factorio-thermal-solar-power

by Marximus Maximus (<https://marximus.com>)

Adds the ability to build a thermal solar complex an early game solution for clean energy; automatically adjusts the heat exchangers temperature to produce steam in the same temperatures as with Bob's Power.

Note: Thermal Solar Panels take time to heat. Heat pipes will waste heat as they transfer heat. Molten Salt Heat Accumulators take A LONG time to heat up and will bottleneck early heat generation -- you only really need them if nights in your game are long; vanilla game/Nauvis nights are short enough to not need them.

Forked from CW-thermal-solar-power v0.2.16 by CyberWizard2261 and merged in CWTSP_balance v1.0.1 by Caxx (Public Domain).

Features

New Buildings

Thermal Solar Panels

• Thermal Solar Panel
  

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• Thermal Solar Panel 2
  

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• Thermal Solar Panel 3
  

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• Thermal Solar Panel 4
  

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• Basic Heat Pipe
  

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Basic Heat Exchangers

• Basic Heat Exchanger
  

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• Basic Heat Exchanger 2
  

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• Basic Heat Exchanger 3
  

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• Basic Heat Exchanger 4
  

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Additional Steam Engines

• Steam Engine MK2
  

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• Steam Engine MK3
  

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• Steam Engine MK4
  

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Molten Salt Heat Accumulators

• Molten Salt Heat Accumulator
  

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• Molten Salt Heat Accumulator 2
  

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• Molten Salt Heat Accumulator 3
  

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Salt Evaporation Pond

• Salt Evaporation Pond
  

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Recycler (for all of the above)

• Recycler
  

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Base Game Buildings for Comparison

• Heat Pipe
  

• Heat Exchanger
  

• Steam Engine
  

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• Steam Turbine
  

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New Technologies

• Thermal Solar Power
  

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Translations

• English
• German
• Italian
  

Settings

(for compatibility with other mods)

• Disable the new Heat Exchangers
• Disable the new Steam Engines
  

Compatibility

• Automatic compatibility with Bob's Power (disables Thermal Solar Power's buildings that duplicate functionality of Bob's Power; no need to use the settings)
  

Example Usage

• Generating electricity from heat on a normal planet (vanilla/Nauvis) (NOTE: there are no heat pipes to lose any heat nor batteries necessary to store any heat, the panels will stay hot enough for "short" nights):
  

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• Generating electricity from heat on a planet with very long nights (NOTE: this setup will take a long time to heat up; more batteries = longer time to reach target temperature):
  

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• Getting Salt:
  

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Future Development

(if there is interest)

• More solar power tiers?
• New/hi-res sprites
• UPS Improvements
• Underground heat pipe (both basic and vanilla tier)
  

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