Alternate powersources#18

Solar/wind power combined with the batteries suggested in another post would be cool.
Have a large battery installation coupled with solar and you wouldn’t be dependant on coal but also sacrificing the space for other things.

That’s planned already :)
We will get at least two other types of energy modules, which are wind turbines and thermal reactors.

Wind power is definitely planned, Tomas even made a module for it but it hasn’t made it into the game yet

I have to say, this last one just above goes into details, a lot. It’s a very interesting read, despite the fact that it’s merged.

i believe instead of a thermal reactor, it could be a stirling engine. is a very old engine capable of producing energy from heat and cold. is considerably weaker than steam engines of similar sizes, but it could be a basic concept of something that i would consider a steampunk like generator.

Since there was a new suggetsion recently on this topic, lets have an update on how this is going. A new power module will be introduced in upcoming update! Generating energy from heat, which is meant for generating energy when drillship is underground in lava. More energy source types are still planned for future updates tho.