What can I do with sour gas?

[Corona Varus]

I thought magma would be good at warming up the base until it starts boiling something and turning it into gas plastic.

[Angpaur]

You can condense it into methane, which when heated turns into natural gas.

[droopy balls]

As the poster above said, you will need a method to supercool the sour gas. It will turn into liquid methane (or solid depending how far you go with the cooling). Once the methane is heated, it will turn into harvestable natural gas.

[Corona Varus]

Originally posted by Fraggle:

As the poster above said, you will need a method to supercool the sour gas. It will turn into liquid methane (or solid depending how far you go with the cooling). Once the methane is heated, it will turn into harvestable natural gas.

It's PURPLE

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by Corona Varus:

It's PURPLE

An eye of a hawk!

[POWER WITHIN USER]

Originally posted by Corona Varus:

What do I do with sour gas near magma?

Wall off the molten rock first then siphon the gas using a lot of minipumps as it's going to be an annoyance. Depending on the amount of gas and it's temperature you may have to use a steel pump.

[bwhitejr]

Originally posted by Fraggle:

As the poster above said, you will need a method to supercool the sour gas. It will turn into liquid methane (or solid depending how far you go with the cooling). Once the methane is heated, it will turn into harvestable natural gas.

If you want to see an extreme version of this, Francis John's last ONI playthrough had a very efficient and complex methane facility to ship frozen methane to colonies to power them. All he had to do on the other end is melt the frozen methane.

[some moron]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

You can condense it into methane, which when heated turns into natural gas.

Wouldn't it be simpler to harvest natural gas? Or does not every map have natural gas.
Methane is flammable and I'm worried about fires, it seems as though heating a flammable gas would lead to fire.

[cswiger]

Originally posted by some moron:

Wouldn't it be simpler to harvest natural gas? Or does not every map have natural gas. Methane is flammable and I'm worried about fires, it seems as though heating a flammable gas would lead to fire.

Not every map has a NatGas Vent.

And the one-material-per-tile rule means that gasses never mix so ONI does not have fires,

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by some moron:

Wouldn't it be simpler to harvest natural gas? Or does not every map have natural gas.
Methane is flammable and I'm worried about fires, it seems as though heating a flammable gas would lead to fire.

Such a thing as fire doesn't exist in ONI.
Also indeed it would be better to harvest natural gas. But if you want to do it on industrial scale then you need to boil oil into sour gas, then condense into methane and finally heat up a bit so it becomes natural gas.