Bob's radars and big poles can now affect by Big Brothers research. Energy values have been rescaled to account for the new changes as well. Credit to Afforess
The only balance change I can think of is to increase power consumption considerably given a single Mk5 can scan all the map you ever need for pretty much no real cost.
Glad to hear that it is useful. I agree that it is quite cheap and am split on exactly how I want to balance it. as I was using Big brothers energy to keep it in line with his radars. I didn't really want to override his radars so I kept the scale. I might just switch the power over to an exponential scale (since the radars scan exponentially more area) and include his in that. posibaly make a basic radar that isn't affected by the research (because the cost will get big quick)