• The only thorny part with the new heat values in Railcraft, is how incredibly hard it would be to heat up a high pressure boiler. I'll wait for someone to make the "electric heater" mod.  :P

    I had a small discussion about it on BC github a few days ago.

    TL: DR
    if the time spent heating up a boiler is significant your energy production is badly designed.
    Also, never use HP boilers if efficiency is a concern for you.

  • (even though that was not what you wanted to link :P)

    Actually it was exactly the thing I wanted to link. I wanted people to see the whole discussion, not just what I said there.

    Though I guess the confusion might have been that you had electric heaters in mind when talking about "it" while I had just general boiler and energy production mechanics :)