Steam engine

Steam engines are used to produce electricity. The higher the water temperature provided is the more electricity is provided. You can see that when you hover over a steam engine; it displays the possible and current power production. Don't be irritated when you don't produce full power, then there is not needed more.

The engine is not blocking the flow so its possible to chain multiple engines.

Steam engines themselves don't produce any pollution. (Boiler does!)

Using other liquids?

The steam engine can use any type of liquid to generate electricity. This can be used to get rid of unused oil-products. Just fill unusable oil products into a steam engine and it will destroy the liquids. It works the same as for cold water; you don't need to warm it. If you heat the liquid before that, the hot oil will produce electrical power, just like with hot water.

But of course you should convert the unusable oil products into useables, instead of just making electricity out of it!

See also Oil Refinery RANT

Recipe:	File:Iron-plate.png 5 + File:Iron-gear-wheel.png 5 + 5 + 1 => File:Steam-engine.png 1
Total raw:	File:Iron-plate.png 20
Max Output:	510 kW

Examples

File:Electrical-network-example-1.png

A basic modular power plant.

See also

• Electric network
  • Power Production
• Power production/Special accumulator usages
• About Calculation of good steam engine/boiler combinations
• How to switch off steam engines in the night, when enough accumulator capacity is available?
• Liquid network