Evaporation Pond

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Evaporation Pond
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Produces Salt by evaporating residual Water from Brine.
Construction
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30
WorkersWorker.png 4
ElectricityNone
MaintenanceMaintenance I.png 2.0 / 60 Clock.png
Footprint15x9
Required ResearchSalt Production
Boost by UnityNot Available
DesignationWater Extraction & Processing Water Extraction & Processing.png
VariantsEvaporation 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 which carries a 50% higher Worker, 50% higher Maintenance, and an additional 60 KW Electricity cost, but has twice the throughput. Compared to one Evaporation Pond (Heated), a pair of Evaporation Ponds consume two more Worker, one additional Maintenance and a significant amount of space to save 60 kW of Electricity.

Salt can be created using either Seawater from a Seawater Pump or from the Brine byproduct of a Thermal Desalinator. If significant amounts of Brine are available from desalination, this is significantly cheaper than creating salt directly from Seawater, though Thermal Desalinators.are very expensive to run.

Recipes

Below are all the recipes, which this building is capable of producing. Note, that some of them may be locked behind Research, and not immediately available in your game.

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