You can use any Tier of energy Hatch. For example a single LuV Hatch supplying 4 PAs. If you output Items, you can also share output busses.
Most machines only can accept 2Amp, so 16EU/t should the recipe need more, the process will reset once the machine is out of energy. Is the machine only used rarely and with small amounts at once, a battery inside can help.
Yeah, it is not for heavy processing, i just want to find a use for the batteries, so in gregtech single use batteries is for these kind of things that don't need constant processing and reusable batteries is the standard to go to for general energy storage.
I was glad to see that it only cost a few volts to fill a battery worth of 12k volts, a ULV machine could do it, i was right in that it is very compact energy storage. The problem is automating it for heavy processing. Acid is not something that should be mass produced as it cannot be mass used anyways, it would be different if i could sell these batteries but i can't so other fuels such as "fuel" and methane can be used on a greater scale. It is kinda sad that acid is so easy to get but has limited uses, i just thought using sulfuric acid in my base would be cool and it looks awesome, fun fact: in reality sulfuric acid is only dark brown or orange because of added dyes to alert people that it is dangerous, it is actually a clear, colorless, odorless liquid
So what i take away from this is: only mass produce fuels that can be used directly in a generator to generate electricity. This fuel will surely be more dense than steam at least and more voltage per unit of time or volume (efficiency). I can have both steam and then something else on top when i want to generate more power later (i'm still going to do that huge steam factory).
This is fun
i wonder if acid batteries can be used in electrical tools? Can electrical tools take less durability damage when used in crafting if they are electrical? Can i power some sort of jetpack or armors with these batteries? So in theory, the single use batteries should be best at these other tasks whilst the reuse batteries would be good for heavy processing.
It would be cool if i could convert sulfuric acid into some other fuel that generators can use as i don't think the raw fluid sulfuric acid can be used directly in a generator right?
In real life you can make a generator that uses Sulfuric acid (H2SO4). (Basically that is what batteries are right?, tiny generators with liquid or solid storage) There is no reason why i cannot have a bigger generator than small batteries, just up scale? does the voltage go higher if i increase the volume of the generator? doesn't it just process more liters quicker? i mean the pH value of the sulfuric acid doesn't change if you keep it in a bigger bottle. What matters is the concentration of it.
I'm not sure exactly how it works but there is a lot of different reactions and one produce HCl which is Hydrochloric Acid, it can create great pressures which can turn gas turbines... or something. Interesting stuff. So if there isn't: i want to somehow make sulfuric acid able to power some sort of generator, so it is both a storage medium and a power generator (besides small batteries, an enormous battery with a liquid pipe line could support constant power generation probably) or enabling the automation of battery recycling would be good
Did you know (from wiki): Gastric acid is a digestive fluid, formed in the stomach. It is composed of hydrochloric acid (HCl) (around 0.5%, or 5000 ppm) as high as 0.1 M and is extremely important for the reaction.
It breaks down protein enzymes and this is what powers many animals so we are sentient hydrochloric acid power generators xD
By the way: Steam is a gas, not a liquid, i'm not sure how liquids travel in pipes unless they are pressurized, these "liquid" pipes must only work if they are gasses because gasses usually get pressurized by being in that state in the first place, so it makes sense to transport steam in liquid pipes, but i don't like it because a gas is gas and not a liquid. We need a pump station for liquid pipes and a compressor for gas pipes, we are using gas and liquids the same.
I'm not sure if gas and liquid pipes can be used interchangeably tho, this simplification is probably for the best, what bothers me i guess is that there is a steam turbine when there also is a gas turbine, what if it was just gas turbine? wouldn't steam work as a gas in a gas turbine for some reason? Steam isn't flammable, yet it isn't a liquid, i guess that might be the reason for this specific generator, makes sense actually
I just noticed that gas generators mention the gasses need to be flammable to work in it, so steam wouldn't work there.
Isn't combustion engine another name for gas turbine? this could be used to separate the gases into two types: flammable and nonflammable.
From wiki: A
gas turbine, also called a
combustion turbine, is a type of
internal combustion engine. It has an upstream rotating
compressor coupled to a downstream
turbine, and a
combustion chamber in between.
All flammable gases are called fuel gases and a gas is just when matter takes the shape of the container, even in the face of gravity... so you could say that gravity defying liquids are gases. Steam is a gravity defying liquid, hence gas.
There are other ways of generating electricity and one is electrochemical reaction.
That is what electrolysis and batteries are.
There is chemical reactors but not electrochemical reactors for some reason
Its sad that the battery buffer prevents itself from becoming a electrochemical reactor by disabling automation in case of sulfuric acid and mercury batteries.
What if you just went by the small batteries and added a whole block a reactor instead?
Pipe it the fuel and it does the reaction that produces electricity via an electrochemical reaction. It would be even cooler if you could build a multi-block "pool" of sorts that have these different liquids react with each others (like a battery but much bigger scale)
Alternatively you could make an electrolysis generator (hydrogen is a prime example).
Sry a bit much rant, i just find this stuff fascinating.
