Particle accelerators consume 250 MW for standby?

[Wultan]

Unlike all other machines, the particle accelerator consumes 250 MW when it does nothing for some reason. Is that intentional? All other machines do not consume electricity when they are doing nothing.

[Kraft51]

actually all machines have a trickle of power usage when idle. but as i've not played with the Accelerators yet i'm not entirely sure what their purpose is, it doesn't sound like its intended but again i've not built any yet to know what the deal is.

[lpnlizard27]

At that point in the game 250mw is not even a concern.

And for comparison a real particle accelerator CERN uses about 1,300 GWh of electricity in a year. So about 3.56 GWh every day. Or 148.4 MWh/hr.

[Tenzek]

Originally posted by lpnlizard27:

And for comparison a real particle accelerator CERN uses about 1,300 GWh of electricity in a year. So about 3.56 GWh every day. Or 148.4 MWh/hr.

Akshually, I believe you mean 3.557619281 GWh per day or 148.234137 MWh/hr. It's important we be extremely accurate to reality so that we can continue to drink our coffee through our closed helmet.

[lpnlizard27]

Originally posted by Tenzek:

Originally posted by lpnlizard27:

And for comparison a real particle accelerator CERN uses about 1,300 GWh of electricity in a year. So about 3.56 GWh every day. Or 148.4 MWh/hr.

Akshually, I believe you mean 3.557619281 GWh per day or 148.234137 MWh/hr. It's important we be extremely accurate to reality so that we can continue to drink our coffee through our closed helmet.

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[Shahadem]

While 250 mw/hr seems excessive, it doesn't really matter because you have to able to supply power to meet its 1500 mw demand anyways.

[Wultan]

You are right, Shahadem. But I'm building a 625 GW nuclear power plant and I already have 45 particle accelerators for the disposal of the nuclear waste (because I finish building everything radioactive before the first uranium is delivered).
So the consumption of 250 MW per particle accelerator becomes a problem because I have to ramp up the power plant slowly. I have now installed switches so that only some of the accelerators are connected to the power grid during start-up.

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[Tenzek]

Yup. It really was just as simple as a switch.