Lava from sunlight.

[purplefantum]

Would it be reasonable? You can hook up 1 medium solar array and get 3 electrical engines powering a magma crucible hooked up to a cobble gen (igneous extruder) all at full power.
Or use a bluelectric engine or 2 with some kinetic generation/solar panels.

It's alot of recources to setup, but once it's up you've pretty much got infinite free lava. Using the bluelectric method and just solar panels you could convert bluelectricity into EU and MJ through magmatic engines and geothermals. And with a flax farm, easily reusable wind power.

So I guess the question is, is it worth it?

 

[Saice]

I've did a whole thread on this subject of BT -> MJ -> EU.

It is possible. Just be ready for a fairly large build with a vary small MJ/EU output.

EDIT: heres the thread if you want more info http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/silly-things-to-do-with-getting-bt-into-eu.8272/

 

[purplefantum]

That is ALOT of bluelectric stuff. Looking at that I'm thinking a single Medium voltage solar array with 3 electrical engine would be more efficient, sine that outputs 30 MJ, exactly as much as a Magma crucible uses.

 

[Saice]

That is ALOT of bluelectric stuff. Looking at that I'm thinking a single Medium voltage solar array with 3 electrical engine would be more efficient, sine that outputs 30 MJ, exactly as much as a Magma crucible uses.

What can I say I love Redpower and what to have its babies. But sadly it does not do everything I need so I have to cheat on it with IC2, GT, and BC. I know it is sad but I did dig deep down that rabbit hole trying to make the BT engine my main power maker. Just in the end it really a crap ton of work it get any decent output.

 

[purplefantum]

Yeh, I can see that, I'd read that you need over 100 solar panels to get 20 MJ out of one engine. But the reason the idea came to me was, I started on a server and what I most dug up wheile branch mining is 7+ stacks of nikolite, I've no idea what else to do with the damn stuff tbh.

 

[Saice]

Yeh, I can see that, I'd read that you need over 100 solar panels to get 20 MJ out of one engine. But the reason the idea came to me was, I started on a server and what I most dug up wheile branch mining is 7+ stacks of nikolite, I've no idea what else to do with the damn stuff tbh.

use it to build the Redpower sorting systems. Taking some time to learn how RP sorters and tubes work and you will never go back to BC piping unless you absolutely have to. I use BC piping now in vary few places. Pretty much only when I need a Gate. Between RP tubes and sorting and TC (i think its TC) conduits and liquiducts I avoid BC piping at all costs.

I have some in my current build just because I have no RP power gen at my current project but that will be changing soon.

 

[ItharianEngineering]

use it to build the Redpower sorting systems. Taking some time to learn how RP sorters and tubes work and you will never go back to BC piping unless you absolutely have to. I use BC piping now in vary few places. Pretty much only when I need a Gate. Between RP tubes and sorting and TC (i think its TC) conduits and liquiducts I avoid BC piping at all costs.

I have some in my current build just because I have no RP power gen at my current project but that will be changing soon.

You mean TE, Thermal Expansion, TC would be Thaumcraft. But I agree with you. RP Tubes are much better then BC piping, though there are some places that BC pipes are more efficient I think.

But on topic: Electric engines to a crucible I think would be a bad idea. It is a huge waste in IC2 power, and doesn't the MV array output at 64 EU/t? That isn't enough for 3 engines to run at 10 MJ/t each (2 bronze tubes + 1 iron tube = 35 EU/t total each). But blulectric power to to it would probably be fine, but slow without a large setup.

 

[Saice]

Yes I agree there are a few places BC pipes still win out. I use them on my autocrafting system just because it they are really easy and compact to use with the pipewire and all. Also that Bee pipe THAT BEE PIPE yeah you want to automate bees that pipe is priceless.

But also on topic. : Waste power? If it is free form solar why worry if your over or under using the power it is free so there really is no real loss. Just Toss a second or third MV array and the system would be happy. All the lava you could ever dream of.

 

[ItharianEngineering]

Yes I agree there are a few places BC pipes still win out. I use them on my autocrafting system just because it they are really easy and compact to use with the pipewire and all. Also that Bee pipe THAT BEE PIPE yeah you want to automate bees that pipe is priceless.

But also on topic. : Waste power? If it is free form solar why worry if your over or under using the power it is free so there really is no real loss. Just Toss a second or third MV array and the system would be happy. All the lava you could ever dream of.

Lost potential power. It uses resources and power that could go to something else far more efficient. That is just how I play though. Also lava generated by electrical engines doesn't have much use, the MJs used to make it are far higher then what you would get for just using the electrical engines, and a Geothermal wouldn't generate as much power as you used to create it. Since he is using Compact solars and not advanced I am assuming he is using Direwolf20s pack which doesn't have gregtech so no centrifuging for resources. You could make it into obsidian I guess that you could use to make iron and such through EE.

 

[jnads]

Would it be reasonable? You can hook up 1 medium solar array and get 3 electrical engines powering a magma crucible hooked up to a cobble gen (igneous extruder) all at full power.
Or use a bluelectric engine or 2 with some kinetic generation/solar panels.

It's alot of recources to setup, but once it's up you've pretty much got infinite free lava. Using the bluelectric method and just solar panels you could convert bluelectricity into EU and MJ through magmatic engines and geothermals. And with a flax farm, easily reusable wind power.

So I guess the question is, is it worth it?

I actually have this set-up.

It's a very cheaty way to get infinite energy in my view. I did it as a means to an end (getting energy), but I'll make no fluff with it: It's not fun.

There's no "cool" factor about it (other than using the power of the sun to make lava).

I have a 7x7x6 Railcraft tank which holds 5,000 buckets of lava. I have 5 Hybrid Solar panels (MV Solar Panels), which feed 320 EU/t to an MFSU (which then powers my IC2/GT machinerY). 80 EU/t from the 320 goes to 4 Electrical Engines which have upgrades and generate 30 MJ/t. This 30 MJ/t goes to 2 Magma crucibles, which fill the lava tank. This lava tank is then piped out to magmatic engines, which fill redstone energy cells, which then power my BC machinery.

To make the set-up work, you have to augment it with a chunkloader. Generate lava when you're not playing. The tank stores 90 million MJ, which is way more than I can use in one play-session.


Also, Magmatic Engines only do 4 MJ/t per engine. So really, you can't operate a 64x64 Quarry with the new Tesseracts or anything, without a lot of engines.

 

[purplefantum]

Yeh DW20, I was mostly cotenplating using up a bucketload of nikolite into solar panel for blelectric engines for free lava. I barely have 3 stacks of iron, but nikolite is really abundant for some reason.

 

[noah_wolfe]

Yeh DW20, I was mostly cotenplating using up a bucketload of nikolite into solar panel for blelectric engines for free lava. I barely have 3 stacks of iron, but nikolite is really abundant for some reason.

Well, as long as you realize that the BT solars average 100W .. and you need 1kW to produce 1MJ/t .. have at it (that's 11,520 nikolite to reach your goal). I would suggest that a wind turbine array might make more sense, though.

 

[Saice]

Well, as long as you realize that the BT solars average 100W .. and you need 1kW to produce 1MJ/t .. have at it (that's 11,520 nikolite to reach your goal). I would suggest that a wind turbine array might make more sense, though.

I would agree of all the ways to get your BT wind is the best right now.