Exotic Space Industries: Remembrance


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b Solar power tower heat generation too low

10 days ago

I looked into how much heat solar power towers actually provide and it's pretty much 10% of what the tooltip claims.
I set up a power tower in a test world with permanent day and t2 heat pipe and exchangers and enough radar and turbines to consume the heat.
I get 0.22 MW per mirror, while the tooltip claims 2.2 MW. I think 0.22 is quite low as a max power and 2.2 is a bit high, but with how expensive the mirrors and such are more then 0.22 max would be good.

Also the capacity of low capacity heat pipes is really really low, you can't even put four heat heat exchangers in a row. I would increase their max temp a bit, to like 350° or something like that. Their low capacity make refinery builds kind of awkward too.

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10 days ago

Also the mirrors could use a peak/average power per mirror tooltip.

10 days ago

I looked into how much heat solar power towers actually provide and it's pretty much 10% of what the tooltip claims.
I set up a power tower in a test world with permanent day and t2 heat pipe and exchangers and enough radar and turbines to consume the heat.
I get 0.22 MW per mirror, while the tooltip claims 2.2 MW. I think 0.22 is quite low as a max power and 2.2 is a bit high, but with how expensive the mirrors and such are more then 0.22 max would be good.

Also the capacity of low capacity heat pipes is really really low, you can't even put four heat heat exchangers in a row. I would increase their max temp a bit, to like 350° or something like that. Their low capacity make refinery builds kind of awkward too.

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10 days ago

Remembrance sets the tower to make upto 120MW.

Ask in the discord for a blueprint.

9 days ago

Actually my problem is that the tooltip is wrong. If you click on the tower it tells you the current and average power. The current power shown is about 10x of what it actually is.

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