Looking for tips or help please

[nYu]

Hello i am trying to have water on Fulgora based on king of infinite loop, i had this idea :
-> heavy oil -> Solid fuel -> water + Heating tower -> steam -> water ...
but i think i dont understand the processus, someone can give me a tip please ? sorry for my english ...

[Hurkyl]

Are you trying to create water or trying to void water?

Because the loop you suggest will have the heat exchangers convert 100 water into 1000 steam, and then the steam condensation will turn 1000 steam into 90 water, so you are losing water with this process.

If you're trying to void water, producing power with steam turbines (or even steam engines to be wasteful) is probably an easier and more useful solution.

[Universalgenie]

And recycling scrap gives more ice that could melted than ever needed.

[nYu]

oh i wanted to create water yes... can you explain me how to read this numbers and where i can find them, i am a bit lost in game tooltips :
convert 100 water into 1000 steam, and then the steam condensation will turn 1000 steam into 90 water

Thank you for your help

[nYu]

and i also wonder how can i have water on fulgora

[Last_Misadventure]

Ice is a possible result from sending Scrap through the recycler building. You could also drop ice from a space platform if you wanted to, but isn't really required once you get enough scrap processing.

You can then convert ice to water in a chemical plant.

[RiO]

Originally posted by nYu:

and i also wonder how can i have water on fulgora

Melt ice.

[nYu]

ok so i have to build a good recycling process... because i have full gears of something " full " and its blocking all my recycling process

[Hurkyl]

Originally posted by nYu:

oh i wanted to create water yes... can you explain me how to read this numbers and where i can find them, i am a bit lost in game tooltips :
convert 100 water into 1000 steam, and then the steam condensation will turn 1000 steam into 90 water

Thank you for your help

If you mouse over the heat exchanger (or look at its factoriopedia entry), you'll see it can "Consumes water" at a rate of 10.3/s, and "Generates steam" at a rate of 103/s. (it also shows you how much it is currently consuming/producing)

So you get 10 units of steam per unit of water.

If you look at the recipe for "Steam condensation", the "Ingredients" are 1.0k steam and the "Products" are 90 water.

You could also mouse over a building that has the recipe set, and the tooltips will show you the per-second production and consumption rates just like the heat exchanger (although the presentation is different).

And note that the recipe does not allow productivity modules, so you can't get extra outputs from the recipe that way.

[RiO]

Originally posted by nYu:

ok so i have to build a good recycling process... because i have full gears of something " full " and its blocking all my recycling process

Tip:
Take scrap onto a belt, flanked on both sides by recyclers.
Output onto the 'outside' run two belts further down and join them at the end with a splitter.
Then for each item which can be gotten from scrap, branch off a dedicated splitter for that item. Put some chests there to collect the output. Next item; branch off to the opposite side.
Next item branch of to the original side. etc. etc.
All the overflow? Combine it back onto a belt that you carry all the way back to the top of the recyler array, and use a splitter to merge it back into the input with priority -- i.e. prefer re-recyled material over fresh scrap.

Done.
Make those chests bot chests and pull into your logistics what you need.
Anything you don't, eventually automatically recycles down to nothing.
Naturally, holmium ore is the one thing you don't recycle back in, but rather have the whole thing block on. (If you ever manage to land in the unique situation where you have a holmium surplus.)

[nYu]

thank you very much for your help