make the "Water Purifier" useful (again), as currently in beta its enough to just evaporate Polluted Water to clean it, without any disadvantage.
Alternatively/additionally the "Water Purifier" could spit out sewage sludge for usage in the composter or arc furnace (similar to decayed food)
unkempt mist
Polluted Water balancing / game-loop :non_potable_water:
flint kettle
I mean the purifier has the advantage of not requiring any temperature change.
Evaporating polluted water either takes forever via vacuuming or is energy-intensive via raising its temperature. Not to mention boiling requires cooling it back down again. The purifier is superior on hot planets for sure.
unkempt mist
Evaporation only needs a pretty neglectable amount of energy and cooling boiled pluted water down again is comparable to what players need to do for general Water production or on hot planets anyways.
Main point is that evaporation does not produce any pollution but just "poofs" and is clean.
It would be much more relatable and resonable that it produces Pollutants.
flint kettle
I mean. Having it give off pollution will just shift people to inject polluted water into literally any hot combustion output pipe. The PW evaporates and there was already pollutant and water in there anyways
gaunt fiber
I mean the purifier has the advantage of not requiring any temperature change.
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A phase-change filtration unit just needs a portable tank with polluted water fed in and steam pumped out via volume pump, to re-condense and leave through a passive condensation valve.
No thermal control necessary, just a vacuum pump and the rest is passive.
flint kettle
A phase-change filtration unit just needs a portable tank with polluted water fe...
I'm not sure why you'd use the portable tank trick when active vents are like 100x better at the vapor pressure of water.
You do need thermal control or the water will freeze
gaunt fiber
Depends on the flow rate. At a low enough water flow rate there isn't enough liquid water to freeze into ice, going off my tests from a creative world. Also the portable tank trick works better in some constrained spaces
flint kettle
Fair enough!
Though you can put things inside a room evaporator, a portable tank completely blocks most of a grid cube
gaunt fiber
True but then you have to isolate it and can't get at the vent or in with an Atmos tablet to monitor things
flint kettle
The liquid pipe will almost always look identical to the room
I'm talking about liquid pipe -> passive liquid inlet -> cube -> active vent
gaunt fiber
Does the inlet actually work for that? Thought it was one-way
flint kettle
For liquids it is. It equalizes gas both ways
gaunt fiber
Well. That's a unique function.
flint kettle
Vents move a fixed amount of pressure per tick, so imo it's worth the extra space. Especially for water