qol3 Turbine + Ice Maker + Math

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I know woots can easily do the cooling job, but these two are meant to be put together in new version.

New steam turbine is straightforward, but I have to say it doesn't seem to have as much potential as the old buggy one to inspire creativity and genius. I miss the old turbine.

Spoiler

I also did some math.

It seems that

1. higher input temperature gives proportionally more power

2. higher input temperature causes turbine to release proportionally more operational heat (other than the fixed 4 kDTU)

Detail Below, If you are not interested in details, my conclusion is above, you can stop reading here.

A set of data

Formulas for 5 open ports (estimated by straight line):

T = input steam temperature in Celsius degree

P = power produced in J

H = steam turbine's operational heat in kDTU

P = 8.09 T - 769, power is capped by 850 W

H = 0.618 T - 52.8

Even tho T has a lower bound of 125 C, when steam turbine is running it will still produce power with cooler steam. For example 100 C steam gives more or less 40 W according to the formula. non-existing 95 C steam will produce 0 W according to the formula.

Ports Blocking

For a single port (pretending 4 ports blocked by tiles), each port sucks 400 g steam, power and heat production is reduced to one fifth.

If blocked by gas, the output is also proportional to input steam's amount (sometimes steam sneak partially into turbine).

Each port also seems able to produce only 50% of max power.

For example, if T = 200, then P = 850, single port P = 170

If T = 220, then P = 1010 (capped by 850), single port P = 1010/5 = 202 W.

If T = 500, then P = 3000+, single port P = 600+, reduced to its cap of 425 (in game it fluctuated around 425 W).

For more than one open port, the total power and heat production is the sum of those ports' input. The cap of the sum is 850 W.

For example

If 3 ports open, T = 200, single port P = 170, 3 ports output is 510 W.

If 4 ports open, T = 250, single port P = 250, 4 ports output is 1000 W, capped to 850 W.

If 1 port has T = 250 P = 250, another pot has T = 200 P = 170 in a separated room

then the total output = 250 + 170 = 420

So fair, and boring.

When steam turbine is sucking steam that will produce power higher than 850 W, not only there is a waste of steam heat, but steam turbine will also release more unnecessary heat to surroundings.