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Old 02-15-2020, 10:01 AM   #1
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Default Advanced Submarine and cinematic power

Steampunk gives Advanced Submarine's power as 1,872,000,000 kw/s which works out to 6,739,200,000 MW/h which is 6,739.2 TW/hour. For comparison the largest amount of energy by power station on the planet is Itaipu Dam had, in 2016, an annual production of 103.09 TW/h. In other words Advanced Submarine produces more power in an hour then a modern power plant does in a whole freaking year.

It is one thing to have cinematic power but it is another to have power plants that are start raving nuts even by power plants on land never mind those in modern nuclear submarines.

What would you consider a saner power level for Advanced Submarine? Also why did the author think he had to crank up the power up that high?
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