Idea for larger solar station and larger accumulator

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Idea for larger solar station and larger accumulator

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This is an idea for a late-game solar plant and accumulator. They're more powerful than the small ones for the area they take, but more complicated and expensive of course.

The advantage is, they're also solar power, so the same day night cycle tradeoff is needed :)

The big solar panels: This is a solar station with mirrors all around, all aimed at a collector in the center. Basically this (it's 20MW irl): http://www.climatechangebr.org/userimages/gemasolar.jpg
You place the mirrors and the collector individually, and need to make sure to rotate the mirrors correctly.
Since the mirrors use glass, they'd need sand as resource, but maybe stone can represent that...

The big accumulator: This one pumps water up into an artificial lake during the day. During the night, the water is allowed to go down again by gravity, driving dynamos. There is some energy loss: it costs more to pump up the water, than what it gives when going down. However, the amount of energy it can store is huge. Needs water pipes.

What do you think?

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Aardwolf wrote: What do you think?
It's per sure anywhere in this development proposal thread: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... hp?f=9&t=5
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Re: Idea for larger solar station and larger accumulator

Post by Cloner »

I would also like to have a larger solar, but only for the sake of late game having less lag in multiplayer. Having 20k solar panels hits the limit of playable game. Maybe is there was a bigger cluster, say 12x12 with same stats as 16 solars - i could build bigger factories with less lag.

Here is example where current solar limits the factory size:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 842#p67842

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