Sewage Water into Hydro Power

[Nite69]

I'm surprised this worked, I put all my city sewage pumps at the top of the dam, add some windmills to power up the sewage pumps to fill it up, and when the dam starts producing power, disable the windmill power.

in my opinion the water spawners in the editor is cheating to run the dam :p this is a more challenging way to do it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=914981221

[grapplehoeker]

Heh nice and dirty ;)
What's the output?

[Nite69]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Heh nice and dirty ;)
What's the output?

its bouncing back and forth between 600 - 1200 trying to optimize it, not sure what to do to improve it, I know the max is 1600

I think when I add more sewage pumps as my city grows it will make a stronger stream of water and make the power output better

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Heh nice and dirty ;)
What's the output?

its bouncing back and forth between 600 - 1200 trying to optimize it, not sure what to do to improve it, I know the max is 1600

I think when I add more sewage pumps as my city grows it will make a stronger stream of water and make the power output better

It's the height differential of the reservoir bed behind the dam and the riverbed level in front of the dam that determines the power.
This will help ;)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=643348291

[Darkkrows]

Does the pollution go through the dam?

long time ago I had sewage behind the dam, but the pollution didnt go through the dam. The dam cleaned the pollution. It is so unrealistic, I hated it so I stop doing poop power.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by =Darkkrows=:

Does the pollution go through the dam?

long time ago I had sewage behind the dam, but the pollution didnt go through the dam. The dam cleaned the pollution. It is so unrealistic, I hated it so I stop doing poop power.

yes it does, the dam doesn't need clean water to operate

[Nite69]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

its bouncing back and forth between 600 - 1200 trying to optimize it, not sure what to do to improve it, I know the max is 1600

I think when I add more sewage pumps as my city grows it will make a stronger stream of water and make the power output better

It's the height differential of the reservoir bed behind the dam and the riverbed level in front of the dam that determines the power.
This will help ;)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=643348291

ok that helps

[Wezelmans]

Originally posted by =Darkkrows=:

Does the pollution go through the dam?

long time ago I had sewage behind the dam, but the pollution didnt go through the dam. The dam cleaned the pollution. It is so unrealistic, I hated it so I stop doing poop power.

Dude that is just better sewage water remains long in the ocean if dumped there, i hate that view of like a big blob of polluted water, if the dam cleans it, you have place to store bad water so you prevent (or reduce or minimalise) ocean pollution, and you get energy from it and you have clean water to pump so no ill residents from waterpollution which means hospitals dont have to work that much so you can save some money on investments in hospitals. There is a downside of it, if you pump more sewage water in the lake then the dam can handle it can overflow, and if it stays on the ground for too long it will pollute the ground there, in that case i may advice using low canals in case it gets too high, so the water drains in a other lake that (may) have a dam too. When i get a better computer so i can play Cities:Skylines again, i will do this. Thanks for starting the thread and anyone telling that dirty water becomes good water due to a dam, you guys solved a good problem that i have with ocean pollution!

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Wstar555:

Originally posted by =Darkkrows=:

Does the pollution go through the dam?

long time ago I had sewage behind the dam, but the pollution didnt go through the dam. The dam cleaned the pollution. It is so unrealistic, I hated it so I stop doing poop power.

Dude that is just better sewage water remains long in the ocean if dumped there, i hate that view of like a big blob of polluted water, if the dam cleans it, you have place to store bad water so you prevent (or reduce or minimalise) ocean pollution, and you get energy from it and you have clean water to pump so no ill residents from waterpollution which means hospitals dont have to work that much so you can save some money on investments in hospitals. There is a downside of it, if you pump more sewage water in the lake then the dam can handle it can overflow, and if it stays on the ground for too long it will pollute the ground there, in that case i may advice using low canals in case it gets too high, so the water drains in a other lake that (may) have a dam too. When i get a better computer so i can play Cities:Skylines again, i will do this. Thanks for starting the thread and anyone telling that dirty water becomes good water due to a dam, you guys solved a good problem that i have with ocean pollution!

the dam doesn't clean polution....my ocean polution still happens. I don't know why =Darkkrows= said that it cleans it. I just didn't have a need for water treatment plants cause all the polutted water is outside my 9 map block building area

and as for overflowing when eventually enough pumps are added, thats not a problem, I designed the dirt walls in a way where it will just go over the top front of the dam when it does get too much water stream

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=915721603

[grapplehoeker]

I like the concept of using your poo water to provide hydro electric power ;)

Originally posted by Wstar555:

There is a downside of it, if you pump more sewage water in the lake then the dam can handle it can overflow, and if it stays on the ground for too long it will pollute the ground there, in that case i may advice using low canals in case it gets too high, so the water drains in a other lake that (may) have a dam too. When i get a better computer so i can play Cities:Skylines again, i will do this. Thanks for starting the thread and anyone telling that dirty water becomes good water due to a dam, you guys solved a good problem that i have with ocean pollution!

Let me clear up some of that.
No, a dam does not and will not clean the poo water.
No, contaminated water does not create ground pollution. So any poo water that overflows will behave just as regular water, meaning it will either flow towards the sea or if isolated, it will just subside into the ground or evapourate. The ground it was on will remain unaffected.
A water treatment plant will clean 85% of the sewage but it will still pump out poo, just much reduced.

[Nite69]

adding additional sewage pumps is helping grapple, its staying stable between 1000 - 1200 mw now

eventually it will get to 1600 as my city builds up and add even more pumps :)

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

adding additional sewage pumps is helping grapple, its staying stable between 1000 - 1200 mw now

eventually it will get to 1600 as my city builds up and add even more pumps :)

Well you could probably get1600 now... just increase the electricity budget ;)

[Nite69]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

adding additional sewage pumps is helping grapple, its staying stable between 1000 - 1200 mw now

eventually it will get to 1600 as my city builds up and add even more pumps :)

Well you could probably get1600 now... just increase the electricity budget ;)

Haha true, I guess I could try that my city income is really good right now, but I havn't built in any monuments or many unique buildings yet that will really kill the budget

edit: well I tried it, I put the budget to 150% and it was bouncing between 1500 - 1700 but I don't need the power demand that high yet

I think I will just wait until I add more sewage pumps when the city grows further and the power level should go up more

[DharmaSims]

Did you put any other water sources in there, or are the outflow pipes the only source providing H2O?

[Nite69]

Originally posted by SimDharma:

Did you put any other water sources in there, or are the outflow pipes the only source providing H2O?

The sewage pumps is the only source (only thing the game has where I can add water where I need it)

DLC's might have more options but I don't own any of them currently

[DharmaSims]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

Originally posted by SimDharma:

Did you put any other water sources in there, or are the outflow pipes the only source providing H2O?

The sewage pumps is the only source

Cool. Thanks for sharing your idea. :)