It can be considered a variation of good old "extended time" from 80s. Although the idea came from "what should we do with excess energy". I will be posting a few words about it soon.
:D at some point I will expose settings so it can be adjusted.
Currently it is so easy because I didn't want to make experience shorter, but to be honest, I could just disable the reactor and tweak values to make challenge harder - (and that's what I'll do for the next build.