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In an August post, Istairis notes that Fusion Reactors are bugged, and should not be built. He recommends only solar plants and satellites.

Has the Fusion Reactor bug been fixed?

TIA

Nope, still broken. Not worth the res.

I'm not entirely sure they would be worth it even if they were fixed, as they consume deut to function. Unless the scaling value from energy tech was dramatic, i still wouldn't build them.

-Istalris-

Thanks very much.

this could be a bug but look... no deuterium composition.


Fusion Reactor
In fusion power plants, hydrogen nuclei are fused into helium nuclei under enormous temperature and pressure, releasing tremendous amounts of energy. For each gram of Deuterium consumed, up to 41,32*10^-13 Joule of energy can be produced; with 1 g you are able to produce 172 MWh energy.
Larger reactor complexes use more deuterium and can produce more energy per hour. The energy effect could be increased by researching energy technology. The energy production of the fusion plant is calculated like that:
30 * [Level Fusion Plant] * (1,05 + [Level Energy Technology] * 0,01) ^ [Level Fusion Plant]
Level Energy production Difference Deuterium consumption Difference
9 2.122 2.122 0 0
10 2.593 (471) 2.593 0 0
11 3.138 (1.016) 3.138 0 0
12 3.766 (1.644) 3.766 0 0
13 4.487 (2.365) 4.487 0 0
14 5.316 (3.194) 5.316 0 0
15 6.265 (4.143) 6.265 0 0
16 7.351 (5.229) 7.351 0 0
17 8.592 (6.470) 8.592 0 0
18 10.007 (7.885) 10.007 0 0

Your posted numbers look like mine... no deut used up by fusion reactors, at least to as high a level as I can see.

Here's a stupid question is deuterium a solid or liquid? And if it's a liquid wouldn't you use something like litres m³?

I'm pretty sure it's a gas

Yes, it's a gas, and you measure it by weight since volume is dependent on temperature and pressure, while weight (or more accurately, mass) is a constant (assuming it's not moving at near light speed at least).

Ummm... Gas, liquid, solid? Who Cares??? the numbers the same....