Fuel

Fuel is a fluid resource refined from used for power generation.

Alternate recipes analysis
The following shows different ways to produce 1 m of Fuel / second, or 60 :
 * Bps, or Basis Points refers to the normalized consumption against the maximum mining rate of the map, measured in unit of 0.0001. The lower the better.
 * Energy per item can be used to measure how much power is consumed for the entire production chain. The lower the better.
 * Space refers to building space, excluding belts and pipes. The lower the better.
 * Energy for sinking byproducts are considered, assuming using Conveyor Belt Mk.4.
 * As 1 m of Fuel contains 750 MJ, subtracting its manufacturing energy will show the net energy gain.

Tips

 * The Diluted Fuel alternate recipe is 10% more power-efficient than the Diluted Packaged Fuel alternate recipe. To produce 300 Fuel, either three Blenders at 100  and 75 MW are used, consuming 225 MW, or five Refineries at 60  and 30 MW (consuming 150 MW), five packaging Packagers at 120  at 10 MW (consuming 50 MW) and five unpackaging Packagers at 60  at 10 MW (consuming 50 MW), consuming 250 MW. It is, therefore, all-round more power-efficient to use Diluted Fuel.

History

 * Patch 0.4.0.0: Energy value increased from 600 MJ to 750 MJ
 * Patch 0.3.3.2: New icon for Fuel
 * Patch 0.3.1.0: Liquid Fuel color was changed to orange due to popular demand
 * Patch 0.3:
 * Now a fluid
 * Loading a save created before Patch 0.3 would convert Fuel items to Packaged Fuel