lolzrofl's Mega Power Plant [Mark II-7-CASUC EA] [845 EU/t] [4.33 EFF] (UPDATED TO V2)

Quote from AkhkharuXul

Yeah insertion pipes (and RP tubes) don't work right with reactors because of its variable inventory those add-ons don't know when it's "full".

As far as filling up the chests with the overflow, I figure it doesn't really matter so you can just run stone pipes up to all the chests and eventually ice will get there (even though it'll choose the closer ones first) and it'll bypass any full chest and keep moving.

I have a system for filling up the chests with the overflow that I made.

All the overflow goes into several chains of distribution pipes that make sure that each of the 32 chests gets 1 ice in turn. That way no chest will have tons more ice than others, and it ensures that none will overflow, and they will have enough ice to go a full cycle because none of their ice is being wasted.

I've made a ton of additions, tweaks, and updated it to v2!

Whoops, I just realized that the 960 EU/t that I had said this was is incorrect.
In the simulator I forgot to put that there were only 5 reactor chambers.
I have it fixed now so that it says the correct amount of 845 EU/t.

Either way it is still better than anything out there xD

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1 huge flaw is that you have to babysit to make tons of ice. You would probably be making ice nonstop to keep up with the consumption (if that is enough).

Actually in a slightly updated version, you don't have to baby sit it

The ice in the system is enough to last 1 cycle in the fixed version.

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But you still have to make 1300 stacks of ice per cycle. Dunno about you but do you have the time to make 1300 stacks before cycle ends?

After each cycle, you replenish the ice using TMI. Just drop it into the refill tube, or go down to the ice room.

Unfortunately there is no fast completely automated way to make ice.

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Its a TMI only reactor or maybe with EE (but then it would be cheaper to make 2 of my bucket reactors).

The purpose of this reactor was to create a power source for the industrial empire I want to build. My plans are so ambitious that it would be impossible without TMI.

How can you say that this is EE? The reactor planner says EA.

Anyways, this reactor generates so much energy that I only really have to run it for one cycle to almost completely fill up my energy stores for it.
And I'm going to make 2 more of these below it, so that's even more insane amounts of energy!

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So its a reactor that can only be run with cheats.....Not usefull for ppl who play fair.

Its not meant for people who play fair

Its meant to show what can be created with this mod. Just look at that one reactor that got big on reddit several weeks ago.

Just consider the fact that it would take forever just to gather the resources to build the power plant.

Have you even downloaded the map?

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EE = equivalent exchange thats a mod. You can transmute 8 glass to 1 ice and you can make endless glass with it. Problem is due to the speed of such ice factories it need to be extremely big.

Oh sorry I thought you were referring to energy.

I will look into it and consider making an ice factory. How do you make endless glass with it?

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Conclusion: you are better off making a water bucket based nuclear reactor.

I was originally going to do this, but I don't want to install the world module of RP, which is required for the machine module.

And yes, my power plant is highly impractical save for the cool factor, but because I am building this industrial world just to see what I can create, how many resources it takes to build stuff is the least of my concerns. In that sense, this reactor is a great way (for me at least) to generate 169,000,000 EU

This whole factory system will basically be designed to manufacture most every item in the game. (Eg. a pickaxe factory on a giant scale).

If I can find a mod that adds a way to generate large amounts of ice, then I will use that instead of TMI.

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Now i didnt even started about the insane piping system you would need to distribute the stuff evenly

I already have that covered. I made a system that almost perfectly distributes ice to all of the chests.

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I hope you have a good pc.

I have that covered mate

--------------------PC Setup--------------------
- AMD Phenom X4 965 3.4GHz CPU
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 GPU
- G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB DDR3 RAM
- ASUS M5A97 Motherboard
- Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB HDD
- RAIDMAX HYBRID 630W PSU
- Thermaltake Armor A60 Case

Quote from ccrraazzyyman

I like reading about these reactors and all of the work that goes into them. Not this flame bullshit that I keep reading. Please don't do the 'mine is better than yours' 'nuh-uh! you're cheating' bs. I'm genuinely impressed by this reactor as my attempts at an ice powered machine have just ended up as craters. There is NOTHING wrong with using TMI to generate ice to test a concept, and then prove said concept. It's a game, no reason to try and 1-up each other in derogatory manners.

Thank you for that. I am just simply trying to show that this is an experiment for fun.

I am actually going to try and find a mod that allows for rapid ice generation...