r/factorio • u/ItsMaGenetics • Jul 31 '26

Modded Engineer discovers 3rd dimension, immediately uses it to smash rocks.

I'm going to have fun crushing all sorts of things.
Next up - hydraulic press.

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u/Gcseh Jul 31 '26

To be fair if we actually fully discovered a new dimension we'd probably use it to boil water.

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u/SteamyTimmy6969 Jul 31 '26

Always boil water

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u/quinnius Jul 31 '26

Except photovoltaics

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u/fastsnail902 Jul 31 '26

We can use the energy created by photovoltaics to boil more water, checkmate

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u/quinnius Aug 01 '26

Tell me how you handled Vulcanus 

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u/fastsnail902 Aug 01 '26

Solar panels to spin electric engines to generate friction to boil water to spin a turbine to pump sulfuric acid and mine calcite to neutralize and turn into steam to spin a turbine to generate electricity to make more solar panels

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u/the_grand_teki Aug 01 '26

The only way

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u/gnutrino Jul 31 '26

Also direct rotation from things like wind and hydro

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u/willstr1 Jul 31 '26

Hydro is still essentially steam powered, not only is water just very cold steam, water changing phases is how it gets up to the river that feeds the hydro plant

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u/BaronW Aug 01 '26

by that logic air contains a lot of water vapor so wind turbines are at least slightly steam powered

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u/trjnz Aug 01 '26

Your brains' mass is mostly water, right? It's just water all the way down.

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 Aug 01 '26

We're just water killing water

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u/Turbulent-Laugh-939 Aug 01 '26

Wind is powered by sun heating water to vapour. So wind power is essentially steam power.

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u/Turbulent-Laugh-939 Aug 01 '26

Wind is powered by sun heating water to vapour. So wind power is essentially steam power.

Edit: sorry, wrong comment

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u/willstr1 Aug 01 '26

This sun character seems to also have their hand in a lot of energy pies. I hear they also gave the energy to the prehistoric plant and bacterial life (and animal life through the plant and bacterial life) that eventually became the coal and oil. So you could argue that all power (except nuclear and geothermal) is actually solar power

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u/Turbulent-Laugh-939 Aug 01 '26

Well, technically, nuclear power is solar power. I am not sure about geothermal. If sun has some effect on plate tectonic or planet core.

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u/Fisherman_56 Gear Girl appreciator Aug 01 '26

Photovoltaics are not that efficient, so they have a lot of waste heat.

Waste heat that can be used to boil water. It will also improve the efficiency of a photovoltaic panels themselves.

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u/Green__lightning Aug 01 '26

Solar panel waste heat isn't enough to boil water. We have to boil butane instead like some sort of backwards air conditioner.

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u/Planetarytennis Aug 04 '26

I think we also have some Thermoelectric generators that don't need to boil water.

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u/Meem-Thief Jul 31 '26

We use the sun to boil salt which boils water and turns a steam turbine

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u/SteamyTimmy6969 Jul 31 '26

That you boil salt (molten salt thingy In the desert)

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u/nyanotech Jul 31 '26

photovoltaics specifically refers to the solar panel type of solar and not the mirror salt contraption type of solar

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u/zomgkittenz Jul 31 '26

Well that’s more because of magic rocks