Favorite method of power generation?
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Interesting..so molten emeralds and soylent green...I mean, meat ingots, to make a few million rf 
Ive used many over the last few versions. My old 1.4.7 magmatic engine setup was probably my favorite just because it looked so cool. Big Reactors and Mek Turbines are cool too. That was when people still needed IC2 for some things and simple generators with coal coke always did the trick for me on the EU side of things.
Blood magic-fueled Botania mana-to-power gen of course! And then HydraulicCraft's converting stuff to turn that into any other power system that I'd need to do.
Or a tree farm that goes through endoflame-fueled furnaces, who's charcoal goes to Railcraft/Fb's SPM/HC's systems. Not too sure with RotaryCraft I haven't been able to download it nor the rest due to internet issues, so I'll have to figure out that when a 1.7 pack comes with it and the addons.
Or a tree farm that goes through endoflame-fueled furnaces, who's charcoal goes to Railcraft/Fb's SPM/HC's systems. Not too sure with RotaryCraft I haven't been able to download it nor the rest due to internet issues, so I'll have to figure out that when a 1.7 pack comes with it and the addons.
Call me lazy if you wish but I still use Solar power (Extra Utilities now though.) and I still love to use oil as a back up too.
Hilariously fun power? Engineer's Piezo Tiles, plus Open Block's fans. Setup a zombie spawner to drop zombies in and the tiles slowly kill them while generating energy.
Me, I kind of like using Engineer's Hydro Electric Dams, with solar panels on top if I've got a river. If not, nothing beats an RC boiler for sheer reliability.
Me, I kind of like using Engineer's Hydro Electric Dams, with solar panels on top if I've got a river. If not, nothing beats an RC boiler for sheer reliability.
knowing boiler's explosive tendencies(haven't experienced them though) wouldn't a big reactor be a more reliable?
i know about that, though i remember people saying about boilers explosion due to chunk unloading(i assume this causes water shortage)
If you put your water source in the same chunk as your boiler, or if you chunkload it, it shouldn't explode I think. I used to do railcraft steamboilers all the time and I never had one explode on me.
Basically, I provide water either with Two Aqueous Accumulators under the boiler, or with EU Liquid Transfer Nodes doing the infinite water thing. As long as the boiler is loaded, so is the water. If the water is unloaded, so is the boiler. Prevents all flavors of booms. I used to use Steve's Carts for charcoal farms, but I'm not sure if that's going to be worth it now.
Big Reactors are awesome for large infusions, but the power is not renewable without pumping it into MFR mining lasers. Or intensive strip mining.
Big Reactors are awesome for large infusions, but the power is not renewable without pumping it into MFR mining lasers. Or intensive strip mining.
Back in my 1.5.2 world, I used wood in coke oven. The saplings got converted to biofuel, and that plus the charcoal and creosote oil powered 4 railcraft boilers. I ran my whole base off of the steam.
In AgS, I used steam created by the high oven to power everything.
So, I would have to say steam is my favorite.
In AgS, I used steam created by the high oven to power everything.
So, I would have to say steam is my favorite.