I think I'm pretty unique that I hate renewable power and run everything on fuel. If and when I run out of oil, I find some more. I have about 20 refineries running.
Nope, I tried it. Unfortunately, the setup draws more EU than it makes. I haven't tried it with a boiler however, I was burning the methane in gas turbines. The problem is the fishers draw so much juice, and you don't get very much methane at all from fish.MFR has this automated fishing machine.
fish --> centrifuge --> methane --> gas turbine or boiler --> ??? --> profit
Methane is actually even worse in a boiler.Nope, I tried it. Unfortunately, the setup draws more EU than it makes. I haven't tried it with a boiler however, I was burning the methane in gas turbines. The problem is the fishers draw so much juice, and you don't get very much methane at all from fish.
Nope, I tried it. Unfortunately, the setup draws more EU than it makes. I haven't tried it with a boiler however, I was burning the methane in gas turbines. The problem is the fishers draw so much juice, and you don't get very much methane at all from fish.
I just built an MFR tree farm for the first time, I'm kind of impressed. It competes with a big SC tree farm, and only takes up 3x3. Fertilizer is easy to come by, or you can set it to use bone meal in the config. It's running a fermenter feeding 18 biogas engines, a sawmill for the logs (haven't even set up anything to do with them yet), and a quarry. I'm thinking I might set up a fisher now, since I have plenty of extra mj still, and distill some of the biomass for some EU in biogenerators, to run the centrifuge. Even if it's a loss, I don't care, I can re-centrifuge the methane for carbon cells to make carbon fiber for solar panels, nano-suit, and advanced machine blocks. And still get some EU back from the hydrogen.You know that you can limit the EU/t on those things down pretty low and they don't run that much slower? Also, if you want to limit it even further power MFR machines with MJ. They have a max input of 10mj/t per side connected to a power network.
That said, anytime you run the centrifuge for power production you're probably only barely going to breakeven. Becuase, uhm, tree farms are so good. at producing power.
You know that you can limit the EU/t on those things down pretty low and they don't run that much slower?
I just built an MFR tree farm for the first time, I'm kind of impressed. It competes with a big SC tree farm, and only takes up 3x3. Fertilizer is easy to come by, or you can set it to use bone meal in the config. It's running a fermenter feeding 18 biogas engines, a sawmill for the logs (haven't even set up anything to do with them yet), and a quarry. I'm thinking I might set up a fisher now, since I have plenty of extra mj still, and distill some of the biomass for some EU in biogenerators, to run the centrifuge. Even if it's a loss, I don't care, I can re-centrifuge the methane for carbon cells to make carbon fiber for solar panels, nano-suit, and advanced machine blocks. And still get some EU back from the hydrogen.
36 Boilers??? WOW!!I'm using the version of MFR planter that allows range upgrades. I have two 11x11 MFR tree farms and it is powering 36 max size high pressure railcraft boilers with more than enough excess to expand if I want.
If you want methane, a rubber tree farm where you centrifuge the wood is a better option.
I'm surprised that two 11x11's can support that many boilers.
I don't know that my 9x9 could support anymore than say... 6-7~ of them. I'm not actually sure, actually. That's also not considering boilers running on the wood... hmm...
If you have a sufficient production of fertilizer, a 1x1 MFR treefarm can power 5 solid fueled boilers. Certainly more, its just that I only built 5. Thousands of extra wood every day.
The saplings, I don't use at all, so that's another few boilers.