Batteries/Power Cell recharge, advanced power.
Falco
Germany Join Date: 2015-06-05 Member: 205271Members
Germany Join Date: 2015-06-05 Member: 205271Members
Currently chemical power is the only option for players available. You craft one time use batteries out of acid and copper, and put two of them together for a bigger battery. And that's it.
What I propose is that there are other ways to obtain power, the things that come to mind most imminently are of course solar power and geothermal (If you ever saw those large geysers), that would power your base. But other options would be the good old steam engine, by burning combustibles (Perhaps coal, oil, wood, fish :P, Crash powder, whatever else). Or use the power of the atom by building a fusion or fission reactor. (expensive of course...), fueling it with deuterium/tritium (well, it's all around) or thorium or uranium (Minable, long lasting but rare). Fission and fusion reactors would have a radius of radioactivity around them, of course and require lots of lead to build, along with other rare or hard to find materials. Or go to wind power, for an unreliable power source that also runs during the night. Or perhaps one may use sea currents to power current generators.
Of course the reason for all this is to get away from one time use batteries. I don't want to get rid of them, they're cheap to make, and easy to use. But perhaps with some investment, one can build rechargeable batteries, like lithium based batteries and place them into a recharger on board a base that has power production to slowly or quickly charge them, depending on how much power is available. (And of course you can take them out and put them into battery slots as you want.) All of those power sources have a drawback and advantages:
Nuclear is efficient, but dangerous, and you need to be wearing your protective suit (which currently has no more purpose after fixing the engine room) and you need to find rare raw material, to fuel it.
Combustion based is somewhat efficient but needs constant fueling, perhaps the most of fueling out of all the proposed solutions.
Wind power is weak, and unsteady. There might be very little for a few days and then during a storm you can't use it all.
Current generators and geothermal solutions would require careful planing and need to be in very specific places to work effectively, and once in place they would require heavy maintenance, but would produce very predictable power for no further investment.
Solar is weak, and only runs on daytime with good weather, but in bulk might be good.
All of this is of course only suggestion and may not at all or only in part implemented.
What I propose is that there are other ways to obtain power, the things that come to mind most imminently are of course solar power and geothermal (If you ever saw those large geysers), that would power your base. But other options would be the good old steam engine, by burning combustibles (Perhaps coal, oil, wood, fish :P, Crash powder, whatever else). Or use the power of the atom by building a fusion or fission reactor. (expensive of course...), fueling it with deuterium/tritium (well, it's all around) or thorium or uranium (Minable, long lasting but rare). Fission and fusion reactors would have a radius of radioactivity around them, of course and require lots of lead to build, along with other rare or hard to find materials. Or go to wind power, for an unreliable power source that also runs during the night. Or perhaps one may use sea currents to power current generators.
Of course the reason for all this is to get away from one time use batteries. I don't want to get rid of them, they're cheap to make, and easy to use. But perhaps with some investment, one can build rechargeable batteries, like lithium based batteries and place them into a recharger on board a base that has power production to slowly or quickly charge them, depending on how much power is available. (And of course you can take them out and put them into battery slots as you want.) All of those power sources have a drawback and advantages:
Nuclear is efficient, but dangerous, and you need to be wearing your protective suit (which currently has no more purpose after fixing the engine room) and you need to find rare raw material, to fuel it.
Combustion based is somewhat efficient but needs constant fueling, perhaps the most of fueling out of all the proposed solutions.
Wind power is weak, and unsteady. There might be very little for a few days and then during a storm you can't use it all.
Current generators and geothermal solutions would require careful planing and need to be in very specific places to work effectively, and once in place they would require heavy maintenance, but would produce very predictable power for no further investment.
Solar is weak, and only runs on daytime with good weather, but in bulk might be good.
All of this is of course only suggestion and may not at all or only in part implemented.
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https://trello.com/c/4XyJN5rt/4484-prototype-new-power-generators
solar panels, bioreactor, thermal plant and nuclear reactor are all being developed right now. We don't know further specifics of those yet, but at least they are coming.