Aluminum-Titanium Power 265MW
Description
Aluminum-Titanium Power Plant 265 MW
v1.1 — more finely tuned maneuverability, greater efficiency under partial load.
The power plant generates 265 MW of Power and 54 Graphite, using a modest amount of Aluminum and Titanium alloys. In fact, it runs on Fuel Gas obtained by trading Composite Cores — primarily made from these two materials. See Screenshot 3 for its operating principle. Space technologies are a powerful energy source for late game.
Launch Procedure:
- Unlock the Composite Core technology.
- If you don't yet have aluminum and titanium production, start it now — you can use these compact blueprints: https://hub.coigame.com/Blueprint/Detail/1007.
- Build two Cargo Depots with 8 modules each, and 2 ships for them. Each Cargo Depot should have 1 Unit module for Composite Cores (T1 is sufficient) and 7 Fluid modules for Fuel Gas (T3 level) — set to priority 2. Assign a trade contract to exchange Composite Cores for Fuel Gas.
- Build the power plant nearby. Start with the production module for Composite Cores and Fuel Gas storages — the generator section of the plant can be completed later.
- Connect the Fuel Gas storage to both Cargo Depots with two 900 pipes (a blueprint connector for the Depot modules hookup is included).
- Connect the Composite Core storage via a 450 conveyor to both Depots.
- Make 2–3 ship deliveries to fill both Fuel Gas storages. Switch the ships to economy mode.
- Unpause the 2 main pipes supplying Fuel Gas to the boilers.
- Pause one of the Composite Core Assemblies — one will be enough.
Note. The Composite Core storage is configured to output in batches — this way, the ships don’t get stuck and depart as soon as the required amount of resources for trading is available.
Resource Productivity:
| Aluminum | Titanium alloy | Steel | Electronics III | Plastic | Water | Computing | Electricity | Graphite | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input | 17.3 | 8.7 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 4.3 | 216 | 10 TFlops | - | - |
| Output | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 265 MW | 54 |
Maintenance staff: 416 (including the ships and the Depot)
The numbers for certain resources are deliberately given with decimal fractions to highlight how modest their quantities actually are.
Note. Since the power station has some load-following capability, over time it will generate a surplus of Fuel Gas. This surplus can be diverted by adding two extra storages near the Cargo Depots — positioned so that the Fuel Gas flow to the main tanks passes through them — and used for other purposes, such as Hydrogen or Diesel production, etc.
Need even more Fuel Gas supply for these purposes? No problem — just unpause the Composite Core Assembly, switch one of the ships to standard mode, and you’ll get a significant boost in its deliveries.
The power plant can later be expanded by adding another 265 MW power unit (even without a dedicated Composite Core production module), increasing the total output to 530 MW, and by adding one more ship and Cargo Depot. In this case, two ships should operate in standard mode and one in economy mode. Thus, it can be continuously scaled up just by adjusting the production modules and the ships.
Personally, after discovering the capabilities of this power station, I don’t see any point in the FBR station. This one is better in every way. And even its waste products are useful for industry. Just beauty, simplicity, versatility, reliability, and safety.
P.S. If there is interest in this type of power plant, it is possible to design a 450-470 MW project optimized for the most efficient use of 2 ships.
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