do firestones from railcraft burn up in steam dynamos for thermal expansion
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As far as I know, if you let them deplete all the way they do, in fact, go away. Otherwise, again AFAIK, you can just throw them back in a pool of lava to recharge.
Their best use is to jump start a boiler, honestly. Too costly and to much risk using them as a steady fuel source.
Their best use is to jump start a boiler, honestly. Too costly and to much risk using them as a steady fuel source.
Because using them to heat up a boiler will take like 10 seconds, rather than 45 minutes. They also last way longer than coal/wood/etc. And, if you have a ton of lava (hint: myst age), they can be recharged.
Yeah, throwing them in lava will recharge them. Though, all the lava will be turned into Obsidian, so you have to find a gigantic pool for it to be fully recharged.
Just tested it; nope.
No, you seem to misunderstand, the are AWESOME for heating up boilers, and I know this for a fact(never tested them, mind you, due to a pathological hatred of RC Boilers), but outside of a boiler, I mean, why fucking bother? They last longer then charcoal and wood, fine, but I have an infinite amount of lava on hand, for one, and a gem that counts as fuel but never is consumed, but instead drains a magic power from me to act as fuel(Blood Magic, yo'). Charcoal doesn't last as long as coal/charcoal? Fine, but usually this isn't a bad thing. Gives you more control over fuel usage(and thus power generation), allowing you to cap your power easier without wasting as much fuel.
But for RC boilers? Yeah, sign me up. For anything else? Haha, no.
Someone is f'ing passionate about their fuel sources.
Yeah, that I am. 'Course, this is due to an efficiency hard-on of galgrodian strength. When I want to be efficient, my head changes gears to an analytical mode and I can crunch numbers. Usually I'm all like "HEY GUYS THIS SEEMS LIKE A FUN WAY TO GENERATE POWER, RUNNING BACK AND FORTH IN MY BASE OVER PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORS", but every now and then I become a number daemon and get serious.
I've dried 10 chunks of nether with firestones for making my nether base, if I knew i could just deplete it and then throw it again I wouldn't have spent that much resources xD
I'm assuming like any fuel source. Might drain LP faster to keep up, but I haven't messed with this specific generator to know.