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IO Hydrogen Rebalance
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Type: Mod
Mod category: Block, Script, Production
Tags: ServerScripts
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May 7, 2023 @ 11:43am
May 18, 2023 @ 5:10pm
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IO Hydrogen Rebalance

Description
This mod is my version of a rebalance to the hydrogen system of Space Engineers. No longer can you get free unlimited energy by collecting ice and with just a couple H2 generators and hydrogen engines make more than 10 times the power needed to run the operation. Now making hydrogen takes much more energy and time which aligns well with Industrial Overhaul production energy usage. Why is this a good thing you might ask? Well first off it makes things slightly more realistic but more importantly it makes investing in building the alternative electricity generation systems of IO worthwhile since ice to electricity farming is no longer viable. Hydrogen is a 100% efficient way to store energy but it takes a lot of time/big facilities to turn ice into H2 and back again. One large grid large hydrogen tank holds 104MWh worth of energy.

It is still worthwhile to produce and use hydrogen either as a portable way to store electricity or to fuel your hydrogen powered constructions. Tank Capacity and thruster consumption was also adjusted to be a little less crazy fast consumption so tanks last longer. Now there is the trade off in design of going for simple resource hungry and slow to charge batteries or hydrogen systems which now take more electricity to produce the needed hydrogen than equivalent sized atmo thrusters use.

Changes:
- Thrusters use 1/4 to 1/2 hydrogen as vanilla.
- H2/O2 energy usage X2.5 and 1/5 hydrogen production.
- Added and tweaked to match balance MA H2/O2 as a bigger faster H2 production option.
- Hydrogen tanks capacity changed back to vanilla from IO reduced levels.
- Ice consumption is half as efficient as vanilla except for the MA H2/O2.

Big Thanks to Ash-LikeSnow for the amazing ModAdjuster I used to create this mod. https://github.com/Ash-LikeSnow/ModAdjuster
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john72934 Oct 30, 2023 @ 10:58am 
With your mod installed the upgradable 02 generator is no longer upgradable. Was this this intended?
Cak  [author] May 18, 2023 @ 4:12pm 
@Shadow Delta Thanks. There are other mods that use all the fancy real world math to set the SE numbers but I decided to focus more on having things fit nicely into playability. And specifically balanced with IO since in IO there are so many options for power generation and Oil based fuels to fill the role Hydrogen plays in vanilla SE.
Shadow Delta May 12, 2023 @ 3:37pm 
This has been one glaring hole in the game that's bugged me ever since they released hydrogen engines eons ago. The simple fact that you get way more energy from burning the fuel than it takes to convert it from ice to hydrogen breaks the laws of thermodynamics. For an engineering game, it seems like a huge oversight to me, and a major flaw in the game logic.

That said, I'm curious if the energy requirements for the O2 Generator have changed to reflect the actual physics in reality? Breaking water molecules into their Oxygen and Hydrogen parts is an extremely energy hungry process.