@StooopidMonkey Here's my guess: For Quad Dolorium cell itsown, it acts as 4 single cells placed in 2x2 pattern, each cell in it receives 2 more pulses from adjacent cells and has total 3 pulses per tick, therefore the total heat is 227M*(3*3)*4 = 8.17B. When you place Quad Dolorium cells in a line, each Quad cells receives 2*4 pulses from adjacent quad cells, each cell inside Quad cells receives 8/4 = 2 more pulses per tick, so the total heat produced is 227M*(5*5)*4 = 22.7B.