problem with ice is that its hard to make in the quantities needed and reactors using ice as cooling arent usable in survival ssp/smp. However a bucket based cooling system doesnt have that huge disadvantage.
reactors using ice as cooling arent usable in survival ssp/smp.
Why do you say that? You make the ice in a compressor, you drop it in the reactor, it melts and provides cooling. Am I missing something?
Not at high-end CASUC speeds. You need to produce Ice at a rate exceeding 7 blocks / second for a high power CASUC reactor, and that's a wee bit hard to do in survival using a compressor. The entire process also consumes tin at frightening rates.
Why do you say that? You make the ice in a compressor, you drop it in the reactor, it melts and provides cooling. Am I missing something?
Last CASUC reactor i seen using ice needed ~1300 stacks of ice per cycle. In order to provide the ice fast enough you would need like 128 compresors. These compresors would suck up so much energy that both ice based and water bucket based would produce roughly same eu/tick on average. Not to mention the snow and tin needed to make the ice. Thus ice based CASUC reactors are only usable with the help of TMI or creative mode.
Dunno if there's a route with EE, but I know for a fact that it's highly impractical and extremely resource intensive to make an ice factory with any combination of IC2, BC2 and RP2.
Dunno if there's a route with EE, but I know for a fact that it's highly impractical and extremely resource intensive to make an ice factory with any combination of IC2, BC2 and RP2.
Of course there is, EE is just silly, it's like cobble -> dirt -> sand -> glass (though that might take a furnace) -> ice
Or you can go Obsidian -> lapis -> ice
1 Obsidian = 8 ice so... you'd need 163 stacks of obsidian to make the ~1300 stacks of ice / cycle required.
You can figure out how many obsidian aggregators that would need 
Or it would be 2 cobble -> 1 ice (but it requires cooking 8 sand into glass) so 2600 stacks of cobble and 10400 furnace operations for 1300 stacks of ice.
[Ed: then again it was a while ago that I even looked at EE stuff, so it might have changed, never actually used the mod myself]
alright then it sound like i have a challenge on my hands... can do infinite lava spring w/ red power and EE to make obsidian generator... alright time to get to work 
Ok so here's what iv'e come up w/ so far for Ice generation idk exactly how long 1 cycle for nuclear reactor is and if some one can tell me ill tweak the system so that it enough ice.. little info before i show is it only using 2 obsidian generators to make the ice(as of now tweaking may be needed after more info). and the obvious EE conversion to make it into Ice. for a 5 min test it fill 3 1/2 double vanilla chest so 54 x 3.5 = 189 stacks of ice in 5min.. so w/o any further interruptions heres what it looks like.
Uranium cells will last for 10,000 reactor ticks (10,000 seconds or just under 2hr 47m)
Thank you speed for the info... so if my math is correct in 1 hour u should have 2,268 stacks of ice... more then enough for the 1300 requirement to do a mk5 casuc reactor.. and hell of a lot smaller then some of the water bucket designs ive been running across... next phase ill test it personaly 
... and hell of a lot smaller then some of the water bucket designs ive been running across... next phase ill test it personaly
Really? The water bucket-cooled reactor and breeder that I built were pretty small... Heck, the breeder is really only a 4-chamber reactor, 3 filters, and a deployer, with some redstone and tubes to tie it all together.
Without containment chamber a bucket CASUC reactor is really really small. We only need 2 bucket fillers to achieve 2500 cooling per tick.
Where do you get all the redstone needed to make obsidian btw?
is EE out for smp? Could make a nice reactor with that.
i dont think it is cause he was waiting for notch to stop releasing so many Pre-patches so he didn't have to updated the mod so much... but i just got the reactor running.. gonna do a 3 cycle test so far it its over producing ice for 1 reactor it probably enough to support 2 reactors and a breeder(testing at later point, so plan on building a breeder, i still haven't got the max amount of Eu coming out of it atm cause im producing 845 Eu from the reactor but w/ the Hv transformer im only using 1 output on it so im getting a fluctuation of 400-512 Eu readings i plan on fixing this soon i just want to see if it will run a few cycles w/o exploding... so tired from all this 
EE now has a consdenser, to which a Redpower cobble gen could be linked to.25000 EMC is worth the reduced effort. 
Dunno if there's a route with EE, but I know for a fact that it's highly impractical and extremely resource intensive to make an ice factory with any combination of IC2, BC2 and RP2.
Only for a CASUC design. I've got a pretty good setup going on my SSP world it can all be fit into two chunks 1 if you use the vertical direction however he does want to use a CASUC design. ask that mjinboogje guy he might know.
