Carbon Dioxide

[GrungeBro]

No matter how many oxygen things i setup carbon dioxide still sits on the bottom floor of my base. How do i get rid of it. im very early game.

[Rusky have sucked]

Dig a pit, CO2 heaviest gas in game and will move down. So you will have time before reaching real solutions

[MOK]

yeah, when it comes to air management, it's easy to get caught up wanting pure oxygen, but that's a trap. Let gravity do all the work for you, and allow the chlorine, natural gas, and CO2 do move downward, and the Hydrogen to move upward. Help it along with purposeful build tactics like wide vertical paths, and consistent use of airflow tiles to prevent 'pooling.' Allow your oxygen to vent or be created higher up, so that the pressure assists in moving the Co2 downward.

Over time, you'll be expanding in all directions. Just keep on creating a new pit for the junk gasses as needed. You can use a carbon scrubber(once it's available) at the bottom to intermittently reduce the buildup, if needed. Just add a power switch so it's not turning on and off needlessly for little bits.

Alternately, if you end up using a lot of coal power, it's typically a good idea to seal off that chamber and keep it's waste Co2 inside, along with a carbon scrubber. You can pump excess Co2 into there so that you have a single unified Co2 solution.

[View The Phenom]

Place Carbon Skimmers on the floor of your base, they'll remove it once your Carbon Dioxide falls to the bottom.

[Bobucles]

Duplicants will generate 1 tile worth of CO2 every cycle or 2. Digging is good enough to ignore the problem for a while. When the cloud gets too big, a single carbon skimmer will take care of it pretty quickly.

Arbor trees have an industrial line that produces catastrophic amounts of CO2. Even carbon skimmers can struggle with it. If the slickster ranches aren't up to speed, dunk the waste gas directly into space.

[All-Purpose Sauce]

my usual solution is to dig up and vent the carbon dioxide out into space

[PepeMilagro]

1. Vent gases to space:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3167373576
2. Ferns turn CO2 into O2 but are temperature sensitive (requires dirt and water):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3167374908
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3167375038
3. Destroy CO2 by means of the scrubber (requires sand and a bit of water, research needed):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3167373762
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3167373868
Hope it helps you out

[YumOrNo]

I put a gas pump at the bottom of my base and automate it to only pump when it does NOT detect oxygen (so anything other than oxygen) using a NOT gate. The gas is filtered to where I want it to go. C02 usually is pumped into space where it is deleted.

[Peez Machine]

I've got an ethanol line that generates a huge amount of carbon dioxide. Fortunately, it sits right above a few beeta hives, so the beetas eat it all and take a nap.

[Bahamut_256]

Create a gas crusher using doors and adjust its speed based on the levels of Co2 produced.
Or, if the co2 is at a good temperature, feed it through a heat exchanger first before destroying it.

[Zuao]

I have a door pump setup using an ABBA toggle that skims the CO2 out of the living spaces and shoves it into a CO2 chamber Slicksters live in.

If you already have Automation and the refined metal to build it circuits, I have screenshots of the devices I use in my profile.

[GrungeBro]

well im very early game only researched farming and the next one after and i dont have any electrics scept for the oxygen things you get at the start

[FriendCalledFive]

Originally posted by Jarl Nicholas:

well im very early game only researched farming and the next one after and i dont have any electrics scept for the oxygen things you get at the start

As previously stated, dig holes down for the CO2 to pool in until you have other means of dealing with it.

[Myriad]

Originally posted by Jarl Nicholas:

well im very early game only researched farming and the next one after and i dont have any electrics scept for the oxygen things you get at the start

Yeah first off you'll simply just want to dig down below your living area. Co2 sinks to the bottom.

Second, research the Carbon Skimmer. It's very easy research and only requires plumbing. It's a good idea to get the Water Sieve too. A single Carbon Skimmer will likely eliminate all your Co2 problems, but adding more is cheap if needed.

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From Wiki...
Since the Carbon Skimmer outputs exactly the same volume of liquid as it takes in, it can be built in a closed loop with a Water Sieve. This saves 240 W of power to run a Liquid Pump once the loop is given an initial quantity of water to work with.
One Sieve can serve up to 5 Skimmers.
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So in other words, once you get the flow going from the Skimmer to the Sieve and back, it will continuously loop and you don't need a pump, nor any sort of overflow management. It's a closed loop that requires no further attention.