Tales of the Fusion Journeyman
I've been running a
sustained Mk I Fusion Reactor reaction on Tritium + Deuterium
for several days now and have automated the Large Plasma Turbine on-off using
Battery Buffers and RS Latch logic. I've also completed separation of my self-sustaining Fusion power system from my main base, with each having a dedicated Large Plasma Turbine, battery buffers, and logic gates.
The Helium Plasma is building up, which will allow me to shutdown the Tritium + Deuterium = Helium Plasma to switch to the
Hydrogen + Neodymium = Europium recipe to work on Mk II Fusion, among other Europium-using recipes. I have enough of the input, so I'll probably make a big Europium batch tonight. I don't have NEI up, but I believe the Energy Orb Clusters (1B EU each @ 32768v) require Europium, so I'll be upgrading my EU power storage and transmission as soon as I can.
And, is it just me, or
is superconducting wire 'the way to go' once you get above 8192v ? I could go Gallium-Vanadium, but honestly superconducting is not much more expensive if you consider iron/steel/redstone/copper/tin as super-cheap, i.e. almost free. Yttrium and Barium aren't that rare.
Base-wise, I've
cleaned up all of my Fission and am using that space to build more
EBF (Tungstensteel and Chrome) and more
Processing Arrays (centrifuging lava and making UU-matter). I'll need a ton more Tungstensteel and Chrome for the Mk II. I *could* convert Mk I to Mk II, but I don't see a Mk II power recipe that I could sustain
indefinitely like I can with just water as the input for the Mk I recipe. So, I'll probably keep the Mk I Fusion power recipe running until I can make the
Mk III Fusion power recipes. The Mk III Fusion recipes produce so much power, that I still might make a profit by UU-matter-making one of the fuels - I haven't worked out the math yet.
Speaking of Mk III Fusion power, how best to extract
464,000 EU/t from Nickel Plasma ? A few Large Plasma Turbines with Huge Turbines in them ?