[Request] Condensed Power Plants

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DaShoup
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[Request] Condensed Power Plants

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I have noticed that nuclear reactors take up a lot of the CPU usage in some games when it is your main power source for mega bases. I want to request a mod be made that makes a few items that are equivalent to an entire power setup into a single entity. For steam, it would require 1 off shore pump, 20 boilers, 40 steam engines, 20 inserters, and some iron, steel, and copper to add to the cost for balancing. It would produce 80% what the physical set up would make. This entity wouldn't need water since water is fairly abundant anyways. Nuclear would have 2 items, one for a single reactor setup, and one for a 4 reactor setup. Same concept as steam. And once a fuel starts burning, it wont stop even if power demand goes down.

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Re: [Request] Condensed Power Plants

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Have you seen the https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Fission%20and%20Fusion mod? The top tier fusion reactor looks like it might be less UPS-heavy than a vanilla nuclear setup?

It also adds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisot ... _generators, which consume no fuel, have no moving parts, but keep running for decades (or forever in-game).


Another mod that comes close to what you're after is https://mods.factorio.com/mod/omnimatter_compression, but in a broader scope. It has buildings that perform the work of n component buildings, crafted from n component buildings. So, you can have a (say) 400MW nuclear reactor setup consisting of 1 compressed reactor, 4 compressed heat exchangers and 7 compressed steam turbines. I believe that you can adjust how much compression occurs with each tier and there is support for 1-4 tiers.

I don't think it's at the scale you would need, but there's also https://mods.factorio.com/mod/KS_Power which adds a number of single-entity power-generating objects, but you would need a semi-infinite number of them in order to achieve the same power generation capacity as a nuclear or steam setup I think.

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Re: [Request] Condensed Power Plants

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Thanks. I will look into a Fission and Fusion mod. Lately, I have been using https://mods.factorio.com/mod/MassFabrication and modified it so that it converts coal and uranium fuel cells into the subatomic particles fuel at 75% efficiency. Can get a perfect ratio 28GW setup with only 30 fabricators and 50 generators. Though I need to add any fuel manually to the code which is annoying.

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