Hydraulic Dynamo

Hydraulic Dynamo
Boils water to drive an enormous piston. Generates up to 21W using thermal fuels such as lava or core fragments. Each slot outputs independently. Needs water coolant. Left Input: On/Off Switch
Category	wire
File:Farm-Fresh box open.png Slot count	4
Rarity	common
Price	300
Colony tags	science foundry
ID	hydraulicdynamo

Unlocked by Steam Power (Electronics tree).

Hydraulic Dynamo is a power generator. It consumes coolant (Water or Salt Water) and very hot fuel like Core Fragment or Lava.

It has 3 slots for fuel, but it's not necessary to fill them all: if you place Lava into one of the slots, it will generate 4W, but if you fill 3 slots, it will generate 12W. As the Dynamo consumes fuel, it will also consume a unit of liquid. If you have 100 units of fuel in each fuel slot, you'll need 300 units of liquid to use them all. The Hydraulic Dynamo can generate up to 21W of energy (using either 3 Scorched Core or 3 Volatile Powder).

Accepted fuel

Fuel	Power	Decay Rate (seconds)
Lava	4	10
Core Fragment	5	40
Liquid Iron	6	32
Volatile Powder	7	40
Scorched Core	7	180
Liquid Nitrogen	6	20

Trivia

• Hydraulic Dynamo is a popular choice to power an early-game factory that centrifuges infinite Lava (pumped from the core ocean). Lava itself is not a very good fuel, but better Core Fragment and Volatile Powder can be obtained from Lava automatically.
• The fact that Liquid Nitrogen (which is very cold) is accepted as fuel is not a joke. Engines that use Liquid Nitrogen as fuel actually exist out-of-game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_nitrogen_engine

The Hydraulic Dynamo is 8 blocks long and 14 tiles tall, which makes it the biggest early game reactor.

How to obtain

Electronics Center

20x Iron Bar 15x Copper Bar 6x Lead 5x Electromagnet 25x Core Fragment 20x Copper Wire

1x Hydraulic Dynamo

Items crafted here

1x Core Fragment

5W (40s)

1x Lava

4W (10s)

1x Liquid Iron

6W (32s)

1x Liquid Nitrogen

6W (20s)

1x Scorched Core

7W (180s)

1x Volatile Powder

7W (40s)

Power sources
Low-tech (fuel)	Alternator Generator (=4W) · Combustion Generator (=12W) · Hydraulic Dynamo (5-21W, depending on fuel)
Low-tech (renewable)	Solar Panel (<=4W) · Solar Array (<=10W) · Solar Tower (<=24W) · Wind Turbine (<12W) · Weather Beacon (tool to check light/wind level)
Madness	Neuro-Psionic Generator (=60W) · Nocturn Array (<=10W, renewable)
Advanced	Fission Reactor (10-360W, depending on fuel, + has useful byproducts) · Small Fusion Reactor (15-360W, depending on fuel) · Large Fusion Reactor (35-600W, depending on fuel) · Quantum Reactor (60-620W, depending on fuel)
Precursor	Precursor Reactor (up to 1055W, noncraftable: can only be found)