define decent output
the problem is how fast your gonna go through ice with that much heat.
With all that uranium your generating tons of heat, once the reactor hits 200 heat in the hull its gonna start popping ice blocks.
The ice block that gets popped wont reset the hull heat back down to 0, it doesn't work that way. Its going to absorb enough heat to keep the hull around 200-300 untill the last block melts, then your back to generating massive heat. 4 stacks of ice in your design will give you a reactor that will last about 5 minutes longer than it would previously, but still nowhere near a full cycle
edit: someone else explained this way better than me, let me see if I can find the post.
edit2:
I could not find it but it goes something like this, all the HD;s and coolants in the system are gonna be close to the same heat the hull is. The ice is absorbing heat from all of those, cooling them and the hull down. So you have to divide that 200 cooling the ice gives by the number of components and then add 1 for the reactor hull itself. therefor what is happening is your hull and components are reaching 200 heat and the ice is melting and giving cooling divided by the amount of components. Since your reactor is generating so much heat, blocks will melt by the second to keep everything around 200.
The only thing I could see ice useful for would be the minimize cooldown times on high heat high eu/t reactors or to turn a lowish heat mark 3 into a (barely) mark 2.
That being said, ice is irritating to make without using TMI or having some crazy BC+EE factory set up(which would change the game on reactors anyway) Using a stack to extend my meltdown a few extra minutes isn't worth it currently.
It might be usefull to generate more eu over a longer period of time if we used ice to shorten cooldown times on mark 2's, or even get us higher efficiency by turning mark 3's into safer mark 2-suc reactors.
Ice might have practical uses, I hate making it, so im not an expert on ice cooled reactors at all.
Display MoreThe only thing I could see ice useful for would be the minimize cooldown times on high heat high eu/t reactors or to turn a lowish heat mark 3 into a (barely) mark 2.
That being said, ice is irritating to make without using TMI or having some crazy BC+EE factory set up(which would change the game on reactors anyway) Using a stack to extend my meltdown a few extra minutes isn't worth it currently.
It might be usefull to generate more eu over a longer period of time if we used ice to shorten cooldown times on mark 2's, or even get us higher efficiency by turning mark 3's into safer mark 2-suc reactors.
Ice might have practical uses, I hate making it, so im not an expert on ice cooled reactors at all.
Don't need EE to make Ice, you do need BC to automate the whole thing though.
Anyway, water cell -> snowball -> ice via 3 trips to the compressor.
you can automatically fill the buckets with water with BC and the Bucket Filler addon. (optionally the advanced wooden pipe from the BC additional pipes will make the bucket thing *much* easier)
Obviously for speed you'll want the IC2 singularity compressor addon.
let me rephrase that.
Ice is irritating to make without additional mods.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/408/20111018233440.png
This is a floor of my ice factory i have six of them and they produce about 1 stack of ice every 10 mins. The workings are basically Sand>IC>Glass>EE>More Sand>IC>Glass>EE>Ice
Would that be sufficient enough to work a reactor like that
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/408/20111018233440.png
This is a floor of my ice factory i have six of them and they produce about 1 stack of ice every 10 mins. The workings are basically Sand>IC>Glass>EE>More Sand>IC>Glass>EE>Ice
Would that be sufficient enough to work a reactor like that
I make it out to be you would need to provide 6 full stacks of Ice to that thing every 25.6 Min to keep it from redecorating the local landscape.... best make it every 25 min to give you a buffer zone. so tripple your factory and you should be able to run it through a cycle non stop.
more floors ftw then
Display MoreFor example something like this:
http://test.vendaria.net/index…XHCUUUCCHCXCHCCHCHCHCCHCX
That runs to about 1520 ticks and then the entire reactor vaporizes,
With 6 full stacks of Ice in the holes will it run a full cycle without burning up components or exploding? By my understanding thats 76800 worth of cooling that will be provided by those 6 stacks of Ice, is it enough, or is it too much ice and I could make due with less?
Tonight I am going to get 2 personal safes full of Ice stacks, and fill my inventory with Ice, then see how many I need to use up to run this beast through a set of Uranium.
If I run out of Ice its a mad dash to get out of the blast zone and hopefully I will make it to the kill switch in time.
I made a pretty similar reactor but with water buckets. Pumping out a massive 590 eu/tick (just put a transformer and you can use glassfiber or use less uranium). It runs for like >5 hours now with no problems. Link:
http://forum.industrial-craft.…page=Thread&threadID=2071
fully automated 795eu/t that relies on ice and EE cheese. it's fully integrated into his pipe system though.
Final test results:
http://test.vendaria.net/index…XHCUUUPCHCXHCCCHCCHHCCHCC
194 Full stacks of Ice to run through complete cycle.
Average 1.25 blocks melted per reactor tick (second)
Conducted 3 seperate stress tests on design with no ice for 100 , 200 and 300 Reactor ticks.
100 Tick stress test: Reactor recovered quickly and became stable after 5 min, max consumption of Ice blocks when reintroduced was 2 per Tick.
200 Tick Stress test: Reactor took quite a bit longer to stabalize, 15 min to recover fully, consumed 3 Ice per tick for a short time, then 2 on average over the next 5 min.
300 Tick Stress test: Reactor consumed 4 or 3 Ice per tick for 5 Min, then moved to average 2 per tick for aprox 10 min a full half hour to restabalize.
And was left with 4 Nearly Depleted uranium cells at the end 
