Solar panel stacking

[Entity]

Soooo, solar panels scale with surface.

 

There's also nothing stopping me from making a giant stack of 0.01 thick panels to generate more power than a generator of equal volume would generate, all the while being much lighter.

 

Sure it costs considerably more credits/mineral, and probably lags things (stack of 1000 panels, ewww)...

 

I think they should have a minimum thickness to work.

[FriedrichPsitalon]

So one hand:

 

1000s of solar panels, vastly more credits, vastly more material. Mildly/moderately less mass.

 

Other hand:

 

1 generator. Cheaper. Less resources burned. Might not lag. Mildly/moderately more mass.

 

...looks balanced to me. If anything, I'd say solar panels still don't have enough going for them.

[WSY]

Original post said it took less volume and mass just to clarify.

 

I am curious though, when you say more volume Entity, are you counting the 0.01 space between each panel? Or can you litterally stack the panels against each other without space?

 

I would test myself but work/life balanced is a bit fubar right now.