The Perfect Minimal Reactor?

Somerled · Oct 12th 2011

The Goal: make a Mark I-O, 2.33 eff, negative heat reactor using only 2 chambers.

The Problem: Alblaka says that the reactor plating has -0.1 heat/tick, but also that it transfers heat immediately to adjacent components. The order that happens in is critical. If it dissipates the heat before transferring, then the design has a very small negative heat gain. If it transfers before dissipating, it's back to a heat neutral design. The javascript simulator seems to go with the latter. I guess I should just build the thing and test it.

Oh, and the simulator puts more heat on the right side components, even though it's a symmetric design. Maybe there's some nuance I'm missing?

Ideas and corrections are welcome.

Vendigroth · Oct 12th 2011

Very nice, very compact and it produces enough energy and lasts forever! although about the heating, maybe it follows some wierd pattern like the North-west thing for rails and redstone.

OCAdam · Oct 12th 2011

Wow... never really thought of using a bit of plating in place of where an HD would have normally gone. But that does improve the resource drain just a tad over the other design people like circulating!

dezuman · Oct 12th 2011

That's just the design I use, not counting that clever plate

But you know, It's not horrible to have a few heating points since you really can't run it all the time unless you constantly babysits it

FourFire · Oct 12th 2011

The optimal nuclear power plant would use large amounts if these instead of full chambered high powered reactors...
... hmm

dezuman · Oct 12th 2011

Depends. If you go for cost efficiency, this is beast. If you want uran efficiency, you might as well go for square setups.

FourFire · Oct 12th 2011

Im thinking of SMP
lots of spare uranium
and not that much spare other stuff
however with aqedate resources i would go one step up with your
http://test.vendaria.net/index…CCCUHCCHCCCCHCCHCCCHCCCHC

which seems to me to be the best reactor design yet (for me)

Somerled · Oct 12th 2011

Quote from dezuman

But you know, It's not horrible to have a few heating points since you really can't run it all the time unless you constantly babysits it

I know, needs more automation

I figure you could include a feeder system a la Kaso's glorious Nuclear Power Station. Except, instead of ice cubes, you'd feed in uranium cells. A few buildcraft pipes are no problem, and with EE (I know it's a little cheaty, but whatever) you can generate uranium and empty cells from matter generators pretty quickly. That just leaves periodically taking out any depleted cells. ~~Maybe a quick addon to buildcraft to selectively remove them ...~~ Maybe a custom uranium cell that always vanishes after use, heh.

By the way: http://test.vendaria.net/index…CCCUHCCHCCCCHCCHCCCHCCCHC. You beat me to it dammit. I thought maybe I could get a heat neutral 2.5 reactor with that same setup, but I guess that's pretty optimal. Kudos!

AkhkharuXul · Oct 13th 2011

Quote from Somerled

I figure you could include a feeder system a la Kaso's glorious Nuclear Power Station. Except, instead of ice cubes, you'd feed in uranium cells. A few buildcraft pipes are no problem, and with EE (I know it's a little cheaty, but whatever) you can generate uranium and empty cells from matter generators pretty quickly. That just leaves periodically taking out any depleted cells. ~~Maybe a quick addon to buildcraft to selectively remove them ...~~

First off, kudos to you for taking an extremely good design and making it better. Second, I'd already planned to do what this above quote details (But I wasn't sure how much energy it takes to create matter). Third, there's an add-on for buildcraft that can deal with the nearly-depleted uranium cells, Buildcraft Additional Pipes .

[I believe SpaceToad intends to add that functionality of the advanced wooded pipe to buildcraft... when he gets around to it.]

Somerled · Oct 13th 2011

That BC addon is BOSS. I could simplify so much with just one of those pipes.

The matter generators in Equivalent Exchange can easily be set up to be self-sustaining ... mostly. No energy requirements. You need RedPower for the engines and the EE addon for IC2 items.

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