Talk:Nuclear Reactor/@comment-1035563-20180131084319/@comment-34493530-20180202045024

It all depends: A bioreactor trades energy output per second and size for resource cost A nuclear reactor trades resource cost for really compact size and high energy output a second

While a bioreactor may be able of getting a lot of stored energy, it releases this at 1/4 the speed and you'll need to dedicate an additional room for farming fish A nuclear reactor along with a single locker filled with fuel is gonna be able to sustain really highly energy demanding habitats (say, 2 water filtration machines and 10 batteries) with it alone

If yo were to try to rely on a single bioreactor you would have to scratch entirely the water filtration machines as a single one takes 1.25E/s, more than what the bioreactor alone outputs, then you still would only be able to charge a total of 6 batteries at a time which may be enough for a small 1 room base you're using to charge power cells for your cyclops, but then you're missing out stockpiling what's the most space efficient and effort-free water source in the game