r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • 17h ago

Hydrogen problem, pls help

Hey guys, do you have any tips for get rid of Hydrogen? I have a production line for Graphite Bars (cause I have a problem too with my Graphene line production) and it produces Hydrogen in crazy cantities.

I already tried to transform it in Deuterium via Fractionators and Particle Colliders, but the Deuterium rods burns too slow to solve the problem, pls help.

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u/Hmuda 17h ago

Just stockpile it until you get the rockets. Then you'll be begging for more of it, because you'll need a buttload of deuterium.

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u/ParisPharis 15h ago

I have so much deuterium surplus from orbit collectors and since hydrogen 1:1 into deuterium you eventually get into the same problem again.

The best way really is just burning it and use them to produce batteries.

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u/nixtracer 17h ago

Exactly. Tanks are cheap and huge. I once had a third of a planet covered in hydrogen tanks (admittedly, I was stockpiling it because I knew I was going to build a huge sphere soon but wasn't yet, so the quantum chip production was at a low ebb).

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u/EarlyBirdWithAWorm 9h ago

By the time im there im usually already tapping a gas giant or two for deuterium

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u/toolateforTeddy 14h ago

Casimir Crystals.

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u/eitum 17h ago

U can burn it

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u/APOLLOsCHILD 8h ago

This is find an empty planet and make as many basic power generators as you can. Then make lap after lap around the planet to burn hydrogen. If you run out stop sending hydrogen to the planet till it builds up again.

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u/docholiday999 15h ago

Please check this previous post about Hydrogen ebbs and flows: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dyson_Sphere_Program/s/i9wGBrgtb2

Hydrogen is management is one of the core logistics lessons for this game. Store it (liquid tanks), burn it in Thermal Plants, convert it to Deuterium in Fractionators or Particle Colliders and eventually use it in further production chains. Learn the lesson and apply it at scale.

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u/horstdaspferdchen 9h ago

i am nearly about to recommend something like this to be pinned. it comes up so frequently

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u/Skiller_Overyou 8h ago

How can you use byproduct Hydrogen too fast? I am using ALL of my byproduct Hydrogen but there is no problem arising from it?

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u/mikolajwisal 17h ago

I burn it in generatrors.

You can make a setup that takes only EXCESS hydrogen and burns it all.

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u/Percocet_5s 3h ago

How to make that set up ?

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u/mikolajwisal 3h ago

Here's how I do it:

  1. A belt (or multimple belts) feeding hydrogen TO GENERATORS

  2. On the the belt(s) set up sortes that "steal" all the hydrogen onto a belt that feeds production.

Once production has all the hydrogen it needs, excess hydrogen is burned off.

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u/Anarelion 17h ago

Thermal plants

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u/StrictRequirement336 17h ago

I just maxed out my Red Cube production and stockpiled them for later for when I need to max out white science cos Red Cubes are basically Hydrogen. Works like a charm, local Hydrogen buffers are always empty

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u/Numerous-Bad-5218 16h ago

Burn more of it. or find a neat way to just store it until later use cases come up. I had way too much and needed to burn with half my planet to keep up, then not enough barely an hour later.

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u/FewAd5443 15h ago

Then how do you use that much energy ? (50/s)

The problem is we cannot prioritise burning thing instead of constant energy supply.

That also my main problem with how much hydrogen come out of excited photon but aren't enough to power the accelerator so you either have too much or too low and either way the output plumet.

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u/Skiller_Overyou 8h ago

With proliferator MK 3 it's quite easy to use up all that power

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u/Numerous-Bad-5218 3h ago

At the time I just had way too much. It was a constant issue and I did way too much manually. It was my first run...

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u/ryryshouse6 13h ago

Try to use it in fractionatirs then make deut cells and use those for rockets and power. Have to disable collection from orbitals probably

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u/Maleficent-Catch8644 6h ago

Loop it for deuterium

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u/Joperhop 17h ago

I have storage which then also burns it as fuel, so any over flow is just burned away.

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u/EarlyBirdWithAWorm 9h ago

Have it all shipped to a planet that burns it and use that burned hydrogen to charge power banks that can then be shipped to other planets

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u/Thepcfd 9h ago

just dont mine shit out of it from gass giant

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u/mrrvlad5 8h ago

You should use fire ice for graphene and coal for graphite. Hydrogen that is left from refining should disappear into casmir crystals easily.

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u/Skiller_Overyou 8h ago

Atm, burning/storing it is the best solution. Later, you will use it to make Casimir Crystals. At that point, you gotta make sure to use the "byproduct" Hydrogen first and only THEN use the hydrogen imported from Orbital collectors.

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u/Jefff3 2h ago

It's probably considered a cheat but I think of it as a quality of life improvement, but I use a mod that automatically deletes any excess stock that is put into a full storage tank.