minefactory reloaded biofuel generator

[Vovk]

Did this block recieve a nerf in a more recent update? It is hard to find information about it from google. Best I've got is
http://ftbwiki.org/BioFuel_Generator

however the 150,000/bucket stat is wrong. Testing shows less than 1500/bucket as it guzzles fuel away. for the record, the combustion engine stat is also wrong last i checked (my previous build had 600,000 per fuel bucket in a combustion engine and 500,000 per biofuel bucket)

one redeeming thing i've noticed is the insane output, I can't be sure but i'm guessing it's over 30 MJ/t

so i'm thinking of having a bank of combustion engines for everyday use, and then for times of high stress have 10-20 biofuel reactors underneath the tank that I can shunt excess storage to in order to get very fast short term mj production.

so... finally the question. Do you guys use the biofuel gen much?

 

[Zjarek_S]

Those stats are almost right for 1.5 versions of MFR (it is actually 160 000 + loss on redstone energy framework). In 1.4.7 it was a lot smaller

 

[quantumllama]

Ultimate 1.1.2, obviously on MC1.4.7

A bucket of biofuel gave me 1328 MJ in about four seconds. I've put the generator right next to an empty redstone energy cell so there's no conduit energy loss. Then I repeated the same setup 3 times and got the same result.

16MJ/t sounds right but it definitely burns the stuff up like it hates sustainability.

 

[Poppycocks]

Welll, the bio reactor can make a lot of biofuel per tick with a high enough diversity.

 

[Daemonblue]

Welll, the bio reactor can make a lot of biofuel per tick with a high enough diversity.

IIRC diversity doesn't affect how much is put out per tick but rather how efficiently it produces fuel. Something using only seeds should produce the same amount of fuel as something using 9 types of plants over the same amount of time, but it would take immensely more seeds in the process.

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Edit: Yup, diversity only affects how quickly it burns through materials, not how quickly it makes fuel.​

 

[Poppycocks]

Oh yeah, that's true, shouldn't have used the term speed .

Still, the efficiency can be very high and you can keep your fuel guzzlers happy with just a handful of bioreactors.

Hm, I have never bothered to check, what's the actual output?

 

[Daemonblue]

It outputs fuel rather slow, but it looks like it's fast enough to power several of the biofuel generators. As for the efficiency, in the time it took to consume 153 items *around 2.3 stacks) in the reactor with max efficiency another with just seeds consumed about 4.5 stacks, so it seems like at max efficiency it's twice as efficient at making fuel. Back to production speed, it looked like 1mb/t of production, but as I said I'm unsure.

Edit: Yea, looks like 1mb/t, timing it against my comp's clock. I have a single bio reactor hooked up to 5 BFGs and it's producing more than enough. Sadly though I think PC overshot the GT cost of the bioreactor a bit unless NEI isn't showing all the possible ways to get Titanium since all I see is 12 bauxite dust for 2 tiny dusts which comes out to 320 bauxite dust for the bioreactor's titanium hull, or 80 bauxite ore.

 

[power crystals]

Yeah, don't use that thing in 1.4. It is extremely underpowered.

 

[Vovk]

so powercrystals, since your attention is grabbed - do you know the MJ/T output of the biofuel generator in 1.4? If it's high enough i might use them anyway for the fun of it

 

[KirinDave]

Yeah, don't use that thing in 1.4. It is extremely underpowered.

I believe with your co-developer we decided it was actually a specialized liquid void pipe.[DOUBLEPOST=1371741764][/DOUBLEPOST]

so powercrystals, since your attention is grabbed - do you know the MJ/T output of the biofuel generator in 1.4? If it's high enough i might use them anyway for the fun of it

It is super terrible. You are actually better smashing your computer with a hammer.

Or just bite the bullet and upgrade to 1.5, where it actually makes sense. There it only burns one type of fuel that is only made from farm by-products, and outputs a low-efficiency high-power engine. I use it to power TE machines and the Infinitubes that process my MFR farm outputs.

 

[power crystals]

so powercrystals, since your attention is grabbed - do you know the MJ/T output of the biofuel generator in 1.4? If it's high enough i might use them anyway for the fun of it

10 MJ/t iirc, but the power per bucket is so low that you might as well just void it and cheat in an energy cell.

 

[Vovk]

thanks - good to know