Weather Beacon
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| Weather Beacon | |
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| A scanning radar used to measure light and wind levels. | |
| Category | decorative |
| Rarity | Uncommon |
| Price | 300 |
| Colony tags | wired electronic science |
| ID | fu_weatherbeacon |
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Electronics (Electronics tree).
Electronics (Electronics tree).The Weather Beacon can be placed anywhere to measure the power output that a renewable energy generator (a Solar Panel, Solar Array, Solar Tower or Wind Turbine) would produce at that location and time, to determine how useful they would be without spending the resources on a potentially-useless generator.
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| Power sources | |
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| 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) |