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Like I said, there's a coal burner generator that burns coal directly into electricity. Its efficiency (energy produced per energy consumed) is less than the wa
by Arnavion 4y ago
Like I said, there's a coal burner generator that burns coal directly into electricity. Its efficiency (energy produced per energy consumed) is less than the water boiler + steam engine, so you have an incentive to switch to steam once you've researched it. But you need to keep the burner generators around for re-bootstrapping.
- cesarb 4y agoAnother step you forgot to mention is that, in both the base game and the modded (AAI Industry) game, there's a much less efficient kind of mining drill (burner mining drill) which is directly powered with coal (or other solid fuels), instead of electricity; when mining coal with it, you usually loop back its output to its input (through a burner inserter, another device powered directly with coal or other solid fuels instead of electricity), so the only thing you need to start up the whole system is a single piece of wood as the fuel for the farthest burner mining drill.
- krallja 4y agoYou can also mine coal by hand, so you don't even need wood. Which is convenient, if you start on a desert biome.