Carbon Skimmer - Water Sieve closed loop?

[ruslanbes]

There is a guide on Gamepedia how to create a closed loop system from Shower/Lavatory and a Water Sieve.


I wonder is it possible to use the same mechanics and create a closed loop of Carbon Skimmer - Water Sieve? I'm in the phase of the game where I'm about to test it actually, just wanted to know in advance :)

[Andrewbh2003]

you can but its not as effective your better off using geyser water for a loop and use the ph20 for anything that requires "fertilizer sinthesizer" "a temporary farm of reeds" or something else since ph20 is more valuable than people think

[SamuraiJones]

Yup, works well!

Now, the toilets create water and so you have to drain the excess... I think each flush turns like 5kg of water into 12kg polluted water, so you have to have a system to drain the excess. Showers and skimmers don't do that. You will have to run sand to them though.

[ruslanbes]

ph20 is polluted water?

[Malibloo]

Polluted H²O > ph20
Took me some time to figure this out as well.

As for OP, yes, it's very much so possible. But generally it's a better idea to use the Water Sieve to cool down really hot polluted water. As it always puts out 40°C water.
I'm not entirely certain if the Carbon Skimmer does the same thing.

And as pointed out by andrew, it's more useful to use it for fertilizer synthesizers. Which gives gas and fertilizer, for natural gas generators (also gives ph20 and carbon), and to feed fertilizer to sage hatches for coal. Which in turn is used in coal generators again, which spew out CO² which you can use for the Carbon Skimmer again.