Infinite Energy for BC/IC (DW20 Pack)

[Saintbob]

Greetings everyone...

After a couple of hours searching for a similar Tutorial to show me how to do the very same thing I show you in the Video Tutorial I've created, I was not able to find a single video that was updated enough or showed simply how to do it.

Thus I took matters into my own hands and produced my own Video showing you how to go about creating infinite energy for Buildcraft and Industrial Craft Energy in the Latest DireWolf20 Mob pack.

Disclaimer: I do not wish to take credit for this contraption as I know similar builds have been invented and created in the past.
Also, I would like to point out, that this is just the way I've created it, and it may not be the most efficient design possible... If there is, and you would be kind enough to point it out, please let me know...

Thank you, Enjoy...

Infinite Energy Tutorial

 

[abculatter_2]

Steam boilers fueled by biofuel is better. (Using Gregtech methane is actually the best, but it's rather expensive)

The MJ can be used as-is, stored in energy cells from Thermal Expansion, or put into magma crucibles melting cobblestone. This lava can obviously be put into geothermals, or put into the new Thermal Generators made by Gregtech, which gives an extra 10K EU per bucket of lava. Or, it can be centrifuged with Gregtech to produce electrum, copper, tin, and tungsten, or turned into obsidian, macerated or pulverized twice, then electrolyzed to produce iron, magnesium, and silicon. (the compressed air cells are pretty much pointless, since they can be made for free by compressing an empty cell)

I can give you a more in-depth tutorial if you'd like, though there are a lot of different options you can take for making infinite power using steam boilers.

 

[whythisname]

Some improvements you can do:

Use better waterproof pipes, golden ones or Liquiducts. The stone pipes you're using are probably the main reason you're struggling to get lava to the liquid transposer from your pumps.

Why are you converting to the lava to EU to power your transposer? Or the Quarry for that matter? Use Magmetic engines if you're trying to get MJs out of lava, they're by far the most efficient engines for doing so (at least I think so, it's at least a lot cheaper on resources).
Also, combine your 2 power networks you have in the Overworld (the one powering the transposer and the one powering the quarry), that way the transposer can take what it needs and any "runoff" will go into speeding up the quarry.

Otherwise I like your setup though, even if it technically isn't infinite (I agree it's close enough to call it that though, you can't possibly play a single world long enough to drain the entire Nether xD).

 

[warfighter67]

You don't even need any waterproof piping, they bottleneck the pump:

The gates are just setup to stop the engine from running if the Liquid transposer can no longer store energy, and automatically put cans in the transposer if there is space for the cans to be there.

This is also an older setup. You can exchange the red wire with another iron gate on the wooden pipe next to the engine and use red pipe wire.

 

[madaffacca]

For my infinite source of EU I went with a tier 4 Blaze spawner (really easy to get if you happen to find a nether fortress thanks to spawners), Blaze get killed with water, blaze rods are moved to a bunch (8 for now, planning to expand since I still have loads of unused rods) of good old generators which gives me a good amount of energy. It's really cheap to make, no nether involved, perfect for early stages of your world.

 

[Saintbob]

These all sound pretty good...

Thanks for the advice and constructive criticism, ill take a look at some of your ideas... especially that of the biofuel.
Ill let you know how it goes.