Oxygen not included: cycle 98
We have a water problem.
Next to the base is a cool steam vent, producing more than enough water for the base. It come out real hot.
Some of the water we're turning into oxygen and hydrogen, and some we're trying to use as a primary source of water.
The oxygen we're breathing, the hydrogen we've got two things for: a cold hydrogen room to cool everything down, and burning the rest of it.
Problem is twofold:
1. Things aren't getting cold enough
2. Not pumping the water fast enough. It's overflowing into the base.
Ideas?
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Could you increase water consumption with more farms?
ReplyDeleteProblem #2 seems like an architecture problem. Water doesn't, as a rule, flow much higher than its output (i.e. the vent, natural or constructed). If it's simply "there are no retaining walls higher than my steam vent", that's simple to solve.
ReplyDeleteNow steam, steam is a whole 'nother animal. Steam goes up ... then it condenses, and rain falls any darn place it pleases (IME).
Are you sure you have a liquid water problem?
Excavate a long, wide cavern for the water to flow into. This will alleviate immediate flooding problems. Blow air across the surface of this water, it will evaporate, taking thermal energy with it. No use this cooler water to cool your base.
ReplyDelete(Note that I have never played this game and have no idea if this will work.
Solution to (2): Change the access point to the resevoir of the cool steam vent to be much higher. The water pumps are at the lowest point, and before the access point was not much higher. That's now covered over with tile so it cannot floor, and the access point is as high as the vent.
ReplyDeleteWhich creates a solution to (1): Water spends more time in the cold zone, next to the wheezleworts.
ReplyDeleteAnd your solution becomes tomorrow's problem :)
ReplyDeleteNow, of course, all my plants won't grow because the water is too hot. And now we have food shortage. It's been 50 cycles since a food shortage.
ReplyDeleteWe'll see if we can overcome that. We'll be eating mealwood for a while.
I wonder how long pickled meal lice last in a refrigerator? I've never tried buffering against catastrophe that particular way, but I imagine that's why the pickles are in the game.
ReplyDeleteGonna have to do something like that. And then find a way to actually cool down the water. Rearrange things so the water gets cold before it's used.
ReplyDeleteTake advantage of machines that output at a fixed temperature, no matter how hot the input is. If you can transfer heat from whatever needs to be cool to the fluid input of such machines, you're winning (and giving Newton conniptions). Beware making liquids gaseous in pipes and vice versa though.
ReplyDeleteAlso, get the most cooling out of your wheezeworts by using dense hydrogen in the cold chamber. (Which you've probably learned already!)
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