Switching from coal to oil

[TheIntelloBox]

Any tips ?

[LazerRay]

Just leave your coal generators up and build a new power system near oil nodes, with both systems on the same power grid

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by TheIntelloBox:

Switching from coal to oil
Any tips ?

You could, but do you need to "switch"?

[Man's Best Friend]

Pretty much that. Just keep expanding your fuel power plant system until it exceeds your coal plants, and then remove the coal plants if you so desire. Or just keep both until you actually need additional coal for something else.

[XLjedi]

Seems to be very little incentive to dismantle functional coal facilities.

[SourHammer]

Use oil to create heavy oil residue and polymer resin. Use the heavy oil residue and water to create diluted fuel, use the diluted fuel to either run generators or create turbo fuel. Use the polymer resin and water to create plastic/rubber. You can sink excess.

[taberuco]

rush to turbofuel

[bun E]

setup giga dilluted fuel plants and ignore turbofuel until nuclear

[kLuns]

Originally posted by taberuco:

rush to turbofuel

Diluted is easier and you keep sulfur for uranium processing.

[TheIntelloBox]

People speak about diluted fuel, polymer resin, diluted fuel, etc, I'm confused. I need to create new materials (like plastic) with oil and at the same time power my buildings with oil. Can you explain more depthly please ?

[kLuns]

if you just unlocked oil make plastic rubber and petroleum coke. Power up with the coke if needed, else sink it.

Get a small production line running for these 3 items and make a little bit extra plastic to automate circuit boards. Use the N key and type circuit boards

Once this is running running get hunting for hard drives. And use the heavy modular frames you found and the computers to unlock other milestones.
Read carefully what your discoveries have to offer.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by TheIntelloBox:

People speak about diluted fuel, polymer resin, diluted fuel, etc, I'm confused. I need to create new materials (like plastic) with oil and at the same time power my buildings with oil. Can you explain more depthly please ?

When you make rubber or plastic from oil you get heavy oil residue which you can turn into residual fuel to get power. When you get diluted fuel you can turn this heavy oil residue you get a lot of fuel (twice the heavy oil residue) by using water. The early version of this is packaged diluted fuel, the later version is made in a blender.

[branden77]

Just keep on building batteries :) i can shut off power generation and run off batteries for hours.

[SourHammer]

Originally posted by branden77:

Just keep on building batteries :) i can shut off power generation and run off batteries for hours.

If I had 300 power buffers I could run for an hour. But that would be about it. In other words dont rely on power buffers to run your factory.