Faxtorio Burner inserters pollute

madmurdoch2000: Burner inserter burns 2.63 coal to move 100 items.Basic inserter burns 1110 kJ (0.14 coal) to move 100 items.1110 kJ produces 17.1 pollution in a boiler.To mine the extra 2.49 coal (= 2.63 - 0.14), an electric miner burns 427 kJ and produces 42.7 pollution.427 kJ produces 6.6 pollution in a boiler, plus a bit extra for the coal to power it.
2:07madmurdoch2000: So the burner inserter produces 3 times as much pollution overall. In practice it's not quite that high, since the basic inserter has a 400W idle drain. But you would have to use the inserters VERY infrequently for the burner inserter to win.An additional factor is burner inserters require less pollution to craft, so they actually come out ahead in the first hour of the game.