Add low pressure steam recipe for electric boiler
I admit that right now the only real use case would be for desalination, which can already use high steam, albeit giving a different ratio of water to brine. Mainly it just seems weird that it's not an option. If you have any plans to use low steam in future recipes it would also help with that.
The boiler would need to use a different power ratio to make sense. I believe 0.67 would keep the same "convenience fee" as the high and super steam recipes (in terms of energy cost vs. energy that can be extracted from the steam), but there is precedent in other machines for a 0.6 power ratio and that would still be a loss vs. its potential power.
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15 Dec, '25
Rolling StenHighlighted comment
I do not expect for low steam to be used in some recipes, and you would need more water for same power output - you would need bigger pipes, thus more maintenance for them. Also desalinizators are slower and less effective with low steam making no advantage over normal steam - you get 48 water + 24 brine instead of 66 + 42, thus less water per power and much less brine (and you can dispose brine easilly or use it for salt production). Yes, 2 seawater pumps can support 3 desalinizators instead of 2, but they are cheaper at power and workforce than desalinizators. -
17 Dec, '25
Final-FanBy that logic, wouldn't depleted steam be a terrible way to desalinate, netting only 9 water and 6 brine?—yet it's worth it because of the electrical power captured by going from high to low to depleted steam, at least when the supply is steady.
Also, there's value in being able to even out (with a pipe balancer) a fluctuating supply of low steam (from e.g. arc furnaces, exhaust scrubbing).