While this just looks so lovely for science packs has anyone considered using this for anything else? Like make a iron/copper sushi belt for green circuits as a very simple case. The red circuits and blue circuits straight from plates for advanced use. Yeah I've been working on that. From what I fo...

As asked to,
the extra optional properties are missing a lil description so we can understand how they affect the sprite variation:
https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/SpriteVariations

Thanks for looking into it

First here's what the issue looks like: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/306402592265732098/1013387966569263155/unknown.png - The entity below that weird line has to be an up-left corner pipe, the one on the top can be most other type of pipes including the down-right corner. - Also the zoom...

Here's my latest build, a 5400 SPM sushi belt beaconed labs: https://i.imgur.com/36Vq3oO.png 0eNq9fdvOnNeN7LvoWhms8yGvEhgDK9HYwnYkQ4fBBEHeffcvKU631bWaVfVbN4niWOtAFrn6I4vkP1+8+uXT61/fv3n78cWf//nizV/fvf3w4s9/+eeLD29+evvjL0//7OM/fn394s8v3nx8/fcXL1+8/fHvT//r1esfL//qi3+9fPHm7d9e/9+LP+d/vXz4l3758dXV3yj/+u...

Yeah using the steam level automation on train-based setup is the go-to because while having less than 14 steam tanks per reactor is annoying on a 2xN setup, that's only a bit more than 3 trains containing 4 fluid wagons, which isn't so much.

[...] heat exchanger seem to produce more than theoric value used to compute. Yeah they don't produce 103 steam per second, but rather 10/0.097 or approximately 103.0927835 steam per second. That's not an issue tho because it's a rational number, meaning you can just use an error dithering circuit:...

here is your save with your name on it and little heart with belts you can finish the 53 hours or so of testing to make sure the timing are correct for 1000 cycle, if not try out more and don't come back before it's done ! Friendly reminder to everyone who doesn't already knows this, you can increa...

i understand that you remove the 1GJ of potential energy storage under the form of steam stored in turbines or heat exchanger and pipes to the 39 GJ of your total energy storage capacity. This makes it 38GJ you can store under the form of heat, temperature rising after the steam is backed up. Out o...

I prefer to talk about stuff per reactor, it eases 2xN setups. A fuel cell gives off 32GJ due to the neighbor bonus (at least it tends toward that), which is 32/2.425 ~= 13.2 storage tanks full of steam. For each reactor you have around 27.5 steam turbines, already holding 5500 steam, a bit less th...

I don't think I get what you mean here... You can just ask the power plant (using circuit-wired combinators) to add 8GJ per reactor to the "heat system" over 200s (though you might consider it to be instant because you need to be able to store that energy if you don't consume any power). A...

mrvn wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 29, 2021 4:20 pm

Similar problem, the pumps only manage 1200 steam/s so that's a bottleneck.

There are two (or one and a half) pumps per 16 heat exchangers, I know the pic is a quite zoomed out but they are there.

Nice, here's mine:



Notice that the pumps would be quite close from a side to another, which helps a lot fitting it into a natural lake (you may also use 3 pumps per two reactors instead of 4 pumps).

Doesn't work quite like that: https://wiki.factorio.com/Heat_pipe Ah, indeed, tho 400 chained heatpipes would still result in a heat capacity of 300MJ/tile (first one 500, last one 100), which totals to 120GJ and that's only on one dimention. Well, only if you draw power where you produce it, other...

You're forgetting heat pipes and unfuled reactors as a heat-storage method. They are lossless but not directly measurable. Personally I've never seen a large scale design using this approach but I'm sure they must be out there. ... It is because the math says, that reactors are incredibly eypensive...

You can also measure the steam directly for that with a flow monitor. Needs two tanks and two pumps. Boiler or heat exchanger feeds a reservoir tank, which is drawn on by a pump that feeds a measurement tank, which is drained by a second pump. The only purpose of the pumps is to ensure that the mea...

mrvn wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:49 pm

[...] and actually gets lost when you blueprint the reactor and haven't researched the inserter capacity bonus yet.

Damn I didn't know, it almost sounds like a bug.

First the accumulators will start to fall as turbines reduce their production, which in larger reactors happens gradually as heat exchangers further from the reactor shut down first. So there is some overlap between turbines and accumulators. I haven't tested this but if you only have one accumulat...

"All the different ways to prevent wasting fuel in a nuclear power plant" would be a more accurate description ! Indeed! Fixed. Does that count as automated way to nuclear power plant :) ? If no automation counts, then this does indeed. I'll add this in my sheets 👍 The "why bother&qu...

You're forgetting heat pipes and unfuled reactors as a heat-storage method. They are lossless but not directly measurable. Personally I've never seen a large scale design using this approach but I'm sure they must be out there. I've totally taken that into account actually, the 1st one (steam level...

You know the thing about nuclear power, reactor burns fuel to heat up and continues to do so even at max temperature (1000°C), thus wasting fuel. But how many different techniques can overcome this problem? 1? 2? I know 5 of them for now, let's discuss a bit about them. As a reminder, the reactor tu...