nuclear power

[Fubar]

nuclear power plant is doing 6,250 Mw with 3 over clocks. just some fyi for those worried about future power lol.

[Suzaku]

Good luck keeping that sucker cooled once you actually start using your power.

[Fubar]

I built a platform for it over a huge lake water is no issue :)

[DrNewcenstein]

I had 10 of them.

[Geck0]

Originally posted by Fubar:

I built a platform for it over a huge lake water is no issue :)

at 100% capacity, a power plant uses 300m^3 of water per minute. Piplines can only throughput 300m^3 per minute. Thus, it is physically impossible for a power plant to sustain overclocked production.

[CrazyOdd]

You can build over 1TW (1000GW) worth of nuclear power atm, no need to overclock.

[Mister Fabulous]

Originally posted by Geck0:

Originally posted by Fubar:

I built a platform for it over a huge lake water is no issue :)

at 100% capacity, a power plant uses 300m^3 of water per minute. Piplines can only throughput 300m^3 per minute. Thus, it is physically impossible for a power plant to sustain overclocked production.

That they got to nuke power and haven't run into a problem like this yet is rather curious.

[Termagant]

Because you will probably not reach max capacity once your nuclear power plant is up and running. But there should be some funny spikes visible in the power graph.

[Fubar]

I agree it was a max it out to see what it could do type of situation, I currently run no over clocks in it for normal use. More of an fyi what it could max out at.

[GobboKirk]

Originally posted by Fubar:

I agree it was a max it out to see what it could do type of situation, I currently run no over clocks in it for normal use. More of an fyi what it could max out at.

If we get better pipes down the line it can be usefull info at least.

[sansee]

With only having 6,250 Milli Watt I can see why we really should worry...

[DrNewcenstein]

Originally posted by Geck0:

Originally posted by Fubar:

I built a platform for it over a huge lake water is no issue :)

at 100% capacity, a power plant uses 300m^3 of water per minute. Piplines can only throughput 300m^3 per minute. Thus, it is physically impossible for a power plant to sustain overclocked production.

This is why you need Industrial Fluid Buffers. Fill those up first, and this gives the Water Extractor time to replenish what the Reactors consume without letting them run dry.

Also if you OC the Water Extractor so it keeps the pipe full, it will always have the max amount in it. When 1 gallon is consumed, 1 gallon is pumped into it before the next gallon is consumed.

[Guardian of the Blind]

Originally posted by sansee:

With only having 6,250 Milli Watt I can see why we really should worry...

his "M" is capital. therefore it's mega. mW = milliwatt. MW = megawatt

[Verios44]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

Originally posted by Geck0:

at 100% capacity, a power plant uses 300m^3 of water per minute. Piplines can only throughput 300m^3 per minute. Thus, it is physically impossible for a power plant to sustain overclocked production.

This is why you need Industrial Fluid Buffers. Fill those up first, and this gives the Water Extractor time to replenish what the Reactors consume without letting them run dry.

Also if you OC the Water Extractor so it keeps the pipe full, it will always have the max amount in it. When 1 gallon is consumed, 1 gallon is pumped into it before the next gallon is consumed.

All what a buffer would do in this case is delay the inevitable. When you start to use 33% or more of your power capacity, the plant will want more than 300m3 water and thus starve itself over time.

Your grid will fail.

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

This is why you need Industrial Fluid Buffers. Fill those up first, and this gives the Water Extractor time to replenish what the Reactors consume without letting them run dry.

Also if you OC the Water Extractor so it keeps the pipe full, it will always have the max amount in it. When 1 gallon is consumed, 1 gallon is pumped into it before the next gallon is consumed.

That's not how fluids work in Satisfactory. If for example we were to overclock a nuclear power plant and it (theoretically.. I don't overclock my nuclear plants so I don't know what water they pull when overclocked) wanted to pull 450 m3/min of water, and then we maxed it out then the power plant would try to pull a -CONSTANT- 450 m3/min of water. Currently we can only carry 300 m3/min of water to the nuclear plants because they only have one input per power plant. So you can not overclock nuclear power plants at all at the moment.

[Verios44]

Also keep in mind that the internal fluid tank in the power plant itself is only 50m3 in size. With an inconsistant flow rate of 300+, that will not last long.