Can anyone advise on power?

[Chrissy]

Well to be honest i think i should have consulted people BEFORE building the power plant,
(It's almost an RP server, Nobody generates their own power)
All this superconductor wire cost a lot of tears and taxpayer money

I need advisories on things like how to generate the power, How to deliver it and whatnot, Basically how i could make the system better

Spoiler

I hope this is the right forum section

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Oh wow, those nuclear generators are a GREAT way to blow something up, unless you have a CRCS system set up, and horribly inefficient as well.

There's a few designs I could offer, either high-yield CRCS systems or more moderate Mk. I generators which aren't as fuel efficient but FAR less trouble to maintain.

But honestly? HV Solars. 512 EU/t per block. No fuss, no muss, no more worrying about fuel costs. Green energy.

A cheaper option for lower outputs would be a water tower. Basically, you have a long string of tin cabling with four water mills ringing it every other block. Then dump water all around it. Each one will produce just shy of 1 EU/t per 'ring'. Sure, they have a large footprint, but you can put 'em anywhere, and they're flippin' dirt cheap.

 

[Chrissy]

Oh wow, those nuclear generators are a GREAT way to blow something up, unless you have a CRCS system set up, and horribly inefficient as well.

There's a few designs I could offer, either high-yield CRCS systems or more moderate Mk. I generators which aren't as fuel efficient but FAR less trouble to maintain.

But honestly? HV Solars. 512 EU/t per block. No fuss, no muss, no more worrying about fuel costs. Green energy.

A cheaper option for lower outputs would be a water tower. Basically, you have a long string of tin cabling with four water mills ringing it every other block. Then dump water all around it. Each one will produce just shy of 1 EU/t per 'ring'. Sure, they have a large footprint, but you can put 'em anywhere, and they're flippin' dirt cheap.

B-But it's safely contained even if it did go off :c


Anyways, I dunno what CRCS or what kind of generator you mean

And the solar option is either spend a hell of a lot on a few high density solars,
Or make a giant solar farm

Basically i don't know too much about anything but what is in tekkit, I swapped mod packs a bit ago

 

[Whovian]

Basically i don't know too much about anything but what is in t****t, I swapped mod packs a bit ago

How dare you spout such blasphemy!

(Yes, that was a joke, I don't think too many people here are crazy anti-Tekkit people. Though a good number of them are sane anti-Tekkit people.)

CRCS is an unfamiliar acronym to me, but I think, by Generator, they just meant Generator.

Anyways, common EU production options:

Boiler/Steam Turbine. Those are awesome.

Lava pump in the Nether with a Thermal Generator (basically a tier II Geothermal Generator.)

Magmatic Engine powering a Magma Crucible with Netherrack, excess Lava gets pumped into a Thermal Generator.

Diesel Generator.

Fusion Reactor for late-game zappy awesomeness.

And, of course, Solars. Depending on the modpack, either a Compact (LV/MV/HV) solar produces a bunch of energy, or the Advanced/Hybrid/Ultimate Hybrid Solar Panel. All of which are expensive, but very useful.

 

[Lambert2191]

http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/what-does-your-power-room-look-like.2129/

have a look.

 

[Chrissy]

How dare you spout such blasphemy!

(Yes, that was a joke, I don't think too many people here are crazy anti-Tekkit people. Though a good number of them are sane anti-Tekkit people.)

CRCS is an unfamiliar acronym to me, but I think, by Generator, they just meant Generator.

Anyways, common EU production options:

Boiler/Steam Turbine. Those are awesome.

Lava pump in the Nether with a Thermal Generator (basically a tier II Geothermal Generator.)

Magmatic Engine powering a Magma Crucible with Netherrack, excess Lava gets pumped into a Thermal Generator.

Diesel Generator.

Fusion Reactor for late-game zappy awesomeness.

And, of course, Solars. Depending on the modpack, either a Compact (LV/MV/HV) solar produces a bunch of energy, or the Advanced/Hybrid/Ultimate Hybrid Solar Panel. All of which are expensive, but very useful.

I'll be honest with you, This station was just me being eccentric at first, But then i got to putting work into it
But i've decided to make it look good, I'm just not sure what the single most productive thing is that doesn't involve "Just place it" (Solar)

Also that dip who made greg tech really needs to make his machines upgradable

Are fusion reactors the best around? It seems like from what i've read that you need to build another power station to power it o-o

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Fusion are the best, but you have to 'light it off' to get it going in a self-sustaining reaction.

CRCS stands for 'Continuously Re-applied Coolant System'. It is a method by which you swap out cooling cells for fresh ones, cool down the expended ones, then cycle them back through. It requires multiple reactors to run, with a complex and convoluted automated piping/tubing system, but you can get EU output in excess of 2k EU/t off of quad-uranium cells. Over 5k EU/t out of plutonium, although it requires a LOT of coolant towers to manage that effectively.

The 'gold standard' for a Mk. I reactor (fire and forget until it needs refuling) is called 'The Beast'. It produces 420 EU/t consistently out of quad-uranium cells.

Head on over to the IC2 nuclear engineering forum, and you'll find a thread that has a list of good reactors. Just... avoid the hybrid reactors for now... they don't really work all that good, and they got a major nerf.

Thermal banks are a very good way to generate lots of power. Here's how you do it:

1) You have a Pump with a Magmatic Engine (Invar is 2x Iron Dust + 1x Ferrus Dust, then cooked up). Lava passes into the magmatic engine and into a Liquid Tesseract

2) The other side of this liquid tesseract is an enormous tank, either Xycraft or Iron Tank from Railcraft. This needs to be a maximum size tank. This is your 'reserve tank', and if you see it start dropping, it means you need to check your lava supply.

3) Use Liquiducts from Thermal Expansion to pipe lava out of the reserve tank and into your thermal generators. You can have quite a few on a single line, since the liquiducts have more throughput than golden waterproof pipes.

If that doesn't suit your tastes, try Boilers

From Railcraft, a Boiler needs fuel and water. Use an Aqueous Accumulator and put a couple of water source blocks next to it, set and forget, to make sure the boiler never runs out of water.

Now you need to decide what kind of fuel to run on. You have several options, but I'd strongly suggest running it on renewable Biofuel if you don't have anyone willing to breed up Distilled Bees.

Boilers produce Steam. You can hook up a Steam Turbine to produce EU, although it eats through Iron at a pretty decent clip. Or you can just run everything off of MJ.