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What's more efficient running biofuel into a biofuel generator or combustion engine?


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I can't find any numbers on this. Also on a tangent why is it called a biofuel generator shouldn't it be called the bioreactor since it is reacting the biofuel? And shouldn't the biofuel generator being the one generating biofuel?

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Make a single player creative world and test it. If you can post your results and/or add the info to the wiki I'm sure people would be thankful.

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Make a single player creative world and test it. If you can post your results and/or add the info to the wiki I'm sure people would be thankful.

After some brief testing it would appear combustion engines don't accept biofuel lol. I assumed it was the same as forestry's, I guess not.

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Make a single player creative world and test it. If you can post your results and/or add the info to the wiki I'm sure people would be thankful.

After measuring it, biofuelgenerators seem to create 15.2 MJ/tick 2.5 times quicker than a combustion engine running on fuel. One bucket of biofuel will produce 152000 MJ.

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So relative to combustion engines, their fuel is cheaper, they run 2.5 times faster, they don't randomly explode, and don't require constant water. That's makes it tekkits top tier engine I guess.

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Combustion engines run a lot longer than that I believe; one bucket of fuel should net you 600,000 MJ at 6 MJ/t. A total of 83.333 minutes of power.

Edit: Given Euphoreich's numbers, a biofuel generator will only give you 8.333 minutes of power - albeit at a much higher MJ/s rate.

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