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Numsgil:
I'm working on figuring a metabolic system for black smokers.  If you don't know what that is, google it, there's all kinds of information.

I have thus far:

H2S + O2 + CO2 -> nrg + S + H20
S + H20 + O2 -> SO4 + nrg

As the two metabolic processes.

I don't know what happens to the SO4.  Does it get split and turned into H2S and O2 by the intense heat of the black smoker?

Other than that, I think this could work really well.  A black smoker would be a comparitvely long tub that emits H2S and alot of heat along the bottom of the screen (would only really make sense in pond mode).  The heat and Hydrogen Sulfide would dissipate into the environment.

You could edit the smoker attributes either through the options panel or by clicking on it during the simulation.

Organisms that contain this sulfuric metabolism are poisonous to most bots that aren't adapted, but if a carbon cycle organism learns to eat black smoker life forms some how it could develop a niche.

So many possibilities.

k0zm0:
Erupting chemicals - H2S, FeS, H2, NH4, NO2, CH4
O2 and CO2 are still dissolved in seawater

CO2 + H2O + H2S +  O2  -> CH2O + H2SO4
FeS+H2S ->FeS2+H2+free energy

H2SO4 is soluble in water.

H2SO4  <-> H3O + + HSO4 -
HSO4 - <-> H3O + + SO4 2-
SO4 is dissolved in water

Zelos:
okej its fun whit chemistry, but why take it up here?

PurpleYouko:

--- Quote ---okej its fun whit chemistry, but why take it up here?
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Because this is what we intend to do with the e-grid.

We want to simulate real chemical cycles in the environment. Create niches where different robots can metabolize different things to create an ecosystem.

 :D  PY  :D

PurpleYouko:

--- Quote ---Other than that, I think this could work really well. A black smoker would be a comparitvely long tub that emits H2S and alot of heat along the bottom of the screen (would only really make sense in pond mode). The heat and Hydrogen Sulfide would dissipate into the environment.
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From top down view, a black smoker could be a point source (or a group of point sources) which takes up one cell of the egrid each. From settings panels we can define how much stuff comes out of the smoker. If we want more stuff in a small area then we can just use several of them  together.
Sulfer and heat will gradually spread out using the mechanisms that the e-grid already has in place.

Same really applies to pond mode.

The point is that very close to the smoker is a place where many robots will not want to be. Very hot and very poisonous.

 :D  PY  :D

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