Clever ways to power a bedrock breaker?

[malicious_bloke]

The engine spam limit in modern versions of RoC have knackered my usual idea of setting up hydrokinetics at the bottom of my quarry-holes.

At the moment i'm probably looking at gas turbines and the roof of the nether, but that just seems a bit...uncreative.

Anyone come up with anything more fun?

 

[Gamefury64]

Reactor craft? I'm pretty sure a fission reactor could power one.

(If I'm wrong, don't bash me)

 

[Kotaro]

Reactor craft? I'm pretty sure a fission reactor could power one.

(If I'm wrong, don't bash me)

Problem is that you need to get bedrock before you can make a reactor, as the isotope centrifuge requires it.

I think you can do it with 2 Microturbines, 2 16:1 Diamond Gearboxes, and 1 2:1 Diamond Gearbox, all geared for torque.

As for creative solutions? You could also use Electricraft and the Procyon battery, charging with whatever engines you want, but I believe you're still going to need 4 of them.

 

[Gamefury64]

Industrial coils

Lots and lots of ICs

 

[Kotaro]

http://i.imgur.com/PqGksqy.jpg

64 Steam engines feeding into 4 procyon batteries from electricraft, which then power 4 motors. Combine these together with a 2:1 diamond gearbox set for torque and you get the bare minimum to run a bedrock breaker. This can be made waaaaay more efficient as i'm getting some loss from the silver wires, but it's more of a proof of concept.

Downside is that you still need sintered tungsten to make the superconductor wires required. If you don't use them, then even the 1V drop of silver wires will cause this to fail. Additionally, you need to disconnect the wires from the steam engines and batteries or your shaft junctions combining the induction motors will explode.

Also, before a dragon roars at me, yes I've updated since I posted this...

 

[moltenbrain]

I’m using two microturbines. It's efficient -- two reservoirs of jet fuel are lasting a long time.

 

[LoGaL]

kotaro has a very distorted idea of engine spam xD