Nope, always boil the salt water. And the polluted water. Zero labor, zero filtration medium. Only cool the water if you must, if you can use it hot, do so.
I can’t agree with “always”, it really depends on the use case, the available resources and the position of your vents. But yes, generally you are right, if it can be boiled, it should be boiled :) That's the ONI beauty, many different solution lead to very similar results :)
That cool steam spom is not spom. Eventually water will heat up from hot steam and stop that steam from liquifying. It may take a while but it will happen.
You may be right, after many(hundreds) of cycles it may fail to liquify. But, truth be told, I build a system like that before in a real game and until I was done with that save It didn't fail. That was a while ago, so I can't remember the exact cycle count, but this thing must have been running for 400+ cycles. A single radiant pipe of thermolated water running through there in any direction will solve that issue though :)
Are you actually an engineer irl? I have heard people said that playing ONI as an engineer is like coming home from work to work some more but unpaid XD
It is the easiest way to get all tiles filled with liquid but not use much liquid. You can have just grams of Polluted Water and a few kg of water to fill it all. Otherwise you would need a full 1000kg on the bottom layer to fill it up. It also doesn't have to be polluted water, can be salt water or brine as well. Mix and match as you see fit :)
Great video. One issue i had with a small Steam vent it didn't work for me at the beginning. Aquatuner overheated and the problem I managed was cause there was no hydrogen in the chamber with the steam engine. So the hydrogen there is quite important. I watched a lot of videos and this one is the only one that solves the problem of cooling water to an affordable temperature.
Hydrogen is the best gas for thermal conductivity, but it shouldn't be required to make it work. What is more likely is that you don't have enough steam in your thermal aqua tuner chamber, and it can't soak up enough heat. But either way, I'm happy that my video could help solve your problem, and you have now plenty of water with a decent temperature :)
Yes, it definitely still works. The problem is the amount of water you have over your vent. It needs to be below 1000g(1kg). Between 300g and 600g is what I usually aim for :)
Why is the first example desperate while the second example is perfect? The second looks nice for making a dev mode tutorial, but also suspiciously like something that's going to saturate with heat. Maybe tempshift plates are op but when i close off any kind of steam geyser without them it stays steam after a while because of zero heat exchange with the outside of the hot room.
The start-up instructions appear to be missing, as in, it's not clear how to start up the steam turbine and aqua tuner without that the tuner cools the pwater down too fast, looks like it needs hot pwater to start with?
hi, im using your salt water geyser design and im wondering how long it typically takes to cool down assuming a large amount of water? the aquatuners struggling to keep up with the output of the geyser that i have. Currently the geyser is overpressure due to the amount of liquid present in the chamber Im not certain if i need to use patience or if there is something i could do to help cool it down faster.
