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Hello fellow Factorians,

I have been playing now for a while and I'm never able to figure this out.
In my latest map I have completely removed my old base and built everything up from scratch.
My pollution was completely down when I started rebuilding.
Basically I went from Steam powered to completely Solar powered.
I have replaced all furnaces' with electronic ones, and have nothing what so ever running on any kind of burnable fuel source.
Still I have a massive pollution map.
How come? Can anyone explain me this?

-Exentric90

There are still buildings that make pollution, assembly machines for example. If you hover your mouse over a building it will show in the tooltip how much pollution it generates.

Derp.
Thank you it didn't cross my mind to double check the pollution values of other apparatuses.
Thank you again.

Also mining drills are huge pollution sources.

You can use Efficiency Modules (especially level II ones) to reduce pollution.

Generally, everything that consumers energy produces pollution.
Steam engines produce pollution because they consume fuel. Solar panels themselves do not produce pollution (free energy!), but assembly machines and also the electric furnaces consume energy and thus produce pollution.

its ironic how you need to pollute do build some pollution-free buildings.. like the so usefull capacitors, who need battery's, which required sulfur, who is converted from gaz , gaz taken from OIL .... in fact, you can reduce pollution, but never annihilate pollution completly

aRatNamedSammy wrote:its ironic how you need to pollute do build some pollution-free buildings.. like the so usefull capacitors, who need battery's, which required sulfur, who is converted from gaz , gaz taken from OIL .... in fact, you can reduce pollution, but never annihilate pollution completly

It's a nice thought about how capacitors/batteries are made in real life, doesn't mater if you use green energy or not.

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