[Block Suggestion] Hydrogen Turbine

Rage_Spammer shared this feedback 17 hours ago
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This is a suggestion for a Hydrogen powered turbine for power generation as an alternative to the large-grid small reactor and small-grid large reactor, and an upgrade from the Hydrogen Engine.

Until Prototech came around, power production with hydrogen was rather limited in output. The max you could get with one block was 5 MW with a Hydrogen Engine. If you wanted to stick with hydrogen energy, you had to spam engines to match your power needs. One could say that this is to force the player to upgrade to nuclear power, but I say hydrogen adds an interesting engineering challenge. You can automate hydrogen's entire production chain, which is what I have done on my own survival factory save.

Now we have the Prototech Fusion Reactor, which provides more power than a large-grid large reactor while being incredibly efficient in hydrogen consumption. This is great, but now we are left with a large gap between the Hydrogen Engine and Fusion Reactor.

To address this, I suggest the addition of a Hydrogen Turbine, based on real life gas turbine generators, as a mid-tier hydrogen power option.

Suggested Hydrogen Turbine features:

-15 MW output for both large and small grid

-750 L/s hydrogen consumption (50 L/s per MW; double efficiency of Hydrogen Engine, but not nearly as efficient as the 2.5 L/s per MW of the Fusion Reactor)

-Larger model than Hydrogen Engine

-Small grid: 3x3x6

-Large-grid: 1x2x2

-High component cost

-Must build Hydrogen Engine to unlock Hydrogen Turbine on Progression Tree

-Visible spinning intake blades (similar to the atmospheric thrusters) with visible spinning generator rotor. Maybe place a grate in front of the turbine intake for a more industrial theme.

-Turbine sounds (startup and running)

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