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New player here (10h) and I'm unsure whether using coal to power the burner drills directly is better than using it to boil water and power electric drills
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I haven't crunched the numbers to see which setup gets more coal mined per coal burned (burner inserter/burner drill vs boiler > power > electric drill) mostly because I'm almost certain this is less efficient. But even if that's the case, you still have a source of fuel for your boilers that isn't powered by the turbines themselves. Does this benefit outweigh the inefficient use of coal by any sort of quantifiable amount?

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