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Fuel

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Fuel can be inserted into burner devices and burned to power them. Different types of fuel provide different amounts of energy, measured in megajoules (MJ).

Types

This is a list of all items usable as fuel in burner devices, ordered by fuel value:

Item Fuel value Fuel value per raw total Fuel value
per stack		 Vehicle
acceleration		 Vehicle
top speed		 Train max speed
Wood.png
Wood		 2 MJ 4 MJ per raw wood 100 MJ 100% 100% 259.2 km/h (72 m/s)1
Raw wood.png
Raw wood		 4 MJ 4 MJ per raw wood 400 MJ 100% 100% 259.2 km/h (72 m/s)
Small electric pole.png
Small electric pole		 4 MJ 8 MJ per raw wood 200 MJ 100% 100% 259.2 km/h (72 m/s)
Wooden chest.png
Wooden chest		 4 MJ 2 MJ per raw wood 200 MJ 100% 100% 259.2 km/h (72 m/s)
Coal.png
Coal		 8 MJ 8 MJ per coal 400 MJ 100% 100% 259.2 km/h (72 m/s)
Solid fuel.png
Solid fuel		 25 MJ 2 MJ per unit of crude oil2 1.25 GJ 120% 105% 272.2 km/h (~75.6 m/s)
Rocket fuel.png
Rocket fuel		 225 MJ 1.8 MJ per unit of crude oil2 2.25 GJ 180% 115% 298.1 km/h (83 m/s)
Nuclear fuel.png
Nuclear fuel		 1.21 GJ 9.68 MJ per unit of crude oil3
1.21 GJ per Uranium-235		 1.21 GJ 250% 115% 298.1 km/h (83 m/s)
Uranium fuel cell.png
Uranium fuel cell		 8 GJ4 507 MJ per uranium ore3 400 GJ Unusable Unusable Unusable

(1) For the purposes of in-game speed display, the game assumes 1 tile = 1 meter. I.e., a train on basic fuel travels at 72 tiles per second at full speed, and so on.

(2) This assumes the crude oil is processed completely into solid fuel using advanced oil processing and heavy oil cracking as intermediate steps, but not light oil cracking. More efficient methods are possible. In practice, the petroleum gas is more likely to be used for something other than solid fuel.

(3) This fuel type can only be used in a nuclear reactor. Unlike other fuel types, it cannot be placed into standard burners.

(4) Assuming that all U-238 is enriched, all used up cells are reprocessed, and there is no reactor neighbor bonus.

Consumption

The following formula can be used to find how long a fuel will last in a device: Burn time (s) = Fuel value (MJ) ÷ Energy consumption (MW)

History

  • 0.15.0:
    • Fuel type affects vehicle acceleration and top speed.

See also

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