Oxygen Not Included
Cycle 30 or so. There are a dozen of us, which is a nice number.
We are running low on oxygen. We've found a nice large vein of algae, and we have a lot of water.
The toilets not longer use up fresh water: these are now rigged to use filtered water from the waste plant. All the waste water collects in the same spot.
We have enough food. It isn't very good. We have the technology for better, but no one seems to know how to rig it together.
We need more oxygen.
Water is made up of oxygen and hydrogen. Could we ... nah.
I mean, we couldn't pump that water into an electrolyzer to separate the hydrogen and oxygen, burn the hydrogen for power (to charge the electrolyzer, of course), and use the oxygen to breathe?
The oxygen coming out might be hot. Or cold. Who knows which.
Maybe to bring it to regulate temperatures, we shuffle it through water. Can an air vent go through water?
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Air ducts can go through water. If they're not insulated ducts they'll take on the temperature of the water. You don't want a vent under water though.
ReplyDeleteI made the mistake of setting up a polluted water recycler without having enough air filtration tech to capture and filter out the resulting hydrogen byproduct. /sad trombone
... resulting hydrogen byproduct?
ReplyDeleteOh, shit. The water purifier makes hydrogen?
Sorry I was wrong, I meant the Fertilizer Synthesizer! I was trying to get a farm going and was using my Polluted Water to turn into Fertilizer. And it makes Natural Gas, not Hydrogen (sorry, working from memory)
ReplyDeleteIt got real bad. Was too close to the sleeping quarters and ended up making a bunch of people sick before I shut the thing down.
Between the synthesizer and the coal motor, there are swathes of lower levels that are completely unbreathable. I really need to step up research into air filtration tech.
I put my coal plant behind an airlock. I'll l;et it run until batteries are full, then turn it off. It doesn't seem to want to turn off on it's own, which is unexpected. I guess it needs automation?
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