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But if you like to find your emeralds by mining, I've found them in the redrock biome and forested hillls. I'm beginning to think any biome that is quite hilly like extreme hills are you'll find them. I haven't dug in the glacier area by my base yet, but I'm betting they are there.
I hate IC2 solar panels, although greg makes them troublesome to obtain, I find it too OP once you have them. Instead, I use all my nikolite to make RP solars and I convert that to MJ with the motors. Then I use Etho's lava conversion technique to get my EU.
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Yes, you can, from what I've found in the *hills biomes.
D'oh, Peppe and Berry got here before me. Ah well, go team answer!
Better yet, Factorization Solar Turbines. Make some steam and get some steam turbines, and *poof* energy!
No, it is not linearly effective, it is quadratic I believe. It also caps out around 25/24mj, sadly.
It's the one that's just called "harvester" and it is apart of Minefactory Reloaded. The red power bar is filled all the way up and has it's own dedicated batbox. If that wont cut down redwoods, what will?
As awesome as turtles are, I'd want to use them like Sethbling does, but I'd need a ready supply of bone meal which I don't have. I'd like to make it look as complicated as possible, you know? Just to make myself feel like I did more than just punch blocks.
You can use sulfur goo to grow trees, which is easily obtained via sulfur torches. You should get a LOT of it if you make a large room filled with them.
But I was really hoping to get some conveyor belts... Is there anything that will harvest a full tree, like the harvester? But for redwoods? Something not a turtle?
Biofuel for a Matterfab? I think you should just use a Bio Generator. Or maybe if you have a Liquid-fueled Boiler up, you can use it to power that and use a Steam Turbine.
Note that there could be more efficient ways, but these are the best ones I can think of off the top of my head.
If you are still producing biofuel, I'd recommend a 36HP Steam Boiler setup, attached to a pair of Steam Turbines for 2x100EU/t plus surplus steam for 2xIndustrialSteam Engines (16 MJ)
The latest Railcraft update reduced the rate of damage to turbine blades and included a cheap repair recipe.
If you dont want to build and maintain so much infrastructure, perhaps take a look at Combustion Engines. No warm up period and a steady 5MJ/t per engine on biofuel. 6 engines will power one Magma Crucibles producing lava from cobble paired to thermal generator for EU (from memory, GT's Thermal generator will produce 30K EU at 24 EU/t)
Even more?
lol. did I stuff that up?
The damage rate changed from 1/150 to 1/200 (now something like 80+ hours per turbine blade thingy.)
I only play three hours a night, so half a stack of steel for maintenance every month or so is pretty trivial. I actually enjoy doing a little upkeep and the Steam Turbines look way cool. imho.
Thats probably out of date. Its 100 EU/t in Mindcrack 8.2
No way to automate replacement that I know of, so I placed on each turbine a structure pipe/gate and amber lamp which lights up when they reach 40% durability. Looks cool too.
edit to add: the railcraft page says 100Eu/t. In the trivia section it talks about a reduction in earlier version
lol. did I stuff that up?
The biggest issue is that Ultimate has Power Converts, which convert steam at a better ratio than steam turbines can do, and they never run out.