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Post by Gigantor on Apr 3, 2007 0:25:20 GMT -5
How about giant capacitors (multiple) that can store power for clean usage later. Like if you have production turned off, and a windmill and soloar panel, you can save it up for a burst of energy later but clean.
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Post by iuewen on Apr 3, 2007 2:02:17 GMT -5
Wind! Water! HEART!
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Post by Rasteroid on Apr 8, 2007 1:56:19 GMT -5
SCHWEEEEET.. I like the idea! A limited number of power-free productions could be charged! awesome cool.. I think I'll make them out of lots of aluminum. gah, that means I have to render a big capacitor-y thing. Oh well it can basically be a box.  Then I'll have to revamp the power selection catagory.. use capacitor, use only environmentally-clean energy, use free power AND only coal or only reactor.. and use all power in the usual order. It's drop down time baby. |
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Post by iuewen on Apr 8, 2007 9:11:23 GMT -5
Time to add Platinum as a resource, obv. It takes infinite platinum to make fuel capacitor cells.
(no thx)
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Post by psiweapon on Apr 19, 2007 5:43:49 GMT -5
Rast, you know what to do:
Render a couple of HUGE ASS COILS!
I don't know if a capacitor looks like that, BUT IF THEY DON'T, THEY SHOULD!
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Post by Rasteroid on Apr 22, 2007 17:43:02 GMT -5
Happy Earth Day!  |
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Post by LazyWeapon on May 7, 2007 12:30:46 GMT -5
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Post by Badahawk on May 11, 2007 21:02:41 GMT -5
Capacitors come in a lot of shapes. In essence they're just parallel plates with opposite charges. Commonly they look like jelly rolls because they can be coiled up to get a lot of area in a small space.
I see this working almost like hull, where you can theoretically get as many as you want, but the price of each capacitor increases.
Would there be a way to drive more energy into the capacitor at limited efficentcy (2 fuel into 1 charge)? Would there be something that required a lot of power at once? Oh! That gives me an idea.. *starts another topic*
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