I am currently working on setting up my permanent, modular energy production for both EU and MJ and I have some questions.
Currently my plan is to have mass numbers of Ultimate Hybrid Solar Panels producing 512 EU/t feeding into storage devices of numerous types and powering all my EU needs. I will also branch the output off using fibre and drop it down ~80 blocks to my electrical Engine room using glass fibre cable, where I have 4 electrical engines surronding 1 Redstone cable that I will extend as long as need be. Currently I have it 16 long, for a total of 64 electrical engines. These engines produce 2-6 EU/t, depending on upgrades, and I will pump this energy into more redstone energy conduits for transport to close destinations, or use an "Energy Cell/Teleporting turtle" system to transport the energy to farther away destinations.
Since Glass fibre cable can transport 512 million EU a tick and would only lose 2-3 EU due to the distance, and redstone cells lose 5% regardless of distance (except in unleashed where they lose none, and I am using unleashed) do you believe that this set up, with adding more and more engines and solar panels as need be, will be sufficient to power an massive base? Will there be a point when this just becomes undoable, not due to other options being better as I like the use of solar power, but because the engines needed would lag the world?
Currently my plan is to have mass numbers of Ultimate Hybrid Solar Panels producing 512 EU/t feeding into storage devices of numerous types and powering all my EU needs. I will also branch the output off using fibre and drop it down ~80 blocks to my electrical Engine room using glass fibre cable, where I have 4 electrical engines surronding 1 Redstone cable that I will extend as long as need be. Currently I have it 16 long, for a total of 64 electrical engines. These engines produce 2-6 EU/t, depending on upgrades, and I will pump this energy into more redstone energy conduits for transport to close destinations, or use an "Energy Cell/Teleporting turtle" system to transport the energy to farther away destinations.
Since Glass fibre cable can transport 512 million EU a tick and would only lose 2-3 EU due to the distance, and redstone cells lose 5% regardless of distance (except in unleashed where they lose none, and I am using unleashed) do you believe that this set up, with adding more and more engines and solar panels as need be, will be sufficient to power an massive base? Will there be a point when this just becomes undoable, not due to other options being better as I like the use of solar power, but because the engines needed would lag the world?