Talk:Fire Powered Generator/@comment-50.24.129.229-20200103162908

This is an excellent intermediary step in fuel efficiency. It's not a Factory, but I just got mine before the end of the first Summer, so it is surprisingly accessable if you focus on the 10 disc research options.

For furnaces, it's a 5x efficiency multiplier. Instead of each civil/industrial furnace eating one wood per in-game hour, each generator can power two such furnaces and one wood will last 2h30m. Combined with the Tree Farm output (a single upgrade nets you around 100 Wood per day for a reasonable cost before the scaling starts ramping up massively), and you need to chop an awful lot fewer trees to keep your furnaces going.

For your other machines, it can be an even better boost to efficiency because you can run, say, machines that normally require Compact Energy Crystals... on wood. Which is substantially easier to obtain.

Will you outgrow it once you get a Factory up and running? Of course you will. But can it help you get there much easier without needing to spend every other day clear-cutting Portia? Yes... yes it will.