TLDR: What's the best/cheapest/fastest way to get 5000 eu/t pre-matterfab? (Mindcrack pack)
So I'm pretty close to making my first matter fabricator, and I did some calculations and found that in order to make uu fast enough so that it doesn't take an obscenely long amount of time to make iridium plates (I can't afk and I'm not on a server) I'm going to need to be feeding around 5000 eu/t into the fabricator. (~3 min per uu, 18 min per iridium, 72 min for plate). That is a lot of power. My question is: what is the best way to achieve this kind of power generation without iridium, and preferably without a ridiculous amount of resources?
Currently I'm using small scale nuclear to get about 400eu/t to power my base, and i've heard you can reasonably get up to 1000eu/t with more advanced mark II and III designs. However, I'd still have build five of those plus all the required cycling infrastructure, and frankly, I struggle to get enough copper to build one powerful mark I reactor, even with four quarrys running. I think that could be fixed with some serious lava centrifuging or thaumcraft transmuting, though.
It would take ~600+ advanced solar panel to get there, so I don't really think that's viable.
Anyone have any genius ideas or suggestions for generating this kind of power?
So I'm pretty close to making my first matter fabricator, and I did some calculations and found that in order to make uu fast enough so that it doesn't take an obscenely long amount of time to make iridium plates (I can't afk and I'm not on a server) I'm going to need to be feeding around 5000 eu/t into the fabricator. (~3 min per uu, 18 min per iridium, 72 min for plate). That is a lot of power. My question is: what is the best way to achieve this kind of power generation without iridium, and preferably without a ridiculous amount of resources?
Currently I'm using small scale nuclear to get about 400eu/t to power my base, and i've heard you can reasonably get up to 1000eu/t with more advanced mark II and III designs. However, I'd still have build five of those plus all the required cycling infrastructure, and frankly, I struggle to get enough copper to build one powerful mark I reactor, even with four quarrys running. I think that could be fixed with some serious lava centrifuging or thaumcraft transmuting, though.
It would take ~600+ advanced solar panel to get there, so I don't really think that's viable.
Anyone have any genius ideas or suggestions for generating this kind of power?