I did the dumbest thing on Vulcanus

Brought some solar panels to jumpstart a factory. Made a set up to make steam then turn it into water. Because of a force of habit with setting up boilers with the steam engines I set them up next to the line of coal, fed by inserters with the water line attached to the boilers and dealt with a small amount of power for the last 20 hours before it hit me that I could've just put the steam into the the engines directly and even put it into the steam turbines you use with nuclear power which I have now begun building on Vulcanus. Fml.