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How does that actually work? I've seen some layouts where the Tank comes after the line of Steam Engines, that is first you have the Pump, then the line of Boilers heating the water, then a line or cluster of Steam Engines to produce the electrical power, and one or several Tanks placed at the end to store hot water so that in case the Coal supply fails, the Steam Engines can continue running for quite some time.

Does that work? If yes, why? It'd make more logical sense to me if the water went from the Boilers into a Tank and then only from there to the Steam Engines.

Also, how much heat can a Tank store? And can you use many Boilers, like not 14 but 28 or 42, to pump lots of heath into it, and then use electrical pumps (called Small Pumps, IIRC) to move the hot water from there to many Steam Engines, not 10 but 20 or 30 total on seperate lines of 10 each with its own small Pump?

Hi Peter,

There is a pretty in depth discussion about using hot water tanks as accus in this topic :
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... water+tank

If you put the tank before the generators, It will slow the water flow in the generators, what you obviously don't want.

During day, you need solar panels to produce energy, your tanks get filled with hot water, and during night time, they empty themselves into the generators.

Koub wrote:During day, you need solar panels to produce energy, your tanks get filled with hot water, and during night time, they empty themselves into the generators.

Thanks for the link. I'll go read that.