I Need more Michael Jackons!

[Crucidal]

Hey There,

I've been Googling (Is it an official term yet?) a lot but couldn't really find a satisfying answer. Not even on these forums... D: (shocking eh?) So here I am: posing a question:

How do you set up a passive MJ Production that's able to meet high energy demands?
I'm playing FTB Unleashed

Please try to explain abbreviations before excessively using them.

I've done one major attempt so far: A farm feeds saplings into a fermenter. The fermenter outputs to 4 stills. The stills make biofuel and all this is then stored into one hell of a massive tank that I will probably never be able to fill =)
Each of these machines are power by combustion engines. It works, but it's terribly slow.

I've got a picture of it with a lovely FOV to make most of it visible. http://puu.sh/5IrAL

How can I increase this production? What are other viable options?

 

[Yusunoha]

-sip-

what are you using the wood for? you could smelt the wood into charcoal and use that with the stone engines...

 

[Vircomore]

The last build I did was with railcraft boilers which can be scaled and are rather potent once you get them running.

The downside is that you need a large reserve of biofuel because the boiler will eat 100x more biofuel per michael jackson until it gets warmed up, and then it will run about 5-10 times more efficiently than pumping the biofuel directly into combustion engines.

(Before putting fuel into the boiler, it's best if you have A. a huge surplus of fuel, and B. you already have the pipes and circuits set up so that the system starts working fully as soon as you add fuel.)

1. Look up how to build a railcraft boiler.
1a. - - If their build uses solid fuels (coal, wood, etc), replace "Solid Fuel Boiler" with "Liquid Fuel Boiler".

2. Pipe the biofuel into the bottom blocks of the boiler.

3. Once the boiler is starting to produce Steam - pipe the steam (liquiducts work best for this) into (Commercial / Industrial) Steam engines for michael jacksons, or into steam turbines for EUs.

The best part is that a 3x3x4 boiler can produce enough steam to power both engines and turbines, so you can have one boiler either make ALL michael jacksons, ALL EUs, or a mix of both depending on what you use.

 

[rhn]

Make a tree farm of some sort. I prefer the Forestry multifarm but there are other more powerful solutions. Unless you are doing treebreeding, just use normal oak trees.
Smelt wood logs in a furnace to make charcoal which then fuels a solid fuel boiler. A single induction furnace from IC2 works great for this.
Put the apples/fruit into a squeezer to make fruit juice and mulch. Use both of those in the fermenter to increase efficiency along with the saplings and other crops you might have an abundance of. Make ethanol and use that in a liquid fuel boiler.
Use the steam from the boilers in industrial steam engines(18 per boiler) to produce MJ and send it out onto a central MJ network using Redstone energy conduits and Redstone energy cells. Power your farm, fermenter, squeezer etc from this network.
And bingo you got 288MJ/t production. You can always multiply this system up if you need more power, or you can add other power sources to the central network.

As an alternative to the boiler if you arent entirely comfortable with the more advanced automations, you could just use whatever plant matter you have to make ethanol and pump that into a bank of Biogas engines from forestry. The produce slightly less MJ per bucket of ethanol than the combustion engine, but it cannot blow up. However they need to be heated with lava to get to a working temperature.