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6 hours ago, TheOlz said:

As viable as they've ever been.

You haven't seen anything recent because nothing has changed with that system.

Not entirely accurate. We now have conveyors so if you wanted to harvest fertilizer (or coal if you keep the hatches there) you could do so even without having a way for dupes to access it. But yeah, nothing much have changed.

Yea, as others have said, the only real change in that system is the fact you can make it conveyor based to move the fertilizer out rather than have to have dupes manually do it.   About the only thing that changes in the build is that you need to expand the build size a smidge if you want that component to be automated.

actually the real joke here is that the most power efficient method for the steam generator is to convert oil into nat gas with magma and pass the heat from the gas to the water/steam to run the turbine.  Literally free secondary power from producing power

5 minutes ago, Kabrute said:

actually the real joke here is that the most power efficient method for the steam generator is to convert oil into nat gas with magma and pass the heat from the gas to the water/steam to run the turbine.  Literally free secondary power from producing power

I tried that but the heat deletion in the steam turbine is so great that you need to process about 1400g/s crude into natural gas for it to work with just one turbine, and at that point you already have 20KW from natural gas power so the extra 2KW hardly seems worth the effort.

3 minutes ago, Arash70 said:

Any new model for the natural gas + fert synth generator?

Read the first 3 posts on this topic - specifically #3

:D 

19 hours ago, Saturnus said:

Not entirely accurate. We now have conveyors so if you wanted to harvest fertilizer (or coal if you keep the hatches there) you could do so even without having a way for dupes to access it. But yeah, nothing much have changed.

 

1 minute ago, Saturnus said:

I tried that but the heat deletion in the steam turbine is so great that you need to process about 1400g/s crude into natural gas for it to work with just one turbine, and at that point you already have 20KW from natural gas power that the extra 2KW hardly seems worth the effort.

Thats the machines raw deletion rate?  Jeeze yeah, its sad when you get better results from just digging a hole than from complex building

4 minutes ago, Kabrute said:

Thats the machines raw deletion rate?  Jeeze yeah, its sad when you get better results from just digging a hole than from complex building

That's even using the exploit that you can block all but one of it's inputs to reduce the heat deletion to a fifth so yeah...

It deletes about 675MJ per exposed tile under it.

On 2/10/2018 at 7:08 AM, TheOlz said:

As viable as they've ever been.

You haven't seen anything recent because nothing has changed with that system.

I mean yes, it's generally true.  However, the rate of Geysers was buffed a couple updates ago, so the ratios per device in the equation shifted a bit.  Not a lot, but something to keep in mind.

15 hours ago, PhailRaptor said:

I mean yes, it's generally true.  However, the rate of Geysers was buffed a couple updates ago, so the ratios per device in the equation shifted a bit.  Not a lot, but something to keep in mind.

Is it more than 3 generators per geyser? Not sure if it's because of smart batteries but my room has 7kg of Nat gas with the 7/16 set up

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