So yeah first yes I know I really do know this is a poor way to get power. Yeah yeah solar, nuke, neither pump, blaze farm.... all that stuff yes yes there are many many many 'better' ways to get power. But this is not about that this is about getting Redpower to power EU via MJ conversion.
Some things about that. RP power creation has a bit of randomness to it. Solar seems to be the only fairly constant power output. Thermpiles flux a bit no hugely but they can swing around a bit and when you get a lot of them those swings can turn into big dips and spikes. Wind mills more so the wind seems to shift throughout the day not even bring into the picture rain fall. So with any system if you really plan on using such a set up I can no stress the importance of a battery buffer and I am not talking one or two. You are going to want some major BT back up power to filter out those spikes and dips. It is also a good idea to let the system run empty for a while just to get them batteries charged up first. After of course you tested to make sure it runs without batts.
Solar is fairly simple no need to really go into it here. In any system your going to be aim for 20Kwatts there abouts which in the end will get us 20 to 24 EUs a tick depending on which generator your using. This whole system gets a HUGE improvement if you can feed it neitherack. But I'm built these using Cobblestone since it is free and unlimited.
Wind
Ok you going to need about 16 vertical wind turbines to make this work. RP does not seem to care how high as long as it has some air space around it and it not flush with the ground. These are only 12 blocks up.
2013-01-18_22.00.33 by Saice, on Flickr
You share this with two BT engines. This will keep two magma crucibles running almost all the time they should get their power back shortly after dumping their lava out. This will keep the Geothermal generator running.
2013-01-18_22.02.51 by Saice, on Flickr
No it is not amazing. But it is passive needs no interaction once setup and with a chunkloader and some storage like an MFE you can just stock up on power for when you need it. Now because of the randomness of wind power it might be better to use a larger wind farm setup. But I got this to run fairly well for about 30 minutes with out issue.
Thermopiles sadly take much much work.
2013-01-17_20.10.55 by Saice, on Flickr
Yeah 1Kwatt from that set up. The numbers in the screen shot were from testing one side of it. so you would need 10 of them. This is actually a really good setup for a thermopile the layout is only using 40 piles in this stack. But that means you need 400 piles get the numbers you need. I gave up a bit on this part for now just because the logistics of it were getting a bit out of hand. But it is also fairly random so I would suggest added another 5 of these bringing the total to 600 piles just to help deal with the spikyness of piles.
For any of the three ways to create BT you will need about 20Kwatts for this to work and then use that rig I have in the second shot to make your Lava to EU conversion. Of course as stated if you have neitherack you can lower your power needs or just slap on more Geos and increase your output.
But there you go. Silly things to do with RP. I'm going to do something easier now like go play Dark souls. Fweee.
Some things about that. RP power creation has a bit of randomness to it. Solar seems to be the only fairly constant power output. Thermpiles flux a bit no hugely but they can swing around a bit and when you get a lot of them those swings can turn into big dips and spikes. Wind mills more so the wind seems to shift throughout the day not even bring into the picture rain fall. So with any system if you really plan on using such a set up I can no stress the importance of a battery buffer and I am not talking one or two. You are going to want some major BT back up power to filter out those spikes and dips. It is also a good idea to let the system run empty for a while just to get them batteries charged up first. After of course you tested to make sure it runs without batts.
Solar is fairly simple no need to really go into it here. In any system your going to be aim for 20Kwatts there abouts which in the end will get us 20 to 24 EUs a tick depending on which generator your using. This whole system gets a HUGE improvement if you can feed it neitherack. But I'm built these using Cobblestone since it is free and unlimited.
Wind
Ok you going to need about 16 vertical wind turbines to make this work. RP does not seem to care how high as long as it has some air space around it and it not flush with the ground. These are only 12 blocks up.
2013-01-18_22.00.33 by Saice, on Flickr
You share this with two BT engines. This will keep two magma crucibles running almost all the time they should get their power back shortly after dumping their lava out. This will keep the Geothermal generator running.
2013-01-18_22.02.51 by Saice, on Flickr
No it is not amazing. But it is passive needs no interaction once setup and with a chunkloader and some storage like an MFE you can just stock up on power for when you need it. Now because of the randomness of wind power it might be better to use a larger wind farm setup. But I got this to run fairly well for about 30 minutes with out issue.
Thermopiles sadly take much much work.
2013-01-17_20.10.55 by Saice, on Flickr
Yeah 1Kwatt from that set up. The numbers in the screen shot were from testing one side of it. so you would need 10 of them. This is actually a really good setup for a thermopile the layout is only using 40 piles in this stack. But that means you need 400 piles get the numbers you need. I gave up a bit on this part for now just because the logistics of it were getting a bit out of hand. But it is also fairly random so I would suggest added another 5 of these bringing the total to 600 piles just to help deal with the spikyness of piles.
For any of the three ways to create BT you will need about 20Kwatts for this to work and then use that rig I have in the second shot to make your Lava to EU conversion. Of course as stated if you have neitherack you can lower your power needs or just slap on more Geos and increase your output.
But there you go. Silly things to do with RP. I'm going to do something easier now like go play Dark souls. Fweee.
It makes me imagine a huge industrial power plant, with blocks upon blocks of that module inside concrete casings with catwalks around the outside...