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As a factorio player, energy storages are as important as energy source itself. Especially for renewables since the energy sources are practically unlimited (an
by fendy3002 5y ago
As a factorio player, energy storages are as important as energy source itself. Especially for renewables since the energy sources are practically unlimited (and the efficiencies are increasing) but very fluctuate.
And if you see from other perspective, oil are both energy storage and energy source, which is "almost" equivalent with solar cells and batteries.
- starbugs 5y agoAs I said in my other reply, I think the difference is really ERoEI. And that's very likely an important difference. Because you wouldn't get an economical system if you're not able to get a competitive ERoEI from the whole system (including storage). I suspect to take oil's status you'd therefore have to have something that allows you to also cheaply get the energy, not only store it. Lithium as an input to storage is really just a small part of the whole picture. Like a barrel is for oil.