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Re:Factorio and Software Engineering by hackcasual on Sunday August 16, 2020 @07:19PM (#24182232)
But they stack better in trains. A train load of greens is equivalent to almost 5 train loads of it's precursors
Re:Factorio and Software Engineering by m463 on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:11AM (#24183876)
That's a good point.

300 copper (= 600 copper cables) + 200 iron => 200 green circuits in a stack.

Re:Factorio and Software Engineering by hackcasual on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:48PM (#24189729)
Yep, it's one of the reasons smelting where you mine is popular with train based logistics, since that doubles your density