Space Engineers

Space Engineers

Economical Hydrogen Engines
14 Comments
[RAVN]™ Business Goose 27 Dec, 2022 @ 3:38pm 
is this broken? its showing 10mw but its only charging at vanilla rates or am i just not understanding how this game works?
Mooretec 7 Oct, 2022 @ 7:15am 
@ShadouFireborn Hey I don't know if you found a solution but I would recommend Expanded Settings. It's a mod that once in place you can set your own efficiency scale for both engines and thrusters.
ShadouFireborn 8 Aug, 2022 @ 1:54pm 
This mod, alone, is affecting the hydrogen usage of the hydrogen thrusters. I do not have the economical hydrogen thrusters or the combined thrusters and engines mod, only this mod. With this mod removed, the hydrogen thrusters went back to their normal consumption.

I did not want both the hydrogen engines and thrusters mods. Just the engines. Could you please fix this mod so it does not affect thrusters?
creamerl1015 6 Apr, 2021 @ 10:52am 
I've been searching for something similar to what Nablabla described, with a thermodynamically (and chemically) realistic hydrogen system that respects the conservation of matter and energy. I haven't found anything like that - everything goes the opposite direction.

If somebody were interested in converting the stock O2/H2 generator and H2 Engine to behave realistically (I probably will later and am writing this for my own benefit as much as anything) here's some calculations I did based on keeping its stock 25 kg/s ice consumption rate:

At 100% efficiency the max power req should be (25 kg/s) x (1000 g/kg) x (1 mol/18g) x (237 kJ/mol [gibbs free energy of H20 from H2/O2]) x (1 MJ/ 1000 kJ) = 329MJ/s, or 329 MW. Modern PEM electrolysis is 80% efficient, which would require 411 MW. That's 822x more power than stock; throughput will need to be reduced to keep power consumption reasonable. If I do it I'll base it on the mass/output of real PEM systems.
Nablabla 27 Mar, 2021 @ 1:41pm 
I don't understand why you would like to have this mod: I want the opposite, an H2-generator producing enough H2 for an H2-engine consumes only 500kW while the engine generates 5MW, so ther is an efficiency of 4500% already !?!?! so you can just use that as power generation, like conveting water into power that is so wrong. The H2 generator should be nerfed to consume 10x more power to make it 100% efficiency or maybe more like 15x more power usage. Does anybody know a mod that fixes this issue?
︻デ 一ProSnipe一 デ︻ 11 Mar, 2021 @ 2:28pm 
our server did use it for years and never had any trouble , sad to see this mod go away
razarunz 15 Sep, 2020 @ 11:51am 
So much speculation, such little testing. This DOES effect your jetpacks efficiency tremendously
Jamie 28 Aug, 2020 @ 9:15am 
Im also finding my jet pack lasts way longer since using this mod
Neratex 13 Aug, 2020 @ 10:01am 
I loved to use the old engines in my builds but was always disapointed by many of the issues they had, I am so glad that this has finaly been fixed, thank you very much <3
Eliana 24 Jul, 2020 @ 12:16pm 
A engine that eats hydrogen that goes on a large grid would not affect your jetpack unless maybe your jetback is a hydrogen engine.
8vantor8 25 Apr, 2020 @ 2:58pm 
how it just changes the hydro engine?
Sporkyzz 27 Jan, 2020 @ 10:16am 
this makes your jetpack almost unlimited.. bad
Dradonis 25 Oct, 2019 @ 1:01pm 
Took out Hulls as server froze booting up in torch, without it it boots fine. Popped this in and it froze booting just the same. Took this out, boots up again just fine. As it just freezes there are no logs so can't say exactly what the issues is but this is giving the same issues as Hulls was for me
krejil 10 Oct, 2019 @ 5:29pm 
Thank you so much for fixing this mod for the new update dude.