Building

Thermosolar plant

The stronger power plant: it delivers considerably more energy per level than fusion, but burns spice every hour.

The Thermosolar plant is built from metal, kryptonite and spice and requires Energy technology level 4 and your Spice mine at level 6. Per level it delivers noticeably more energy than the Fusion plant, and it's cheap to build. The catch is in the column next to it: it consumes spice continuously, and the consumption grows with every level.

It pays off most on cold planets with strong spice production: there your Spice mine easily covers the consumption, and you save yourself expensive fusion plant levels. If you have energy to spare, lower its slider on the Economy page to save spice.

Background

In the Thermosolar plant the energy content of Spice is utilised. In the plants confined space a little sun is generated, from which energy is harvested in close proximity. Maintenance of the size of this sun requires a constant supply of spice.

Levels at a glance

Development centerMicrosystem acc.Universe

Level	Metal	Kryptonite	Spice	Build time	Spice used / hour	Energy
1	120	25	80	13 s	2	+16
2	182	38	121	19 s	5	+37
3	274	58	183	29 s	9	+63
4	414	87	276	44 s	13	+97
5	624	130	416	1 min 6 s	20	+140
6	943	197	629	1 min 41 s	27	+194
7	1,423	297	949	2 min 32 s	37	+260
8	2,148	448	1,432	3 min 49 s	48	+342
9	3,244	676	2,163	5 min 45 s	63	+443
10	4,898	1,021	3,265	8 min 42 s	80	+566
11	7,396	1,541	4,931	13 min 8 s	102	+716
12	11,167	2,327	7,445	19 min 49 s	128	+898
13	16,862	3,513	11,242	29 min 56 s	159	+1,119
14	25,462	5,305	16,975	45 min 11 s	198	+1,386
15	38,447	8,010	25,632	1 h 8 min	244	+1,708
16	58,055	12,095	38,703	1 h 43 min	299	+2,096
17	87,663	18,263	58,442	2 h 35 min	365	+2,561
18	132,370	27,578	88,247	3 h 54 min	445	+3,118
19	199,879	41,642	133,253	5 h 54 min	540	+3,785
20	301,817	62,879	201,212	8 h 55 min	654	+4,582
21	455,744	94,947	303,829	13 h 28 min	790	+5,533
22	688,173	143,370	458,782	20 h 21 min	952	+6,666
23	1,039,141	216,488	692,761	1 d 6 h 44 min	1,145	+8,015
24	1,569,102	326,897	1,046,068	1 d 22 h 24 min	1,374	+9,618
25	2,369,344	493,614	1,579,563	2 d 22 h 4 min	1,645	+11,521
26	3,577,709	745,356	2,385,139	4 d 9 h 49 min	1,968	+13,779
27	5,402,340	1,125,488	3,601,560	6 d 15 h 47 min	2,350	+16,456
28	8,157,533	1,699,486	5,438,356	10 d 1 h	2,803	+19,625
29	12,317,875	2,566,224	8,211,917	15 d 4 h	3,339	+23,375
30	18,599,991	3,874,998	12,399,994	22 d 22 h	3,972	+27,808
31	28,085,986	5,851,247	18,723,991	34 d 14 h	4,720	+33,046
32	42,409,838	8,835,383	28,273,226	52 d 6 h	5,604	+39,229
33	64,038,856	13,341,429	42,692,571	78 d 22 h	6,646	+46,523
34	96,698,672	20,145,557	64,465,781	119 d 4 h	7,874	+55,123
35	146,014,994	30,419,791	97,343,330	179 d 22 h	9,322	+65,256
36	220,482,641	45,933,884	146,988,427	271 d 17 h	11,026	+77,188
37	332,928,788	69,360,164	221,952,525	410 d 7 h	13,033	+91,232
38	502,722,469	104,733,848	335,148,313	619 d 13 h	15,393	+107,753
39	759,110,928	158,148,110	506,073,952	935 d 13 h	18,168	+127,176
40	1.15 B	238,803,646	764,171,668	1,412 d 16 h	21,429	+150,003
41	1.73 B	360,593,506	1.15 B	2,133 d 3 h	25,259	+176,816
42	2.61 B	544,496,194	1.74 B	3,221 d 1 h	29,756	+208,298
43	3.95 B	822,189,252	2.63 B	4,863 d 18 h	35,035	+245,246
44	5.96 B	1.24 B	3.97 B	7,344 d 7 h	41,227	+288,592
45	9.00 B	1.87 B	6.00 B	11,089 d 21 h	48,489	+339,424
46	13.59 B	2.83 B	9.06 B	16,745 d 17 h	57,001	+399,012
47	20.52 B	4.27 B	13.68 B	25,286 d 1 h	66,977	+468,839
48	30.98 B	6.45 B	20.65 B	38,181 d 22 h	78,662	+550,637
49	46.78 B	9.75 B	31.19 B	57,654 d 17 h	92,346	+646,425
50	70.64 B	14.72 B	47.09 B	87,058 d 15 h	108,365	+758,560
51	106.67 B	22.22 B	71.11 B	131,458 d 14 h	127,113	+889,791
52	161.07 B	33.56 B	107.38 B	198,502 d 11 h	149,046	+1,043,323
53	243.21 B	50.67 B	162.14 B	299,738 d 17 h	174,699	+1,222,895
54	367.25 B	76.51 B	244.83 B	452,605 d 11 h	204,694	+1,432,864
55	554.54 B	115.53 B	369.70 B	683,434 d 6 h	239,758	+1,678,309
56	837.36 B	174.45 B	558.24 B	1,031,985 d 17 h	280,735	+1,965,147
57	1.26 T	263.42 B	842.94 B	1,558,298 d 10 h	328,610	+2,300,275
58	1.91 T	397.76 B	1.27 T	2,353,030 d 15 h	384,532	+2,691,725
59	2.88 T	600.62 B	1.92 T	3,553,076 d 6 h	449,836	+3,148,854
60	4.35 T	906.94 B	2.90 T	5,365,145 d 4 h	526,079	+3,682,558
61	6.57 T	1.37 T	4.38 T	8,101,369 d 5 h	615,075	+4,305,525
62	9.93 T	2.07 T	6.62 T	12,233,067 d 12 h	718,931	+5,032,523
63	14.99 T	3.12 T	9.99 T	18,471,931 d 23 h	840,106	+5,880,747
64	22.63 T	4.72 T	15.09 T	27,892,617 d 6 h	981,458	+6,870,206
65	34.17 T	7.12 T	22.78 T	42,117,852 d 2 h	1,146,312	+8,024,186
66	51.60 T	10.75 T	34.40 T	63,597,956 d 16 h	1,338,540	+9,369,780
67	77.92 T	16.23 T	51.95 T	96,032,914 d 13 h	1,562,644	+10,938,509
68	117.66 T	24.51 T	78.44 T	145,009,701 d	1,823,862	+12,767,036
69	177.67 T	37.01 T	118.45 T	218,964,648 d 12 h	2,128,286	+14,898,004
70	268.28 T	55.89 T	178.85 T	330,636,619 d 6 h	2,483,000	+17,381,005
71	405.10 T	84.40 T	270.07 T	499,261,295 d 2 h	2,896,243	+20,273,701
72	611.71 T	127.44 T	407.81 T	753,884,555 d 13 h	3,377,590	+23,643,133
73	923.68 T	192.43 T	615.79 T	1,138,365,678 d 22 h	3,938,176	+27,567,237
74	1.39 Qa	290.57 T	929.84 T	1,718,932,175 d 4 h	4,590,943	+32,136,601
75	2.11 Qa	438.77 T	1.40 Qa	2,595,587,584 d 12 h	5,350,930	+37,456,511
76	3.18 Qa	662.54 T	2.12 Qa	3,919,337,252 d 15 h	6,235,617	+43,649,321
77	4.80 Qa	1.00 Qa	3.20 Qa	5,918,199,251 d 11 h	7,265,314	+50,857,202
78	7.25 Qa	1.51 Qa	4.83 Qa	8,936,480,869 d 17 h	8,463,619	+59,245,338
79	10.95 Qa	2.28 Qa	7.30 Qa	13,494,086,113 d 6 h	9,857,946	+69,005,628
80	16.53 Qa	3.44 Qa	11.02 Qa	20,376,070,031 d	11,480,140	+80,360,984

Values without speed-up and assistants. Costs are for upgrading to the given level. Set your development center and microsystem accelerator above and the build times adjust.

Thermosolar plant

Levels at a glance

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