Extreme RF Production

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Dezz

Dezz

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So, the tier 5 magentostatic engine requires a metric shit-brick of energy. 13kRF/tick. I have made over 300+ magmatic dynamos to prepare for this. Well, I can't run 4 of those engines on only 300 dynamos. Any ideas as to how I get that much freaking energy? Any reactor designs or such? I am not short on resources by any means, so have at it!
 
BigReactors is an easy way to easily get 11000 rf/tick (a 7x7 reactor can do that).
You can also use ReactorCraft for even more RF/tick but it is a bit more complicated.

With RotaryCraft you can use other energy production too like jet fuel engine, hydrokinetic engine and so on.
 
McJty said:
BigReactors is an easy way to easily get 11000 rf/tick (a 7x7 reactor can do that).
You can also use ReactorCraft for even more RF/tick but it is a bit more complicated.

With RotaryCraft you can use other energy production too like jet fuel engine, hydrokinetic engine and so on.
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Thanks!
 
You could of course use reactor craft to produce that much RF, but it seems somewhat foolish to export rotary power to RF, purely for the purpose of converting it back to rotary power again.

So. Big Reactors is the technology you seek. Something with 20+ fuel rods will produce 20kRF/t
 
Chris Becke said:
You could of course use reactor craft to produce that much RF, but it seems somewhat foolish to export rotary power to RF, purely for the purpose of converting it back to rotary power again.
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Actually I do that a lot since RF is very easy to transport everywhere including other dimensions. So I have several energy production machines (some RoC, one Big Reactors) which all feed into my main power tesseract and then I can convert that RF back into whatever I want (including RoC power) in my main base. Very conveniant that way.
 
Dezz said:
I'm having troubles finding setups. Link anyone?
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Start out with a passive cooled reactor but as soon you have enough Cyanite for a turbine switch to an active cooled reactor feeding turbines, they are way more efficient. With a turbine with enderium coils you get about 6.5x more RF per fuel bucket than with a passive cooled reactor and a lot easier to generate a lot of power.

My 9x9x5 reactor produced about 17k RF but with turbines it can produce about 110k RF/t at the same fuel cost per tick.

Reactors
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ckNzzHQhpgGFHkqNxB7ICrodStiq3fmfsyBFy-Z-smA/edit?pli=1#gid=0

Turbines
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...lpERWtPMmtGT213bmc&f=true&noheader=true&gid=0


edit: And btw 13k RF is not really that much RF, depending on the MFR settings a laser drill sucks up 10k or 20k RF/t. ;)
 
Dezz said:
I'm having troubles finding setups. Link anyone?
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There is really no need. Passively cooled BigReactors are actually rather simple to build: Build a box with reactor casing and glass. Put the cores in the middle. Surround with coolant. Top with reactor control rod blocks. Shove a controller, IO port and RF tap and your'e done.

How big a box? Decide on your ideal power output in RF/t - divide by 500 and that is the number of fuel rod blocks your design will need to incorporate.

A lot of the power produced in a big reactor is produced by radiation being absorbed by coolant, radiation travels no further than 4 blocks so you need to have 1 to 4 blocks of coolant between each rod and the edge of the reactor, depending on your available space. Cyrotheum has an absorption of 66% so each block of coolant past the first only yields half as much RF. (Ender has an absorption of 90%).

Once the reactor has produced enough cyanite, swithc to active cooling by building a turbine for a 10 fold power increase
 
Chris Becke said:
There is really no need. BigReactors are actually rather simple to build. Build a box with reactor casing and glass. Put the cores in the middle. Surround with coolant. Top with reactor control rod blocks. Shove a controller, IO port and RF tap and your'e done.

A lot of the power produced in a big reactor is produced by radiation being absorbed by coolant, radiation travels no further than 4 blocks so you need to have 1 to 4 blocks of coolant between each rod and the edge of the reactor, depending on your available space. Cyrotheum has an absorption of 66% so each block of coolant past the first only yields half as much RF. (Ender has an absorption of 90%).
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Oh okay!

So, does the coolant have to be replaced? I have access to ender, but not like stacks upon stacks
 
Dezz said:
Oh okay!

So, does the coolant have to be replaced? I have access to ender, but not like stacks upon stacks
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Nope. Actively cooled reactors are supplied with water for cooling, but in passively cooled reactors you just place the liquid in the interior space, and seal the thing up
 
Chris Becke said:
Once the reactor has produced enough cyanite, swithc to active cooling by building a turbine for a 10 fold power increase
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Which coils are you using for a 10x increase? I thought Enderium blocks are the best material available which results to about a 6.5x increase.
 
i think he was speaking figuratively.
and about the actively cooled reactors: you will need about a drum of water. if you make a feedback loop you can reuse it and you won't need to worry about that either
 
Giddimani said:
Which coils are you using for a 10x increase? I thought Enderium blocks are the best material available which results to about a 6.5x increase.
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I havn't actually bothered to build an actively cooled reactor myself yet - the passively cooled ones already recover more fuel than they use. (in terms of powering MFR mining lasers) I was basing "10x" as an order of magnitude estimation based off the forum posts where people claim a ~800kRF/mB fuel effeciency on active cooling where passive cooling gets ~80kRF/mB - about a factor of 10 increase
 
Chris Becke said:
I havn't actually bothered to build an actively cooled reactor myself yet - the passively cooled ones already recover more fuel than they use. (in terms of powering MFR mining lasers) I was basing "10x" as an order of magnitude estimation based off the forum posts where people claim a ~800kRF/mB fuel effeciency on active cooling where passive cooling gets ~80kRF/mB - about a factor of 10 increase
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Oh ok, but I think these people are a little overexaggerating their numbers, at least in the spreadsheets and testing I have seen there wasn't a setup above 600kRF/mB.

But like you said, it really doesn't matter because even passive reactors produces more fuel than they use, it's more of a interest standpoint how efficient you can get your setup. :)
 
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