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Dyson Sphere Program (2021)

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I figured out how to test the max discharge rate of accumulators: put down some advanced mining machines and crank them all up to 300% (25.1MW each, it's something you only do when you have a massive amount of power available - like a Dyson Sphere).

End result was that for triple-proliferated, it topped out at 108MW of energy transfer, or roughly 5 seconds of discharge.

Also showed more clearly the behavior between thermal power plants and the energy exchangers. If there's enough power from the exchangers, the power plants scale- or shut-down power production.

I believe that this is because the fuel-burning power plants are designed to scale down like that, to conserve fuel. As a contrast, wind is generating power 100% of the time regardless - and so is solar, if it's in sunlight.

This means that planets with excess wind/solar/geothermal/ray receiver power are perfect for charging accumulators with their excess. The energy exchangers/accumulators should only be used on planets with:

1) No other power production (energy exchanger/accumulators only)

2) Fuel-burning power production (thermal/fusion/antimatter)

Which means that if we set up a mining planet with an excess of power from wind/solar/geothermal we can store and ship it to wherever needed in the star cluster. Given the buffs to energy exchangers/accumulators in the Dark Fog update this is very much worth the effort now.

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