How many coal power plants can one node supply?
I'm up to 6 power plants fed off one miner and the coal is still backed up. I kinda wish the power plants told us how much coal per minute it consumes.
Posted Mar 10, 2019, 7:01 AM UTC
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Depends on the node, belt and plant. If a node is 60 coal per minute and your coal plants are consuming 1 coal every 5.4 seconds then you can support 5.4 power plants on that node.
((node or supply rate per minute) / 60 ) * coal burn time in seconds = power plants supported.
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power seems a bit off to me. You spend too long on biomass with no way to automate and then get coal and it is easy mode.
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you then need to automate frames though, which means you'll be running a huge amount of stuff, as well as getting mk2 drills which use 12MW instead of 5. Your power use will skyrocket in t4.
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OK thanks
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Powerplants consume 1 coal every 5.4 seconds, or 11.11 repeating coal per minute. One pure node produces 120 coal/minute. One node would supply 10 generators with extra, or 11 with 1 starved 20% of the time.
Seems like they have wierd numbers again just like factorio
At least you can under and overclock to tune your own ratios if you want :P
That makes me feel better, thanks :)
Also, the over/underclock is what every you want, it has a slider.
Thank you!
If you're transporting the coal by truck though, remember the truck consumes some coal as well.