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What's the correct expression here?
I know I've heard something like it.
(Sorry, English is not my native language.)
For those wondering if steam can be stored in tanks...
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What's the correct expression here?
I know I've heard something like it.
(Sorry, English is not my native language.)
The expression is "Beating a dead horse"
basically the horse is dead, but you are beating it to make it work for you, but it's dead.
it's when you keep bringing up an argument that has been refuted in order to try to make progress. it's like beating a dead horse.
basically the horse is dead, but you are beating it to make it work for you, but it's dead.
it's when you keep bringing up an argument that has been refuted in order to try to make progress. it's like beating a dead horse.
No, not that one, the one where someone does something before you, "they [something] you to it."
This is why I love the English language. Few words, multiple meanings, multiple spellings, horrible grammar rules. Not to mention a boat load of idioms and colloquialism that make no sense outside of our language and culture.
Add to that the fun of trying to find out, how a certain word is pronounced. A bunch of similar looking words (some even identical) sound very different.
Someone in the forum a few months ago posted this: http://www.i18nguy.com/chaos.html
Someone in the forum a few months ago posted this: http://www.i18nguy.com/chaos.html
Oh yeah! I know that one, I can read most of it without stuttering or pronouncing the words wrong, but daymn, it sure ain't easy.
Your calculations are off by a factor of 1000. Didn't you learn in Science class to always use UNITS when calculating. The railcraft tank you speak of holds 10,368 buckets. The industrial steam engine uses 40mb per tick. That is Millibuckets. If you convert the tank to mb that would equal 10,368,000 mb. At 800mb of use per second, it would take about 3.6 hours for one Industrial Steam Engine to deplete one max size Iron Tank. Clearly, using this as steam storage is quite useful. A steel tank with double the capacity would supply 7.2 hours. Not too shabby, IMO.
Nobody ever fully responded, and since I was in search for the answer today on steam storage(which brought me to this forum page), I figured I'd answer it correctly. Thus, now anyone else in a similar situation will welcome my effort.
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Actually I'd suspect nobody cares, none of the current mods really have any large volume steam producers or consumers (and the railcraft tanks you are talking about haven't yet made it to the current version) and any numbers you are getting from older versions are likely to change. So putting numbers into a 4 year old thread for a 3 year out of date version of a mod is pretty much an exercise in pointlessness. You're welcome.
It also doesn't change the fact that storing steam in tanks is utterly pointless anyway, the railcraft boilers cannot ever be turned off in any case because of the heating time and the MFR boilers are idiotically efficient so to just leave them running is much more effective.
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