~1GW Steam Power

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~1GW Steam Power

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Finally made it. I used 5 of these blueprints to get exactly 1080 MW power from steam.



I used rocket fuel for this for:
1. Power density. You will use less belt with rocket fuel.
2. Efficiency. Coal to rocket fuel using beacons is ~235% overunity / efficient. viewtopic.php?f=208&t=70916
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1 rocket fuel lasts for ~200 hours in a burner inserter (inserter stack size 3) fueling a constantly active boiler. They have no drain but if you are rebuilding the powerplant from time to time then you lose a silly amount of fuel to that. Inserters use 1 rocket fuel just from the drain in ~69 hours so as long as 1/3 of the fuel is consumed when moving a burner inserter you have at least not lost anything compared to using those instead.

Of course, you also lose fuel when moving boilers. But there it lasts 55 seconds so you only lose 55/2 seconds of fuel on average for each boiler. But it's the same fuel so if it's not a big deal in boilers then it's not really a big deal in the inserters. So that's a long way of saying nothing of value about things that don't really matter :)
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Haha, nice one! :D
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