Dispose of Heavy Oil

[some moron]

How can I dispose of Heavy Oil? Without simply building more oilburners because they require expensive components, and without putting packaged oil into the shop because the point is to make plastic, so using plastic to package oil to make plastic seems gross.

[K'senia]

Look for alternate recipes maybe? Heavy oil is usually a resource I need in large volumes so disposing of it seems wasteful. It can be turned into all kinds of things when mixed with other stuff.

[Man's Best Friend]

In the absence of anything more useful to you at the moment, build a couple more refineries and turn it into petroleum coke. Then sink the coke, or burn it in a coal power plant for more power, or even fuel vehicles with it.

[some moron]

Originally posted by Man's Best Friend:

In the absence of anything more useful to you at the moment, build a couple more refineries and turn it into petroleum coke. Then sink the coke, or burn it in a coal power plant for more power, or even fuel vehicles with it.

Ok yeah I get some tickets for the coke. Thanks.

[LazerRay]

Heavy Oil Residue is needed for stuff on the sulfur research to make more ammo and Nobelisk types, those become very useful

[DaBa]

Make loops that use up all the byproducts to make useful things, or transform the ones that are hard to dispose into the ones that are easy (like coke), that's the best way to do it. If you are stuck with a byproduct that you don't have an easy way to deal with, it's a sign you can do things better because that shouldn't be happening.

Examples: turn heavy oil residue into coke, then turn that into power with coal burners. Or turn it into fuel and then power fuel generators (they are expensive, but there is nothing stopping you from just getting more materials, things are infinite). Or use the coke to power trucks. And then take all leftover coke and put it in the sink.

[Shane Gooseman]

I turn it into petroleum coke and produce platines (with rubber I think). Much more valuable to sink and are needed in many future products like computers and so on.

[kLuns]

diluted fuel + recycled plastic/ rubbur
or pet coke for aluminum production

[Flash✪Gordon]

I always build some big tanks and build direct pipes from each tank to each other tank, then lead my unwanted Heavy Oil Residue (HOR) inside them. Due to the faulty maths in this game all the excess HOR disappears magically. The refinery is never stopping because of overfilled HOR at it's output.

[some moron]

Originally posted by Gordon✪Gekko:

I always build some big tanks and build direct pipes from each tank to each other tank, then lead my unwanted Heavy Oil Residue (HOR) inside them. Due to the faulty maths in this game all the excess HOR disappears magically. The refinery is never stopping because of overfilled HOR at it's output.

Are you saying build a loop of tanks and insert the HOR into it?
That may be my solution!
Do they need to be the big tanks? (expensive)

[some moron]

Originally posted by kLuns:

diluted fuel + recycled plastic/ rubbur
or pet coke for aluminum production

I can't make recycled plastic. Do you mean Residual? I can't make that either because I don't have the Resin. To make resin I'd have to make fuel, which is what I'm trying to get rid of. So that doesn't work.

[some moron]

Originally posted by Shane Gooseman:

I turn it into petroleum coke and produce platines (with rubber I think). Much more valuable to sink and are needed in many future products like computers and so on.

I haven't heard of platines (yet?).

[Zak]

Originally posted by some moron:

Originally posted by kLuns:

diluted fuel + recycled plastic/ rubbur
or pet coke for aluminum production

I can't make recycled plastic. Do you mean Residual? I can't make that either because I don't have the Resin. To make resin I'd have to make fuel, which is what I'm trying to get rid of. So that doesn't work.

So what's wrong with packaging fuel and sinking it? So you waste a bit of plastic. But you don't seem to have many options if you don't want to burn fuel.

Gordon's solution with multiple tanks is unusual, I never heard of such glitch, it seems to rely on some bug or glitch that may or may not work. You can try it but it doesn't work with water or alumina solution. Fluids math is screwy, that's true, but I never saw this exploit.

Originally posted by some moron:

I haven't heard of platines (yet?).

Never heard of "platines" either, maybe some translation issue? Looks like German for "circuit board"

[Flash✪Gordon]

Originally posted by Zak:

Never heard of "platines" either, maybe some translation issue? Looks like German for "circuit board"

ha ha, indeed he's German. they call computer boards this way

https://www.dict.cc/?s=platinen

[Flash✪Gordon]

Originally posted by some moron:

Originally posted by Gordon✪Gekko:

I always build some big tanks and build direct pipes from each tank to each other tank, then lead my unwanted Heavy Oil Residue (HOR) inside them. Due to the faulty maths in this game all the excess HOR disappears magically. The refinery is never stopping because of overfilled HOR at it's output.

Are you saying build a loop of tanks and insert the HOR into it?
That may be my solution!
Do they need to be the big tanks? (expensive)

Exactly. Not only a loop. The more interconnections you make, the more sloshing happens, the more the math fails.

I am not sure if it works with small tanks too. It might or it might not. If the reason is indeed the sloshing and rounding errors then there should be no reason why it wouldn't work with small tanks.I usually use four tanks. Maybe with less it works too, don't know.

[some moron]

Originally posted by Gordon✪Gekko:

Originally posted by Zak:

Never heard of "platines" either, maybe some translation issue? Looks like German for "circuit board"

ha ha, indeed he's German. they call computer boards this way

https://www.dict.cc/?s=platinen

Hm well my circuit boards require copper and plastic. So either he means something else, or he has an alternate recipe I do not yet have.

I find it interesting and mildly frustrating LOL that when I ask for advice in this forum, the suggestions offered are typically beyond my techology level, what I shall call lategame solutions, though I would say I have only recently entered midgame (oil, aluminum), so most of the solutions 1) I have never heard of 2) I do not have. I feel like people forget what it's like in early game.

If someone (such as myself) is asking for help they probably haven't played to lategame before, and what they need is earlygame solutions.
Yes it is helpful to be told that later there will be a tech that addresses my issue, but usually what I need is an earlygame solution. And maybe things could be phrased as "when you get technology X..." instead of assuming I already have, and know what you are talking about.
Thanks for all the suggestions.