Engineers Engineering Power Plant and heat efficiency.

[Karamon]

Hello. I ask this because i got a little confused and never really bothered about it .


It is about power plant Heat efficiency , can someone explain when it is better and when it is worse? 0.5 is good or 0.4 is good?


Now i will explain why i am confused .

In old system when i overcharged PP i got higher numbers of Heat efficiency (from 0.4 to 0.5) and it was in red , so it was negative effect , at least i assumed that .
But in new system i checked how much materials i need to downgrade my PP and i noticed that change from 0.55 to 0.45 is in red so it is "negative effect"
Same goes with PP levels , higher grade , higher number heat efficiency and everyone say that higher number is better ....

And Coriolis when i add 105 of heat efficiency turn 0.4 into 0.44 ading even more to my confusion .

I simply don't need 52 MW in PP that i have now and wanted to downgrade it to ~45 MW . As i remembered old engineering system i assumed my heat efficiency will be better , but new system say in red colors to me "0.45 efficiency is worse than 0.55 " ....

 

[ALEX CAOS]

0.4 better

 

[ThePunisher]

o.4 is the best so 0.5 is the worst so any where in between there is always better, i got a powerplant in my vette with a 0.44 heat efficiency with 54.63 power out put, but that was in the old system when the secondaires where great not ever trading that in.

 

[biohazard15]

0.45 is less than 0.55 in pure numbers, so it is shown as red. In fact, 0.45 is better than 0.55 - this number means extra heat generated per each used MW.

 

[Karamon]

0.45 is less than 0.55 in pure numbers, so it is shown as red. In fact, 0.45 is better than 0.55 - this number means extra heat generated per each used MW.

I know but previous engineering system was showing it right , when it increased it was red meaning less heat eff , new system just confused me so thanks for clarification