I am thinking about switching to the Ultimate pack and trying GregTech again. The last time it was virtually impossible for me and my friends to get any EU generation machine (Except for generators) in the game. We tried to get water mills, solar panels, wind mills, and a bunch of other stuff. The only logical thing that we could get was the Geothermal Generator, and that was it. So I want to know whether or not if I'm going to have to use the Geothermal Generator or use something else.
Recommended Source of EU with GregTech?
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So if I have oil near me go with Petrogen but if I don't go with Geothermals? Also, I am thinking of going with biomass for my main source of power later in the game. Is that logical or should I make solar panels or something?
I was walking around and came across this: http://imgur.com/wlaROIQ It looks more red than oil but has the sprout and the well. Would this work as oil?
You may want to do what Direwolf20 did in his video series. That is automate the collection of oily propolis from one of the bees. Bees that can produce Oily Propolis are found here: http://mc.nessirojgaming.eu/bees/index.php?title=Oily_Comb
Thorium/plutonium hybrid reactors are great.
Peppe designed something that spits out 1750 EU/t for 0.9 uranium ingots per hour. If you use Applied Energistics, Railcraft advanced unloaders and GregTech advanced regulators, The whole thing will craft its own cells, breed them and refuel itself. Just insert copper ingots, tin ingots, uranium ingots and coal dust and it will take care of itself.
Peppe designed something that spits out 1750 EU/t for 0.9 uranium ingots per hour. If you use Applied Energistics, Railcraft advanced unloaders and GregTech advanced regulators, The whole thing will craft its own cells, breed them and refuel itself. Just insert copper ingots, tin ingots, uranium ingots and coal dust and it will take care of itself.
As others have said, for earlygame, Lava from the Nether or Magma Crucibles running Netherrack.
Or set up a tree farm or blaze farm and burn it in Generators.
Or you might even be able to set up a self-sustaining Scrap factory which burns Scrap for all of its energy needs. Am I not right? Probably not, that would be quite an exploit.
Or set up a tree farm or blaze farm and burn it in Generators.
Or you might even be able to set up a self-sustaining Scrap factory which burns Scrap for all of its energy needs. Am I not right? Probably not, that would be quite an exploit.
If you want to do this, I recommend you check out Monkeyfarm's Mob Fission Reactor (that's not what it's actually called, by the way), as seen below:
For early-mid gameplay, fuel+diesel generators, and then to bee.. then you can skip the matter fabricator and go straightforward to fusion reactor 
A lightningrod solves all your problems, inuding annoying players!
Some other options:
Make a tree farm and use the logs to power a wall of generators.
Make a tree farm and use the logs (maybe pre-cut them with a sawmill) to power solid fuel boilers >> Steam Turbines.
I am not sure if it is more efficient than Diesel Generators, but you could go with Oil >> Fuel in a liquid fueled boiler >> Steam Turbines.
Make a tree farm and use the logs to power a wall of generators.
Make a tree farm and use the logs (maybe pre-cut them with a sawmill) to power solid fuel boilers >> Steam Turbines.
I am not sure if it is more efficient than Diesel Generators, but you could go with Oil >> Fuel in a liquid fueled boiler >> Steam Turbines.
Steam to EU is not very efficent, since it needs constant steel and maintance. Its so bad, that GregoriusT actually don't uses steam for EU anymore.
Constant steel and maintenance? It takes a ton of steel to get up and running, but I believe it can run for about 50 RL hours before requiring a new Rotor.
Right, something like that.
Whether or not Steam --> EU is worth doing is 100% dependent on your EU needs. I like it, but I'm not a huge user of EU power typically.
The steam turbine and rotor's steel costs and/or durability loss have been nerfed at least 10 times since their inception.
The rotor currently sits at 80 hours average lifetime. You can now also repair a damaged rotor with turbine blades, which allows you to get back to maximum durability with (at most) 12 blades required, where a new rotor would need 24 blades and 3 steel blocks. It's really bordering on neglibile by now.
Also, steam EU is very efficient. It gives you the best MJ->EU conversion ratio outside of overPowered Converters and pulls EU values out of solid fuels especially that are far beyond any other option. The only problem is that it is clunky to set up for large scale production due to the big up-front time requirement to smelt all that iron into steel.
The rotor currently sits at 80 hours average lifetime. You can now also repair a damaged rotor with turbine blades, which allows you to get back to maximum durability with (at most) 12 blades required, where a new rotor would need 24 blades and 3 steel blocks. It's really bordering on neglibile by now.
Also, steam EU is very efficient. It gives you the best MJ->EU conversion ratio outside of overPowered Converters and pulls EU values out of solid fuels especially that are far beyond any other option. The only problem is that it is clunky to set up for large scale production due to the big up-front time requirement to smelt all that iron into steel.
Never let rotor break. Rotor breaks when it reaches 30 000 durability and one blade repairs it by 2 500, so by letting it break you lose stack of steel. Here is simple setup that allows you to prevent it, gate is set to "needs maintenance" -> redstone signal. This trigger activates when rotor have 25 % of durability left, so 8 blades are enough to repair it fully.
http://i.imgur.com/vTNvDAE.png
So gates can interact with Turbines? I think I gonna use that the next time unless Greg builds a powerplant thats to small again.