I've been playing with Applied Energistics and just love it. I'm not doing anything very advanced -- basic storage on formatted drives for the most part.
I've recently attached my SC tree farm cargo manager to the network via an ME Import Bus. This has worked brilliantly, allowing me to add a powered furnace to the mix with its own ME Import and Export Buses, turning the Logs into Charcoal to burn in my boiler (also fed with an ME Export Bus).
Next I would like to automate steel production using a similar technique plus a level emitter (when network has 4 stacks of steel, stop creating it).
I guess my question isn't really about AE, it's about the Coke Oven + Blast Furnace relationship. I know the following:
1 Coal in an Oven makes 1 Coal Coke in 3 minutes.
4 Logs in an Oven makes 4 Charcoal in (?) minutes. (anyone know if this is still 3 minutes?)
1 Coal Coke in a Blast Furnace makes 1 Steel Ingot in 16(?) seconds
4 Charcoal in a Blast Furnace makes 1 Steel ingot in (?) seconds
OK finally, aside from the huge space considerations, wouldn't it be most efficient for me to take logs from my tree farm, put them in the coke ovens, and then put the resutling charcoal into the Blast furnace?
I'm thinking speed might be a big factor too; I know Coke Ovens are really slow. Perhaps 4 of them could turn Logs into Charcoal as fast as a single Powered Furnace can do it?
Any assistance with these numbers would be much appreciated. I'd test it but i'm stuck at work
I've recently attached my SC tree farm cargo manager to the network via an ME Import Bus. This has worked brilliantly, allowing me to add a powered furnace to the mix with its own ME Import and Export Buses, turning the Logs into Charcoal to burn in my boiler (also fed with an ME Export Bus).
Next I would like to automate steel production using a similar technique plus a level emitter (when network has 4 stacks of steel, stop creating it).
I guess my question isn't really about AE, it's about the Coke Oven + Blast Furnace relationship. I know the following:
1 Coal in an Oven makes 1 Coal Coke in 3 minutes.
4 Logs in an Oven makes 4 Charcoal in (?) minutes. (anyone know if this is still 3 minutes?)
1 Coal Coke in a Blast Furnace makes 1 Steel Ingot in 16(?) seconds
4 Charcoal in a Blast Furnace makes 1 Steel ingot in (?) seconds
OK finally, aside from the huge space considerations, wouldn't it be most efficient for me to take logs from my tree farm, put them in the coke ovens, and then put the resutling charcoal into the Blast furnace?
I'm thinking speed might be a big factor too; I know Coke Ovens are really slow. Perhaps 4 of them could turn Logs into Charcoal as fast as a single Powered Furnace can do it?
Any assistance with these numbers would be much appreciated. I'd test it but i'm stuck at work