What do you do with chlorine?

[SWK]

Is it just a waste gas at this point that you need to route to somewhere to store? Or does some machine do something with it?

Please, i know it's an alpha, no need to tell me that, just asking about right now.

[The Queen Salis]

right now it has no known use. just squeeze it somewhere and leave it be

[SakuraKoi]

What about Propane (C3H8)? It is written to be useful in power generation but there are no generators that are able to use it, right?

[David]

I haven't played this that much, but I'm sure chlorine gets converted into contaminated oxygen by morbs- which is the only reaction I know of, whether that's helpful or not. Although I saw just now in another comment someone said morbs produce oxygen anyway- they do all start in chlorinated areas though.

[rottielover]

I think it would be a cool mechanic to run chlorine gas through the heat exchanger things to cool it to liquid state and drip it into contaminated water to make clean water. (Swimming pools anyone??

[SakuraKoi]

Originally posted by rottielover:

I think it would be a cool mechanic to run chlorine gas through the heat exchanger things to cool it to liquid state and drip it into contaminated water to make clean water. (Swimming pools anyone??

There is not even the need to liquify it. Chlorine reacts with water regardless to form a weak acid that neutralizes "contamination" (bacteria&viruses) which does not harm humans unless overdosed.

[rottielover]

Real life sure, game mechanic wise would they add a bubbler machine for the gas form or let you use existing parts to drip the liquid. It's a game mechanic thing

[SakuraKoi]

Originally posted by rottielover:

Real life sure, game mechanic wise would they add a bubbler machine for the gas form or let you use existing parts to drip the liquid. It's a game mechanic thing

I don't think you have to worry about that...

1) Make chlorine gas able to move into contaminated water tiles
2) Apply a formula based on the chlorine mass and water mass
3) ???
4) Profit/Clean Water

Alternatively have chlorine also bond with clean water as well and make it poison it if a threshold is exceeded. In any event, one can only hope that a future update will implement mixed liquid and gases for since the current system is rather makeshift and subpar, enjoyable as gimmick and adds depth but works rather unintuitively (and very very slowly).

by the by, contaminated or soon™ called "polluted" water should also obviously be able to pollute clean water. Same for oxygen that also carries microbes and other microorganisms.

[Rivaryn]

My current plan is to convert it to liquid via cooling (below -34.6C I believe) and then find a cold biome that's below its liquid point to store it. Much like a tank of water, possibly with sealed access in the event it does vaporize again.

Maybe eventually It'll have a use and I can pipe it back.