Water Generation using Condensation

[calminginsanity]

On Earth, most plants and animals "exhale" water vapor, and water is never truly lost.  Perhaps we should have a way to collect condensation from the air (like a dehumidifier or some form of water condenser)as a way to recover a portion of the used water?  Could add a "Humidity" resource and overlay to show the resource.

[mr_anderson]

That could be interesting, it would definitely benefit in a long run but also make the game a bit more harder to manage as you already have to deal with heat, stress, food,oxygen. 

[calminginsanity]

I agree that it might make it a bit more difficult, maybe making warm areas cause more stress if the humidity is too high? Or cause water to drip from cold places or pipes if it gets too high?

[AlexRou]

Also if its too dry certain plants can die out.

[Luponius]

The idea of resources being "spent" eternally and never being recoverable / recyclable doesn't sit right with me.  I'm all for ways of keeping the flow going and this suggestion is exactly on point for it.  At the same time this is a full feature on its own and might be worth discussing a more thorough and holistic implementation for it so it sits better with the bigger picture, as the game proceeds forward, out of alpha.

[calminginsanity]

That is actually a good idea as well AlexRou 

And I agree with you Luponius, there should be some sort of discussion on the topic of resources being completely used and not just transformed into something else... i.e.: algae being turned into slime to be re-used/recycled, water being recovered from the air or by other means.

I understand this is not meant to work fully like the "Real" universe, but a few adjustments in resource utilization such as recovery or recycling should be discussed.

[AlexRou]

If plants need watering too then it would be interesting to see people making condenser systems above plants and having it rain down water. But that might be a little much unless water can be 100% reclaimed.

[mr_anderson]

well, humidity could have a huge impact on the game. I had couple of ideas: In very high humidity/heat paintings start dripping down like the "persistence of memory" painting, little bits of water dripping everywhere, coal generators start working slower and has like a steam locomotive effect, plants look really green and have huge leaves,high decease spread rate, little bits of moss start growing on base tiles.

[calminginsanity]

4 minutes ago, mr_anderson said:

well, humidity could have a huge impact on the game. I had couple of ideas: In very high humidity/heat paintings start dripping down like the "persistence of memory" painting, little bits of water dripping everywhere, coal generators start working slower and has like a steam locomotive effect, plants look really green and have huge leaves,high decease spread rate, little bits of moss start growing on base tiles.

or algae growing instead of moss 

[Luponius]

6 minutes ago, calminginsanity said:

or algae growing instead of moss 

Maybe make moss convertible to algae?  Sounds like heresy but I am not really into biology

[AlexRou]

Or how about growing algae in water and pumping co2 into it generates oxygen and food.

[calminginsanity]

9 minutes ago, AlexRou said:

Or how about growing algae in water and pumping co2 into it generates oxygen and food.

Maybe the addition of researching actual "Grow Lights" to make it actually sustain itself, otherwise it will die off and need to be replenished?

[mr_anderson]

11 minutes ago, AlexRou said:

Or how about growing algae in water and pumping co2 into it generates oxygen and food.

algae could grow in water but it would produce wet algae and if you wanted to use that to make oxygen it would also increase the humidity thus returning the water it consumed in a very slow way.

[AlexRou]

There is even a certain type of algae that generates hydrogen under the correct conditions, this could possibly make hydrogen generators useful if balanced right.