Water sieve raises water temp 70 degrees

You're details aren't exactly right, the water sieve does not raise the output temperature by 70°, it outputs at a flat 40°C (104°F), regardless of the input temperature. This is identical to the output of the carbon skimmer, as well as several other buildings.

I agree that it is rather poorly designed, when filtering water through sand can be done easily in reality with zero power or heat, and can be done with high throughput with very little power. The exploitable aspect makes heat deletion trivial with this building.

A solution would be to have a filtration machine that only increases heat by very small amounts, but draws 120W or 240W, and has reduced throughput to balance it from the gameplay aspect. Sand is plentiful, and you can build multiple.

6 hours ago, crypticorb said:

You're details aren't exactly right, the water sieve does not raise the output temperature by 70°, it outputs at a flat 40°C (104°F), regardless of the input temperature. This is identical to the output of the carbon skimmer, as well as several other buildings.

I agree that it is rather poorly designed, when filtering water through sand can be done easily in reality with zero power or heat, and can be done with high throughput with very little power. The exploitable aspect makes heat deletion trivial with this building.

A solution would be to have a filtration machine that only increases heat by very small amounts, but draws 120W or 240W, and has reduced throughput to balance it from the gameplay aspect. Sand is plentiful, and you can build multiple.

That is MUCH better. I spent around 3 hours setting up a water cooling system to only see that it was heating my water more.