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Yes. When you have a 36HP boiler and aren't using all the steam. You have two options: run all 18 commercial engines and fill an endless chain of energy cells, or convert the excess. You are comparing a power conversion system with a native power source. It's like going in the other direction...

Peat Production. Edit: Not a dumb question. There's a bit to sort out when you are starting out.

He's trying to run a wheat farm, not NASA. Put some peat engines on that farm and be done with it ;p

Right. In a completely contained IC2 scenario, where the geotherm wasn't an alternative to BC > EU conversion methods, which is what we are discussing.

F3.

Make cans. Put liquids in them. Rejoice!

Right. You don't design EU generation around the turbine. You use the turbine to spend excess resources. You use any of the converters to burn off excess whatever (like that tank full of biofuel). The reason they are lossy conversions is to respect the fact that a system should benefit from...

Nooo not my beloved magmatics :eek: .. they are quite awesome when used as you likely originally intended. But I honestly don't mind a tweak there as I tend to move to boilers as soon as I have the resources. It's really the geotherm that's tossing conversion out of whack at the moment...

Of course; though biofuel is the better choice at 32000 EU / bucket. But that is more a function of a cheap and powerful geotherm that hasn't scaled well with the current abundance of its fuel. From a balance perspective, the biogen, petrol gen, and turbine should be the models to emulate. In...

I agree and do the same (though I always use the TE smelter recipe at least once to bootstrap the Magma Crucible on my maps, prior to establishing an IC2 net) - but I'm not trying to exist in an IC2-free world as he is :cool: Blaze rods in a Macerator: 5 powder | Pulverizer: 4 powder + 50%...

There are several indirect choices. Use your excess BC power to run: 1. Magma Crucibles > lava > geogens as mentioned above (geothermal generators need a balance pass - they are a bit too cheap / efficient with a currently abundant lava resource). 2. Forestry Bio Generator to burn Biomass or...

Just keep experimenting with them. Consult mod wikis, read the forums. You will be fine eventually. Maybe.

1 Soul Sand + 4 Netherrack = 2 Nether Brick (TE Induction Smelter). Just helping you along toward your goal :p

Conversions are purposefully lossy, and are really designed for niche deployments. The OP should consider powering his BC quarry from a BC energy net. Create your power (using any number of methods) and store excess in a redstone cell. Use the cells with the quarry, for one common example. The...

The evolution of linguistics is not the result of a lack of education. In fact, it is often quite the opposite.

There's a pinned thread at the top of this forum which you may want to look at.

Not only that, there are a ton of options .. such as waiting for Ultimate or Tech, using the conversion tools (that they aren't obliged to dev), starting over with MC and disabling GT .. etc, such that "out of luck" sounds a bit .... yea. I guess if you want everything on a monogrammed silver...

It seems that there is an audience for an all-inclusive pack. Is there a technical reason preventing that?

You probably already realize this, but since Bagman brought it up and others might be curious: Rubies = replacement for diamonds in Energy Crystals, the dust is used for aluminum and chrome (Indy Electrolyzer), Sapphire dust for aluminum as well. Tungsten = several GT recipes, like the...

The age data is maintained and should be deleted. Look for the /saves/[savename]/DIM_MYST[#] folders, and the associated data file in the /[savename]/data folder(agedata_[#].dat). The issue is storage, less than performance (unless you have multiple ages active / chunkloaded). Boilers are...