I'd like to report another exploit to create infinite iridium. There is this machine you can power by infinite power sources (sun, wind ... whatever) and boom it gives you this stuff to make iridium. In fact there is even another machine that you can throw anything in minecraft (cobble, sand or anything else you don't want) and it gives you this stinky stuff that makes the first machine make tons more stuff to make iridium. Total exploits.
Loving the sad troll attempt. Let's throw quantities out the window.
You need mid tier to unlock any form of solar on gregtech (I will only speak for hardmode as easymode goes against the point of the mod in itself), this means you need non-renewable power to unlock solar. Wind and water will never give you significant amounts of power in IC2, never enough to power a matter fabricator reasonably.
A solar panel (which requires a centrifuge/electrolyzer and industrial blast furnace to make) will make 1 eu/t during the non-raining day. The matter fabricator will use up 8192/tick - so ignoring packet loss you would need over 8000 solar panels to run it properly (and a few hundred to run it at all). It then takes 100000000 eu (also you clearly don't know how the matter fab works) along with a constant supply of scrap. If there is no scrap the machine will stop producing UU-Matter. The scrap is easy to get granted, but the energy is not.
You are looking at 700000000 EU per iridium, or 2800000000 EU per iridium plate (the thing you will be using). Some crafts will be using upwards of 50 plates, whereas some will only take 1-2. Regardless the EU required is insane compared to the cost of the energy. Not even a fusion reactor can make enough for a decent amount of iridium within minutes, and that thing costs more iridium than I imagine most non-gregtech users will ever make to craft.
But please, explain how a machine that can run off something like 0.1MJ for a few seconds to create iridium in minutes, in an amoeba-like multiplicative fashion, is comparable to matter fabrication.
