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Beside using solar and wind power to keep the harvester, what other fuel could be used? Can I used the petrochem from mining to power it as well? If so which one?

Thanks!

Anyone?

Radiactives seems to be the only other thing that works. The liquid/solid fuels are used for other things, but won't power your harvesters.

If you can stomach the cost of getting a fusion generator (75-125k range), there is no reason not to go with radioactive fuel.

All 3 power generators (wind / solar / fusion) take up 1 lot and cost 1440 credits in maintenance per day. The big difference is their efficiency rates, wind = 5Kg/Min, solar = 8Kg/Min and fusion = 13Kg/Min.

Assuming a best case scenario with a 100% resource density wind collects 7200 power/day, solar 11520 power/dayand fusion 18720 power/day.

From my experience it seems you can always find wind or solar but rarely a concentration of it higher than 60%. Its easy to find radioactives with concentrations in the 80% range, but sometimes the resource shift can leave a planet with no radioactive resources at all and you'll have to place on a different world.

My fusion generator on a 60% vein generates enough power for my 9 medium havesters. Go fusion!!

Yup fusion is so the way to go, i have 2 of them and the last good spot i had was a 91% spot, I had enough power to run my harvesters and also had enough power left over when the spot dried up (had 110k of power in reserve) now im on a 40% spot (with luck i will find a nice 90% again ) but i still have 40k from my reserve

Fusion is so the way to go.

Some of the members of my PA guild really swear by nuke power. If you do, make sure you get a solidvein. I personally like wind.