Biomass Burner

*Burns various forms of biomass to generate electricity for the power grid. Has no input and must therefore be fed biomass manually.
Resource consumption will automatically be lowered to meet power demands.*

## Building

### Accepted fuel

Leaves, Flower Petals, Wood, Mycelia, Biomass, Solid Biofuel, Packaged Liquid Biofuel, Hog Remains, Plasma Spitter Remains, Stinger Remains, Hatcher Remains, Fabric

## Ingredients

### Made in

Build Gun

**15×**  Iron Plate

**15×**  Iron Rod

**25×**  Wire

The **Biomass Burner** is a power generator building that generates power by burning various biomass items. These materials can be gathered from trees, shrubs, and most flora and fauna found in the world. Later these raw materials can be refined into Biomass and Solid Biofuel for higher fuel efficiency.

A standalone Biomass Burner produces 30 MW at 100% clock speed. The HUB has up to two different, smaller Biomass Burners attached to it, added by completing HUB Upgrades 1 and 5 respectively. These Biomass Burners only produce 20 MW, but also burn fuel 1.5 times slower.

The fuel consumption of Biomass Burners scales to power demand, unlike other generators. This also renders them unable to charge Power Storages.

## Usage

### Fuel consumption

Energy is given in MJ. 1 MJ provides 1 MW of power for one second or 30 MW of power (1 Biomass Burner at 100% load) for 0.033 seconds.

Unlike other fuel-burning generators, if power consumption is not 100%, the resource consumption is automatically lowered, meaning each fuel item burns for a longer time.

### Conversion

Most fuel types can be crafted into a higher tier fuel type, increasing their energy.

* Input energy: Refers to the total energy of the items that go into one crafting process
* Output energy: Refers to the total energy of the items that come out of one crafting process
* Energy multiplier: How much energy is gained by crafting it into the next tier item.

For comparison, it is possible to convert Biomass and Wood into Coal for use in a  Coal Generator, and Solid Biofuel into Liquid Biofuel for use in a  Fuel Generator. Liquid Biofuel can further be processed into Packaged Liquid Biofuel for use in a Biomass Burner or vehicle.

### Semi-automation

Biomass Power can be semi-automated by automating the crafting of Biomass or Solid Biofuel, while the collection of Leaves or Woods and the refueling of Biomass Burners must be done manually.

Each Constructor crafting the following recipe can be used to sustain the following number of Biomass Burners:

 Solid Biofuel | 15

The values in brackets are limits due to the throughput of Mk.1 Conveyors.

## Overclocking

*Main article:* Clock speed
The Biomass Burner can be overclocked using Power Shards. Overclocking increases the fuel (and Water) consumption rate and produced power linearly. The same amount of power is always produced from the same input resources.

## Tips

* The Biomass Burner, like all power generating buildings, behaves differently from other buildings when overclocked. See Clock Speed for more info.
* Building more Biomass Burners than necessary means the fuel consumption will be split among all of them, therefore all of them will have to be refuelled less frequently.
	+ It cannot charge a Power Storage because Power Storage is not a power consumer. However, building multiple Biomass Burners will act like a group of Power Storage due to their automatic throttling.
	+ This is especially useful for powering outposts at the very early stage, before either long power grids or railways are practical.
* The serial number of the Biomass Burner is "810-M455-GEN", which could be read as "Biomass Gen".

## Gallery

* Comparison between two models of Biomass Burners: Left: stand-alone (30 MW). Right: attached to the HUB (20 MW).

## History

* Patch 0.3.3.0:
	+ Production time tooltip should now display correctly on Generators
	+ Power Shards can now properly be inserted in Generators
* Patch 0.2.1.13: Fixed issue with biomass burner not rendering at times
* Patch 0.1.8: Biomass burners now show the correct name in their menu
* Patch Closed Alpha 3: Moved Biomass Burner from Tier 1-1 to HUB Upgrade 5
* Patch Closed Alpha 2: Generators now display their stats in the Generator Menu.

## See also

* Coal Generator
* Fuel Generator
* Geothermal Generator
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Power trip

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