Talk:Geothermal Generator

Refinement of 3rd tip?
Regarding this table...:

... and the subsequent (currently) 3rd tip:

"* Another fluctuation mitigation strategy is to build pairs of equal-purity Geothermal Generators exactly halfway through each other's cycle (30 seconds apart), thus cancelling each other out, as their phase will be exactly opposite. This leads to guaranteed 200 MW, 400 MW and 800 MW per pair by purity respectively."

There are an odd number of Normal and Impure geysers. As worded "pair by purity", this tip implies one unused Normal and one unused Impure geyser. However, one might pair two Impure geysers against one Normal geyser, to maximize stable output. Then the only fluctuation will be from an Impure geyser, which is easily mitigated by a single (0.5, rounded up) power store. This would result in stable 4.4GW with a 0.1GW ripple absorbed by power storage. If the numbers of geysers change in future updates, the refine strategy would be to pair any odd Pure with two Normal, one Normal and two Impure, or four Impure geysers (theoretical).

The hard part remains, how to get the timing of the build exactly right, or even approximately right. If there's a utility, mod, etc, that can allow us to manually edit the build time, or otherwise automagically resync the cycles so they are complementary, such techniques or tools should also be referenced, as that'd probably be a help to people.


 * For timing your placements, get a stopwatch (real or virtual) or a clock that shows seconds. Place one generator when the time hits 0 seconds. Run over to the other site, place the second generator when the time hits 30 seconds. Doesn't matter what minute you're on for each placement so long as the placement happens on 0 and 30 for one and the other. Try not to do anything between one and the other that affects the game clock.


 * For for the odd number of impure and normal geysers, choose a set of three of the same purity and offset them by 0, 20, and 40 seconds.


 * --Ouroborus (talk) 21:49, 22 April 2023 (UTC)