Energy consumption is too high

[ESILLAY]

I'm faced with the problem of energy consumption on the glebe, I've already consumed several stacks of rocket fuel, I don't understand what consumes energy in such a layer.
The required power is tens of times more than the total calculated from the list of machines

[PunCrathod]

Are you using heating towers? Those will burn fuel even if you can't use it. You can use a circuit wire and set it to read temperature and only enable the inserters fueling them when it is below say 750 to stop them from wasting fuel.

[ESILLAY]

Originally posted by PunCrathod:

Are you using heating towers? Those will burn fuel even if you can't use it. You can use a circuit wire and set it to read temperature and only enable the inserters fueling them when it is below say 750 to stop them from wasting fuel.

No, I don’t burn fuel just like that. It seems the problem was that I drained all the internal reserves of the machines themselves and they simply took a very long time to charge, so the consumption was tens of times greater than the actual consumption of the machines themselves. Thank you more!

[Zefar]

Put up Nuclear power.
Make a dedicated ship that will travel between main planet and Gleba carrying Nuclear fuel.

You will never have an issue with power after that.

[SMJSMOK]

Are you using tesla turrets? They consume a lot of power even when idle.

[Simon]

Originally posted by Zefar:

Put up Nuclear power.
Make a dedicated ship that will travel between main planet and Gleba carrying Nuclear fuel.

You will never have an issue with power after that.

+1. Nuclear power has worked great for me on Gleba. I use nuclear and hook it to the same heatpipes as my heating towers, which I use for trashing. It just works very nice.

[RiO]

Originally posted by Zefar:

Put up Nuclear power.
Make a dedicated ship that will travel between main planet and Gleba carrying Nuclear fuel.

You will never have an issue with power after that.

Don't even need it.
Gleba has basically an infinite free rocket fuel recipe that can be produced in obnoxiously high volume. And you can just run heating towers off of rocket fuel for your 500 degree turbine steam.

[Maltsi]

You can also just burn the jelly and yamakos, you probably have a lot of them sitting on belts rotting, might as well burn them

[Vyndicu]

Originally posted by Zefar:

Put up Nuclear power.
Make a dedicated ship that will travel between main planet and Gleba carrying Nuclear fuel.

You will never have an issue with power after that.

Building a rocket takes some LDS, processing circuits, and rocket fuels to ship at least 10 Uranium Fuel Cells per rocket launch (ignoring other considerations for now) to keep ten nuclear reactors powered for 200 seconds.

I don't know if it is worth doing nuclear energy on Gleba in the presence of hostile faunas.

Then, there is the matter of spent fuel cells from nuclear energy. Do you ship them back to Nauvis? Or reprocess them into U-238s on Gleba? What to do with U-238s on Gleba?


It is overcomplicated to bring in fuel cells from Nauvis when I can instead produce renewable energy from plants locally to Gleba.

[malogoss]

Some things never change

[mrxak]

Burn everything.

But only burn it if it's an egg or your temperature is less than 550 degrees.

[Aestrea]

I think hes using tesla towers which "stores" energy inside them and after they fire, they draw energy from the grid which blacks out everything if your energy production isn't sufficient because they consume 7MW/s per tower when charging which will disable your other buildings for a good amount of time because they all draw a percent of what they use and depending on the amount of tesla towers that fired, it will be a long time on a 40MW per burner tower.

[Saki_PL]

I think too LESS

[Superguru]

Originally posted by Aestrea:

I think hes using tesla towers which "stores" energy inside them and after they fire, they draw energy from the grid which blacks out everything if your energy production isn't sufficient because they consume 7MW/s per tower when charging which will disable your other buildings for a good amount of time because they all draw a percent of what they use and depending on the amount of tesla towers that fired, it will be a long time on a 40MW per burner tower.

Yes this can hit by surprise. I disconnected my laser defense for rebuilding once and when connecting the power again everything went dark because they suck up GWs of energy to charge again. This was shutting down everything on same grid for a while. Once charged all returns to normal consumption.