Wind Turbine
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| Wind Turbine | |
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| Uses wind to generate electricity. Can be unreliable, but exceptional when you have ample wind. Can generate up to 12W. | |
| Category | wire |
| Rarity | common |
| Price | 2500 |
| Colony tags | science |
| ID | isn_windarray |
Unlocked by 
Wind Turbines (Electronics tree).
Wind Turbines (Electronics tree).Wind Turbine produces 12W of Power, but only when it's windy. If there is no wind, it won't produce anything at all.
It doesn't work underground (below the Surface layer) or when submerged in liquids.
Strategy
Wind levels depend on current weather of the planet. Some planets have windy weathers most of the time (and would be optimal for Wind Turbine), while others are almost devoid of wind. You can use GPS feature of your Tricorder to check all possible weathers (and their probabilities) of the planet you are currently on. The wiki pages about planets (e.g. Sulphuric or Garden) also have a list of weathers that are possible for planets of this type.
If you wire some batteries (such as Basic Battery) to the Wind Turbine, these batteries will be charging when there is wind (assuming Wind Turbine produces more power than is consumed by your machinery). Later, when there is no wind, the charge in these batteries will be used to power the machinery.
Planets by wind
| Planet | Worst average output (W) | Best average output (W) | Distribution (how many planets have each level of average output) | Code |
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| Desert Moon | 12 | 12 | 12W (100%) | moon_desert |
| Flame Giant | 12 | 12 | 12W (100%) | fugasgiant3 |
| Gas Giant | 12 | 12 | 12W (100%) | fugasgiant |
| Ice Giant | 12 | 12 | 12W (100%) | fugasgiant4 |
| Midnight | 12 | 12 | 12W (100%) | midnight |
| Proto Giant | 12 | 12 | 12W (100%) | fugasgiant2 |
| Scorched | 12 | 12 | 12W (100%) | scorchedcity |
| Shadow Moon | 12 | 12 | 12W (100%) | moon_shadow |
| Toxic Giant | 12 | 12 | 12W (100%) | fugasgiant5 |
| Toxic Moon | 11 | 11 | 11W (100%) | moon_toxic |
| Dark Sulphur | 10 | 11 | 11W (75%), 10W (25%) | sulphuricdark |
| Sulphuric | 10 | 11 | 11W (75%), 10W (25%) | sulphuric |
| Atropus | 10 | 10 | 10W (100%) | atropus |
| Cyber Sphere | 10 | 10 | 10W (100%) | metallicmoon |
| Nightmare Atropus | 10 | 10 | 10W (100%) | atropusdark |
| Toxic | 10 | 10 | 10W (100%) | toxic |
| Atropus Sea | 9 | 9 | 9W (100%) | bloodstonesea |
| Red Desert | 8 | 10 | 8W (67%), 10W (34%) | desertwastes |
| Dark Ice Waste | 8 | 9 | 8W (75%), 9W (25%) | icewastedark |
| Ice Waste | 8 | 9 | 8W (75%), 9W (25%) | icewaste |
| Dark Red Desert | 8 | 8 | 8W (100%) | desertwastesdark |
| Lightless | 8 | 8 | 8W (100%) | lightless |
| Nitrogen Sea | 8 | 8 | 8W (100%) | nitrogensea |
| Aether World | 7 | 12 | 7W (50%), 8W (25%), 12W (25%) | aethersea |
| Tidewater | 7 | 12 | 7W (34%), 9W (34%), 12W (34%) | tidewater |
| Irradiated | 7 | 7 | 7W (100%) | irradiated |
| Gelatinous | 6 | 6 | 6W (100%) | slimeworld |
| Mountainous | 6 | 6 | 6W (100%) | mountainous |
| Aetheric | 5 | 12 | 7W (40%), 5W (20%), 8W (20%), 12W (20%) | astral |
| Dark Infernus | 5 | 10 | 5W (25%), 6W (25%), 8W (25%), 10W (25%) | infernusdark |
| Infernus | 5 | 10 | 5W (25%), 6W (25%), 8W (25%), 10W (25%) | infernus |
| Strange Sea | 5 | 10 | 6W (25%), 7W (25%), 9W (25%), 5W (13%), 10W (13%) | strangesea |
| Chromatic | 5 | 9 | 5W (34%), 8W (34%), 9W (34%) | chromatic |
| Fungal | 5 | 9 | 5W (25%), 6W (25%), 7W (25%), 9W (25%) | fungus |
| Dark Magma | 5 | 6 | 5W (50%), 6W (50%) | magmadark |
| Lava | 5 | 6 | 5W (50%), 6W (50%) | magma |
| Dark Primeval | 4 | 8 | 4W (25%), 5W (25%), 6W (25%), 8W (25%) | arborealdark |
| Primeval Forest | 4 | 8 | 4W (34%), 6W (34%), 8W (34%) | arboreal |
| Volcanic Primeval | 4 | 6 | 4W (34%), 5W (34%), 6W (34%) | arboreal2 |
| Arctic | 4 | 4 | 4W (100%) | arctic |
| Dark Arctic | 4 | 4 | 4W (100%) | arcticdark |
| Jungle | 4 | 4 | 4W (100%) | jungle |
| Oceanic | 4 | 4 | 4W (100%) | ocean |
| Savannah | 4 | 4 | 4W (100%) | savannah |
| Frozen Volcanic | 3 | 10 | 8W (50%), 9W (17%), 3W (9%), 5W (9%), 6W (9%), 10W (9%) | frozenvolcanic |
| Frozen Moon | 3 | 8 | 8W (67%), 3W (34%) | icemoon |
| Crystalline | 3 | 4 | 3W (50%), 4W (50%) | crystalmoon |
| Alien | 3 | 3 | 3W (100%) | alien |
| Dark Tundra | 3 | 3 | 3W (100%) | tundradark |
| Forest | 3 | 3 | 3W (100%) | forest |
| Lunar | 3 | 3 | 3W (100%) | moon |
| Penumbra | 3 | 3 | 3W (100%) | penumbra |
| Rocky Moon | 3 | 3 | 3W (100%) | moon_stone |
| Tundra | 3 | 3 | 3W (100%) | tundra |
| Bog | 2 | 7 | 2W (34%), 4W (34%), 7W (34%) | bog |
| Tabula Rasa | 2 | 2 | 2W (100%) | tabularasa |
| Tar Ball | 2 | 2 | 2W (100%) | tarball |
| Volcanic | 2 | 2 | 2W (100%) | volcanic |
| Volcanic Moon | 2 | 2 | 2W (100%) | moon_volcanic |
| Shadow | 1 | 12 | 8W (24%), 9W (12%), 10W (12%), 11W (12%), 3W (9%), 6W (9%), 1W (6%), 5W (6%), 12W (6%), 4W (3%), 7W (3%) | shadow |
| Eden | 1 | 11 | 3W (25%), 9W (25%), 1W (13%), 6W (13%), 7W (13%), 11W (13%) | eden |
| Proto World | 1 | 11 | 9W (34%), 1W (12%), 3W (12%), 6W (12%), 7W (12%), 8W (12%), 11W (12%) | protoworld |
| Rainforest | 1 | 11 | 9W (29%), 1W (15%), 3W (15%), 6W (15%), 7W (15%), 11W (15%) | thickjungle |
| Shadow Proto World | 1 | 11 | 9W (34%), 1W (12%), 3W (12%), 6W (12%), 7W (12%), 8W (12%), 11W (12%) | protoworlddark |
| Wasteland | 1 | 11 | 9W (34%), 6W (17%), 1W (9%), 3W (9%), 5W (9%), 7W (9%), 8W (9%), 11W (9%) | urbanwasteland |
| Dark Snow | 1 | 1 | 1W (100%) | snowdark |
| Snowy | 1 | 1 | 1W (100%) | snow |
| Desert | 0 | 12 | 0W (15%), 1W (15%), 2W (15%), 7W (15%), 8W (15%), 9W (15%), 12W (15%) | desert |
| Super Dense | 0 | 12 | 6W (16%), 9W (16%), 8W (14%), 10W (9%), 11W (9%), 2W (7%), 3W (7%), 12W (7%), 1W (5%), 5W (5%), 7W (5%), 0W (3%), 4W (3%) | superdense |
| Unknown | 0 | 12 | 8W (18%), 9W (15%), 6W (11%), 3W (11%), 11W (9%), 7W (7%), 4W (6%), 1W (6%), 10W (6%), 2W (5%), 5W (5%), 12W (5%), 0W (4%) | ffunknown |
| Garden | 0 | 11 | 7W (23%), 9W (23%), 0W (12%), 1W (12%), 2W (12%), 3W (12%), 11W (12%) | garden |
| Barren | 0 | 0 | 0W (100%) | barren |
How to obtain
Electronics Center
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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) |