suggestion/discussion - Improvement(s) to nuclear reactor components/geothermal Generator

hello people,

it has been some time since i had an brain worm that needed to be send out into the forums, its due this one got out..

please note: this topic requires you to have an basic understanding of nuclear reactors. or else any post wil not be an adition to the subject at hand..
this includes an addition to the geothermal generators. (perhaps an upgrade craftable for upgrade slot)

wel, lets begin. i gues everybody knows nuclear fusion creates an vast amount of heat, this heat is tucked away into coolant cells / heat distributors (how i call them)
the big hastle for me, is that from all the heat we create, only an FRACTION gets used to actualy create energy. all that other heat we just tuck away and dont use, instead we let the reactor cool and so lose all that potential power.

so what i suggest as you might have guesed, is an addition to the Geothermal reactor. the ability to throw in an reactor component and let it cool in there while producing an small amount of energy. (maybe 1 EU/tick to 5 EU/tick)

why did i chose the geothermal reactor for this? wel obviously it uses HEAT from lava to generate its power. yes, it uses HEAT stored in lava. so why should it not be able to use the HEAT stored in reactor components to generate an small amount of power while cooling down the components greatly (im thinking of 1-5 minutes)

the time of power production would be as follows.
2000 heat, about 0 minutes of generation
4000 heat, about 2 minutes.
6000 heat, about 3 minutes.
8000 heat, about 4 minutes.
9999 heat (just bellow melting (HAYO!)) 4,5 minutes of power.

this way the damage value of the components would be used to generate power. its sorta like repairing them outside an reactor. by using their heat to generate an small amount of power.

note the 2000 heat components not having any generation time? that is becouse lava, has an heat value of 2000 heat, so in my opinion it should not be able to cool it any more then that.
also, any component thrown in wil NOT be destroyed, it would simply be cooled down..

now, to allow the geothermal generator to be able to cool down the components there should be an upgrade required, it would be with an recipe like this:

where are gold 2x insulated cables

these upgrades are not stackable since it has the heat disperser inside of it.
what do you guys think? is this OP of realistic enough to be actualy implemented. or imposible to code?

there has been some time into this, and my inspiration came from the aditional reactor components by rick - the steam turbine component.
wel, thats all, Fire away! il listen to ur arguments and try to understand why not to add it, FrenixR bring it on!

first edit:
the discusion so far compressed in an small explaination. like i understood it:
looks like the discusion is going to an new level. an iditional component. from what i understood this is my conclusion:

instead of taking the components out - then taking the heat.
we craft an ADITIONAL component which:
1-cools like coolant cells
2-cooling kicks in AFTER 2000 heat - what i understood was that they start generating at 2000 heat. so its only fair they start cooling after 2000 heat.
3-maybe, after each 2000 or X heat, their efficiency is increased by 1 EU/Tick making high risk reactors more worth while to build.
4-generates 2 EU/Tick at 2000 heat.

any other idea's?

god... i love an good discusion where people can put in their feedback about something. start with 1 and end with 2. an refined product of idea 1

Quote from FenixR

Realistic? Nope.

Afaik Real life Geothermal uses the steam generated when it pumps water into the earth crust to move a turbine to make the energy

I think its exactly the same from nuclear reactors, the make huge amounts of heat to heat water into steam to move big turbines to make energy.

correct, nuclear reactor superheats watter that is pumped into an turbine, inside the water instantly vaporises (becomes steam) and powers the turbine.

edit:
link read, conclusion:
not much to conclude this into, its all down to the fundamental basics of heat being transfered to water. making steam - powering turbine.
please enlighten me, why is this relevant to the subject?

correct, all fundamental basics of generating power is just this. BURN - HEAT - TURBINE - POWER
in this subject, the BURN - HEAT is already pre done by an nuclear gen.
now, in this subject the we i only wish to use TURBINE - POWER,

it is realistic, u must admit at least that. heat generated in medium X is transfered to medium X to generate power, thats the basic. and exactly what i suggested. i thought this over many times before posting.

also, read my edit on the second post.

edit: placing an geothermal inside an reactor is kinda yea... it doesnt fit i plan to ceep this realistic. not magicly.
second edit: im guesing u are warming up for the killing blow? come on, i dont have all evening, actualy i have... but theres no need to boaster that fact haha

Quote from FenixR

Killing blow? no need, this kinda crumbled on itself i just needed to give it a little "Help". You will live to post more Stupid ideas in the future.

crunbled on itself? come on haha, as staded in ur signature bad reasoning makes u an asshole, there is definetly some bad reasoning behind ur posts here. im not going on about that...
and you deciding me to live to post more idea's? hell, if ur ideas are that briliant u have an right to say that. wel enough of that.

im thinking that u cant say anything to rip the life of this suggestion, its valid. admit it, just waiting for some other folks to hear what they have to tell, and answer questions.

now to continue, why exactly do you think this is not posible or realistic? i explained into detail for you, burn something - get heat - get steam - get power. its exactly that, compressed to the verry basics of IC2

i do not see why not, why shoudnt it be added? i agree on myself that making more energy from uranium seems OP, but hey. its heat. un used heat. why not harvest it?

Quote from passinglurker

sorry i didn't read the whole thing but here is a thought how about a reactor component or chamber block that is used to turn cobble and stone into lava? kinda like a directed meltdown

please explain? didnt realy get that one.

the point of this suggestion is not to add an new block (optional thou) its just to use the heat we dont use yet.

looks like the discusion is going to an new level. an iditional component. from what i understood this is my conclusion:

instead of taking the components out - then taking the heat.
we craft an ADITIONAL component which:
1-cools like coolant cells
2-cooling kicks in AFTER 2000 heat - what i understood was that they start generating at 2000 heat. so its only fair they start cooling after 2000 heat.
3-maybe, after each 2000 or X heat, their efficiency is increased by 1 EU/Tick making high risk reactors more worth while to build.
4-generates 2 EU/Tick at 2000 heat.

any other idea's?

god... i love an good discusion where people can put in their feedback about something. start with 1 and end with 2. an refined product of idea 1

Quote from raa1337

QUICK, MAKE THE REACTOR MORE COMPLICATED SO MORE PEOPLE WILL USE IT!

You're trying to make 'Efficient' mean 'More Used'. That's not how it works. The same people will continue to use it and will benefit more, and the people who don't use it to begin with will continue not to use it, and have even more reason not to as it's more complex then before.

the people who dont use it are either afraid of using something that is explosive or dont want to use anything that requires management!

im not suggesting to make it more beneficial so others might start to use it, since this is an discusion anything posted will be replied upon, the way i see it. the picture just is not complete!

also, this "steam turbine" would actualy make it more stable. since they dont get destroyed.. (should be reasonable) by an exces heat. they just soack it up and convert it into power. making an higher tier of reactor which is more stable to use.

but, if you DO decide to rant on about this. ur rants will fall on deaf ears that wont listen, dont bother. i wont
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