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Alright, new project, a nuclear fusion power chain for pak64/128. To include:

Water desalination plant - produces water and salt, located on coastline
Electrolysis & deuterium seperation plant - produces hydrogen, oxygen and deuterium from water.
Fusion reactor - produces power and helium from deuterium (D-D type reactor).

Also:
Gas retailer - accepts oxygen & helium for retail.
Hydrogen - this will go to some sort of hydrogen fuel station, or something like that.

There will, of course, be a selection of vehicles for transporting all the relavent materials around, some sort of generic pressurised gas transport vessel, tankers for water, trucks/wagons for salt etc. The salt I don't know what to do with, some other retailer probably.

The basic structure of the buildings will be done in Blender (which I have decided it is time I learnt how to use), then they'll be touched up for each pak seperately so that each looks good...

Here's what the fusion reactor looks like so far.

Yeah, I probably will remake the fission chain, I never was happy with the nuclear plant for the pak64 version. I've also got a few other powerplants planned...

I don't want the entire structure to be more than 3x3, as factories larger than that tend to be a little unwieldy... A certain amount of realism has to be sacrificed Bevel? E-key? Could you explain a bit more?

(Above posted at October 20, 2006, 11:01:38 PM)
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(October 21, 2006, 12:37:34 AM) Subject: Re: Nucear fusion power chain

Improved torus & beginnings of a control building, that's it for tonight I think... I dunno what to do about the control building, I'd like to make it glass-fronted and shiny-looking, but I don't know how

Oh that is cool, I made the donut by spinning an oval, I will have to play with the bevel effect

Increase the mirror value (to be found where the color and transparency settings are), then it will shine just as much as you like (sorry, I don't have Blender on this computer, you'll have to look around a bit).
(so much for unhelpful help)

If you want to use mirror you must know think about background color. Put some "trees" (green objects) and some bluish to the top so glass (I prefer dark-blue-grey color with 50-70% mirror, without transparency). The best way would be to use some photos but I don't know haw to do it.

Well, but for every coal train shipped to the coal powerplant, you would only need to ship a "handful" of of hydrogen to the fusion plant. Every fair with flying balloons will consume much more of it than a huge fusion plant. Same consequently holds for water input.

Tomas

Well fusion of 1kg hydrogen hast same energie output as burning 10 000 t coal