How do you guys do you power plants?

[Carbon Acid]

I would like to see which way you go for powering your base and get some new ideas for my new world on the upcoming 1.6.

I use old school combustion engines to power my base. I got a total of 152 engines, of which 76 do biofuel and 76 fuel. It outputs a total of 1064 MJ/tick. I get the biofuel from 2 sugarcane farms and one steves carts tree farm and the oil from a ocean age in which i changed water for oil. It takes over 300 MJ/tick to make the biofuel and fuel.

I really hope to see some new ways of generating power in 1.6 and hope to see what you people use to make energy.

 

[PeggleFrank]

Factorization for steam production.

Industrial steam engines for MJ production.
Factorization for factorization production (?).
Turbines for EU production.

Never need any other source of power, when you have free steam.

 

[Carbon Acid]

Factorization for steam production.

Industrial steam engines for MJ production.
Factorization for factorization production (?).
Turbines for EU production.

Never need any other source of power, when you have free steam.

You can make steam with Factorization!? Teach me how to do that man.

 

[the_j485]

You can make steam with Factorization!? Teach me how to do that man.

You can use a solar boiler, with mirrors around it, like a solar turbine basically.

 

[Golrith]

I have a massive setup of 4 peat fired engines, 3 bio-gas engines and a small Red Power Solar field. Provides more then enough MJ for all my needs, stored in 3 RECs. Engines manually turned off as needed at the moment. There's no use for mass amount of power generation (unless you have GT).

 

[Carbon Acid]

I have a massive setup of 4 peat fired engines, 3 bio-gas engines and a small Red Power Solar field. Provides more then enough MJ for all my needs, stored in 3 RECs. Engines manually turned off as needed at the moment. There's no use for mass amount of power generation (unless you have GT).

Some people like to have a got energy output for all cases , but if you play on the direwolf pack you you can't use the MJ on all machines , so i see why you say that.
But just a question , a massive setup of "4" peat fired engines? How is that massive?

 

[rymmie1981]

I have a massive setup of 4 peat fired engines, 3 bio-gas engines and a small Red Power Solar field. Provides more then enough MJ for all my needs, stored in 3 RECs. Engines manually turned off as needed at the moment. There's no use for mass amount of power generation (unless you have GT).

Incorrect, sir. Try powering an MFR mining laser with that paltry setup.

 

[Carbon Acid]

You can use a solar boiler, with mirrors around it, like a solar turbine basically.

No I didn't me that. He said that he generated steam with Factorization. So I'm asking how to do that?

 

[the_j485]

No I didn't me that. He said that he generated steam with Factorization. So I'm asking how to do that?

Put mirrors around a solar boiler. Supply it with water. Give it an output pipe. Steam.

 

[Carbon Acid]

Incorrect, sir. Try powering an MFR mining laser with that paltry setup.

He maybe doesn't need a MFR mining laser or hes not at that stage yet.[DOUBLEPOST=1373550390][/DOUBLEPOST]

Put mirrors around a solar boiler. Supply it with water. Give it an output pipe. Steam.

Ohhh.Ok ,i will try that, thx mate!

 

[the_j485]

He maybe doesn't need a MFR mining laser or hes not at that stage yet.[DOUBLEPOST=1373550390][/DOUBLEPOST]

Ohhh.Ok ,i will try that, thx mate!

It's not nearly as good as a proper boiler though, mind you.

 

[CapturetheBomb]

Put mirrors around a solar boiler. Supply it with water. Give it an output pipe. Steam.

As a side note, each mirror provides around .2 MJ/t worth of steam, so prepare to spend all your silver to power a Hobbyist steam engine. 80 Silver to run at max speed.

 

[the_j485]

On the plus side, however, it's free!

 

[CapturetheBomb]

I currently have two Hobbyist steam engines power my ore processing and my milk farm using the solar boiler method. The milk then gets fed into my force engines, which are on a loop with a lava fab (almost full!). I plan on making myself another couple of force engines to run off of MFR biofuel and milk to power my MFR tree farm. I have only found one diamond since I started playing, and have put that on my pick. I would say I am doing pretty well.

 

[Jess887cp]

I uh...have a generator and some coal.

I'll upgrade to a proper setup sometime.

 

[Omicron]

*snip*

I use old school combustion engines to power my base. I got a total of 152 engines, of which 76 do biofuel and 76 fuel. It outputs a total of 1064 MJ/tick. I get the biofuel from 2 sugarcane farms and one steves carts tree farm and the oil from a ocean age in which i changed water for oil. It takes over 300 MJ/tick to make the biofuel and fuel.

That's a damn lot of water going through a single liquiduct... is this actually stable with all 152 engines at temperature? How many accumulators are you using for that?

I'm asking because I was once told that liquiducts are limited in throughput, with the limit varying based on the liquid... and math says that you should be consuming over 21 buckets per second here.

 

[Golrith]

Some people like to have a got energy output for all cases , but if you play on the direwolf pack you you can't use the MJ on all machines , so i see why you say that.
But just a question , a massive setup of "4" peat fired engines? How is that massive?

Well, there's this thing called sarcasm...

Incorrect, sir. Try powering an MFR mining laser with that paltry setup.

Alas, that bit of technology does not exist (yet) in the DW20 pack. I do look forward to all the MFR toys in my 1.5.2 pack I'm working on.

 

[Poppycocks]

I really need to count all my generators some time. I'm fairly certain I'm near 1k5 MJ.

 

[Kinjiru]

I am a big fan of FTB, but some friends wanted to try some other mods, so we made our own private mod pack to tinker with. We started with some solar panels, then went to LV solar arrays for a while. We have the benefit of Universal Electricity, so I could convert to BC power as needed. But, I did the typical pump lava from the nether via BC pump + tesseracts and soon had a 45-magmatic engine setup going. I knew this would be short lived unless I kept moving the lava pump, and our nether is more dangerous thanks to some of them mods we have installed, so I opted instead to use that power to quarry a lot in preparation to build up IC2 power. We now use 3 HV solar arrays that power some IC2 machines and the rest is converted to BC power and powers everything else we currently use. Of course, this whole setup relies on having Universal Electricity, but I could have instead generated lava via magma crucibles and such and kept using magmatic engines if I hadn't had UE available to me. Having fun with it, just set up an automated Forestry rubber multifarm last night, complete with auto-processing of rubber thanks to an overclocked extractor and applied energistics routing rubber wood into the extractor and sending the rubber back to the storage network. Fun times!

 

[Runo]

That's a damn lot of water going through a single liquiduct... is this actually stable with all 152 engines at temperature? How many accumulators are you using for that?

I'm asking because I was once told that liquiducts are limited in throughput, with the limit varying based on the liquid... and math says that you should be consuming over 21 buckets per second here.

one liquiduct can carry infinite amounts of liquid, but it can only output or input at connections at a limited rate. this means you can have 40 aqueous accumulators hooked up to one water line, but as soon as you runthat water line through a tank, the throughput drops drastically because it can only feed and pull from the tank at a limited rate. youd have to make more valves for input and output to step up the throughput