What do I do with all this oxygen?

[Thoroniul]

would be really nice if we could just dump it into the air and change the atmosphere composition.

I just keep ending up with incredible surpluses of aluminum and oxygen. The population discards their electronics and end up with steel and aluminum. Steel is easy enough to deal with, but aluminum needs plastic requiring carbon sources. This leaves me with an excess of oxygen.

Also would be nice to have trees affect the composition as well.

[Bomoo]

Excess oxygen doesn't really matter since it doesn't choke your atmosphere processors. If you don't need it, just leave it there.

And that's interesting, because I find I'm short on aluminium more often than steel. Carbon really isn't a big deal as long as you don't mind letting that huge oxygen surplus sit there.

[soldier6661111]

lol

[Thoroniul]

Gotcha. I guess I was worrying about nothing. I was expecting trees and atmosphere composition, but didn't actually validate if it was the case or not.

It would be cool if you terraform the planet to 50 percent oxygen and everything combusts and rapidly oxidizes.

[Hoggle]

I am constantly destroying oxygen as my massive depot chains fill up. Releasing it would appear to make more sense. Using it to e.g. make advanced hydrocarbons (where does the hydrogen come from?) or ozone to reduce surface radiation would be more satisfying.

[bitbucket]

It would be nice to be able to release the oxygen and nitrogen into the atmosphere through greenhouse gas generators to make the atmosphere breathable as a new final goal.

[Thoroniul]

[Thoroniul]

Or making a stable ecosphere where oxygen is at a stable breathable level with trees.

[Le'Stranger Wuv'Bottom]

Originally posted by Hoggle:

I am constantly destroying oxygen as my massive depot chains fill up. Releasing it would appear to make more sense. Using it to e.g. make advanced hydrocarbons (where does the hydrogen come from?) or ozone to reduce surface radiation would be more satisfying.

leaving the filled o2 storage will not stop carbon from being produced

[Hoggle]

I find it does - as soon as the extractor can't remove the oxygen it stops producing carbon. If it can't make one of each because one slot is full, nothing is produced. That's why my carbon production chain keeps drying up.

[Bomoo]

Originally posted by Hoggle:

I find it does - as soon as the extractor can't remove the oxygen it stops producing carbon. If it can't make one of each because one slot is full, nothing is produced. That's why my carbon production chain keeps drying up.

Weird, that must be new.

[Hoggle]

Originally posted by Bomoo:

Weird, that must be new.

No old - got used to it doing it one way and didn't notice the change. re-tested and am now content!

[Young_Willis]

Originally posted by Hoggle:

I find it does - as soon as the extractor can't remove the oxygen it stops producing carbon. If it can't make one of each because one slot is full, nothing is produced. That's why my carbon production chain keeps drying up.

I was also on this line of thinking until recently when I sat there and watched them. The rate of production does seem to vary, and the slow down correlates with oxygen depots being full.

Does anyone know for certain whether they produce at a steady or fluctuating rate (and if fluctuating, what makes them change)?

[Omniconda]

all resources are steady production.

any fluctating rates will be due to available drones to move the items not the factorys ability to make them

[Kyrros]

Originally posted by Hoggle:

got used to it doing it one way and didn't notice the change

Indeed, it was that way originally, but the recent update did change that. Now atmospheric extractors continue to work, no matter if one side or the other is 'clogged'... though the text still states otherwise.