Big Reactors: getting one's feet wet

[Yusunoha]

I would guess a 3x(high number)x3 reactor running at high temperature feeding a MFR laser drill would be the best bet due to its low efficiency.

Or you can process your Yellorium ore in the EnderIO SAG mill for the 5% chance for a bonus cyanite dust.

that's quite a low chance of getting cyanite... I wish there was a machine or reactor design where you can quickly convert yellorium into cyanite for people wanting to use the more efficient tubines instead of just reactors... perhaps smelting yellorium in a furnace?

 

[rhn]

perhaps smelting yellorium in a furnace?

In the name of realism that would be rather messed up. Putting energy into reactor fuel to make it into reactor waste Should be the other way around.

I quite like it actually, having to progress a bit through tiers. And you can always just build the reactor you plan on producing steam with, let it run hot for a while to produce your power and cyanite until you have enough to make your turbines. Once you are ready, put in the cooling ports and you are done.

 

[KingTriaxx]

5x5x5 reactor with only fuel rods and no cooling elements. Should produce a prodigious amount of heat. Plus it'll burn through a lot of Yellorium anyway.

 

[Pyure]

that's quite a low chance of getting cyanite... I wish there was a machine or reactor design where you can quickly convert yellorium into cyanite for people wanting to use the more efficient tubines instead of just reactors... perhaps smelting yellorium in a furnace?

It occurs to me: you could see this as a gating mechanism. Obviously everyone would rather using more efficient turbines, so you could see the non-efficient mechanism as a tier: to progress past it, you need to get far enough along with it to get your cyanite.

(otherwise nobody in their right minds would use the passively-cooled mechanism anymore, right?)

 

[Wagon153]

does anyone know of a good way to quickly produce cyanite? I want to try and build some turbines as soon as possible but it's going to take ages before I get enough cyanite for it...

I've heard on the TPPI IRC that pyrotheum works as a "coolant".