Evaporation Pond (Heated)

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Evaporation Pond (Heated)
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Produces Salt by evaporating residual Water from Brine. The process is accelerated by utilizing a set of electric heaters.
Construction
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ElectricityElectricity.png 60 KW
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Footprint15x9
Required ResearchSalt Production
Boost by UnityAvailable
DesignationWater Extraction & Processing Water Extraction & Processing.png
VariantsEvaporation Pond

The Evaporation Pond (Heated) 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 variant which carries a 33% lower Worker, 50% lower Maintenance, and no Electricity cost, but also has 50% lower throughput. Compared to a pair of unheated Evaporation Ponds, one Evaporation Pond (Heated) consumes 60 kW to save two Worker, one Maintenance and a significant amount of space.

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

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