ReactorCraft - clever reactor setups?

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Rewyn

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Red3055 said:
no reactors that can irradiate the area. The issue is more trying to build a large enough seup that i can run the HP-turbine off off a HTGR setup. What i have seen thusfar is i will need to make 4-5 PBR setups and feed 4-5 heat exchanges. each exchange can do 4-5 boilers. so provided i can keep up with the water (shouldn't be an issue) then i should be able to get it running and keep it running.

Is there on/off valves for the steam line by any chance? i would assume there is but i have not found them thus far in my searches through the book or NEI
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If you apply a redstone signal to the steam grate, it stops letting out steam.
 
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EyeDeck said:
Can't be done, Reactorcraft steam is flagged with the reactor type that produced it (fission, htgr, fusion etc), and the HPT is deliberately coded not to work with HTGR steam.
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that.... seems odd. do you know when that was added, if it was?

also steam grate is for a normal turbine, not the HP one so not as effective.
 
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Reika said:
If you ask that to find old versions, good luck and know that no information you find will ever be of help to you.
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I'd be surprised if a world could survive a year-old downgrade of your mods anyway.
 
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Reika said:
If you ask that to find old versions, good luck and know that no information you find will ever be of help to you.
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Not a fan of repeating myself. I am limited to v9b due to using a pack that has not updated to the current version. And again, no I can't get it updated, I have tried. Tring to understand why something that should theoretically work isn't is what I am doing. And trying to see what I can do within said limitations.

Also, may as well ask, why not allow htgr to power a hp turbine, provided you can supply enough steam?
 
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Red3055 said:
Not a fan of repeating myself. I am limited to v9b due to using a pack that has not updated to the current version. And again, no I can't get it updated, I have tried. Tring to understand why something that should theoretically work isn't is what I am doing. And trying to see what I can do within said limitations.

Also, may as well ask, why not allow htgr to power a hp turbine, provided you can supply enough steam?
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Because no design is supposed to be able to produce enough steam. That mechanic is to catch the few cases I have not specifically accounted for.
 
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Red3055 said:
Not a fan of repeating myself. I am limited to v9b due to using a pack that has not updated to the current version. And again, no I can't get it updated, I have tried. Tring to understand why something that should theoretically work isn't is what I am doing. And trying to see what I can do within said limitations.

Also, may as well ask, why not allow htgr to power a hp turbine, provided you can supply enough steam?
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A high pressure turbine cannot be powered by HTGRs, ever. Period. That won't be changing. If you're playing a pack that won't update Reika's Mods, then sorry, but that's an issue you'll need to take up with the pack dev, not Reika.
 
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LC14199 said:
A high pressure turbine cannot be powered by HTGRs, ever. Period. That won't be changing. If you're playing a pack that won't update Reika's Mods, then sorry, but that's an issue you'll need to take up with the pack dev, not Reika.
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The individual asked why, your response didn't address that.

Its a fair question to ask: Reika's systems are predominantly emergent, and the hardcoded htgr steam scenario Red3055 is describing break's emergence. The probable answer is that the hardcoded bit generates a game design flow he'd prefer to see.

I'd have preferred to see it tackled from a different direction, but just about anything I can think of requires implementing laws of thermodynamics in a way that would take an awful lot more code than was likely required here.
 
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Pyure said:
The individual asked why, your response didn't address that.

Its a fair question to ask: Reika's systems are predominantly emergent, and the hardcoded htgr steam scenario Red3055 is describing break's emergence. The probable answer is that the hardcoded bit generates a game design flow he'd prefer to see.

I'd have preferred to see it tackled from a different direction, but just about anything I can think of requires implementing laws of thermodynamics in a way that would take an awful lot more code than was likely required here.
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That was my guess. I was going off of the face that a lot of this mod works off of real world physics and such and going by that, with enough "plants" a HTGR would be able to run at least a single HP turbine. Efficient? Gods no. Possible? Sure.

honestly I can't see any other way as efficient as the current coding at blocking someone from using the hp turbine with HTGR. Thoughts I did have were changing the steam consumption rated depending on source, but that seems like it would be way more of a pain than it is worth.
 
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Pyure said:
The individual asked why, your response didn't address that.

Its a fair question to ask: Reika's systems are predominantly emergent, and the hardcoded htgr steam scenario Red3055 is describing break's emergence. The probable answer is that the hardcoded bit generates a game design flow he'd prefer to see.

I'd have preferred to see it tackled from a different direction, but just about anything I can think of requires implementing laws of thermodynamics in a way that would take an awful lot more code than was likely required here.
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The first attempt was the standard "size of the reactor influences heat generation" curve - which is still present - which means that very large HTGRs have much lower per-core heat generation than a smaller one. This was so that one could not make an absurdly large HTGR for absurd amounts of power. However, there are ways, often involving chunkloading and/or air spaces, to trick that, and so the hardcoding was implemented.
 
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Reika said:
The first attempt was the standard "size of the reactor influences heat generation" curve - which is still present - which means that very large HTGRs have much lower per-core heat generation than a smaller one. This was so that one could not make an absurdly large HTGR for absurd amounts of power. However, there are ways, often involving chunkloading and/or air spaces, to trick that, and so the hardcoding was implemented.
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Yep makes sense.

Realistically, what would be the downside to running absurdly large HTGRs in a real life scenario?

My "ideal" solution to the problem would probably be the answer to that question.
 
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