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{{Infobox machine | {{Infobox machine | ||
| Name = Evaporation Pond | | Name = Evaporation Pond | ||
| Description = Produces [[Salt]] by evaporating residual [[Water]] from [[Brine]]. | | Description = Produces [[Salt]] by evaporating residual [[Water]] from [[Brine]]. | ||
| Recipe = | | Recipe = |
Revision as of 20:29, 20 January 2022
Construction | |
Workers | 3 |
Electricity | None |
Maintenance | 2.0 / 60 |
Footprint | 15x9 |
Required Research | Salt Production |
Designation | Water Extraction & Processing |
Variants | Evaporation Pond (Heated) |
The Evaporation Pond is one of only two machines which can produce Salt, a critical ingredient in Glass Mix and a requirement to manufacture Glass. The other is the Evaporation Pond (Heated) variant carries a 66% higher Worker, 50% higher Maintenance, and additional 60 KW Electricity cost, but also has a 300% higher throughput.
Salt can be created using either Seawater from a Seawater Pump or from the Brine byproduct of a Thermal Desalinator. Due to the greatly elevated Electricity requirements of Thermal Desalinators, production of Salt from Brine should generally only be considered if cases where there is already a supply of Brine which would otherwise be dumped back into the ocean, a significant source of excess non-polluting Electricity exists, or there are significant space constraints.