Yeah that's the popular explanation. It just runs somewhat contrary to intuition since, by that argument, I'm now fitting 1000L of liquid into a bucket (which was fine when I wasn't forced to think of it as 1 cubic meter in a bucket). Liters is a broken derivative.
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I'm so glad this journey all worked out and was well worth it!
It's so funny that you're talking about resisting doing it. That's the exact same shoes im in now. I'm pumping out tons of TNT now and I still wind up with barrels full of the stuff. I'll have to setup that process. It just feels weird to me for some reason xDI "quickly" (over a real day or two) filled up a max-size Railcraft tank with the orange juice. Now what do I do with it all? LOL I had to do something.
I turn all Hydric Sulfide into Sulfuric Acid right away after the Distillation Tower desulfurization processing, mainly because I need that empty cell back to cycle thru my system over and over again. And so what I did was make the largest battery I could make (which was an IV-tier Lapotron Energy Orb), and I use a HV Acid Battery to transfer the energy available from the sulfuric into the IV Battery Buffer Box. No transformers are necessary when "up-converting" EU power in GregTech. The HV Buffer Box points right at the IV Buffer Box. But whatever tier of power you use, that's the best way to use up all that orange juice. It's a nice little boost from an otherwise pretty useless byproduct (unless you're a TNT maniac lol). I'm constantly putting a IV-tier battery in empty, and a few hours later I get a full IV battery with 100 million EU, seemingly "for free".
All I do is use Ender IO item conduit with basic filters to pull the empty HV Acid Battery out of the Buffer box, send it to an LV Extractor, then the HV Empty Hull goes into a Fluid Canner to be re-filled and sent to the Buffer Box. Just let it cycle over and over nonstop. I also power all the machines in this loop with a single LV Acid Battery that cycles thru nonstop, using filters so everything goes into the right place. It's basically free power and while I resisted setting it up, I'm certainly glad I did so instead of just voiding the waste product.
Its free energy if you care about energy. Right now my distillation power setup is: spend all acid batteries, and only use "central power" when the main batteries (fed by acid batteries, so, two buffers) are getting empty.
I pulled off a drum for TNT production, then set up an extractor, fluid canner, and HV battery buffer dumping into my main power storage.
If you are running out of power I assume you're not using LPG as power for your oil processing? What do you do with it then?
I use all of it. I bank a certain amount of LPG, Methane, Naphtha and Sulfuric Acid for other uses. Everything else gets priority-burned (before nitro-diesel kicks in).
Of course even without the tiny coal dusts I still could use all my LPG with the Advanced Miner II over a Coal vein and probably have just as many drums, same end result.Ahh I see. Im still not sure what to do next. I don't feel like I need the diesel generator yet. My big reactor still produces enough steam to keep my base powered.
Yeah, if you did a big reactor first, you managed to "skip" the diesel phase successfully.
Lolololol I know that feeling. Also, 704mb/ cycle ayy. I'm getting a lot more than that. Guess I'll never need oil again xD.For me, I've filled a Bedrockium Drum with LPG, and already have 11m mb in the second Drum. LOL It's not what I expected to happen, for me to have this amazing excess of power/fuel... but it sure is a nice "problem" to have, where to spend it all.
Hitting a pocket of Heavy Oil at 704mb/cycle with my first attempt at the Drilling Rig was real lucky, I've come to realize... first of all I still haven't found a larger pocket of oil, most are half that size it seems... and second, the Heavy Oil results in an amazing amount of tiny hydrated coal, I ended up processing 40 million mb of Heavy Oil, and turning all those tiny coal dusts into diamonds, meaning all the fuels can go into Bedrockium Drums. I quickly learned the Drums are far better than the massive-sized Railcraft tanks. If I'm filling multiple Bedrockium Drums like this, imagine how many Railcraft tanks I would need? Finding a large source of Heavy Oil was really almost a game-changer, I would claim. Highly recommended.
I use the LPG Drum to run my Drilling Rig, and I use the Nitro Diesel Drum for my Advanced Miner II. I probably need to consider bumping both up a power tier, at a minimum, altho my willingness to let them run slow and steady for a long time is probably why I have my excess of fuel. It won't take too many tiers before my excess becomes a deficit of course.
You're just unlucky then. Yeah it doesn't always give a seedbag it's a chance that gets better the higher the resistance stat is
I didn't do a IC2 reactor. I did the actual mod Big Reactor- reactor. It generates very high amounts of steam very efficiently
