Hydrogen Synthesizer

The Hydrogen Synthesizer separates the atoms in water to produce hydrogen gas, the primary fuel powering your ships' and buildings' fusion reactors. The process is slow and expensive, making hydrogen the rarest and most valuable of the three resources.

Like the Ore Mine and the Crystal Mine, the Hydrogen Synthesizer can have workers assigned to it and will produce extra hydrogen.

Rather than producing in one lump sum every hour, mines produce resources continuously in Starfleet Commander, so you will see your resources update with every new page load.

Initial hydrogen storage capacity is 100k. When you are nearing your hydrogen storage limit, the resource counter in the top right of the interface will turn orange. When the counter is red, your mine will stop producing. In order to resume production, you must either use the hydrogen, or build Hydrogen Storage to increase capacity.

Workers

One worker may be assigned to a mine from the beginning. Another is allowed with every three levels. So a level 3 mine may have 2 workers, a level 6 mine may have 3 workers, a level 9 may have 4 workers, etc.

Workers able to work in the mine are:

Type	Production Increase
Mining Droid	2%
Basic Android	4%
Human Worker	4%

Cost, Energy Use, and Production by Level

Ore Cost =

150 * (1.5)Level

Crystal Cost =

50 * (1.5)Level

Energy Use =

20 * Level * (1.1)Level

+ (1 if Level > 1)

 Production Value = 12 * Level * (1.1^Level) * (-0.002 * max_temp + 1.28)

Note that this formula gives a constant ratio between lowest and highest temperatures. The coolest temperature planet will produce 25% more hydrogen than the warmest for the same level, or inversely, the warmest will produce 20% less. This is the maximum range -- since planets vary in temperature within this range, the actual difference between two otherwise identical planets would be within this range. In practice, this means that planets further from slot 1 of a system produce hydrogen more efficiently.

Level	Ore Cost	Crystal Cost	Energy Use	Production @ -41°C	Production @ 92°C	High-Production -to-energy	Low-Production -to-energy
1	225	75	22	17	14	0.772727273	0.636363636
2	337	112	49	39	31	0.795918367	0.632653061
3	506	168	80	65	52	0.8125	0.65
4	759	253	118	95	77	0.805084746	0.652542373
5	1,139	379	162	131	105	0.808641975	0.648148148
6	1,708	569	213	173	139	0.812206573	0.65258216
7	2,562	854	273	222	179	0.813186813	0.655677656
8	3,844	1,281	343	280	225	0.816326531	0.655976676
9	5,766	1,922	425	346	279	0.814117647	0.656470588
10	8,649	2,883	519	423	341	0.815028902	0.657032755
11	12,974	4,324	628	512	412	0.815286624	0.656050955
12	19,461	6,487	754	615	495	0.815649867	0.656498674
13	29,192	9,730	898	733	590	0.816258352	0.65701559
14	43,789	14,596	1,064	868	699	0.815789474	0.656954887
15	65,684	21,894	1,254	1,024	824	0.816586922	0.657097289
16	98,526	32,842	1,471	1,201	966	0.816451394	0.656696125
17	147,789	49,263	1,719	1,404	1,130	0.816753927	0.65735893
18	221,683	73,894	2,002	1,635	1,316	0.816683317	0.657342657
19	332,525	110,841	2,325	1,899	1,528	0.816774194	0.657204301
20	498,788	166,262	2,691	2,199	1,769	0.817168339	0.65737644
21	748,182	249,394	3,109	2,539	2,043	0.816661306	0.657124477
22	1,122,274	374,091	3,582	2,926	2,355	0.816862088	0.657453936
23	1,683,411	561,137	4,119	3,366	2,708	0.817188638	0.657441126
24	2,525,116	841,705	4,728	3,863	3,109	0.817047377	0.657571912
25	3,787,675	1,262,558	5,418	4,427	3,562	0.817091178	0.657438169
26	5,681,512	1,893,837	6,198	5,064	4,075	0.817037754	0.657470152
27	8,522,269	2,840,756	7,080	5,785	4,655	0.817090395	0.657485876
28	12,783,403	4,261,134	8,076	6,599	5,310	0.817112432	0.657503715
29	19,175,105	6,391,701	9,201	7,518	6,050	0.817085099	0.657537224
30	28,762,658	9,587,552	10,470	8,555	6,884	0.817096466	0.657497612
31	43,143,988	14,381,329	11,901	9,725	7,825	0.817158222	0.657507772
32	64,715,982	21,571,994	13,513	11,042	8,886	0.817139051	0.657588988
33	97,073,973	32,357,991	15,329	12,526	10,080	0.817143975	0.657577141
34	145,610,960	48,536,986	17,373	14,196	11,424	0.817130029	0.657572095
35	218,416,440	72,805,480	19,672	16,075	12,936	0.817151281	0.657584384
36	327,624,661	109,208,220	22,258	18,188	14,636	0.817144398	0.657561326
37	491,436,992	163,812,330	25,163	20,563	16,547	0.817191909	0.657592497
38	737,155,488	245,718,496	28,428	23,230	18,693	0.817152104	0.657555931
39	1,105,733,232	368,577,744	32,093	26,226	21,104	0.817187549	0.657588882
40	1,658,599,848	552,866,616	36,208	29,588	23,809	0.817167477	0.657561865

See Also

• Mines
• Ore Mine
• Crystal Mine
• Workers
• Mine Droid
• Solar Plant
• Nuclear Power Plant
• Hydrogen Storage