This design was made in 1.5.2 before the IC2-EX branch was made
This design no longer works. Use at your own risk, no support will be provided.
This design no longer works. Use at your own risk, no support will be provided.
Okay, so we remember my Tower of Power which has lots of little reactors that can produce a lot of power in a relatively compact footprint. But what if you aren't satisfied with that? What if you have HAYOish dreams of banks of Matter Fabricators, all of them demanding extreme power? What if you dream of combining high efficiency with rediculous EU/t output, and to Herobrine with the cost?
I had that dream. This, my friends, is the result.
You will notice a lot of ME Network devices. These are courtesy of Applied Energistics v12b, which is available for both MC 1.5.2 and for 1.6.2. Fuzzy import buses and Fuzzy export buses. Because you can now tell them what percentage of health they can apply to. Meaning you can automatically pull out cooling cells when they hit 25% or below, you can insert cells which are greater than 99% full, you can even automatically pull out depleted cells automatically!
The beast in the center uses this design:
Design of cooling tower by Someone Else 37.
Each one of those reactors can cool two cells down in 500 seconds. So, we need four per cycle, and we need two cycles because each micro-cycle is 250 seconds, so that's a total of eight cooling towers.
What is happening here is the cells are removed from the primary reactor when they hit below 25%, and then go into the cooling towers, where all the Vents and Exchangers suck the heat out of them and vent it properly. Fully cooled cells automatically fill in the empty slots as they become available, generally on the same tick. However, in the event the reactor ticks before the fresh cooling cell can get inserted, you have some OC vents willing and able to deal with it.
But I wanted more... so I came up with this:
Right, so we cut the Double Stacker reactor in half, and we end up with this one-chamber wonder:
Note the gap in the middle? Yea, you're going to have to do something there to scale things. Either have each block around it an MV Transformer or something so all those glass fibre cables don't stack up quite so readily. I mean, you're looking at a good 20 or so fibre cable per segment. You're also looking at a gap between segments, so they won't connect vertically.
Of course, with great power comes great cost. None of these setups are cheap, the HV Transformers are expensive by themselves, and so many nuclear reactors and chambers won't be cheap either.
However, you are looking at Efficiency 5 reactors with a truly enormous EU output, vertically scalable.
I had a dream, and now my dream is fulfilled.
The only fly in the ointment is automatically refilling of nuclear materials. It will try to flood it with cooling cells rather than nuclear material, unfortunately. So once every couple of hours, you will need to refill the nuclear material. However, it will at least automatically pull all of the depleted cells out for you. Meaning you can hook up a breeder reactor on the other side of the ME Network.
My friends, I have only one thing to say: Mission Accomplished.
Oh, as a minor note... this is an IC2 build which translates very easily over to GregTech. In fact, it is easier in GregTech because you don't need as many Dense Copper Plates for the quad uranium cells. You can also likely modify this build to use Plutonium instead of Uranium as well, although you'll need more Cooling Towers to offset the additional heat generation.
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