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As someone with no real-world petrochemistry experience, but much gaming experience, I was very surprised how familiar the crude oil processing diagram looks.
by shhsshs 5mo ago
As someone with no real-world petrochemistry experience, but much gaming experience, I was very surprised how familiar the crude oil processing diagram looks. Factorio and GregTech are two prime examples of fairly realistic oil processing lines (probably as accurate as any game would reasonably try to be).
- FumblingBear 5mo agoI was thinking the same thing! Having played through Factorio and a fair amount of GregTech really reframed my viewpoint on energy production that a huge part of the benefit of fossil fuels is the byproducts, not just raw energy output.
- triceratops 5mo agoAll the more reason to save fossil fuels instead of burning them for energy.
- protocolture 5mo ago>triceratops Hurry up and become crude oil.
- damnitbuilds 5mo agoVery good. Why I still come here.
- triceratops 5mo agoLol
- addybojangles 5mo agoABSOLUTELY first thing that popped into my head, too. Fantastic read.
- KolibriFly 5mo agoFactory games are weirdly good at teaching the "shape" of these systems