Wastepack atomizer

Wastepack atomizer

A glittertech device that deconstructs toxic wastepacks into inert gases using advanced moecular proccesses.
The process requires considerable amounts of power.

Base Stats

Type

Building – ?

Market Value

2440  ^[Note]

Mass

80 kg

HP

500

Flammability

50%

Path Cost

42 (24%)

Building

Size

3 × 2

"PassThroughOnly" is not in the list (impassable, pass through only, standable) of allowed values for the "Passability" property.

Passability

PassThroughOnly

Cover Effectiveness

50%

Power

-800 W

Creation

Required Research

Wastepack atomizer

Skill Required

Construction 8

Work To Make

30,000 ticks (8.33 mins)

Resources to make

200 + 50 + 1

Deconstruct yield

100 + 25 + 0 - 1

Destroy yield

50 + 12 - 13 + 0 - 1

Technical

buildingTags

Biotech

The wastepack atomizer cleanly destroys toxic wastepacks, preventing the spread of pollution.

Acquisition

Wastepack atomizers can be constructed after studying a nano structuring chip, obtained from defeating a Apocriton, and completing the Wastepack atomizer research project. Each requires  200 Steel,  50 Plasteel,  1 Nano structuring chips, 30,000 ticks (8.33 mins) of work, and a Construction skill of 8.

Summary

Wastepack atomizers use 800 W of power. Atomizers hold up to 10 wastepacks, equivalent to two stacks. A single wastepack is destroyed every 30,000 ticks (12 in-game hours) inside a powered atomizer. Pawns only reload the Atomizer with full stacks of Wastepacks, or once every 2.5 days. Wastepacks do not deteriorate in the atomizer.

Analysis

Atomizers are the primary, consequence-free means of dealing with pollution. Transport pods consume steel and chemfuel. Caravan dumping takes a pawn's time, food, a large carrying capacity, and risks the caravan being ambushed. Empire shuttles are limited by the 40 day cooldown. Dumping wastepacks near faction settlements incurs goodwill penalties, regardless of delivery method.

However, each atomizer a player wishes to build requires defeating an apocriton for its nano structuring chip, which coupled with their very high power consumption, makes building multiple atomizers an expensive proposition. Players will have to decide between using their nano structuring chips for atomizers, advanced Mechanitor gear, or gestating advanced mechanoids.

Sustainability

Toxifier generators

A toxifier generator produces 6 tiles of pollution every 3 days, which is converted into 1 wastepack by a pollution pump. An atomizer can destroy 6 wastepacks in 3 days, and a pump can convert 2 generators of pollution. Therefore, 1 atomizer (-800 W) can support 6 generators (+1400 W) and 3 pumps (-200 W), for a total net power gain of 7400 W.

Mechanoids

Mechanoids will produce wastepacks proportional to their bandwidth every 12 days - working for 10 days and recharging for 2 days. An atomizer will destroy 24 wastepacks in 12 days. The table below shows how many mechanoids a single building will support per 12 day cycle, assuming 100% work uptime. Mechanoids that are idle or dormant wil produce less waste.

Mechanoids	Bandwidth	Wastepacks Produced (per 12 day Cycle)	# Mechanoids (per atomizer)
Agrihand, Cleansweeper, Fabricor, Militor, Paramedic	1	5	4.8
Lancer, Legionary, Pikeman, Scorcher, Scyther	2	10	2.4
Tesseron, Tunneler	3	15	1.6
Centipede (all)	4	20	1.2
Centurion, Diabolus, War queen	5	25	0.96

So by the time most players have finished the 8000 research points Wastepack atomizer project, they are highly likely to already have more mechs producing wastepacks than a single atomizer is capable of processessing.

Version history

• Biotech DLC Release - introduced.
• 1.4.3531 - Fix: Pawns won't haul wastepacks to an atomizer unless there's 10 wastepacks on the map.