Friend of mine set up a server at home that I connect to and we are having some fun with. We've had it up for 2 days now. I set up a peat bog to make some fuel with for the buildcraft engines, and one thing I figured I'd do is run the turbary and peat bog with electric engines each connected to 1 simple solar panel.
Ordinarily, making the IC2 solar panel consists of the following steps:
Make a generator from a furnace, machine block and RE battery.
Make 2 electric circuits consisting of 12 copper cables, 4 redstone and 1 refined iron total.
Macerate 3 coal into dust.
Melt 3 sand into glass.
Toss the above into a recipe and you're done.
How's it done with the Gregtech changes?
Do the above steps to make a generator and 2 electric circuits.
Make 3 glass panes.
Macerate 8 coal into dust, then use a compressor to turn it into a carbon plate.
So now a compressor is required. Not too bad since they are fairly simple.
But wait. You also need two silicon cells.
How do you get these? Well, you need an industrial centrifuge.
There appears to be 7 different things you can spin which will yield silicon cells as a by-product. The most efficient one being using 64 Redstone, at which point you get 27 silicon cells. So you need an entire stack of redstone to make your solar panel. The machine also requires 110,000 EU, which in the early game is going to come from coal at 4000 EU per piece. So 28 pieces of coal. It also takes 1,100 seconds which is 18 minutes.
Since this is the early game, the centrifuge itself is likely not to be part of your machine set. So you'll need to consider its cost in order to acquire your solar panel. The recipe for a centrifuge requires an extractor. No biggie. It also requires two advanced machine blocks. This means 16 iron for the blocks, 32 coal for the carbon plates, and 6 refined iron, 6 bronze and 6 tin for the 4 advanced alloys. 4 more refined iron are required in the centrifuge recipe. Lastly, you'll need two advanced electric circuits! For this, you'll need two electric circuits, 4 Lapis, 8 Redstone and 4 Glowstone. So yes you'll need 4 glowstone from the Nether before you can make your very first solar panel.
Why, Gregtech? Why?
Ordinarily, making the IC2 solar panel consists of the following steps:
Make a generator from a furnace, machine block and RE battery.
Make 2 electric circuits consisting of 12 copper cables, 4 redstone and 1 refined iron total.
Macerate 3 coal into dust.
Melt 3 sand into glass.
Toss the above into a recipe and you're done.
How's it done with the Gregtech changes?
Do the above steps to make a generator and 2 electric circuits.
Make 3 glass panes.
Macerate 8 coal into dust, then use a compressor to turn it into a carbon plate.
So now a compressor is required. Not too bad since they are fairly simple.
But wait. You also need two silicon cells.
How do you get these? Well, you need an industrial centrifuge.
There appears to be 7 different things you can spin which will yield silicon cells as a by-product. The most efficient one being using 64 Redstone, at which point you get 27 silicon cells. So you need an entire stack of redstone to make your solar panel. The machine also requires 110,000 EU, which in the early game is going to come from coal at 4000 EU per piece. So 28 pieces of coal. It also takes 1,100 seconds which is 18 minutes.
Since this is the early game, the centrifuge itself is likely not to be part of your machine set. So you'll need to consider its cost in order to acquire your solar panel. The recipe for a centrifuge requires an extractor. No biggie. It also requires two advanced machine blocks. This means 16 iron for the blocks, 32 coal for the carbon plates, and 6 refined iron, 6 bronze and 6 tin for the 4 advanced alloys. 4 more refined iron are required in the centrifuge recipe. Lastly, you'll need two advanced electric circuits! For this, you'll need two electric circuits, 4 Lapis, 8 Redstone and 4 Glowstone. So yes you'll need 4 glowstone from the Nether before you can make your very first solar panel.
Why, Gregtech? Why?
