Railcraft Steam Turbine - EU production

[Whovian]

For a few reasons (mainly a creative build I'm thinking about making,) I wanted to ask a quick question. Over its lifetime, how much EU does a Railcraft Steam Turbine produce? (Fine, if you really want to know, I'm wondering if it can manufacture enough UUM to replenish the Turbine. Probably not, but still interesting to know.)

 

[retep998]

According to the railcraft wiki, a turbine should last 62.5 hours, which is 4.5 million ticks. Multiplied by the output of 100 eu/t this is approximately 450 million eu, which is approximately 27 uum using gregtech, or 2700 uum without gregtech.

 

[Guswut]

According to the railcraft wiki, a turbine should last 62.5 hours, which is 4.5 million ticks. Multiplied by the output of 100 eu/t this is approximately 450 million eu, which is approximately 27 uum using gregtech, or 2700 uum without gregtech.

Or, in other words: No way on MindCrack, and sure on DireWolf20/etc.

That aside, though, 99 steel ingots is only fifty iron ore to make ninety-nine iron ingots (plus a spare), then ninety-nine coal to make ninety-nine coke to make ninety-nine steel.

That aside, though, it may be a good deal cheaper to just go to cobblestone->lava->thermal generator route.

 

[eculc]

UUM isn't the only part of the process, though. the turbine blades are made of steel, which requires the blast furnace and either coal-coke or charcoal, and it requires the energy necessary to smelt the iron ore from UUM into iron (and presumably macerate it before smelting).

So...in other words: if you have gregtech installed, not a chance. otherwise, you're probably good.

EDIT: ninja'd; basically what Guswut said.

 

[Shihane]

or just make your steel the cheaty way with traincraft recipe. 1 stack of iron makes 168 steel if I remember correctly. and all it takes is a little coal and clay to make the graphite.
4 coal -> 4 coal dust (traincraft version of coal dust made in train workbench as is the rest of this recipe.) -> 8 coal dust surrounding 1 clay = 8 graphite
1 graphite and 3 iron creates 4 steel dust. smelt the steel dust in any furnace and get 2 steel ingots per dust.

 

[Guswut]

or just make your steel the cheaty way with traincraft recipe. 1 stack of iron makes 168 steel if I remember correctly. and all it takes is a little coal and clay to make the graphite.
4 coal -> 4 coal dust (traincraft version of coal dust made in train workbench as is the rest of this recipe.) -> 8 coal dust surrounding 1 clay = 8 graphite
1 graphite and 3 iron creates 4 steel dust. smelt the steel dust in any furnace and get 2 steel ingots per dust.

That is more work than making cobblestone generators feed into magma crucibles into thermal engines. I should do the mathematics behind it for the EU per MJ, not even taking into account the steel.

 

[Shihane]

really not that much work. that is how I built my 3x3x5 HP boiler on the server I play on and the 2 steam turbines it feeds. only takes a couple minutes for over a 200% return for your iron input.

 

[Guswut]

really not that much work. that is how I built my 3x3x5 HP boiler on the server I play on and the 2 steam turbines it feeds. only takes a couple minutes for over a 200% return for your iron input.

The common way to define boilers is by the amount of boiler blocks used and then the pressure. For example, a 3x5x3 high pressure boiler would be a 36HP.

Besides that, I have a few stacks of steel blocks, made the basic coke/blast furnace way (no "cheaty" railcraft bollocks involved) and I run three steam turbines which I will be replacing with pure magma generation for the decrease in upkeep as well as likely an increase in efficiency.

 

[un worry]

I cant check from here, but is it 99 steel to REPAIR the turbines or to make a new one from scratch?

 

[Guswut]

I cant check from here, but is it 99 steel to REPAIR the turbines or to make a new one from scratch?

That is the cost to build one from scratch. You can save a bit of usage by repairing two broken ones, but it isn't that big of a savings.