Electrified Stone Furnace


Stone furnace which uses less polluting electricity instead of burnable fuel, for pure electric starter factory Crafted from the basic stone furnace, so those can be recycled into electric version.

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wavetrex
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2 years ago
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0.1.3 (2 years ago)
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This early electric furnace is even slower than basic stone furnace, but producing less pollution (for a given amount of resources smelted)
64 of them are needed to smelt a full yellow belt of iron/copper (32 for stone)

Some numbers:
- To smelt a full yellow belt of iron (15 i/s), 64 Electrified Stone Furnaces are needed - This results in using 2.88 MW of power, and producing 32 pollution per minute
- To produce the power via boilers, the output of 1.6 boilers is needed (ignoring inserters), producing 48 pollution (total 80) and consuming 43.2 coal per minute.
- Same result with just stone furnaces (48pcs) produces 96 pollution p.m., and uses 64.8 coal per minute
- Result: The Electric stone furnaces are 50% more energy efficient and 20% less polluting - The drawback is you need more of them and more inserters and belt (more costly) and more space used as well.
- Steel furnaces are 100% more energy efficient than stone furnaces but the same pollution (96), making them slightly less Eco but consuming less coal (and using a lot less space)
- Electric furnaces with 2x Efficiency module 1 (24pcs) however win by far in all categories - Only 9.6 pollution themselves, and 31.2 from the boilers, making them twice more Eco than this mod! They are, however, expensive to build.

Choices... choices...


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