Nuclear Power Plant

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The Nuclear Power Plant is an alternative to the Solar Array for producing Energy. It consumes Hydrogen from your Hydrogen Synthesizer in order to make extra power.

Nuclear Power Plants create more energy as you level up your Energy Tech.

Costs

Ore Cost = (500 * 1.8^Level)

Crystal Cost = (200 * 1.8^Level)

Hydrogen Cost = (100 * 1.8^Level)

Level Ore Crystal Hydrogen
1 900 360 180
2 1,620 648 324
3 2,916 1,167 584
4 5,249 2,100 1,050
5 9,448 3,780 1,890
6 17,007 6,803 3,402
7 30,612 12,245 6,123
8 55,100 22,040 11,020
9 99,180 39,672 19,836
10 178,524 71,410 35,705
11 321,343 128,537 64,269
12 578,416 231,367 115,684

Specs

Production

The formula for energy production is:

Energy = 30 x Level x (1.05 + Energy Tech Level x 0.01)Level

Actual Chart: http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq5/LordMekenshi/Untitled.jpg - Mekenshi

    Energy Tech Level
    3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Level 1 32.4 32.7 33.0 33.3 33.6 33.9 34.2 34.5 34.8 35.1 35.4 35.7
2 69.98 71.29 72.60 73.93 75.26 76.61 77.98 79.35 80.74 82.13 83.54 84.97
3 113.37 116.55 119.79 123.09 126.44 129.86 133.34 136.88 140.48 144.15 147.87 151.66
4 163.26 169.39 175.69 182.17 188.82 195.66 202.68 209.88 217.28 224.87 232.65 240.64
5 220.40 230.79 241.58 252.76 264.35 276.37 288.81 301.70 315.05 328.87 343.16 357.95
6 285.64 301.88 318.88 336.67 355.29 374.75 395.10 416.35 438.55 461.73 485.92 511.16
7 359.90 383.89 409.23 435.99 464.24 494.05 525.48 558.60 593.51 630.26 668.95 709.66
8 444.22 489.22 514.46 553.09 594.23 638.03 684.62 734.17 786.82 842.75 902.13 965.13
9 539.73 586.41 636.65 690.67 748.73 811.09 878.03 949.83 1026.80 1109.27 1197.57 1292.07
10 647.68 710.21 778.12 851.93 931.75 1018.37 1112.17 1213.67 1323.43 1442.05 1570.15 1708.41
11 1265.?? 1394.66 1535.29 1688.70 1855.92 2038.06 2236.30
12 1734.45 1926.09 2136.97 2368.82 2623.53 2903.13

Hydrogen Consumption

Hydrogen = 10 x Level x 1.1Level is the actual formula used...

    Hydrogen
Level 1 11.00
2 24.20
3 39.93
4 58.56
5 80.52
6 106.29
7 136.41
8 171.48
9 212.21
10 259.37

Efficiency

The efficiency of Nuclear Power Plants decreases with each level of the plant until Energy Tech Level 5. After Energy Tech Level 5, efficiency improves with each level of the plant.

    Energy Tech Level
    3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Level 1 2.95 2.97 3.00 3.03 3.05 3.08 3.11 3.14
2 2.89 2.95 3.00 3.05 3.11 3.17 3.22 3.28
3 2.84 2.92 3.00 3.08 3.17 3.25 3.34 3.43
4 2.79 2.89 3.00 3.11 3.22 3.34 3.46 3.58
5 2.74 2.87 3.00 3.14 3.28 3.43 3.59 3.75
6 2.69 2.84 3.00 3.17 3.34 3.53 3.72 3.92
7 2.64 2.81 3.00 3.20 3.40 3.62 3.85 4.10
8 2.59 2.79 3.00 3.23 3.47 3.72 3.99 4.28
9 2.54 2.76 3.00 3.25 3.53 3.82 4.14 4.48
10 2.50 2.74 3.00 3.28 3.59 3.93 4.29 4.68

Requirements

Hydrogen Synthesizer Level 5

Energy Tech Level 3

See Also

Solar Array

Note

The game's description of the Nuclear Power Plant is: "Produces additional electricity to power your mines and buildings, at a cost of hydrogen. The Nuclear Power Plant consumes more hydrogen and produces more energy for each level of energy tech." it should be noted that despite what this may say, hydrogen consumption is not increased along with energy production with the increase of energy tech, and is only dependent on the level of the plant.

As a Nuclear power plant uses hydrogen to generate energy, it would be recommended to check that you are not operating it at 100% output and producing surplus energy that is not being utilized.

I.E. If you have a large amount of extra energy, consider decreasing energy production from your Power plant to save hydrogen. This costs nothing, as the extra energy is "extra" and so not producing it has no negative impact.

It should also be noted that in Extreme the Nuclear Power Plant uses double(X2) the amount of Hydrogen per level while still producing the same amount of power. So the production is correct, but the output ratio is not applicable to Extreme.