Would you build this?
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Roughly the same as a buttload (63 gallons/238 Liters).How much, exactly, is a gog?
As much as a gigabyte stored in the Matrix, forced into an ME drive, run on 1000 monkeys typing on 1000 typewriters for 1000 years at lightspeed to produce a gigabyte pf RAMHow much, exactly, is a gog?
In real-life terms, or game terms? In real life, magnetite is, as its name suggests, rather strongly magnetic. Your typical deposit of iron is not.
Magnetite (also known as lodestone) is a natural permanent magnet.
I mean what stuff and things did you use from ReactorCraft did you use? Like what machines
Reika is the mod dev for reactorcraft as well as rotarycraft and a few other mods in the FTB packs. In other words he is the one the coded/designed that beautiful beast of a machine. As for how to build it see the video linked above.
I decided to build a test reactor in creative before finishing the survival one I've been working on for a few days to work out some of the details such as exactly how much water needs to be supplied, fuel consumption rate, whether generating tritium in the reactor itself is economical without needing a separate breeder, exact power requirements for some of the components and so forth. My problem is, I can't seem to work out keeping the neutron absorbers sufficiently cool.
Ignore the loose plasma in that screenshot, the central solenoid magnet's turned off because letting the 150,000,000 degree plasma go flying about is less destructive than neutrons melting things while I'm trying to troubleshoot. Go figure.
As per the tutorial video, I've got a circle of neutron absorbers in contact with steam boilers supplied with water from 13 infinite reservoirs via Rotarycraft fluid pipes, with steam lines on top. I've also tried supplying water with AE/ExtraCells export buses, TE fluiducts and Extra Utilities transfer pipes, along with the crude pump setup in the background. Regardless of how much water I supply, turning the reactor on causes several neutron absorbers to melt within a few seconds of fusion beginning to occur. Of note is that the other three quadrants are blocked off with steel to keep them from melting, so the 13 reservoirs are only supplying the 24 boilers in the above screenshot and not all 96.
So, exactly what am I doing wrong here? Did fusion reactors start requiring ammonia/salt/CO2 heat heat exchanging equipment while I wasn't looking, or did steam lines lose their infinite capacity or something?
As per the tutorial video, I've got a circle of neutron absorbers in contact with steam boilers supplied with water from 13 infinite reservoirs via Rotarycraft fluid pipes, with steam lines on top. I've also tried supplying water with AE/ExtraCells export buses, TE fluiducts and Extra Utilities transfer pipes, along with the crude pump setup in the background. Regardless of how much water I supply, turning the reactor on causes several neutron absorbers to melt within a few seconds of fusion beginning to occur. Of note is that the other three quadrants are blocked off with steel to keep them from melting, so the 13 reservoirs are only supplying the 24 boilers in the above screenshot and not all 96.
So, exactly what am I doing wrong here? Did fusion reactors start requiring ammonia/salt/CO2 heat heat exchanging equipment while I wasn't looking, or did steam lines lose their infinite capacity or something?
At it's most basic, electricity is produced by moving magnets around ferrous metals (like iron). The magnets pull all the electrons in the iron into lines which is the actual production part, this only happens once though. To produce an actual current the iron and magnet must have motion.. like rotational motion.. like the magnetizer in game, the lines you see on the shaft itself are actually critical; they let the electrons "loose" to go back to chaos (by being little non-ferrous borders) only to be snapped back into line as the shaft continues rotating and crosses the magnet again and again..... the electrons constantly shifting from order to chaos is how electricity is produced
Also, de-magnetization is absolutely a real thing. In school I had to learn quite a bit about "residual magnetism" and it's peculiarities. Residual magnetism btw, is the aircraft mechanics equivalent to car mechanics telling people to top off their blinker fluid, or getting the winter air out of their tires It's one of the things you throw out to shutup an annoying owner because it sounds mystical but it's easy to re-magnetize
It's one of the things you throw out to shutup an annoying owner because it sounds mystical but it's easy to re-magnetize I see what you did there.Also, de-magnetization is absolutely a real thing. In school I had to learn quite a bit about "residual magnetism" and it's peculiarities. Residual magnetism btw, is the aircraft mechanics equivalent to car mechanics telling people to top off their blinker fluid, or getting the winter air out of their tires
You just need more water. A lot more.
Except "flashing the field", as it is called, in self-excited generators, is a real process taken if some idiot either provides backwards current, drops the unit on the floor, or heats it to 400C.Also, de-magnetization is absolutely a real thing. In school I had to learn quite a bit about "residual magnetism" and it's peculiarities. Residual magnetism btw, is the aircraft mechanics equivalent to car mechanics telling people to top off their blinker fluid, or getting the winter air out of their tires
Could you give a rough idea of what it takes to supply enough water? For instance, how many of them can a single pump keep up with?
That really doesn't seem to be it. Here I've got something like 250 infinite water reservoirs supplying the same setup - that's more than 10 per boiler - with exactly the same end result.
At least the boilers themselves aren't quick to go, I only ever had one of those explode once (taking the entire pipe network with it, that was irritating to clean up).
If the boilers are, in fact, using this much water... I'm really not sure how to run one of these, like, ever. Even in creative. Reservoirs and liquid pipes seem to be able to move several buckets per tick if there's ample draw, and with over 250 of them? I can't think of any non-server-killingy way to supply anywhere near even that much water, especially without infinite sources like magic reservoirs.