Fuel Cells
If a mining facility can adequately supply refined pure metals then it can easily be equipped with a metal fuel cell / MAEC system and dodge the need for the usual liquid fuels which may be hard to come by in some scenarios. These parts have all the height variants of the super battery suite.
Sterling MAECs can be fueled by Aluminium, Silicon or Beryllium. They contain a second converter module, the recharger, which employs electrolysis to restore the metal fuel. This produces waste heat which must be managed. Running an MAEC normally will produce a small amount of ThermalPower.
Note
The recharger module runs at 1000 K with System Heat.
| Profile | Base Mass¹ | Output Power (Al) | Output Power (Si) | Output Power (Be) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luggage | 0.019 t | 102.4 EC/s | 96 EC/s | 153.6 EC/s |
| Cube | 0.084 t | 1600 EC/s | 1500 EC/s | 2400 EC/s |
| 1.25m | 0.481 t | 4000 EC/s | 3750 EC/s | 6000 EC/s |
| Mk2 | 0.74 t | 5760 EC/s | 5400 EC/s | 8640 EC/s |
| 2.5m | 2.864 t | 16000 EC/s | 15000 EC/s | 24000 EC/s |
| 3.75m | 9.114 t | 36000 EC/s | 33750 EC/s | 54000 EC/s |
| 5m | 20.949 t | 64000 EC/s | 60000 EC/s | 96000 EC/s |
- [1] Dry mass with lowest (none) height variant.