How to void fuel ?

[Hellatze]

I have a lot of unwanted coal dust. How to remove / void it ?

It cant be burned to ash.

[TwentyEighty]

Use it for all smelting etc. After that I don't think there's an alternative to dumping it before blue science

[theblindironman]

Make it into silicon before blue science. Or you can burn it to ash in High pressure furnace.

[Hellatze]

You cant turn fuel into ash. The game didnt allow it.

[reapersms]

There's a recipe that turns coal dust to ash, but it doesn't unlock until much later.

Before you get diamond processing unlocked (presuming you're running the full or full-ish suite) your options are basically smelt/boiler fuel, silicon, charcoal briquettes, and tossing them into warehouses. None are particularly great options:

smelter/boiler fuel:

steam engines usually lose out to combustion turbines, and for it to be reliable, it needs a steady stream of another fuel type
the highest volume smelting processes get forced over to coke fairly early in the rawore processing stages

silicon:

mostly delays the problem, as the use for it won't kick in until you're working on circuit 2 ingredients, and that will end up bottlenecked on other things

briquettes:

you can't use them for anything but raw boiler/smelt fuel until much much later, and the glycerol to make them will need a fair amount of nichrome to make oleochemicals

warehouses:

it will fill up eventually

The good news is that once you unlock the coal dust -> kimberlite recipe with the basic diamond processing tech, that can serve as an effectively bottomless pit

[TwentyEighty]

That's a nice reply, reapersms. It would be a shame if someone were to make it obsolute almost immediately.

[theblindironman]

Sheesh. Where was that recipe 100+ hours ago...

[reapersms]

Not that it would kick in since I'm still on the 0.16 versions, but that of course shows up just after I get a coal processing setup dedicated to syngas going...

Huzzah!

[theblindironman]

Hmm. I see the recipe in FNEI but its not available in the gasifier. How do I get this to unlock?

I'm such a newb.

[TwentyEighty]

Try this console command

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 /c game.player.force.reset_technology_effects()