Damn, someone beat me to the Flux and Redstone Flux connection, I was totally gonna say something about that, now I feel like second best. This is what I get for not paying attention to the forums for like a Week :/
Note: It's okay to ignore most of this post if the idea of new power generation options really doesn't strike your fancy, as that's mostly what it's about (with a little geekiness thrown in on the side)
So, some thing that someone else said a few pages back about an Arcane bellows powered dynamo actually piqued my interest, and it got me wondering. We can make a set of bellows that magically pump themselves, why couldn't we do the same with a Windmill? Or a waterwheel? Make it a cheap recipe for the arcane workbench, rather than an ifusion, and the "basic" tier of dynamos, outputting 5 - 10 RF per tic. Anyway, that's just a thought.
As for the flux goo, the connection to Redstone Flux was already made, and I do have some thoughts on that. Like mixing Flux Goo and Destabalized Redstone to get some sort of Energized Flux goo which could work as a source of fuel, maybe for a sort of "Arcane Reactor".
I'm seeing a sort of progression for Generators/Dynamos. Starting with the lowest tier, it would be the magically powered spinny thingys, the second tier which is currently the Essentia Dynamo (similar to the Gas Generators of our own age), and the third tier which is the current Node Dynamo (which is more akin to tapping Aether Energy than anything else), and then a Fourth Tier involving some sort of Multiblock Reactor, it could combine all the knowledge you gained working on the previous tiers to make a much more powerful energy source. It could have magical moving parts, require Energized Flux (or just run better when it's present) and draw vis off of a node (or nodes) contained inside. I have this image of a bright node being circled by floating crystals/slabs (by this I mean spinning of course, as recent poles have confirmed that most people equate spinning with Science Happening) that are constantly bombarding the node with a sort of "stream" of Energized Flux (think of it like a particle beam, in which you hyper accelerate the molecules to create a charged ray of matter, Tesla used Liquid Mercury in his, so....) to stimulate greater energy release which is then being drawn off by two pillars one above and one below (I tend to think of the Nodes as being a Doorway into another layer of reality, a warp in the fabric if you will, where energy can leak through over time, so the idea here would be to shove the door wide open and leave it that way so you can harness the energy on the other side freely without having to wait for it to leak through on it's own). The danger of course is that if you don't regulate it carefully your node can either become warped by the constant bombardment (read: Become a tainted node) or reach critical mass and collapse in on itself (read: become a hungry node).
You could even have a Tier Five reactor which harnesses the awesome power of a Hungry Node (think Romulan Warp Drive Technology which runs off of an artificial and contained black hole, I know, my geek is showing). Of course if your containment somehow failed you'd be in some trouble, but the benefit of free and theoretically limitless power.......
of course you'll need a new type of Conduit to carry the massive amounts of RF you'll be generating. Such as an Energized Flux Conduit, made by filling an Empty Conduit with Energized Flux in a fluid transposer, and can carry a whopping 100,000 RF
anyway, that's my ideas for power generation.
