factorio-thermal-solar-power

by Marximus Maximus (https://marximus.com)

Adds the ability to build a thermal solar complex an early game solution for clean energy; automatically adjusts the heat exchangers temperature to produce steam in the same temperatures as with Bob's Power.

Note: Thermal Solar Panels take time to heat. Heat pipes will waste heat as they transfer heat. Molten Salt Heat Accumulators take A LONG time to heat up and will bottleneck early heat generation -- you only really need them if nights in your game are long; vanilla game/Nauvis nights are short enough to not need them.

Forked from CW-thermal-solar-power v0.2.16 by CyberWizard2261 and merged in CWTSP_balance v1.0.1 by Caxx (Public Domain).

Features

New Buildings

Thermal Solar Panels

• Thermal Solar Panel

• Thermal Solar Panel 2

• Thermal Solar Panel 3

• Thermal Solar Panel 4

• Basic Heat Pipe

Basic Heat Exchangers

• Basic Heat Exchanger

• Basic Heat Exchanger 2

• Basic Heat Exchanger 3

• Basic Heat Exchanger 4

Additional Steam Engines

• Steam Engine MK2

• Steam Engine MK3

• Steam Engine MK4

Molten Salt Heat Accumulators

• Molten Salt Heat Accumulator

• Molten Salt Heat Accumulator 2

• Molten Salt Heat Accumulator 3

Salt Evaporation Pond

• Salt Evaporation Pond

Recycler (for all of the above)

• Recycler

Base Game Buildings for Comparison

• Heat Pipe

• Heat Exchanger

• Steam Engine

• Steam Turbine

New Technologies

• Thermal Solar Power

Translations

• English
• German
• Italian

Settings

(for compatibility with other mods)

• Disable the new Heat Exchangers
• Disable the new Steam Engines

Compatibility

• Automatic compatibility with Bob's Power (disables Thermal Solar Power's buildings that duplicate functionality of Bob's Power; no need to use the settings)

Example Usage

• Generating electricity from heat on a normal planet (vanilla/Nauvis) (NOTE: there are no heat pipes to lose any heat nor batteries necessary to store any heat, the panels will stay hot enough for "short" nights):

• Generating electricity from heat on a planet with very long nights (NOTE: this setup will take a long time to heat up; more batteries = longer time to reach target temperature):

• Getting Salt:

Future Development

(if there is interest)

• More solar power tiers?
• New/hi-res sprites
• UPS Improvements
• Underground heat pipe (both basic and vanilla tier)

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