Hello.

It seem people have found a "perfect" ratio for boiler to steam engine. I would like to know which ratio it is, and why it work better than other.

hoho wrote:It would be nice if we could research fracking technology to use some byproducts of oil production to extract some more stuff out from the fields

And get pollution through the roof ! (not as a sarcasm or political commentary, but as a mechanism)

Well, iron can burn (not in the rust sense, in the "produce a flame and heat" sense), as can most thing actually. It can even explode (which is somewhat more common than burning, since if you want an actual iron flame you will need iron powder or very thin sheet of metal, or a similar way ...

Kind of like solar-accumulator combo, right? :) Main problem is that currently water is infinite in the game. I would imagine it's not even too hard to implement finite water in game - just calculate the volume of lakes based on some extra noise map. That same noise map could be used for gradually ...

Ohlmann: Quite on the contrary, synthetic diamond is a rather awesome material thanks to its great hardness and conductivity, and is fairly suitable for anything that doesn't concern great tensile stress or high temperatures in presence of oxygen. Well, it's mainly not *comparable* to steel. Maybe ...

The recipe require 5 components, and assembling machine cannot use more than 4 components. That's why you cannot do refinerie factory.

Note that we certainly talk about "fantasy" diamond more than the earth stuff, given that it's a pretty shitty material for most things, and in no way comparable to steel (if a diamond tank were more resilient than a steel tank, we would already build diamond armor for them ...). Building ...

Oil - you'd need to feed liquids to your boilers instead of solid stuff. That's the exact same thing as using boiler with solid fuel for me. Geothermal - pumping water underground -> get back steam -> pipe steam to generators. So an infinite source of energy without drawback. Flat out problematic o...

Anything that burns can be put in there. Anyting that doesn't burn should not be placed in an incinerater. ;) A good 50% of what is incinerated in industrial waste disposer are not useable as fuel but still burn and become more compact under fire. Typically, iron is perfectly combustible, but good ...

Adding options that have no gameplay interaction don't appeal to me. So, apart from wind, why would thoses energy source add anything ?

Hello. I belive having an alternative renewable energy source would be good for the game. But it need to be somewhat different ; simply being more expensive and without day cycle would be boring, and having a predictible cycle would mean it's no different from solar. So I believe the best way to do ...

In fact, it's the abundance of coal who make the steel furnace a less than tempting option for me. Since I don't need the efficiency, it only help for compacity.

Why couldn't effectivity be 100%? Quick question, since I learned physic in another language than english (and consequently can easily mix up term). Isn't effectivity 100% litteraly impossible by virtue of the thermodynamic laws ? Or there is another term for the % of energy effectively used for so...

IRL the energy is rarely if ever transmitted directly because of how inefficient it is. DO you intend to modelize that ?

(dunno if hydraulic transmission would make more sense)

As you already noted before, I'm no "engineer" type, apart from a bit of researching on my own. I believe that furnaces work with heat - and that heat is required to smelt the ore, remove the junk from the liquid metal, and let the "good things" cool, then export it in a solid s...

A stone furnace can smelt 12.7 iron/copper with one unit of coal. A steel furnace can smelt double the amount using up the same amount of fuel - a really great upgrade, but shouldn't the used power per smelted unit be the same? I can understand that it's supposed to be faster (why else would you us...

Also, if a machine run faster, what usually happen is that it break.

Well, at the very least that would imply to find a way to automatically deactivate your factory at night. Because currently, when at night you would still dischrge your accumulator to run yours factory without options to keep energy for the importants things like turrets.

Well, maybe not a laser turret then, more a steamthrower turret or a javelin launcher, with a rope to get the javelin back.

I feel that main problem with solars is that accumulators are just too good. In reality the main limiting factor for wide-scale renewable energy production is that it's hard to store energy and it's quite lossy. In factorio an accumulator doesn't cost too much and is lossless. It's the future, and ...