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Water + Used Coolant -> Steam + colder Used Coolant

Steam -> Purified Water

but I can't use that purified water again, so I end up clarifying it and just shipping in more Water. This seems weird.

You can use it to recycle your spent ceramic filters from recycling the coolant, although you'll still get a little extra left over, I think.

Would be handy to have recipe to turn purified water into normal water for this kind of situations.
It would actually be pretty fast edit to the petrochem-generate.lua if i understand it right.
I think i had similar problem with the coolant in previous game after i moved to nuclear / solar during cracking downtimes while progressing lowtier SpaceX sciences. But when my petrochem plant was running it used pretty much all the steam i got from the coolant, i also had steamturbines there.
I just hate voiding useful stuff

Realistically, it should require purified water to begin with, otherwise you're just accumulating tons of precipitate in the pipes when you evaporate water into steam...

That would make sense

Requiring purified seems like a better setup than covering purified water back to normal water. Or you could get "infinite" saline by hooking the output of a hydro plant up to the input...

evandy wrote: Tue May 14, 2019 2:11 pm Requiring purified seems like a better setup than covering purified water back to normal water. Or you could get "infinite" saline by hooking the output of a hydro plant up to the input...

You can already get infinite saline water with a Salination Plant; I fail to see why that matters.