The Filled Fuel Can is the product of filling an Empty Fuel Can in a Canning Machine using Biofuel Cells or Coalfuel Cells. You also can fill an Empty Fuel Can with a Fuel Bucket. 6 Coalfuel Cells are required to fill one Empty Fuel Can.
Usage[]
A filled fuel can is used inside a generator to generate EUs depending on what fuel cells the can was filled with.
Filled can with coalfuel cells or a Fuel Bucket : 76440 EU vs 6 coal burned in a generator at : 24000 EU
Filled can with biofuel cells : 26040 EU vs 24 saplings in a generator at : 06000 EU
Filled can with Buildcraft refined fuel : 80000 EU via Power Converters recipe (no direct comparison)
Recipe[]
Energy Comparison[]
| Fuel Type | Heat Units | Total EU | Number of Operations per Unit of Fuel | |||||
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Stone Furnace (200 Heat)
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Iron Furnace (160 Heat)
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Electric Furnace (390 EU)
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Induction Furnace‡ (6000-208 EU)
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Fuel can with 6 Coalfuel Cells | 30576 | 76440 | 152 | 191 | 196 | 10 | 734 |
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Lava Bucket | 20000†† | 20000 | 100 | 12.5 | 5.13 | 0.66 | 19.2 |
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Fuel can with 6 Biofuel Cells | 10416 | 26040 | 52 | 65 | 66.77 | 8.6 | 250 |
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Coal/Charcoal | 1600 | 4000 | 8 | 10 | 10.25 | 1.33 | 38 |
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Scrap | 350 | 870 | 1.75 | 2.2 | 2.23 | 0.3 | 8.4 |
  
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Wood/Wooden Planks/Other Wood Items† | 300 | 750 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.92 | 0.25 | 7.2 |
 
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Regular Saplings and Sticks | 100 | 250 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.64 | < 0.1 | 2.4 |
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Rubber Sapling | 80 | 200 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.51 | < 0.1 | 1.92 |
 
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Sugar Cane/Cactus | 50 | 120 | 0.25 | 0.3 | 0.3 | < 0.1 | 1.16 |
†Other Wood Items = Any block with its material set to "Wood" (includes blocks added by other mods if material defined properly). Includes all other items that can be burned in a regular Furnace.
‡Assuming the smelting of 2 items simultaneously, divide by 2 if you are only smelting one item. For values < 2 keep in mind that you will actually have 2 partially finished units.
††Lava buckets are worth 10% of their value (2000) inside Iron Furnaces and Generators.
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