#Factorio boiler to steam engine ratio mod
#Factorio boiler to steam engine ratio full
#Factorio boiler to steam engine ratio mods

How would you want it to work? circuit buffer? my point is - even if this will use 10MJ to heat 5MJ of steam - thats ok, storing power in this form is still more profitable than capacitors, do the math.ģrd: if your whole network is lacking, you have circuits, disable boilers and its done. If you have something else that is not celtic fairy magic, and is playable in multi pvp, then by all means, take me there.Ģnd: I dont really understand what you mean, if you mean that efficiency is not 100%? duh, what you wrote earlier - perpetuum mobile.

#Factorio boiler to steam engine ratio mod

Also i can import hot steam by t rains which also gives me some possibilities.ġst: free energy mod? wut? in 0.14 I used some weird mod to generate crude oil from electricity, but ratio was weak, and felt like kind of cheating. if I can make capacitor field smaller by storing water instead of charge - good, less space, less fences and turrets, less space actually needed. Additional capacitor field to secure capacitor field etc. Cutting it short - capacitor field will require space, space require security which require power, you see the loop? so for me space/capacity ratio really matters.

Ah, and also i have wave or two of kickass elemental biters each night. Additionally tanks are still pretty cheap and available early, while batteries need time and work to research and make. add some roboports in the future, lasers etc. It means that really miserable and small factory takes even up to 30MW on really calm day, and I dont even have lasers yet - only gun turrets. Now, to explain what i use it for: I am playing with angelsmod+bobsmod. in 0.15 factorio probably even more since there are steam turbines. 36-tiled capacitor can: (accumulator) discharge 2 700KJ/s, or(water) everything at once depending on your normal steam engine output, mine for example (36 tiles,10 000units of hot water) can be consumed in around 20s, which gives around 40 000KJ/s. For example to store similar energy as 1 tank you need ~200copper+280iron, and 160 tiles = waste of space and resources. you are storing 200MJ in 45 iron plates-construct, or 5Mj in ~7iron+5copper, but you are using 180 iron per 36 tiles or ~63iron+45copper, larger setups means better ratio. for each 36tiles, you can store either 45MJ of charge, or 800MJ of hot water.

#Factorio boiler to steam engine ratio full

My only option is to store part of steam before using it but this require coal or some other fuel.Īlso, be creative, consider unmodded vanilla 0.14, full storage tank of hot water is somewhat around 200 MJ on 3x3 area (9tiles), while 2x2 accumulator keeps charge of 5MJ on 2x2 (4tiles), now math: (for 0.14, i did not tried to appraise it with steam yet.) I can have for example distant solar plant that is not using all of its energy up, so i want to transport it for example by train, but up to this point factorio does not allow to store solar energy in material, transportable form - only in charge. If you are smart enough you can even create circuitry to enable electric boilers based on your industry of all i am not storing energy and then converting it to chemical.

solar panels producing more than needed and capacitors are too expensive or have too small capacity. Since electric boilers are simplest to mod, i can actually abide storing energy as steam even if its not exactly ok with general physics. Industrial energy buffer systems use molten salt for example, or even storing (pumping) water behind dams for later use. Storing energy is important, for feeding laser turrets for example. I waited so long for anyone to actually make such mod and i am really grateful for it, so +1. If you want to be morality police, I really recommend certain groups at Barkley

#Factorio boiler to steam engine ratio mods

Since boilers have efficiency more or less capped at 40%, how would you want to make such system closed? Nobody really cares what mods are you using, don't like it, don't use it. Serious? instead insulting people, read again what you wrote and think about your life and your commitment to society.