[GS] Fusion Power Plant

[Mettpawwz]

Hi, it seems to me that with the fusion power technology there should be a clean power plant option.

Could someone make a mod adding a Fusion Power Plant as a late-information era/future era power plant alternative?

It should probably be reasonably simple to reuse the nuclear power plant model for the fusion plant, right?

Also, since theoritically the fuel for nuclear fusion is abundant, it probably should work more like renewable sources, giving a flat, but decent amount of power. Maybe 10 power?

Anyways, if anyone feels up to either straight up making this mod that would be awesome. Alternatively, if anyone could give me some hints on how to reuse the nuclear power plant model for a new power plant building, I'd be happy to make it myself. The part that really throws me is the graphical stuff.

Cheers!

 

[dunkleosteus]

It would be kind of funny, "Consumes 10 power per turn. Generates 25 power per turn." Fusion reactors take a lot of startup energy (though not the equivalent of 10).

 

[Glen Tomkins]

Well, the tech is Fusion, not Fusion Power. We developed a fission reactor, basically a fission nuclear power plant, before we had a fission bomb. In contrast, we've been able to use fusion reactions to make bombs for 70 years, but we're still trying to make a fusion reactor, and haven't succeeded despite quite an effort over those 70 years. We probably will get GDRs before we get fusion power plants.