Simple build and using steam turbine

[fiziologus]

Now for for steam turbine need

• plastic for build e.g. drecko farm or oil refine;
• strong heat source for create high temperature steam (min 125C, ideal 200C);
• cooling turbine itself below 100C.

And result... 850W in best case. Two manual generators. Lot trouble for nothing: H2-generator make about average steam turbine output and more easy for build and using.

If Klei team so hates turbine just delete it from game, not create almost unuseless (for it intended purpose, as power source) thing.

[Sasza22]

You should have seen the turbine before the recent changes if you consider the current one useless. That one was impossible to get positive power unless using door pumps and some exploits. It was nowhere near possible for it to work for longer than a few cycles. Now it can at least be used for cooling without bizzare designs.

The alternative is creating a perpetum mobile if it was any more effective (given the possible designs). Definetly the devs don`t want that.

[Nightinggale]

The steam turbine is an awesome building. It is intentionally not easy to set up because if it was, then you would get free energy. It is a very good building I wouldn't be without even if it is hard to set up.

There are frequently threads about them, like how to harvest the heat from a volcano, heat from rockets etc. It adds another creative aspect to the game, which I really love.

[SharraShimada]

Steam turbines are not there for power generation as primary function. Its a way to delete large amounts of heat and give back a small pack of power in return.  Sure, there are other ways to cool, but in the end its easier to build a turbine than dozens of worts, or slowly heating up the ice biomes. 

An when you realized, its not meant to be a power source, its really easy to setup. 

[fiziologus]

Steam turbine unuseless as common power source after neft (H2 generator create more and build without high-tech materials). As something else it great.

@SharraShimada , primary function is geotermal energy (volcano). Only now, resolve lot issue (cooling, heat isolation, heat/power utilisation without waste etc) for 850W in best case. SPOM-like or other power generation more useful.

@Sasza22, piping turbine is good idea (old exploit-like hole disign allow run turbine without door or other thing), nert power for high-tech generator is bad idea. At last two building consume more 1kW energy. Now all (except petroleum) generators produce about 800W max. Time for battery switch and other tricks.

[Yunru]

On 19/06/2019 at 7:31 AM, fiziologus said:

@SharraShimada , primary function is geotermal energy (volcano). Only now, resolve lot issue (cooling, heat isolation, heat/power utilisation without waste etc) for 850W in best case. SPOM-like or other power generation more useful.

No, the primary purpose, as stated by the devs themselves, is cooling.

[LegioXV]

On 6/15/2019 at 5:59 AM, SharraShimada said:

Steam turbines are not there for power generation as primary function. Its a way to delete large amounts of heat and give back a small pack of power in return.  Sure, there are other ways to cool, but in the end its easier to build a turbine than dozens of worts, or slowly heating up the ice biomes. 

An when you realized, its not meant to be a power source, its really easy to setup. 

So much true, don't think about Steam Turbine as a power source, but rather as of power-positive steam cooling device.

You can't build a sustainable isolated cooling chamber for Thermal Aquanters, molten glass and such without Steam Turbine on the top of them