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know how to make nuclear reactor but...

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doesn't know how to make wind turbine.

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For some strange reason, the planet has no wind. Also, there are no clouds, as solar power is always the same.

Hmm, considering the subtle moving-cloud-shadows overlay that is added to the rendered view, neither of the above makes sense...

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The planet has wind. The smoke from steam engines etc even changes direction and pollution spread might also be affected by it.
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There are clouds (though they can be turned off in the graphics settings)
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Hellatze wrote:doesn't know how to make wind turbine.

lol


yes yes i know, use mod.
So... you started this topic to tell us what, exactly? :roll:

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?
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OP finds weird an engineer knowing how to make nuclear plants can't get himself to build a wind turbine.
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Yeah, does seem kinda weird.

I would propose wind turbines to be a very early-game way to make quick, free, cheap, and clean power. 5 of them make 100kW (roughly the power requirement of 1 Electric Mining Drill), and it takes a couple of iron plates, iron rods, and copper wire to make. Takes roughly about 2sec to craft, and they occupy a 1x1 grid when placed, making them also space efficient.
However, they arn't perfect.
Power output fluctuates from time to time, due to changing wind speeds and direction, to a maximum of -50% normal power output in a worst-case scenario. The fluctuations occur every 30sec-2min, and the effects become more pronounced the more turbines are adjacent to each other, incentivizing the player to spread them apart.

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I guess it would be another renewable energy source, along with solar panels.
Nice idea, but difficult to execute.
Also, add rivers so we can build hydroelectric dams :)
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Well then...

You guys are eventually going to add wind turbines into the vanilla base game, right? It would be a shame if the idea only lived in mods. I mean, if you can build a rocket that can control itself for the entire launch and deployment of the payload, a self-sustaining nuclear reactor with no need for external coolant or monitoring (hoping that reactor meltdowns will become a real thing in future updates! ;) ), and a laser turret that is basically the equivalent of the NIF's 500tW Driver Laser compressed to the size of about a small car, then i'm pretty sure that you should be able to build a wind turbine. Literally everything else in the game is rocket science, compared to a wind turbine.
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:lol:
What we should be saying is: "it's not quantum mechanics!"
I works much better in the context of factorio.
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olafthecat wrote::lol:
What we should be saying is: "it's not quantum mechanics!"
I works much better in the context of factorio.
Still the same concept, though.
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Yeah, I guess.
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