Talk:Miner/@comment-83.86.168.221-20121022213015

Its cost, speed and power consumption and logistics make this into an awkward method to mine.

Its power consumption is about 10 times higher than mining with a diamond drill or a mining laser. It takes ~16 lava cells on average to mine out a 9x9 area with a regular drill.

Instead of a stack of mining pipes you can have 8 machines.

On the bright side, this machine is keen to extract uranium.