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Playsaver posted...

I'm seeing reports that some gas powered electric plants went down because they ended up cutting power to gas pumps (not owned by them) that fed gas to their plants.

Sounds like those plant managers need to play more Factorio. Lrn2use burner inserters on boilers, nubs.

(For the uninitiated, one of Factorio's power options is to use boilers powered by solid fuels like coal, which must be moved into them via robotic arms. The standard inserters require power to operate, though, so in a brownout/blackout situation, they become unable to add more fuel to the boilers, causing the entire system to shut down until fuel is manually added to the boilers. This can be prevented by using burner inserters, which are less energy-efficient, but operate by burning their own solid fuel, which they can self-insert even in a power outage.)

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