Turbofuel

Turbofuel is an improved version of mixed with.

Unlocking
There are currently two ways to unlock the Turbofuel recipe:
 * 1) Unlocking it by scanning Hard Drives[verification needed] The default recipe and Turbo Heavy Fuel will only appear in the selection if  is already unlocked or, in the case of Turbo Blend Fuel, if the Bauxite Refinement milestone has been reached.
 * 2) Researching the dedicated node in Sulfur Research  This still costs a Hard Drive, but provides a direct unlock and only takes 3 seconds to research. Note that this research is for the "Turbofuel" recipe, not "Turbo Heavy Fuel" or "Turbo Blend Fuel".

It is currently unclear whether unlocking the recipe either way prevents it from being unlocked the other way, thus wasting a Hard Drive.

Alternate recipes analysis
The following shows different ways to produce 1 m of Turbofuel / second, or 60 :


 * Weighted Point is the weighted consumption rate which is calculated by: . 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.
 * Fuel is assumed to be produced via Diluted Fuel alternate recipe.
 * As 1 m of Turbofuel contains 2000 MJ, subtracting its manufacturing energy will show the net energy gain.

Fuel vs Turbofuel Efficiency
Using the Turbo Blend Fuel and Diluted Fuel recipes:


 * 1m Heavy Oil Residue creates 1m Turbofuel, or 2000 MJ
 * 1m Heavy Oil Residue creates 2m Fuel, or 1500 MJ

This makes Fuel 75% as efficient as Turbofuel, at the cost of Sulfur.

To create 2,000MW of power 60 of Turbofuel is needed or 160 of Fuel is needed. Using the same recipes as before, the TurboFuel is made from 45 Crude Oil and 30 Sulfur/min while the Fuel is made from 60 Crude Oil. This gives Turbofuel a weighted point value of about 82.32 and Fuel a weighted point value of about 51.28 for 2,000MW of power. This means that for weighted resource efficiency Turbo Fuel is about 1.6x as expensive for an equivalent amount of power.

However turning Fuel into Turbofuel raises the maximum potential MW production from 390,000MW from Fuel alone, to 504,000MW (456,000MW via Turbofuel + 48,000MW turning remaining Crude Oil into Fuel)

Tips

 * Two Turbofuel power setup tutorials are available, see Fuel Generator for a generalized setup or Tutorial:How to play for a specific detailed setup.

History

 * Patch 0.6.0.4: Can no longer be unlocked from Hard Drive research (?)
 * Patch 0.6.0.0: The default recipe can now be unlocked through Sulfur Research in the MAM, while still being an alternate recipe that can be unlocked from Hard Drives
 * Patch 0.4.0.0: Introduced Turbo Blend Fuel alternate recipe
 * Patch 0.3.0.1: Fixed default recipe, now produces liquids properly
 * Patch 0.3:
 * Now a liquid
 * Introduced Turbo Heavy Fuel alternate recipe
 * Loading a save created before Patch 0.3 converts Turbofuel items to Packaged Turbofuel
 * Patch 0.1.7: Changed default recipe's Compacted Coal cost from 2 to 4