No way to reuse water in a cooling loop?

[sparr]

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.

[MageKing17]

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.

[Termak]

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

[alercah]

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...

[sparr]

That would make sense

[evandy]

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...

[MageKing17]

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.