Burn off excess fuels?

[IRON_BRIGADE]

After a search in the discussions revealed nothing on this topic, I ask why is there no technology to have a flare to burn off excess fuel? it just backs up and clogs up the system.
Need a flare

[Man's Best Friend]

Why would you do that? Just build more power plants to use it. You'll need the power later anyway.

[Wolfgang]

Build more fuel generators and clock them accordingly. Gives more power and you are getting rid of excess fuel.

Or build a packager, pack it and then sink it.

[kLuns]

Numbers.

[Mr.America]

Build a excessively large fuel power plant setup that uses way more fuel than you have available, then set up a overflow setup that takes excess fuel that would otherwise clog up your system and redirects it to your power plant setup. Now add a battery power buffer that takes this unstable power production and smoothens out the actual power supplied to your grid (Basically just build enough batteries to your grid to fully catch the power generated as charge rate)

[Fenix]

Excess fuel? And WTF is a Flare?

There is a way to get rid of Everything Except Plutonium Waste, If you are foolish enough to Burn the Plutonium Rods in the Nuke Plants, when it's better just to sink the Rods

Like Other have said two easy solutions
1) Add more Generators
2) Package It And use if for other things or Sink it.

[XistenZ]

There's really no such thing as excess, only "not utilized" and that's a sin.

[Jimmy]

The current newbies are atrocious. Don't know if OP is trolling or plain stupid.

"WE NEED A WAY TO BURN FUEL!!!" If there was only some kind of fuel power generator in the game, that burns fuel to make energy.

[Troy_Mc_Lure]

the overflow system for fluids works differently than for goods.. there ain`t an overflow splitter...
so what you gotta do is this: build your powerplant to the size you disire on flat ground.
now your pipe has to go vertically up. and back down again... like a loop. a few meters above the lowest spot of the system.. and there you got it:
because of the height difference your powerplant will always run and -only- excess fuel will flow higher through the loop into whatever you plan on doing with it.
just pack it up and use it as jetpack fuel.

[NotReallyMyName]

You can burn off excess fuel by using fuel generators. Or you can package excess fuel to burn it in jetpack. You can also use excess fuel to make turbofuel so you could use it in fuel generators and jetpack.

You can always package excess and sink it into the AWESOME sink to get tickets instead of using packaged fuel in jetpack. I mean, how much fuel are we even talking about anyway?

[alf.flowers]

Well, I am not a newbie, but have asked several times for a flare. Not so much as to burn fuel, but because real refineries have flares.

Of course, they also have pipes you can flush easily, and valves and manifolds so you can have multiple streams available.

Anyway, I would like to have a flare.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by alf.flowers:

Well, I am not a newbie, but have asked several times for a flare. Not so much as to burn fuel, but because real refineries have flares.

Of course, they also have pipes you can flush easily, and valves and manifolds so you can have multiple streams available.

Anyway, I would like to have a flare.

That sounds more as a cosmetic than actually being functional (what the OP wants).

[NotReallyMyName]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by alf.flowers:

Well, I am not a newbie, but have asked several times for a flare. Not so much as to burn fuel, but because real refineries have flares.

Of course, they also have pipes you can flush easily, and valves and manifolds so you can have multiple streams available.

Anyway, I would like to have a flare.

That sounds more as a cosmetic than actually being functional (what the OP wants).

We already have smoke coming out of refinery, so I suppsoe it could be argued that the 'flare' already exists there, only invisible to us, or it is so advanced that it doesn't even waste any oil.

[Raven]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by alf.flowers:

Well, I am not a newbie, but have asked several times for a flare. Not so much as to burn fuel, but because real refineries have flares.

Of course, they also have pipes you can flush easily, and valves and manifolds so you can have multiple streams available.

Anyway, I would like to have a flare.

That sounds more as a cosmetic than actually being functional (what the OP wants).

My understanding of the R/L process is that when crude oil is extracted gas is brought to the surface as well. So, in areas of the world lacking gas transportation infrastructure the gas is flared as waste. However, as our generous benefactors have provided our character with the wherewithal to build an efficient gas transport system, flaring is unnecessary, notwithstanding that waste is frowned upon by FICSMAS.

[Whispdragoon62]

They're going to add one to the game just for you but when you try to actually build & place it you just get a message "FICSIT does not waste."

[Still B0r3d]

If your fluids can't stop, package the extra and send it to the sink. This is the way.