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Name: KiloMegaGiga: Coal
Description: Do you need high power systems? Do you need MORE energy? A lot of coal energy you can find in this mod.

License: GNU GPL-3.0 https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0
Version: 0.1.8
Release: 02.06.2016 - First working release
Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.12.9 - 0.12.33
Category: Item
Tags: kilo, mega, giga, coal, energy, power

One coal = 8 MJ
One kilocoal = 8 GJ
One megacoal = 8 TJ
One gigacoal = 8 PJ

The mod does what?
Please describe it more.

It probably add new coal entities with higher energy.

Good, but why so much energy, I'll never know. Maybe should add the same but is a multiple of 100 coal units?

Not x100 but x1000.

Oceanel wrote:Good, but why so much energy, I'll never know. Maybe should add the same but is a multiple of 100 coal units?

The next step is hot a water supply for high power steam energy. Multiply 10^3, 10^6, 10^9. Isn't enough?

This is kind of interesting and I like the graphics.. But dang those amounts are insanity. A 8MJ piece of coal will last for around 13s at full burn in a boiler (a little less, but for sake of argument). So your kilocoal will last for 13,000 seconds, or 3.61 hours. The megacoal will last for 3610 hours and the giga will last for 3.6 million hours... So yeah, like basically a full on star the size of someone's head..

NoriSilverrage wrote:(...) the giga will last for 3.6 million hours...

It's only 412 years of gameplay. No big deal

I'm curious how big factory have to be to produce enough gigacoal to fill every burner.
One gigacoal need 1 000 000 000 coal (i'm not counting the rest of needed materials) and one basic power section have 14 burners.
It's 14 000 000 000 coal for only 5.1MW.