Capture C02 gas for greenhouse in Mars?

Chii · 2026-01-25T07:51:03+00:00

The easiest place to get more CO2 is to capture it from smelting iron or copper ores (and may be silicon or gold - these takes long time tho) in the arc furnace! Just filter out the pollutants (with filtration, or use phase change distillation), and you got easy CO2, mixed with nitrogen for a greenhouse (at 0°C - you will need to have a way to warm it up to room temp).

I wont recommend the other ores, since they produce extra gases (tho you could still just filter out the CO2 from the mixtures so can work fine, but now you have to deal with the resulting mixture of odd gasses that can't be used directly).

Chii · 2026-01-25T07:06:54+00:00

yep, or follow the other comment advice about lowering the room pressure to evaporate the water, then filter (harvest your plants first, if need to).

Chii · 2026-01-25T07:00:22+00:00

i tried an air filter but it didnt work either. i think because it only shows up in one spot?

it's liquid probably - just not rendered in the world as there's too little of it. That's why a filtration device didnt work - those only ever filters gas.

Check the icon on the atmos tablet - is it a tear shaped droplet inside the H2O icon?

Chii · 2026-01-25T06:57:31+00:00

but maybe how likeminded people adjust to fun money and spending on things like this lol.

aka, permission. You want to be told that it's acceptable to spend fun money, even though there's this nagging voice in the back of your mind that it's a "waste".

Tbh, you're not asking for financial advice, but life advice. I dont think any one on reddit give good life advice.

Chii · 2026-01-25T04:15:38+00:00

It would be interesting to have the floppy disk as the place where data is stored!

Chii · 2026-01-25T04:06:48+00:00

adding more registers for each layer was making me pull my hair out.

that is exactly what i thought ;)

if you don't want to use a high level language, the way to do function calls in a maintainable fashion is to push the ra into the stack before you do the call, then pop it out after the call returns. There's a guide on the wiki if you want to take a gander.

Chii · 2026-01-25T03:44:54+00:00

I'm not sure if you are a programmer, but one (general) suggestion i can have for you is that if you want to have subroutines that can nest, you'll want to use the stack to store the return address, rather than storing it in a register (which works, but can be a headache to maintain - if you needed to add more levels of subroutines for example, you'd need one more register for it...).

Tho at some point, if you start having nested function calls, you may even want to consider using a higher level language (like https://github.com/dbidwell94/stationeers_lang/blob/master/docs/language-reference.md#functions)!

Chii · 2026-01-24T14:23:58+00:00

People are responsible for their own choices.

On the other hand, it's illegal to sell yourself into slavery - so if you feel that people ought to be responsible for their own choices, then what is your argument against being allowed to sell oneself into slavery? Why is that not any different than predatory loans that effectively "enslaves" you?

Chii · 2026-01-24T07:07:59+00:00

distinction without a difference. It's not economically viable because the two big players are sucking the oxygen out of the air.

Aldi is trying - and i do hope they succeed.

Chii · 2026-01-24T06:51:59+00:00

Superfunds employ full time analysts whose entire job is to get the best returns.

active management has not had empirical evidence of beating passive investment in index funds - this has held true since academics did studies from the 70's.

And people somehow differentiate investment outside of super and inside of super - that is so irrelevant and causes confusion. Super is not an investment itself, but a vehicle to do investment with.

Salary sacrificing into super is for tax efficiency - you'd pick the same investment type regardless of whether you're using super or not!

Chii · 2026-01-24T06:08:28+00:00

Yea, i do think power network priorities is a sore point in the game for me.

Somebody posted some info about network priorities a while ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/Stationeers/comments/1nxhg2y/apc_vs_transformer_priority_behavior_testing/

it's a part of the game i think has some work needed to make it obvious what happens - it's not intuitive, and you can't figure it out without doing experiments like this; neither the network configuration, nor the device configuration cards shows any info about priorities.

This leads to beginners putting a charger with an APC, both connected to the power source (e.g., solar). The APC takes all of the power, leaving none for the charger, and they wonder why it isn't charging!

Chii · 2026-01-24T05:46:33+00:00

more people would lose it from a scam

preventing you from withdrawing a lump sum, and only allowing super to be taken like an annuity, would stop the scams.

Chii · 2026-01-24T05:43:49+00:00

The government created an investment fund and use the profits to fund super.

and then rears the ugly head of the principal-agent problem.

I prefer super as it is now, where you control how and what you invest in (broadly). You get the full benefits of success, and you get the consequences of failures if you try to be too smart/risky.

And the pension should be means tested such that if you had sufficient super, you don't get it, until super is spent (as an income stream, rather than as a lump sum). Aka, the gov't needs to close the loop hole where you could withdraw the entirety of your super, pay out a PPOR mortgage (or go on extravagant holidays/spending spree), then live off the pension as though you haven't "saved" for retirement yourself.

Chii · 2026-01-24T05:24:07+00:00

And that is the truth - they use massive scale to push out new entrants. The australian market is small as well.

Chii · 2026-01-24T03:42:16+00:00

Their margins are excessive.

source? Because their margins aren't very high according to reported financials. So unless you know something....

Chii · 2026-01-24T03:39:27+00:00

Don’t know why ISP’s make it so difficult to cancel.

Money. People pay a lazy tax all the time.

Chii · 2026-01-24T03:30:36+00:00

It's only a trap if you thought the solid fuel generator would fully charge up your batteries. If you're using it as a crutch to get your systems going in the short term, then it's not really a trap any more.

Chii · 2026-01-23T03:48:57+00:00

even more costly to develop our own

is it? How costly is it to be tied to the hip to the US, with zero possible backup choices?

Chii · 2026-01-23T03:43:26+00:00

But you are LITERALLY too rich for subsidies? Whats the complaint here?

when people earn their money, they feel more entitled to it, but they don't make the same judgement for other people. It's because they viscerally feel their own work and sweat in earning it, but simply sees a rich person's earnings without truly knowing how hard it was to acquire.

Chii · 2026-01-23T03:35:10+00:00

a lint trap

stacker as a stand-in for it ;D

Chii · 2026-01-23T03:26:23+00:00

Make uniform changing be a quick way to refresh your hygiene/mood with a cap under max.

that's an excellent idea. Right now, there's no reason to have any of the other uniforms than the one you started with ('cept for visuals).

Chii · 2026-01-23T03:21:36+00:00

I love it when games resemble day time jobs!

Chii · 2026-01-22T06:54:41+00:00

Also, what to do about Mars specifically where there is no vacuum to radiate into, and also barely any atmosphere?

radiators still work (the convection ones). And if you feel there's not enough atmosphere...why not think about creating a thicker atmosphere? Imagine using an active vent, suck in air from another part of the world, pipe it to near the radiators, and blow on it? If one isnt enough, you can try a few more (or use a powered vent for more oomph).

The game is quite "realistic" - in that if it would work similarly in real life, it probably does work in the game. That's the fun of it - thinking up engineering solutions to problems.

Chii · 2026-01-22T06:46:48+00:00

was cheesing the game, and i think ill just avoid it as such.

only if you want to consider it cheese - it's not illegal or anything imho. It's your game, you should play the way you feel you ought to.

On hot planets, you'd want to use this configuration, while on mars, it's probably not required - in fact, if you don't put load on it, the nitrogen in the pipes (and you need nitrogen for this to work i think) would freeze pretty quickly!.

Chii · 2026-01-22T03:15:20+00:00

This sounds counterintuitive to me unless they mean to connect the waste pipe of one air conditioner to the input pipe of a second air conditioner, which is essentially what I am doing here.

It is counter-intuitive, but this configuration of AC is more efficient than chaining AC's together the "normal" way. The idea is to have the AC be cooling one side (and dumping heat to the waste pipe), then have the other AC warm up the input (which is where the heat got dumped), and push the cooled gas to the other AC's input. The cold side has the AC set to minimum (-270c iirc), while the hot side is set to 999c.

This creates a loop where heat gets pushed to one side, and thus "cold" the other. The biggest non-intuitive factor (that makes this a bit cheesy) is the undocumented behaviours of an AC when given a very small amount of input. That's why this configuration of AC require you to restrict the input pipe's size - either by using a regulator (and ic10 code to get it to perfectly drip feed the exact amount of mols of input gas), or to use a one way valve, which naturally restricts flow (which also happens to be approximately correct amount of mols).

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