Talk:Thermal Plant/@comment-107.223.130.147-20160509033501/@comment-28421783-20160509210131

That depends on how you value your time and how much you enjoy feeding materials into the bio reactor. I almost always prefer the build and forget nature of the thermal plant. They are also the only way to be truly energy independant in the deep sea. Really useful, especially once we get the Cyclops dock.

I agree that the energy cap it provides is a little low, but as long as it is in warm enough water, the production rate is amazing. Plus, you don't really need a high energy cap. At least not yet, and you can always artificially increase it with a few solar cells if you really want it higher since they will increase the cap ewven if they are in the dark.

Also, at least on the current experimental, the termal plant only costs 1 lubricant to build. FYI.