GeoThermal Power Plant

Takes heat directly from the planet to boil water (ice) into steam, then uses that to generate power. This plant is environmentally friendly without the risks of using an unstable isotopes or radiation posioning.

Visible smoke from the stacks while functioning! DX11 Only

Need additional power? No problem! Add a turbine to the same grid that the plant is on and the GeoThermal plant will benefit in an increased power output (decreases for each additional turbine), and as an added benefit, the Turbine acts as a battery to store extra power for transfering into the power grid!

Requirements:

• Must be built in voxel
• Must be in atmosphere to ensure that it is on a planet
• Production of unique fuel cells require ice
• Larger than the vanilla Large Reactor (4x4x4) and more expensive to build
• Unique Assembler to generate the fuel cells requiring additional expense to get operational

GeoThermal Plant Specs:

Power Output: 320mw

Turbine Info

Power Increases per turbine: 1st - Adds 20% 2nd - Adds 16% 3rd - Adds 12.8% 4th - Adds 10.24% 5th - Adds 8.19% (can go up to 10 turbines total per GeoThermal Plant)

Build Requirements:

- Fuel Assembler requirements is the same as vanilla, however, only produces GeoThermal fuel cells - Main Plant: Steel Plate: 1000 Construction Components: 70 Metal Grid: 40 Large Tube: 40 Superconductor: 100 Reactor Components: 2000 Motor: 20 Computer: 75

Branches?

As of 2/15/2017 this mod was tested and working fine on both Dev & Stable branches. However, I will not be supporting the Dev branch.

3-5-2017: Update

- Turbine Fixes - - Ocassionally was not registering on grid, fixed - - Once max count reached, if one was removed and rebuilt, it would not register until world reloaded, fixed

2-27-2017: Update

- Turbine Fixes & Changes - - No longer required to be in voxel - - Must be in atmosphere - - Must be on same grid as GeoThermal Plant - - Up to 10 Turbines can be added per GeoThermal Plant

2-3-2017: Update

- Added GeoThermal Turbine - - Must be in voxel - - Must be on stationary grid (same grid as GeoThermal Plant) - - It is a battery as well (storing power prior to transfering to power grid)

Coming Soon:

* Possibly a "water tank" module as an upgrade module (plant storage or efficiency)

Todo:

- Additional detailing - Additional terminal pad(s) - Changing particle effect from black to white smoke to appear more like steam

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