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6/11/2025, 8:21:24 AM
>>526965882
Oh yea I never actually bothered with dealing with the byproducts *properly* before, I just needed steam and coal to go where the steam and coal where needed
to give you an idea this was the setup I was working with before I got oil burners, and that was the *slightly modernized* setup because I needed to divert stuff for antimony. I was burning middle and light oil instead of just cracking them and just voiding coal gas because I thought it was too much of a hassle to bother with, and it did run for ~20 H which just shows how free coal is overall, so net negative of coal to coke never bothered me (and I don't think it should bother anyone, considering your starter patch has ~50 million raw coal and this one close by had more than double, before even applying mining productivity)
I never bothered with cracking the byproducts properly, and really, the issue was and still is, pitch. When properly dealt with it manages to create much more power than it requires because the acetylene produced from coke, but it requires a lot more infrastructure to crack than every other hydrocarbon because of the 250 C° steam requirement, which means 3 oil burners, 8 acetylene gasifiers, 8 destructive distillation columns and 5 high pressure furnaces just to process the byproducts. It's just so much infrastructure for something so essentially useless that you're much better off burning it neat and not dealing with that headache for peanuts. Pitch rhymes with bitch.
>>526995906
and by the time you get the power house, you can just make combustion mixture out of all the different crap to get energetic jungle juice with a bunch of overflow valves too.
Oh yea I never actually bothered with dealing with the byproducts *properly* before, I just needed steam and coal to go where the steam and coal where needed
to give you an idea this was the setup I was working with before I got oil burners, and that was the *slightly modernized* setup because I needed to divert stuff for antimony. I was burning middle and light oil instead of just cracking them and just voiding coal gas because I thought it was too much of a hassle to bother with, and it did run for ~20 H which just shows how free coal is overall, so net negative of coal to coke never bothered me (and I don't think it should bother anyone, considering your starter patch has ~50 million raw coal and this one close by had more than double, before even applying mining productivity)
I never bothered with cracking the byproducts properly, and really, the issue was and still is, pitch. When properly dealt with it manages to create much more power than it requires because the acetylene produced from coke, but it requires a lot more infrastructure to crack than every other hydrocarbon because of the 250 C° steam requirement, which means 3 oil burners, 8 acetylene gasifiers, 8 destructive distillation columns and 5 high pressure furnaces just to process the byproducts. It's just so much infrastructure for something so essentially useless that you're much better off burning it neat and not dealing with that headache for peanuts. Pitch rhymes with bitch.
>>526995906
and by the time you get the power house, you can just make combustion mixture out of all the different crap to get energetic jungle juice with a bunch of overflow valves too.
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