Help: EU

[ILoveGregTech]

Ok, so my friend and I got to talking at school and he is going to host a server on the Ultimate Pack with not GT
Anyways we are gonna have a UUM competition to see who can get the most UUM quickest...
Seeing as I don't have to make a Matter Fab and instead can make the much easier and more boring Mass Fab, what would be my best approach in regards to power?
I'm going solar and he's going nuclear...
Anyways Obviously I'm going to get some infrastructure and such (recyclers, Singularity Compressor, Centrifuge Extractor, Rotary Macerator, Induction Furnace, etc.)
After I get all that then I'm gonna start on UUM....
tl;dr what's the best approach to making UUM, with solars in Vanilla IC2?

 

[Milaha]

On ultimate I would recommend boilers for an EU competition. Go for boilers fed straight into steam power converters (or MJ engines > power converters if you dont want it to feel so cheaty). Ultimate uses advanced solar panels, so even without GT the cost of lots of EU through solar is fairly high. If you do straight from steam to EU through power converters know that while the cap on total steam through a TE pipe is very high, there is a cap on how much can enter through a single face of the converter. Swarm the pipes around the converter, and might even need to do multiple consumers per HV output. (just stick them all on the same energy bridge).

 

[ILoveGregTech]

On ultimate I would recommend boilers for an EU competition. Go for boilers fed straight into steam power converters (or MJ engines > power converters if you dont want it to feel so cheaty). Ultimate uses advanced solar panels, so even without GT the cost of lots of EU through solar is fairly high. If you do straight from steam to EU through power converters know that while the cap on total steam through a TE pipe is very high, there is a cap on how much can enter through a single face of the converter. Swarm the pipes around the converter, and might even need to do multiple consumers per HV output. (just stick them all on the same energy bridge).

Thanks so much! I know there are a LOT of power supplies out there it's just using them and learning about them. That's why I love these forums...That and awesome profile pictures (like yours )