Why are my power plants petroleum
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Why are my power plants petroleum
I have only other and nuclear power plants, but I'm still using over 3bbl of petroleum a year. Why is this happening.
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Yeah we should be able to stop the petroleum use from city's, it can be quite frustrating in certain scenario'sSeydlitz wrote:City power generation accounts for a portion of total power generated, and petroleum is used for that. I've gotten rid of it by setting up an excess of non-petroleum power plants and lowering the production levels. It's a pretty expensive way to get rid of a little oil though...
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Don't forget Coal
I find that it's better to replace petroleum power plants with coal fired ones. This really works nicely if you have plenty of coal. While you can't stop city power production you can reduce petro power plants thus reducing petro usage. I also like to upgrade my power plants to the max and then scrap excess smaller plants.
Thanks,
Eric Larsen
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Re: Don't forget Coal
Too bad the game doesn't model lung cancer .Eric Larsen wrote:I find that it's better to replace petroleum power plants with coal fired ones.
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'Mysterious' Petro
You also must remember that industrial production requires petro [and coal and minerals etc.] as an input. You can't produce industrial, military, and consumer goods without petro. The manual documents this, and it is accurate. You can also see the various component usage by industry in one of the detail panels for each commodity.
The inputs to industrial production are a bit loopy, in that military and consumer goods all require industrial goods as a component [as well as other raw materials]. The effect is to require your goods usage to be panoramic, and ultimately to create friction points where self-sufficiency might otherwise be possible.
[it is curious that the goats chose timber instead of rubber - rubber might have been a great equalizer for third-world non-petro regions... ah well, perhaps in the next BG blockbuster.]
The inputs to industrial production are a bit loopy, in that military and consumer goods all require industrial goods as a component [as well as other raw materials]. The effect is to require your goods usage to be panoramic, and ultimately to create friction points where self-sufficiency might otherwise be possible.
[it is curious that the goats chose timber instead of rubber - rubber might have been a great equalizer for third-world non-petro regions... ah well, perhaps in the next BG blockbuster.]
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My cities are producing 0% of my countries electrical needs. However, my electrical industry is using over 3 billion barrals of oil. With oil over $40 a barral, this is over $120 billion.Seydlitz wrote:City power generation accounts for a portion of total power generated, and petroleum is used for that. I've gotten rid of it by setting up an excess of non-petroleum power plants and lowering the production levels. It's a pretty expensive way to get rid of a little oil though...
Also, I went back and checked again. The only power plants I have are, other and nuclear, with 2 nuke plants under construction.
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K, i went in and looked, the tech is called "Multi- fueled Power plants"
Ive never really been sure how it worked, but thought it might be a possible explantion.
Its under the "Technology" research group by the way, not the science research group.
Ive never really been sure how it worked, but thought it might be a possible explantion.
Its under the "Technology" research group by the way, not the science research group.
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That pretty much rules it out than as the culprit.
Can you post screen shots ?
If you can post on matching the screen above.
Also there was a bug with power generation that was a confusion on usage type issue that has never been tracked down.
http://www.bgforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=4279
Its possible your situation is a variable on it.
If youd like to send me your save game (zipped of course), id be happy to look the situation over tommorrow for you.
Can you post screen shots ?
If you can post on matching the screen above.
Also there was a bug with power generation that was a confusion on usage type issue that has never been tracked down.
http://www.bgforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=4279
Its possible your situation is a variable on it.
If youd like to send me your save game (zipped of course), id be happy to look the situation over tommorrow for you.
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