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Cooling Tower

Improves Water efficiency of a power plant by recovering some Steam back to Water.

Construction	30 + 40
Workers	4
Electricity	None
Maintenance	None
Footprint	4x4
Required Research	Water Recovery
Designation	Power Production
Variants	Cooling Tower (Large)

The Cooling Tower is a machine which allows for the conversion of Steam (High), Steam (Low), and Steam Depleted byproducts into Water. As the ratio of Water to all types of steam is 1:1, the Cooling Tower thus recovers 62.5% of the Water contained therein.

While its in-game description states that it is for use in power plants, it is not limited to that application. The Cooling Tower can also be implemented in conjunction with the Exhaust Scrubber to reduce the Water requirement for reducing the Air Pollution levels associated with Exhaust. It can also be utilized together with the Arc Furnace II to reduce overall Water consumption in smelting arrays.

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Machines
General Machines	Brickworks Concrete Mixer [II, III] Mixer [II] Assembly (Manual) [Electric, Electric II, Robotic, Robotic II] Air Separator Microchip Machine [II] Mainframe Computer Data Center Fermentation Tank Settling Tank
Water Extraction & Processing	Rainwater Harvester Groundwater Pump Seawater Pump [Tall] Boiler (Coal) [Gas, Electric] Evaporation Pond [Heated] Thermal Desalinator Water Chiller Electrolyzer [II] Cooling Tower [Large] Thermal Storage
Food Production	Greenhouse [II] Farm [Irrigated] Chicken Farm Mill Food Processor Baking Unit
Metallurgy & Smelting	Coal Maker Crusher [Large] Rotary Kiln [Gas] Arc Furnace [II] Blast Furnace [II] Cooled Caster [II] Metal Caster [II] Copper Electrolysis Oxygen Furnace [II] Glass Maker [II] Silicon Crystallizer Silicon Reactor Gold Furnace
Power Production	Diesel Generator [II] Power Generator [Large] Flywheel Super-Pressure Turbine High-Pressure Turbine [II] Low-Pressure Turbine [II] Nuclear Reactor [II, FBR] Enrichment Plant Nuclear Reprocessing Plant Solar Panel [Mono]
Crude Oil Refining	Basic Distiller Oil Pump Chemical Plant [II] Distillation (Stage I) [Stage II, Stage III] Rubber Maker Cracking Unit Hydrogen Reformer Sour Water Stripper Polymerization Plant
Waste Management	Smoke Stack [Large] Liquid Dump Flare Exhaust Scrubber Wastewater Treatment Anaerobic Digester Burner (Solid) Waste Sorting Plant Gas Injection Pump Compactor Shredder Incineration Plant
Transports	Flat Conveyor [II, III] U-shape Conveyor [II, III] Pipe [II, III] Molten Channel Flat Balancer Flat Sorter U-shape Balancer U-shape Sorter Molten Balancer Pipe Balancer Stacker
Storage	Unit Storage [II, III, IV] Loose Storage [II, III, IV] Fluid Storage [II, III, IV] Radioactive Waste Storage
Buildings	Research Lab [II, III, IV, V] Beacon Captain's Office I [II] Maintenance Depot [Basic, II, III] Rocket Assembly Depot Rocket Launch Pad
Buildings (For Vehicles)	Vehicles Depot [II, III] Mine Control Tower Forestry Control Tower Fuel Station [II, III] Vehicle Ramp (Small) [Medium, Large] Retaining Wall Barrier
Housing & Services	Housing [II, III] Food Market [II] Household Goods Module Household Appliances Module Consumer Electronics Module Water Facility Transformer Waste Collection Recyclables Collection Biomass Collection Clinic Square
Cargo Docks	Unit Module (S) [M, L] Loose Module (S) [M, L] Fluid Module (S) [M, L] Cargo Depot (2) [4, 6, 8] Trading Dock Shipyard
Landmarks	The Statue of Maintenance [Golden] Tomb of Captains
Planned or Proposed	Cargo Rocket T1 [T2] Crew Capsule Crew Quarters Module Housing V Maintenance Module Reverse Osmosis Solar Power Module Stardust Test Module Stargate Stardust Return Module Space Modules Depot
* Only available in the Supporter Edition