Evaporation Pond
| Construction |  30 |
| 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 the only machine which can produce Salt, a critical ingredient in Glass Mix and a requirement to manufacture Glass. 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.
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