Lasing Around


Adds helium and laser-related intermediates, and a side-grade to assembling machines.

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g Possible naming inconsistency between this mod and BZ Gas recipes

11 months ago

The newest update added naming that might be confusing. In BZ Natural Gas, the gas to methane recipe is called "methane-pre-reforming". "methane-reforming" is a different recipe which takes methane and outputs hydrogen. But in your mod "<advanced, spectroscopic>-methane-reforming" are gas to methane recipes, not methane to hydrogen recipes. Was the intent to add new versions of methane to hydrogen, or new versions of natural gas to methane? It also seems inconsistent with the naming of the "<advanced, spectroscopic>-gas-reforming" recipes, which do output hydrogen, not methane. (Note that IRL "steam methane reforming" is a process that takes in methane and steam and produces hydrogen.)

I'm asking because I'm making a mod that may tweak and/or build upon those recipes, and it would help to know which processes they are supposed to represent. Thanks.

11 months ago
(updated 11 months ago)

I must have just been tired and not reading the recipe names clearly enough. The x-methane-reforming recipes are meant to be helium-yielding versions of methane-pre-reforming.

My (non-chemist's) understanding is the vast majority of natural gas is methane anyway, so the process is mostly just distillation? A cursory search for "methane pre reforming" only gives results related to converting methane to hydrogen, but search engines being what they are these days that's hardly conclusive. The only reason the helium generating recipes use steam in the first place is I like recipes that use steam lol, if that turned out to be realistic it's purely by accident.

Also apparently "microtolerance" is the name of a real company and not a generic word for anything extremely precise, so I need to change that as well.

e: I am getting mixed results on this last point actually, with a small number of articles using it as a generic word for anything extremely precise but most search results being for the one company, so it's not clear whether I need to change it.

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