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The original was posted on /r/factorio by /u/largeEoodenBadger on 2025-04-16 19:56:49+00:00.

So I understand that you can make and burn solid fuel, and that it’s probably a limitation built to make power a bit more complex than just “plug in 2 fluids and bam”. But why do we lack the technology to straight up burn liquid crude for power generation?

Like you could definitely have a dual-liquid intake boiler, we burn oil in real-life power plants. It just feels like a more natural progression to go from coal-fed boilers to oil-fed to nuclear, rather than going straight from coal to nuclear