looking for a lot of free power

[mxadema]

Im looking for the best energy source for my new house.
Here my minimum requirement:
Need to push out a lot of power
Need to be free to run, or minimum easily found runing coSt
Need to be full auto or able to somewhat auto it
No lava from the nether. Get laggy out there

Can be as many setup
And some what cheap and or easy to built ,not like auto fusion, over complicated and expancive

Can be eu or mj

And solar panel i.need to much for the price they are ,need more power

So let see what you got, can wate to what will come up .[DOUBLEPOST=1379379864][/DOUBLEPOST]Ho I forgot I use minecrack all mod on on a no restrictions server except nether lava humping

 

[Dorque]

Sorry to sound snarky, but whatever you may think of the cost solars are the absolute best answer to this question every single time.

Lots of power, no maintenance.

Anything else you want to do for power is going to cost you far more effort in the long run, I firmly believe that.

 

[Zenthon_127]

Squid Generator.

I think I'm seriously going to run my next build off of all squid power.

 

[Geometry]

For your needs, I would highly recommend a large MFR tree farm. You can use the wood for charcoal to power a few 36HP boilers. The saplings can go in a fermenter for biomass which can be refined into ethanol and fed into several more 36HP boilers. Does take some work though, but once its fully automated, its worth it. Each boiler can produce 350 eu/t or 144 mj/t via power converters. With your charcoal and ethanol, you could sustain several boilers giving you a stable 1000+ MJ/t. If you want it even more productive, just add a fertilizer to you farm, and you'll have enough enough fuel to sustain several more boilers.[DOUBLEPOST=1379382934][/DOUBLEPOST]

Squid Generator.

I think I'm seriously going to run my next build off of all squid power.

I thought that the bio-reactor's output was significantly nerfed for single items?

 

[Hoff]

http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/thr...ct-mj-production-possible-in-unleashed.31326/

There are many other threads as well. I just happened to still have that one open.

 

[twisto51]

Lots of power, no maintenance.

I agree. Without rp2 I had to find a use for all the silver.

Spoiler

 

[Dorque]

I agree. Without rp2 I had to find a use for all the silver.

Spoiler

Damn, that's sexy. I pretty much just convert my silver to force ingots these days.

 

[Zenthon_127]

I thought that the bio-reactor's output was significantly nerfed for single items?

It was but it still produces a crapton of power.

 

[twisto51]

It was but it still produces a crapton of power.

I find that getting a "crapton of power" out of it requires quite a bit of work up front. If you go low efficiency you're going to need a very large number of bioreactors. If you go high efficiency you're going to need 9 farms of one type or another. In terms of renewable energy that requires some processing but isn't "free" like solar I find oil/fuel from bees to be more efficient, more compact and less laggy.

 

[Zenthon_127]

Then again one could argue that bees are equally tedious. But I digress.

IMO I'm gonna have to go with Factorization Solar Boilers as the best easy power source (completely forgot about them lol).

 

[Hoff]

I find that getting a "crapton of power" out of it requires quite a bit of work up front. If you go low efficiency you're going to need a very large number of bioreactors. If you go high efficiency you're going to need 9 farms of one type or another. In terms of renewable energy that requires some processing but isn't "free" like solar I find oil/fuel from bees to be more efficient, more compact and less laggy.

"Very large" is 32 reactors per squid. That is enough to power 64 boilers(9216 MJ/t) or 288 Biofuel generators(4608) or 1280 combustion engines(6400 MJ/t). I'd love to see how much more space efficient alvearies and the other necessary machines to power a comparable amount of engines are. Laggy is also solely dependent on what you use. Engines will obviously be far lag-ier. BF gens aren't laggy at all and require less space. Boilers aren't bad if you use power converters to do the heavy lifting instead of engines.

 

[twisto51]

I meant in comparison to a high-efficiency setup where you'd need more farms when talking about lag, and compactness.

 

[Hoff]

I meant in comparison to a high-efficiency setup where you'd need more farms when talking about lag, and compactness.

So then are you conceding that needing a "large" number of bioreactors to be a moot point when it comes to low efficiency? Because as long as squid and bonemeal are valid reactor items low efficiency will continue to trump high efficiency by miles and miles.

 

[RedBoss]

Im looking for the best energy source for my new house.
Here my minimum requirement:
Need to push out a lot of power
Need to be free to run, or minimum easily found runing coSt
Need to be full auto or able to somewhat auto it
No lava from the nether. Get laggy out there

Can be as many setup
And some what cheap and or easy to built ,not like auto fusion, over complicated and expancive

Can be eu or mj

And solar panel i.need to much for the price they are ,need more power

So let see what you got, can wate to what will come up .[DOUBLEPOST=1379379864][/DOUBLEPOST]Ho I forgot I use minecrack all mod on on a no restrictions server except nether lava humping

You're admins are smart to set that rule. One should also never hump lava in any dimension. You will not have a good time.

 

[carmont492]

I've cleaned out alot of the nether. But because I play single player, I just pick up my pump station and reset the nether. It's cheaty, but until I've figured nuclear power, its my preferred choice. I seem to have some problems with compact solars so they are out of the picture.

EDIT: So many spelling mistakes and missing words, damn I need more coffee!

 

[Dorque]

I've cleaned out alot of the nether. But because I play single player, I just pick my pump station and reset the nether. It's cheaty, but until I've figured nuclear its my preferred choose. I seem to have some problems with compact splats so they are out of the picture.

Our server's small enough that lava pumping is no big deal, but there's also always the Igneous Extruder option.

 

[carmont492]

Our server's small enough that lava pumping is no big deal, but there's also always the Igneous Extruder option.

Yeah, I suppose I could always give that a go. Might look into it tonight.

 

[angelnc]

I think the easiest way would be a MFR tree farm with some Stirling Engines/Generators/Steam Engines (TE). And since you'll get saplings from the tree farm anyway, you could produce and use BioFuel too.

 

[Hydra]

Spawn in a quantum generator. Anything else is obviously too much work.[DOUBLEPOST=1379403564][/DOUBLEPOST]

Our server's small enough that lava pumping is no big deal, but there's also always the Igneous Extruder option.

What's that going to solve? It doesn't give a power surpluss.

 

[Infallible83]

I personally dont drain the Nether as I feel creating power systems is one of the most interesting and creative things in the game (just my opinion).

However, I really don't understand why any servers still allow pumps in the Nether, now that most mod packs have the Ender-Thermal Pump, it should be the first and only suggestion. Low lag, built in chunk loader. (Obviously not relevant to servers that dont have Extra Utilities)

To OP, if your only concern about lava form Nether is lag, then use the Ender-Thermic Pump (It does not leave flowing lava, it intead replaces any lava it takes with stone).

If you dont want cheesy power then you have two VERY good answers here:

For your needs, I would highly recommend a large MFR tree farm. You can use the wood for charcoal to power a few 36HP boilers. The saplings can go in a fermenter for biomass which can be refined into ethanol and fed into several more 36HP boilers. Does take some work though, but once its fully automated, its worth it. Each boiler can produce 350 eu/t or 144 mj/t via power converters. With your charcoal and ethanol, you could sustain several boilers giving you a stable 1000+ MJ/t. If you want it even more productive, just add a fertilizer to you farm, and you'll have enough enough fuel to sustain several more boilers

"Very large" is 32 reactors per squid. That is enough to power 64 boilers(9216 MJ/t) or 288 Biofuel generators(4608) or 1280 combustion engines(6400 MJ/t).

A point on Hoff's suggestion (Or rather a point at the reservations on efficiency sited by others), a more efficient setup if very easy to achive with a single planter not that they can be split into 9 different crops. Barley, cotten, cocoa, vanilla seeds, netherwart, vanilla saplings (Multiple options). When you couple these with a fertiliser and add the squid farm and bonemeal, you can have a very efficient setup without much work.

Infallible