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    The Final Word on Steam Boiler Efficiency

    I'm not good with java; can anyone confirm whether the boiler math has changed in 9.3 as compared with 8.3 or whatever it was when I did this?
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    The Final Word on Steam Boiler Efficiency

    The way gnuplot works is you feed it a script full of instructions for how you want the data to appear. The plot command tells it what function to plot; in this case I told it to plot data in a text file that I generated by querying your calculator. I'm attaching the instructions I fed to...
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    The Final Word on Steam Boiler Efficiency

    Forecaster I don't know anything about how you're serving the calculator but I generated my graphs by querying your site and using [gnuplot](http://www.gnuplot.info/). This can be completely automated and the resulting .png graph is quite small, <15k. If you like I can share what I've done with...
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    The Final Word on Steam Boiler Efficiency

    Have to disagree. The following is based solely on Forecaster's calculator: Burning 180 buckets of fuel in a 36LP yields 38632282 MJ. Burning 180 buckets of fuel in a 1LP yields: 25839307 MJ. If my method used above doesn't have any mistakes in it, the 36 LP starts beating combustion engines...
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    The Final Word on Steam Boiler Efficiency

    This post is about low-pressure boilers burning buildcraft fuel post-v8.3. Here is the table that tells you how long a burn you need in order to beat 3.125 total MJ/HU (so, be more efficient than a combustion engine.) You will see in the graph why the data for the 36LP are lacking. boiler...
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    The Final Word on Steam Boiler Efficiency

    Also, how does one calculate how much fuel it takes to keep a boiler hot when the steam is not being consumed? In heatup only mode, the calculator gives a result like but that is the same as the amount that the same running boiler would use while actually outputting steam. Anecdotally, I don't...
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    The Final Word on Steam Boiler Efficiency

    Ok, cool. I played with the calculator and it is indeed encompassing and powerful. My contribution to the thread will therefore be a table showing minimum burn fuel/time that it takes for each of the liquid boilers to beat the combustion engine in efficiency (i.e. MJ/HU) (obviously the smaller...
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    The Final Word on Steam Boiler Efficiency

    Fascinated by the thread. Omicron could you be convinced to recreate the graphs in the OP for 8.3? Either way thanks for something interesting to think about.