Make electricity make sense

Batteries are pretty good at dis-charging. A car starter pulls a large chunk of the battery's capacity in seconds. I agree that recharging should be more hassle than it is.

You might pick one thing and say "therefore 1EC=1KJ" but electricity is utterly ad-hoc right now.

If you look at the electricity consumption of the Communotron 16 and wave a rubber chicken over some physics facts, each unit of EC might be about 10 joules.

If you look at the fuel consumption rate of fuel cells vs engines, each unit of EC may be about 40 joules (with a very large margin of error).

If you assume the MK1 Illuminator is a 100W bulb(don't tell me its a LED, it has warmup!), each unit of power is about 5 kilojoules.

If you look at the electricity consumption of ion engines, each unit of EC is about 30 kilojoules at minimum, probably many times more!

I'm inclined to think the lower end of the scale is right, since that's more reasonable compared to in-game solar panels. But as the game was added on, all sense of scale was lost.Make electricity make sense

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