Can you transfer power between solar systems?

[Digital Packrat]

Im about to build my Dyson Sphere but i know i wont need all the power it will generate for me, Id love to be able to send it to other systems where i will be setting up for mining operations.
I thought i read something about that but may be mistaken.

[AzaIndustries]

yes you can,
using warper tech that you have to research and then provide to the logistic ports.

They will use 2 warpers per trip 1 to jump to another system and 1 to come back.

This is actually why my first sphere is going around a very bright blue giant that will multiply the power output.
Then I'm shipping it out all over the place.

[CrazyOdd]

Accumulators can be charged in an Energy Exchanger, then sent to another planet and discharged, before being sent back to begin the loop again.

[Cookie]

Originally posted by The Muffin Man:

yes you can,
using warper tech that you have to research and then provide to the logistic ports.

They will use 2 warpers per trip 1 to jump to another system and 1 to come back.

He's talking about power transfer not just transferring products.

To answer OP's question, no you can't directly transfer power from 1 dyson sphere to another system. The only way to "indirectly" transfer energy is to use energy exchangers to charge up accumulators and ship them to another system and then ship the empty ones back to recharge. It's still a lot of work though making a ton of accumulators, but this is the only way to transfer "free" energy from 1 system to others.

[RawCode]

accumulators are joke way to transfer power...

use power from dyson to craft animatter and use antimatter as fuel

[DirtyHaris]

It's not the only way. You can actually ship A WHOLE LOT more energy if you change ray receivers to photon generation and split the photons -> produce antimatter fuel cells and use them in artificial stars (buildings that generate 75MW for a crazy amount of time using antimatter fuel cells). With a decent investment in time, you can harness and transfer enough energy - out of your 1st dyson sphere - for all operations across all star systems you would need. If you pick a type O star, that's a crazy amount of energy.

[Blanco]

once your dyson is done. have a planet to constantly produce anti matter rods and load them on your logistic port as "supply"

wherever you go, then have a mini star and feed it with anti matter rods from the logistics port with a belt to always have maintenance-free power there.

[Nova]

I'm too lazy to do it right now but I'd really be interested in calculating the net power you actually get shipping accumulators around not only do you need to consider the power required for mining all the resources and crafting all the accumulators I believe each jump also costs 1GJ of power at the interplanetary shipping stations, then you need the warpers etc. and since each accumulator is ridiculously tiny with 90MJ my best guess is the whole idea of shipping them around is super inefficient. When I first saw that accumulators had 90MJ I was like wait what so solar is completely useless unless I use 5 million of them in an equatorial belt?
Because to provide 100MW for 10 minutes you need 666 accumulators if I remember correctly.
You can probably use it in your starter solar system to open an outpost and use the initial power to set up shop but everything else is probably a pointless exercise. Or a stylistic choice in which case that's totally fine :)
I use dyson swarms a lot because I love designing individual ones for each system for distinct looks but efficiencywise they're a nightmare xD

[--T-a-u-r-u-s--]

to ship accumulators you need only 3 ships full cargo to discharge shipping and charging and later on you just extend discharges depends how many you will have prepared charged ones most people prefer antimatter is higher output 75 mw than 45 mw
i prefer accumulators fill your stocks with 5000 and you can ship it any where and set up the easy with no fuel bothering
now you can set demand to couple hundreds to deliver and it is inf supple

[CrazyOdd]

Originally posted by RawCode:

accumulators are joke way to transfer power...

Might not be the highest power source, but its 100% free (just warp cores) once you have it setup.

[Nova]

You still need 1GJ of power per delivery and that power also comes from somewhere...and the "free" power you use to charge the accumulators also has to come from somewhere.
Since the grid adjusts the burn rate of fuel rods etc to your power demands all you're doing is increasing the load on your charging planet.
The only way it truly is kinda free is if you use a dyson sphere to charge it or use solar/wind and even then you have to consider the power and materials that went into constructing the sphere.
So this whole thing is mostly about perception and a bit of a long tailpipe argument that's discussed a lot in electric cars today.

[Cookie]

Originally posted by Weswyn:

You still need 1GJ of power per delivery and that power also comes from somewhere...and the "free" power you use to charge the accumulators also has to come from somewhere.
Since the grid adjusts the burn rate of fuel rods etc to your power demands all you're doing is increasing the load on your charging planet.
The only way it truly is kinda free is if you use a dyson sphere to charge it or use solar/wind and even then you have to consider the power and materials that went into constructing the sphere.
So this whole thing is mostly about perception and a bit of a long tailpipe argument that's discussed a lot in electric cars today.

Bruh... Once you have a dyson sphere in a star system, that system has so much excess energy, it's basically free.

[Nova]

Yeah but then again if you have a dyson sphere completed what are you doing using accumulators...even hydrogen fuel rods are better to ship.
If you really want to provide a steady source of power for say 1GW of consumption for various planets have fun with that ^^
If you want to use the power of a dyson sphere to provide power make antimatter fuel rods they have 83x the energy density of accumulators and you don't need to stockpile thousands and thousands of them before it even makes sense to use them so you don't lose as much of a % by shipping them at 1GJ per shipment.
I'm too lazy to calculate right now how many resources you'd need to build enough accumulators to provide 1GW of power to various planets and how many antimatter fuel rods you could make with the same amount of materials but I'm pretty sure the breakeven point for when antimatter fuel rods would cost more to produce would be quite high.
All you're doing with accumulators is paying a very large price up front while normal fuel rods are consumable so they cost a little tiny bit at a time.
Hey if you want to do it it's your choice, I'm just saying it's not free or efficient by any means, but sure it can totally be done ^^

[--T-a-u-r-u-s--]

You need 77 mw or more( depends on ray dissipation) to make 5 photon in min so 2 RR and you need 10 to make one antimatter fuel rod witch generated energy 75 mw in how long 2 min maybe 3 at full power so it depends what us better

[!?!]

For the big boy power needs, deuterium rods are much more efficient to transfer than accumulators but you'll want some power exchangers running on every planet that has to burn excess hydrogen to avoid backup since it keeps the generators running at 100% speed and those accumulators need to go somewhere too.
Might as well use them.

[--T-a-u-r-u-s--]

Originally posted by !?!:

For the big boy power needs, deuterium rods are much more efficient to transfer than accumulators but you'll want some power exchangers running on every planet that has to burn excess hydrogen to avoid backup since it keeps the generators running at 100% speed and those accumulators need to go somewhere too.
Might as well use them.

Yea hydrogen and deuterium is abundant so much more efficient

Everybody like something else
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