I did some testing in a world copy with editor mode and it turns out that to make red gatorade from purple drank it takes 9 power houses powered by 3 electrolyzers (or 6 distillation towers with the purest nitrogen recipe that you unlock by logistics science, which costs you 3 instead of 30 MW for the process and doesn't require water)
Basically the idea is that to make sure that my everything keeps working I need to keep voiding an excess of power gas which I could be using for power if power wasn't literally completely and utterly free and unlimited (because I genuinely don't think that geothermal can run out because the first well I tapped 30+ hours ago did not recede from 265 M units, which, even if it does makes it virtually unlimited) unless I really need some serious extra oomph from my ~400 MW of free as in freedom power and spoiler: I currently am not even using half of that, there's another geothermal well I haven't tapped that will bring me at a nice 450 MW when I do and when I reach logistics science I will also get 20% power for free from mining prod 3 and 4 which are conveniently the first two researches you unlock from logistics, which will let me sit at a total of more than half a gigawatt set-and-forget power.

Anyway that's just because I thought that it was technically easier to put down a row of tailings ponds compared to
but if you use the 125K tank which is literally just a bunch of iron sticks and lead, which is so easy to shit out I have two deposits full of plates because I'm literally not using it fast enough compared to the tin that mines at an 8th of its pace, turns out, that yes, it does use like 600 plates of lead and iron but I have so much of either it's coming out of my ears and it stores the same amount of gas in the same footprint
granted the tailings pond costs 20 iron plates to make mind you and the idea was to just abuse the fluid system to just make a row of them to store things forever

I kind of overengineered the issue