Carbon dioxide

[Observer]

I got on a asteroid with 3 carbon dioxide geysers. I know you can use that element for certain plants, rocket, slicksters, sterile rooms and soda fountain. But can I use it for something else?

[glass zebra]

Radiation from beetas. CO2 in their tile makes them sleep and while sleeping they use up 100g/s and emit quite a bit radiation.

[Bravo]

You can use it as a source of cooling before the 3 listed uses.

[Chewy102]

Originally posted by Bravo:

You can use it as a source of cooling before the 3 listed uses.

CO2 is horrible for cooling. Holds little to no heat in it so liquid CO2 will just vaporize long before it can cool anything else. Having CO2 gas around equipment can even lead to them overheating from CO2 being so poor at pulling heat away.

I built a freezer around a CO2 geyser and it can't even keep that cold without something else helping. CO2 is a waste product and isn't really worth keeping as anything you can do with CO2 is done MUCH better with something else.

Maybe keep 1 tank of it for some minor needs and just vent the rest of it into space.

[XceptOne]

Another minor usecase is converting clean water to polluted water via carbon skimmers or algae terraria.

Edit:

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Not that minor - it lets you produce clay at big scale and as a bonus you get oxygen too. Ceramics is important for insulated pipes, which are going to run hot liquids or very cold liquids.

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I mainly thought about irrigation, when writing that. (Despite offgassing pwater being my go to oxygen production method)

[Angpaur]

Not that minor - it lets you produce clay at big scale and as a bonus you get oxygen too. Ceramics is important for insulated pipes, which are going to run hot liquids or very cold liquids.

[fluxtorrent]

Originally posted by Chewy102:

Originally posted by Bravo:

You can use it as a source of cooling before the 3 listed uses.

CO2 is horrible for cooling. Holds little to no heat in it so liquid CO2 will just vaporize long before it can cool anything else. Having CO2 gas around equipment can even lead to them overheating from CO2 being so poor at pulling heat away.

I built a freezer around a CO2 geyser and it can't even keep that cold without something else helping. CO2 is a waste product and isn't really worth keeping as anything you can do with CO2 is done MUCH better with something else.

Maybe keep 1 tank of it for some minor needs and just vent the rest of it into space.

pssst, when you superheat it before venting it to space you ARE using it for cooling

[Observer]

Well I see there is no great thing. Then I take that I was punished with 3 geysers

[kampfer91]

Use for soda may be ?
And you can uh at least let it absorb some heat and then delete it via venting into space or door crusher , even if it is the worst coolant it still can take some heat.

[glass zebra]

Venting hot stuff into space uses a lot of planing, electrical and work power to waste resources instead of just building a steam turbine locally. The CO2 rocket is one of the best in the game when built small (only second to the radbolt engine) and if you don't want to cheese compacted nuclear waste, using CO2 for the engine for short trips and producing rads with it are definitely noticeable uses.

Slickers basically just give you meat, since the mass of oil/petroleum you get is not usable for anything. Making polluted water can be pretty useful for ceramics as pointed out and you can never really have enough of those, but if you don't want to use any of that, then the 2-3 set spawns of CO2 geysers on the nuclear planet that are specifically there to calm the beetas and produce rads in their biome are a waste yes. You will have those in every game though, since they are set spawns in their biome.

[idjles]

Pepper Pinchnut production!!! Water + CO2 + scrubber -> polluted water -> pepper pinchnut, which give you so many food and drink options.
or polluted water -> steam + dirt -> clay -> ceramic.

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by idjles:

or polluted water -> steam + dirt -> clay -> ceramic.

How exactly this would work? How you want to get clay from steam and dirt?

[glass zebra]

You get ceramics from polluted water by cleaning the polluted oxygen produced. Turning polluted water into steam is a trick that many people seem to like because it's a trick, but getting enough fresh water is trivial, while getting more polluted water costs extra steps.