Heating tower

Heating tower

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Recipe
10 + 20 + 2 + 5 → 1
Total raw
16 + 20 + 100 + 8 + 50 + 10
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Health	500 650 800 950 1250
Stack size	20
Efficiency	250%
Dimensions	3×3
Energy consumption	16 MW 20.8 MW 25.6 MW 30.4 MW 40 MW (burner)
Heat output	40 MW 52 MW 64 MW 76 MW 100 MW
Maximum temperature	1000 °C
Mining time	0.5
Pollution	100/m
Prototype type	reactor
Internal name	heating-tower
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Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

The heating tower burns fuel to generate heat. Initially unlocked on Gleba, it is useful for burning off unneeded biological products, but later becomes a vital source of heat against the cold of Aquilo. They have 250% efficiency, so they generate 2.5 times the fuel value in heat of any fuel given to them.

Heating towers work like a nuclear reactor, but with a different fuel source (and no neighbor bonus). Their internal heat is limited to 1000°C; like a nuclear reactor, they will continue to burn fuel even if they have reached their maximum heat. The fact that they burn fuel regardless of temperature makes them more useful than a boiler for destroying unneeded biological materials. Also like a reactor, you can read their heat and fuel status through the circuit network.

The heating tower has a heat capacity of 5 MJ/C. Thus, they can buffer 2.5GJ of heat energy across their working range of 500°C to 1000°C, and they require 2.43 GJ of energy to warm up from 15°C to 500°C when initially placed. Because of the efficiency however, this means they only need 0.97 GJ of fuel to reach 500°C, which is slightly less than 10 rocket fuel items. More fuel will be needed to bring the connected heat pipes and heat exchangers up to temperature.

Heating towers produce less pollution per-MJ of power generated than boilers (0.04 vs 0.28 pollution/MJ). This coupled with their efficiency makes them a more efficient and clean alternative to boilers even outside of Gleba and Aquilo.

History

• 2.0.7:
  • Introduced in Space Age expansion.

See also

• Power production
• Gleba
• Aquilo