Use some solar panels and a solar capacitor.
Empyrion using solar panels.
As such it.
There are no infinite sources in empyrion other than the trusty survival constructor and water so not dying and spending most of your time not just mining is pretty much about using energy efficiently.
Generators do still need a fuel tank and battery power overflow does not get stored as fuel.
You can combine solar and generators and the solar gets used first.
Solar capacitors will always prioritize using solar energy before burning fuel.
Solar energy setups can be complicated and require some thought to become truly efficient.
Solar panel blocks are blocks used as an alternate source of power.
Solar panels get power from the sun during the day and store their excess in the solar capacitor for when the panel isn t producing power.
It is not the other way around.
Having a backup generator is probably a good idea.
Also solar panels won t work if you have a generator in your base.
Empyrion galactic survival.
So if your panels are enough you won t use any fuel.
The best way to make use of solar energy is to set up device grouping in the control panel.
Panel placement panel size weather and time of day all affect the output of solar panels.
If there are generators present the base will draw power from the capacitor s before using the generator s.
So if you have too many devices turned on your batteries capacitors will never charge.
What gave you that idea.
In addition any generators present in the base will not consume fuel as long as there is ample solar energy stored in capacitors to meet the base s power needs.
It must be paired with the capacitor solar to store the energy absorbed by the blocks.
Empyrion galactic survival.
This is a survival game speed costs and kills and it s efficient.
If you read nothing else.
Generally love thy survival constructor.
You would always be running off of the generators and fuel.
For more power add more panels or replace your small.
Solar panels have both sloped and horizontal varieties to enable more efficient.