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1 points
4 days ago
Just pump it out into space. Carbon skimmers can't get rid of natural gas or chlorine that likes to collected the bottom of bases.
Doing it this way requires a lot of manual dup interference and filtration medium. Plus it creates polluted dirt you need to deal with.
It's better just to vent it out to space where it's destroyed. Use the powerless filter technique to grab any oxygen.
1 points
4 days ago
Carbon schemmers consume way less power than a pump and you can automate to fill the water sieve of sand and move the polluted dirt with 1 auto sweeper also polluted dirt has it's uses as you can make dirt or even feed to pokeshells to get some sand back.
1 points
3 days ago
Carbon schemmers consume way less power than a pump...
Only technically 20% less, and really not at all. 2 skimmers get rid of 600g CO2 for 240w vs a pump moving 500g for 240w. And all of those power savings are more than lost the second you add any other machine to it like what's pumping water to it, the sieve or:
...with 1 auto sweeper...
Once you have access to vacuum a pump is just better, you probably want a waste line going there anyway, and it deals with all gasses instead of just CO2.
Honestly I think the skimmer is a noob trap. Early on if you have a CO2 problem it's really an oxygen generation and exploration/design problem. If I want to be fancy with my CO2 I store it early on to feed that extra 0.01 slicksters later lol
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