Getting RF From a IC2 Nuke

[scienceguy8]

So, I'm playing a solo Infinity world. My base is already well powered by a system that turns wood and sugar cane into creosote oil for reactant dynamos and alumentum for a boiler (plus a few other systems we won't go into now). In previous packs that feature Industrial Craft 2 and Mine Factory Reloaded, MFR machines could be powered by IC2 electricity. Having a couple stacks of uranium ore, I decided to work on a nuclear power plant to run a laser precharger on my MFR laser miner. It would allow me to get rid of the uranium, get more ores and such, and I could then build one of those radioisotope thermoelectric generators to also ultimately use on my miner. I've built the ore washer and thermal centrifuge, and am well into making all the nuclear fuel. It was at this time I decided to confirm that the MFR machines could still be powered with electricity. Nope! Not anymore.

What I need is a use for IC2 power. Preferably, a process that takes IC2 power and readily grown crops and produces solid fuel for a Railcraft solid fuel boiler, or liquid fuel for a liquid fuel boiler. From there I can use the steam to power turbines to run my laser miner. There is a IC2 biofuel, but it is unclear if that can be used in a boiler. My alternative is to use the nuclear power plant in part of my existing power generation system to save RF. For instance, turn wood into charcoal (fed into alchemical construct alongside charcoal from coke ovens to produce alumentum) and sugar into sugar charcoal (compressed into block form and cooked down in alchemical furnaces to produce ignis and potentia for the production of alumentum).

 

[Renton Terrace]

just use immersive engineering wires (or one of the other ways to convert EU to RF) to transfer power from your IC2 source to the MFR laser miner

 

[Techly88]

There is a IC2 biofuel, but it is unclear if that can be used in a boiler.

It's should be possible as the principle behind Solid Fuel Fire Boxes (those things that you lay on the bottom to make the boilers' structures) will work like a regular furnace. Hence the biofuel's "tanks" can be pumped in, extract the empty "tanks", and then refiller up in the canning machine.

 

[lenscas]

Another thing you might be able to do is to use the reactor to heat coolant up so it becomes its super heated counterpart which can be cooled down to generate steam (which then can be used to create power). It can also be used to generated superheated steam which is advertised as an even better way of generating power but I am not sure if there are ways to turn that into rf while I am pretty sure the normal steam works.

More on it here

I must warn you though, the only time I went this route was in a creative world for testing and to cool the coolant down and generate steam I used advanced generators instead of the machines provided my industrial craft and as I don't know if advanced generators is in your modpack I don't know how well this option will work.

 

[malicious_bloke]

Which was the mod that had the fulmination generator?

It was a multiblock that you could lob explosives into and it would generate electrical power from the explosion. I seem to remember it in Voltz going way back, since you could drop antimatter into it...

 

[scienceguy8]

just use immersive engineering wires (or one of the other ways to convert EU to RF) to transfer power from your IC2 source to the MFR laser miner

I had no idea you could do that.

Alright! Almost set up. Thanks, Renton. Just gotta finish fabricating all the fiddly bits inside the reactor. Tested the wire and confirmed it works. I have a hardened energy cell next to the reactor, two MV conductors and a MV wire connecting the two, and some energy conduits from the cell to the laser precharger.

 

[asb3pe]

the conversion in Infinity Evolved is 1 EU=4 RF, and it works either way via Immersive Engineering wires. just be aware if you ever get to the MFSU stage (top tier IC2 power storage) which outputs 2048 EU/t, and you try to attach an Immersive HV wire to convert it into (4x2048=) 8192 RF/t, this will exceed the capacity of the Immersive Engineering HV connectors, and you won't get any power whatsoever. The solution to this limitation is to use multiple MFE's when converting large amounts of power from EU into RF (each MFE output will convert into 4x512= 2048 RF/t). If converting RF to EU, you never have to worry since you're dividing the numbers by 4 instead of multiplying them.

 

[lenscas]

the conversion in Infinity Evolved is 1 EU=4 RF, and it works either way via Immersive Engineering wires. just be aware if you ever get to the MFSU stage (top tier IC2 power storage) which outputs 512 EU/t, and you try to attach an Immersive HV wire to convert it into (4x512=) 2048 RF/t, this will exceed the capacity of the Immersive Engineering HV connector at the other, and you won't get any power whatsoever. The solution to this limitation is to use multiple MFE's when converting large amounts of power from EU into RF. If converting RF to EU, you never have to worry since you're dividing the numbers by 4 instead of multiplying them.

I fear you need an update on your ic2 knowledge. The MFE and MFSU both shifted a tier up and the old MFE got replaced by the CES. As a result an MFSU now does not just output 512eu/t instead it now has the following characteristics

is a Tier 4 energy storage device. It is able to store up to 40 million EU (making it capable of powering multiple teleportations, running a Mass Fabricator, or directly storing power from most Nuclear Reactors). It can accept up to 2048 EU/p from its 5 input faces (the faces without dots). It can also emit a current of 2048EU/p from its output face (the face with a dot).

The MFE

is a Tier 3 energy storage device. It is able to store up to 4,000,000 EU. It can accept up to 512 EU/t from its 5 input faces and output 512 EU/t from its output face.

The CES

is a Tier 2 energy storage device. It is able to store up to three hundred thousand EU (making it capable of powering multiple teleportations, running a Mass Fabricator, or directly storing power from most Nuclear Reactors). It can accept up to 128 EU/p from its 5 input faces (the faces without dots). It can also emit a current of 128EU/p from its output face (the face with a dot).

Everything in the quotes is taken from the ic2 wiki

 

[asb3pe]

I fear you need an update on your ic2 knowledge. The MFE and MFSU both shifted a tier up and the old MFE got replaced by the CES. As a result an MFSU now does not just output 512eu/t instead it now has the following characteristics

yeah i edited my post, i read an old wiki LOL But I'm sorry to put you thru all that trouble of correcting me - thanks for the efforts.

my intent was simply to point out there IS a limitation on converting power via Immersive Engineering, since it is not something that is obvious.

 

[lenscas]

yeah i edited my post, i read an old wiki LOL But I'm sorry to put you thru all that trouble of correcting me - thanks for the efforts.

Well, I forgot the name of the CES thus for as long as I don't forget it again it wasn't a total waste of my time and maybe someone has a use for my more detailed number collection
(I am almost tempted to put the batterbox in it as well just so that all the storage options are at 1 place instead of scattered on 4 different places on the wiki)

 

[KingTriaxx]

Try out MFR's Rednet Energy Cable, that should be able to transform the power.