I don't think this is really related to thrusters but more to space platform in general, and i don't think the particular analysis of fuel consumption over time was explained in such a way already, the more comon graph are how to estimate the max speed of your platform based on the number of ...

I was playing around with thruster math and developed a few rules of thumb that might help others who are as bewildered as I was at first. I've also added them to https://wiki.factorio.com/Thruster


Platform width is far more important than mass in determining top speed (and therefore travel ...