However, I was using MK10 labs with 8 Dark Module III's (+60% productivity, +60% speed, -60% energy use, -60% pollution for each module, and each MK 10 has a base research speed of 3.1 and 8 module slots) amounting to a base increase in research speed to 4582% with the extra items that productivity adds included. Now, I am using MK1 (the vanilla lab reskinned, 1 base research speed, and 2 module slots) labs with 2 Dark Module III's for a total increase in speed of 484%. Combine that with the occasional brownouts caused by my insufficient power generation and one particle accelerator and that turns out to be a ten-fold decrease in speed per lab.