Dyson Sphere Program Ratios Calculator
Calculator tool to help you figure out ratios of how many buildings you need
Calculator tool to help you figure out ratios of how many buildings you need
Thus, the maximum power obtainable from a Dyson swarm is dependent on how many Solar Sails the player can manufacture and fire, per Solar Sail lifespan, on a continuous basis.
I created three zones: the oil extractors were powered by a few wind generators and not connected to the grip, a bank powering the generators, and the main bank powering my system via accumulators.
Building a Dyson Sphere would require us to harvest an enormous amount of material from within the solar system. This would involve mining asteroids, planets, and possibly even entire
Instead, he reckoned that a Dyson sphere could be made from millions of individual solar-collecting satellites. A Dyson sphere in our solar system would have a radius of 1 AU and a minimum
Thus, the maximum power obtainable from a Dyson swarm is dependent on how many Solar Sails the player can manufacture and fire, per Solar Sail lifespan, on a continuous basis.
You''d need (rounding up) 223 of them to simply provide 200 MW, and at that max discharge rate their individual 270 MJ of energy would last for 5 minutes. Add another 223 for each
There is no hard and fast rule. Each planet has an associated solar power value, which modifies the base 360kW (I think) power production of solar panels. You would have to do the math to see how
Solar Panels are an early-tech renewable energy provider. However, they require High-Purity Silicon (which your starting planet lacks), generally need Accumulators to be viable (which are more
Directly generate electricity using sunlight, and the actual generation capacity is related to the planet''s solar energy ratio. Not working at night, use accumulators can store excess energy during the day.
So, asuming an equal day/night cycle of exactly 150s, with perfect efficiencies and such, you''d need 10 solar panels (5 charging the accumulators and 5 providing power) to every 3
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