Sources of EU

[Materthew16]

I am somewhat a newbie of the Direwolf 1.6.4 pack, and would like to know as many sources of eu possible, from the lowest output to the largest. Currently I have one low pressure steam boiler, liquid firebox, and another solid fuel firebox. Each one is connected to a steam turbine powering mfsu's. I have 12 coal coke ovens, the creosote oil piped up to power the liquid boiler and the coal coke powering the solid fueled boiler. It gives a pretty large amount of power output and is somewhat efficient, but I'm looking to find other sources of eu that are fun or interesting to use (besides generators or solar panels/arrays).


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[xbony2]

Nuclear?

 

[Dodge34]

I guess what he wants is to avoid any IC2 related machine and generate EU with other mods, I think I understand why,he saw the new gregtechized version of IC2Experimental and all the crazy and time consuming steps that are now required to create any source of EU from IC2 is quite a challenge to be honest... I think you can try MFR Bioreactor and BioGenerator, I'm not 100% sure but I think this can produce any form of power at the moment...

 

[KoncreteLiquids]

IC2 hasn't changed lol, Nuclear is about the only other option you have... wind/water but those are so low it isn't worth it (which is funny because hydro-electric is still a huge power supply around the world)

 

[Dodge34]

IC2 hasn't changed lol, Nuclear is about the only other option you have... wind/water but those are so low it isn't worth it (which is funny because hydro-electric is still a huge power supply around the world)

Talk about hydro electricity, here in Quebec, its our #1 power source, and yet, in IC2, its not even worth the effort to try to use it...

 

[immibis]

Talk about hydro electricity, here in Quebec, its our #1 power source, and yet, in IC2, its not even worth the effort to try to use it...

Really? It's slightly cheaper than solar.

 

[Materthew16]

I guess what he wants is to avoid any IC2 related machine and generate EU with other mods, I think I understand why,he saw the new gregtechized version of IC2Experimental and all the crazy and time consuming steps that are now required to create any source of EU from IC2 is quite a challenge to be honest... I think you can try MFR Bioreactor and BioGenerator, I'm not 100% sure but I think this can produce any form of power at the moment...

Well anything is fine with me, I actually just started with this an felt like making crazy contraptions lol. I don't know many other sources of power in mj OR eu, and I'm using both, somewhat at least. I was running out of ideas that I knew of because of my limited experience, I'm just looking for a challenge or insight thanks for your reply


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[Materthew16]

IC2 hasn't changed lol, Nuclear is about the only other option you have... wind/water but those are so low it isn't worth it (which is funny because hydro-electric is still a huge power supply around the world)

I've looked into nuclear and am thinking about doing that. I have been hesitant however because of the many stories of massive explosions haha. But it may be worth a try


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[MoosyDoosy]

I've looked into nuclear and am thinking about doing that. I have been hesitant however because of the many stories of massive explosions haha. But it may be worth a try


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Surround your nuke with a few layers of Hardened Glass. I use Hardened Glass so that I can see inside my reactor chamber.

 

[Dodge34]

Best thing to contain Nuclear reactor is actually the warded glass from Thaumcraft, problem is you can't cover the whole reactor since you need a way for some cables, so you're out of luck if you want to avoid any explosion damage, best idea is to build the reactor in a Mystcraft age dedicated to it with a chunkloader and get the power of it with Minecarts that travel from the Mystcraft age to the overworld using a portal from Mystcraft, I think you can have some MFSU carts in Railcraft, they can be configured to fill up in the Mystcraft age near your Nuclear Reactor and once they are full, they travel to the overworld and empty themselves into another MFSU, the same railcraft line can also supply the stuff to your reactor, I saw someone had a setup of this kind, I think it was un FTB Ultimate or Unleashed. it should be possible again...

 

[PierceSG]

Can you have the opening at the bottom of the enclosure and so when it blows, it will only take out blocks below it? And best if you could build near the bedrock so to cut down collateral damage when it does blow up.

 

[Dodge34]

I'm not sure its possible to get the power from above, but if I understood how the nuclear explosions work in IC2, no matter where its going to explode, it will cause a major crater in the area of it, bedrock and warded glass can contain it, but if there's even the tiniest hole in the thing, I'm not sure what could happen...

 

[Materthew16]

Best thing to contain Nuclear reactor is actually the warded glass from Thaumcraft, problem is you can't cover the whole reactor since you need a way for some cables, so you're out of luck if you want to avoid any explosion damage, best idea is to build the reactor in a Mystcraft age dedicated to it with a chunkloader and get the power of it with Minecarts that travel from the Mystcraft age to the overworld using a portal from Mystcraft, I think you can have some MFSU carts in Railcraft, they can be configured to fill up in the Mystcraft age near your Nuclear Reactor and once they are full, they travel to the overworld and empty themselves into another MFSU, the same railcraft line can also supply the stuff to your reactor, I saw someone had a setup of this kind, I think it was un FTB Ultimate or Unleashed. it should be possible again...

I'm interested in the mystcraft age strategy. I'm thinking that instead of minecarts, wouldn't it be possible to just transfer energy over a tesseract link? If so that would be the best bet. I'm thinking about just doing the nuclear power, after all I'm losing energy in MJ and EU because of the mffs (modular force field system I believe) I'm setting up. Apparently it takes a massive amount if energy for it to work.


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[PierceSG]

Tesseract doesn't support EU, for EU you would probably need GT as if I'm not mistaken there's a Interdimensional Energy Storage Unit (IESU) which would suit your need?

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[MoosyDoosy]

Wouldn't the Transvector Interface work? I believe that there is some way to link the power and everything else like the dual cells, etc. through.

 

[PierceSG]

Wouldn't the Transvector Interface work? I believe that there is some way to link the power and everything else like the dual cells, etc. through.

Thaumcraft? Maybe, I don't have much experience with that.

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[Protocurity]

I'm not sure its possible to get the power from above, but if I understood how the nuclear explosions work in IC2, no matter where its going to explode, it will cause a major crater in the area of it, bedrock and warded glass can contain it, but if there's even the tiniest hole in the thing, I'm not sure what could happen...

I've experimented with this before, and it behaves much like how a standard nuke explodes: sends out a series of vectors in all directions that destroy blocks they hit. I used to use a tactic I called "nuke drilling", where I would surround a nuke with warded stone on every side but directly below, and set it to explode.

I think the large craters might be because, when the reactor explodes, the chambers send out their own individual vectors, which causes them to have a rather wide cone of force emanating from a single hole. Don't quote me on that, though.

 

[Loufmier]

Wouldn't the Transvector Interface work? I believe that there is some way to link the power and everything else like the dual cells, etc. through.

judging by description of it, it should allow fully encased reactor design.

 

[immibis]

If you have a hole in your reactor casing, the explosion can only go straight through the hole, approximately like this:

Black = explosion-proof wall
Red = area affected by explosion

So don't put anything behind the hole.

You could do this:

Blue = cable
Purple = cable affected by explosion

 

[DriftinFool]

Can you have the opening at the bottom of the enclosure and so when it blows, it will only take out blocks below it? And best if you could build near the bedrock so to cut down collateral damage when it does blow up.

Yes you can. Like the pictures in the post above mine, you can control the blast. It takes 2 layers of reinforced stone or glass to stop the explosion. Hardened glass from TE also requires 2 layers. Just make a zig zag baffle where your cables come out and it will contain the blast. I use wireless redstone to turn the reactors on and off so I only have the power cable going through the wall. I used a single wall of reinforced stone around mine with a hallway around it to make the 2nd layer. If you use the reactor plans off of the IC2 Exp page on their forums, you shouldn't have to worry about explosions. You can also use Nuclear control to shut down your reactor as a certain temperature so it is totally safe.