What is use for two slots on the right in heating tower?

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What is use for two slots on the right in heating tower?

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I can put any item in it, fuel or not, but I don't understand what they are used for.
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Re: What is use for two slots on the right in heating tower?

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It may be for mods where fuel may have a by product, for example in Nullius a hydrogen fuel cell produces a water cartridge when it is used up.
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Re: What is use for two slots on the right in heating tower?

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The Heating tower is a nuclear reactor wearing a hat; normally a Reactor produces a Depleted fuel cell. It has been configured to use a BurnerEnergySource of type "chemical":

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      type = "burner",
      fuel_categories = {"chemical"},
      emissions_per_minute = {pollution = 100},
      effectivity = 2.5,
      fuel_inventory_size = 2,
      burnt_inventory_size = 2,
 
Note the burnt_inventory_size property matching the fuel_inventory_size. Heating Towers are capable of consuming a large amount of low-fuel-value burnables; having two slots makes it possible to load more fuel types simultaneously.

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