Fuel

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). A megajoule (MJ) is equivalent to one megawatt second (MWs), so dividing the megajoule (MJ) value by the power consumption in megawatts (MW) gives the time the fuel will last.

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	Vehicle acceleration bonus
Wood	2 MJ	4 MJ per raw wood	100%
File:Raw-wood.png Raw wood	4 MJ	4 MJ per raw wood	100%
File:Small-electric-pole.png Small electric pole	4 MJ	4 MJ per raw wood	100%
File:Wooden-chest.png Wooden chest	6 MJ	3 MJ per raw wood	100%
Coal	8 MJ	8 MJ per coal	100%
File:Solid-fuel.png Solid fuel	25 MJ	20 MJ per unit of Crude oil¹	120%
Rocket fuel	225 MJ		180%
Uranium fuel cell	8 GJ²	507 MJ per Uranium ore³	Unusable

(¹) 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. Less efficient methods are possible. In practice, the Petroleum Gas part of processed crude oil is more likely to be used for something other than Solid fuel.

(²) This fuel type can only be used in a nuclear reactor. Unlike other fuel types, it can't be placed into standard burners.

(³) Assuming that all U-238 is enriched, all used up cells are reprocessed, and there is no reactor neighbor bonus.

History

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

See also

• Burner devices
• Electric network
• Belt transport system