What to do with BC power?

[PonyKuu]

OK, I have a way to produce a lot of BC power. Maybe not yet, but I'd come to it easily.

Guys, what do you spend this power for? I was reading about somepony who use four 36HP boilers and I'm just wondering - what is the usage? Ore processing doesn't take that much... Mining? I don't use neither the quarry or mining wells...

 

[Lambert2191]

put it all into redstone energy cells.

 

[Harvest88]

Power Converters!! Power your machines and Matter Fab on MJ!

 

[PonyKuu]

Power Converters!! Power your machines and Matter Fab on MJ!

Meh, I have my awesome steel turbine (and I don't have powerconverters, since I'm using DW20 modpack. But maybe I'll try Ultimate at some point)

put it all into redstone energy cells.

A-a-and then?

 

[whizzball1]

A-a-and then?

Nuff said. Make the redstone energy cells, that should use quite a bit of energy. Then fill them up with energy! Then you can show off your 1 billion filled RECs to your friends!

 

[snooder]

4 36HP boilers is 576 MJ/t. There are several things you can do with this much MJ.

Let's say you have 4 quarries running at 50MJ/t each. That's 200MJ right there (250 if you use energy tesseracts to transport the power)
Then you also have a full set of advanced bee machines. That's another 250MJ/t to charge.
Then you have an AE system pulling down 100MJ/t.
Then you have a laser array for your assembly table. Easily another 100-200MJ/t.
Then you have your farms; either multi-farms or old-school farms or MFR farms.
Last you have your processing system with pulverizers and powered furnaces. Most people like to have large arrays with multiple machine (let's say 10 of each) for quick processing.

And that doesn't even consider the use of boilers to create EUs.

Personally, I use about 200MJ/t in my system just idling, with spikes whenever I use bee machines.

edit: For the record, I have 10 36HP boilers at the moment and I'm planning to eventually have 40. I'm on Ultimate though, so part of it'll be used to make UU-matter. Also I'll probably just open up a "public power" tesseract so I can control the server through my utility monopoly.

 

[PonyKuu]

I see... Well, except for quarries, since I don't like to use those... AE i'm definitely gonna try out... Didn't know that you can run it by BC fuel

And also I use igneos extruder -> pulverizer -> induction smelter for ore processing instead of pulverizer -> powered furnace.
I know, that's weird, but I wanted to!

 

[Ako_the_Builder]

See how many lasers you can get around an assembly table, my 25 laser setup pulls 102mj/t (possibly more useful if using gregtech with alternate circuit recipes) and i could fit a lot more around it.

Get into bee genetics, purifier uses 100 mj/t and i think it can actually accept 2000mj/t and that's just one genetic machine.

If you used a quarry they can use (I think) 46mj/t each, if using energy tesseracts that means you need to feed 60mj per.

 

[KirinDave]

Extra Bees come to mind. They can actually use 100mj/t consistently.

But it's Minecraft. Eventually what you do with it is build something huge and absurd then reset your map. Prepare and pace yourself.

 

[plzent3r]

snooder, mind if I ask what you use to fuel 10 36HP boilers? Solid or liquid? I wanna set up a massive boiler facility, and you seem like you have setup that could work for me as well.

 

[snooder]

snooder, mind if I ask what you use to fuel 10 36HP boilers? Solid or liquid? I wanna set up a massive boiler facility, and you seem like you have setup that could work for me as well.

6 Distilled bees in alvearies with 8 frameholders each. I haven't run the calcs to figure out exactly how much fuel per bee I'm getting, but right now I have a 5x5x8 railcraft tank full of fuel and about 3000 buckets worth of oil locked away in oily propolis that I can't squeeze because the tank is full.

I have an AE system autocrafting frames and an RP2 tube system to put them in the alvearies. I could use AE export busses, but I was low on quartz when I set things up. I could also use routers, but my server banned wrath igniter use.

 

[plzent3r]

aahhh, bees. I've gone this route before, too much sitting around for the mutations IMO. Thanks fir the info anyways though.

 

[snooder]

aahhh, bees. I've gone this route before, too much sitting around for the mutations IMO. Thanks fir the info anyways though.

Hah, my bees mutate in about a second. I have an alveary with 8 frameholders and 2 mutators. The frameholders have chocolate frames in them and i put uranium ore in the mutators. Instant, guaranteed mutation. Extra bees makes the whole bee process so much more efficient and streamlined.

 

[KirinDave]

You can also make lava which means infinite copper, gold, silver and electrum via centrifuging. Build a golden palace!

 

[plzent3r]

Hah, my bees mutate in about a second. I have an alveary with 8 frameholders and 2 mutators. The frameholders have chocolate frames in them and i put uranium ore in the mutators. Instant, guaranteed mutation. Extra bees makes the whole bee process so much more efficient and streamlined.

But to get there... industrious and imperial for the alveary, correct?

 

[Poppycocks]

You can also make lava which means infinite copper, gold, silver and electrum via centrifuging. Build a golden palace!

Hm, Taj Mahal?

 

[Whovian]

Hm, Taj Mahal?

No, that's mostly marble. Some gold, though.

(It's also a mausoleum, not a palace, but I'm guessing that's irrelevant and you were using the two sort of interchangeably.)

Now, how about a chocolate palace? Oh wait, that's already been done and it didn't end well.

 

[snooder]

But to get there... industrious and imperial for the alveary, correct?

Yeah, but once you get a decent set of those, you are pretty much good to go. What I do is get a set of imperial bees as fast as I can (for serums). Then I get the advanced bee machines and inoculate all my bees with nocturnal from rocky bees and max fertility from wintry bees. That makes breeding go even faster and I get industrious bees. From there, it's pretty trivial to get alvearies.

The key to remember about bees is that more is always better. Don't just make one apiary, make 20.

 

[plzent3r]

alright thanks for the tip. Just getting started with them now.

 

[Chocorate]

Turn it into Factorization charge and triple your ores with 8 lines of factorization.

Edit: More like 16 lines, factorization's cheap. Only drawback that I can see is the time it takes, and the somewhat harder or space-consuming automation.