How Is Energy Transported?

[SacremPyrobolum]

Like the title says, how is energy transported from planet to planet?

Thing like oil and uranium and hydrogen are easy enough to understand, but what about the power you get from solar or wind energy, particularly from Dyson spheres?

Would we use big fuck-off batteries that are super deficient or something?

 

[TheWalkingLost]

FTL Energy beam transmission stations, receiver stations and battery freighters.

 

[Bugnr01]

From dyson shpares, i would suspect infra red beams to nerby colonies. There you can us it as solar energy.

 

[foxboy73]

You're all wrong it's clearly magic!

All joking aside I never really thought about it...beaming? I guess batteries is the only real logical conclusion, besides it just magically appearing of course. Really I don't know, I leave all that sciencey stuff to my scientists they seem so much better at that stuff so they are excused from being conscripted into the military.

 

[genrtul]

Lasers, probably. Batteries suck and nobody really has any idea how to make them better. You might even do something like using the electric energy on-site at the Dyson sphere to make some resource like hydrogen for transportation. Transporting energy is actually quite a difficult feat.

 

[Bugnr01]

Useing the suns energy (which is generated by the fusion of hydrogen) to produce hydrogen sounds weird. And producing out of what?
Seding energy as light (laser...) seems plausible to me.

 

[Alblaka]

By microscopic dwarves running through pipeline-cables. Note that sending too big dwarves through a small cable will make them get angry and explode.

Obscure references aside, I'm pretty sure Stellaris didn't model energy transportation at all. Similar how mineral and food transportation won't be modelled past the 'blockaded planets don't produce' effect.

 

[GAGA Extrem]

It's obviously transferred in the form of €nergy Credits, the easiest way to take your energy with you.

 

[robertqin]

Focused energy beam maybe a way, but it can't go FTL.

Battery makes the most sense. Of course they won't use today's chemical battery. Just go wild with your imagination.

Maybe the Dyson sphere use the energy it gathered to creat anti matter as a means of storing energy, and put these matter in to a container. (when you have Dyson sphere you probably already have anti matter reactor tech) Then these containers are shipped with freighters.

 

[VoodooEconomist]

USB cable.

 

[Markieness]

Energon Cubes.

 

[scaper12123]

Bank account transfers

 

[henzington]

Magic but see Mr Clarke about sufficiently advanced tech.

 

[niallmcfc]

Batteries shaped like coins

 

[Velorian]

If it's short-distance transfers then probably by laser. If you are trading it then you'd need to transform the energy into an easily extractable resource.

Perhaps using the energy to produce a bunch of antimatter, which doesn't weigh much compared to the energy it'll deliver.

I'm not sure exactly how Zero-Point energy works in Stellaris, but in Stargate they made those Zero Point Modules which served as an enclosure for an artificially created pocket of subspace-time. So investment in creating that pocket plane of humongous energy and then access to a really powerful transportable battery afterwards.

 

[Adamsrealm]

Like the title says, how is energy transported from planet to planet?

Thing like oil and uranium and hydrogen are easy enough to understand, but what about the power you get from solar or wind energy, particularly from Dyson spheres?

Would we use big fuck-off batteries that are super deficient or something?

Soup cans.

 

[Foefaller]

Future batteries, and microwaves. It's also possible that some forms of "energy" are simply raw combustible materials (like batherian stone. It's a tile-boosting resource now, but before the strategic resource overhaul it was something you obviously found in one place and used elsewhere.)

There might also be cases of raw materials being taken to where the energy abundance allows for cheaper processing. Good real world example of this is aluminum. The process of refining aluminum from bauxite requires a lot of electricity, so it's not uncommon to transport raw bauxite to someplace where energy prices are low (like, for example, Iceland) and refine it there.

 

[Stadhouder]

I guess the whole reason that Dyson spheres in game only deliver 200* energy instead of the few trillion it theoretically should is because they have taken into account deficiencies that will occur during transport to the rest of your empire.

*not final number is not final

 

[terrycloth]

Doesn't antimatter have the highest possible energy density? I guess later on they might invent something better.

 

[Cannes]

Doesn't antimatter have the highest possible energy density? I guess later on they might invent something better.

Yeah antimatter and blackholes convert 100% of mass to energy. Why blackhole energy is not in the game puzzles me. It seems much more likely that we use evaporation of black holes as a future energy source than zero point energy and antimatter...