Editing Guides/Power and Energy Costs (section)

===== Mobile Power =====
Mobile power is more expensive due to the increased cost of frames and the fact that the frames consume some of the energy. This assumes using the cheapest available frame for each component size: {{IL|Worker}}, {{IL|Cub}}, and {{IL|Rock}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|-
|
|{{IL|Miner}}-seconds
|Space
|{{IL|Metal Ore}}
|{{IL|Crystal Chunk}}
|{{IL|Silica Sand}}
|{{IL|Blight Crystal Chunk}}
|{{IL|Laterite ore}}
|Notes
|-
|{{IL|Power Transmitter}}
|1698
|1.00
|140.0
|66.0
|88.0
|
|
|1
|-
|{{IL|Large Power Transmitter}}
|1664
|0.20
|90.8
|59.0
|79.0
|35.0
|
|1
|-
|{{IL|Crystal Power}}
|122
|0.71
|11.4
|10.7
|
|
|
|2
|-
|{{IL|Solar Panel}}+{{IL|Medium Battery}}
|3034
|0.55
|235.8
|197.1
|105.7
|
|
|
|-
|{{IL|Wind Turbine}}
|2719
|1.18
|277.6
|189.4
|17.6
|
|
|3
|-
|{{IL|Power Unit}}
|757
|0.10
|40.5
|19.2
|31.8
|22.7
|40.4
|4
|-
|{{IL|Power Core}}
|4200
|0.10
|274.1
|234.5
|230.5
|
|
|
|-
|{{IL|Power Cell}}
|6938
|
|452.0
|526.0
|266.0
|
|
|5
|-
|{{IL|Solar Cell}}+{{IL|Small Battery}}
|1288
|4.32
|114.3
|120.5
|
|
|
|6
|-
|{{IL|Solar Cell}}+2x{{IL|Capacitor}}
|1617
|3.33
|116.7
|183.3
|
|
|
|
|}
# Mounted on a {{IL|Building 1x1 (1M)}}/{{IL|Building 1x1 (1L)}}. Doesn't include the cost of the grid power being transmitted
# Uses 1 crystal chunk (5 miner-seconds) per 100 power per 60 seconds. So after around 6 hours (of running near max power) it's less efficient than having built a power transmitter + blight power, and after around 9 hours it's less efficient than having built a power transmitter + wind turbines. Excellent source of mobile power for the early and midgame
# Not useful compared to power transmitters, and wind power more than doubles when not on a plateau
# Still has a significant Laser Extractor cost of 240 seconds, but the costs of its competitors have almost doubled making it competitive with basically everything except transmitted blight power. Can be mounted on a faster bot without significantly increasing costs.
# Very expensive but has a few uses, especially as it has a 10-range power field on an internal slot
# Uses behaviors on the solar bots to shut them off at night