Direwolf20 season 7 - Huzzah!
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There are 3 temps in a big reactor. Core- how hot the fuel rods are. Environment - the energy contained in the volume of the reactor. And hull. The temp of the casing. The hull temp is a constant that is 100c for steam mode reactors. Energy or steam is generated by the flow of heat from the emvironment to the hull and this rate is proportional to the temp difference between the hull and interior and the interior surface area of the hull.
The energy contained in the interior is a combination of energy generated by radiation being captured by 'coolant' and heat radiating out from the core. Here the predominant limit to heat propagating from the fuel rods is the thermal conductivity of the blocks immediately adjacent to fuel rods.
So the useful heat is the interior heat in both reactor types and heating the interior efficiently means both capturing radiation with materials with a high absorption and moving the heat from the fuel rods where it is bad and damages efficiency into the interior via high thermal conductivity blocks.
Dires reactor does neither.
http://farproc.wikidot.com/big-reactor-data for reference.
The energy contained in the interior is a combination of energy generated by radiation being captured by 'coolant' and heat radiating out from the core. Here the predominant limit to heat propagating from the fuel rods is the thermal conductivity of the blocks immediately adjacent to fuel rods.
So the useful heat is the interior heat in both reactor types and heating the interior efficiently means both capturing radiation with materials with a high absorption and moving the heat from the fuel rods where it is bad and damages efficiency into the interior via high thermal conductivity blocks.
Dires reactor does neither.
http://farproc.wikidot.com/big-reactor-data for reference.
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No, but fortunately for him he knows how to use CC to MAKE it more efficient then it would be without it. But it could be much much better.
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If you are following his Lets Play and want to build the things he does, but would like to build a better Big Reactor.
http://br.sidoh.org/
Is your first stop. A little bit of experimentation here will yield a big reactor that uses vastly less materials, and is vastly more efficent, than Dires. You will however need to make an actual coolant such as Cyrotheum, as Dires mix of gold and air is just appalling.
You only need 2000mB/t of steam which can be done with something a lot smaller.
Strangely he seems more knowledgable about making turbines.
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it's more that he got the "what is best" info from other people and then sticking to it without double checking later when the mod updates.
It's the same with his TiCo tools.
Dire does not believe in rapid change. Which is why it took so long to add new mods to his list.
Dire shouldn't have changed his reactor shape, just add some gelid cryotheum, and that will make it a LOT more efficient...His reactor generates More than 2000 mb/steam per tick because he is planning to have more than one turbine.
I know that some people like to build wide, flat, 9x3x9 tall reactors which I heard can be more efficient, but I HATE that design just because it doesn't feel/look very "reactory"/imposing, like tall reactors do. It's a giant machine for god sake and it should look like one, which means it should be at least 5 blocks tall.
With similar logic I don't like people's use of paper in Tinkers Construct tools...it's too flexible to be a realistic tool material. If I want a heavy tool I want no paper in it in real life, and the same in minecraft. Thaumium is a great (and stronger) alternative to paper (a full thaumium pickaxe is stronger than iron and has 2 more modifiers than a standard pickaxe [5 vs 3])
'Cause I'm an existentialist minecrafter.
Which is why I don't get why blocks can float in the air without some flight engines...
MapWriter is not in the 1.7.10 pack and never was. It was in 1.6.4
He should just put some cryotheum in the empty spaces and all will be well.
I know that some people like to build wide, flat, 9x3x9 tall reactors which I heard can be more efficient, but I HATE that design just because it doesn't feel/look very "reactory"/imposing, like tall reactors do. It's a giant machine for god sake and it should look like one, which means it should be at least 5 blocks tall.
With similar logic I don't like people's use of paper in Tinkers Construct tools...it's too flexible to be a realistic tool material. If I want a heavy tool I want no paper in it in real life, and the same in minecraft. Thaumium is a great (and stronger) alternative to paper (a full thaumium pickaxe is stronger than iron and has 2 more modifiers than a standard pickaxe [5 vs 3])
'Cause I'm an existentialist minecrafter.
Which is why I don't get why blocks can float in the air without some flight engines...
MapWriter is not in the 1.7.10 pack and never was. It was in 1.6.4
He should just put some cryotheum in the empty spaces and all will be well.
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According to the FTB launcher, Mapwriter is indeed part of DW20's 1.7 pack. It's in the disabled by default list.
Folded paper is incredibly strong, and while it would be less than useful for mining underwater, that's part of the willing suspension of disbelief of the game.
And what's more, you only need one post to say multiple responses. That's why multi-quote if you're responding to multiple people.
Folded paper is incredibly strong, and while it would be less than useful for mining underwater, that's part of the willing suspension of disbelief of the game.
And what's more, you only need one post to say multiple responses. That's why multi-quote if you're responding to multiple people.
Now that you guys look like you're randomly yelling at a guy for a large post, I'll jump in and agree here. I just merged seven posts together, all of which could have started as a single post with the edit button.
OK OK OK...no hard feelings.
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Depends on the size, and power output. I typically get by with one but I use much smaller turbines.
Yes you can, I guess, size a turbine to fit approximately the full capacity of one max size High pressure steam boiler, and it's a good idea because according to my calculations, just using ordinary engines/dynamos will get you only 1,440 RF/t (I guess you can get it to 2000 RF/t by upgrading the dynamos). Still, however, a turbine powered by one steam boiler should yield over 7000 RF/t. I think that that is one good power option.
Does ANYONE agree with me that Dire should fill his reactor with Gelid cryotheum?
Fuel consumption difference (1 turbine): 0.45 mb/t (no cryotheum) > 0.38 mb/t (with cryotheum).
Steam output difference (maximum power): 8700 mb/t (no cryotheum) > 10840 mb/t (with cryotheum). Note that they use the same amount of fuel (1.67 mb/t) at maximum capacity, but produce differents amount of steam.
Thus, By filling his reactor with Cryotheum, he could power one more turbine , so instead of 4 he could have 5, meaning an extra 24,000 RF/t, for a total of 120,000 RF/t, without increasing fuel consumption at all. This extra power could power his yellorium laser drills, giving him about 100,000 RF/t of net energy gain (a HUGE amount, considering that a Dynamo makes 80 rf/t, that makes for about 1250 Dynamos, and I have three, which give me enough power.
Fuel consumption difference (1 turbine): 0.45 mb/t (no cryotheum) > 0.38 mb/t (with cryotheum).
Steam output difference (maximum power): 8700 mb/t (no cryotheum) > 10840 mb/t (with cryotheum). Note that they use the same amount of fuel (1.67 mb/t) at maximum capacity, but produce differents amount of steam.
Thus, By filling his reactor with Cryotheum, he could power one more turbine , so instead of 4 he could have 5, meaning an extra 24,000 RF/t, for a total of 120,000 RF/t, without increasing fuel consumption at all. This extra power could power his yellorium laser drills, giving him about 100,000 RF/t of net energy gain (a HUGE amount, considering that a Dynamo makes 80 rf/t, that makes for about 1250 Dynamos, and I have three, which give me enough power.
After several attempts to create unique and creative structures, including a Frank Lloyd Wright style neo modern base, a town with several varying structures including a magic tower that looked more like a mad max mosque and a massive white crusader castle, I've reverted back to an entirely cobble castle with three block thick walls to hide conduit etc, towers and a keep. I've tried to emulate what I consider to be a natural progression beginning with the typical cave/hobbit hole and plan to refine this in the future whilte maintaining some sort of attempt at structural integrity despite minecraft physics.
I also kept cringing at his quantum bridge use, just put a few P2P through the bridge it'll let you pass up to 1024 channels across.
In his current design of the controller he could put 8 P2P on the underside of the controller and then pass them through the quantum bridge.
Then put a controller on the other side in the main base and connect the P2P to that. Voila 256 channels available in his overworld base
In his current design of the controller he could put 8 P2P on the underside of the controller and then pass them through the quantum bridge.
Then put a controller on the other side in the main base and connect the P2P to that. Voila 256 channels available in his overworld base