Ten to one, you applied the usage ratio on the wrong side. Some mods may make extra thorium available from automated mining via new ores, (its available in massive quantities from mining by hand as well).
And yeah, extra thorium is useful, I'm finding thorium reactors make for excellent portable installations if you don't have some sort of magic ability to summon endermen to get eyes.
I teleported a bunch of villagers, and when I got back to base, none of them were there. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong or I need to fill out a bugtracker form.
Teleporter setup Target: just the teleporter, nothing else. Source, button, MFSU, and teleporter, manually triggered after i shoved the villagers on. Target chunk would have been unloaded.
CRCS stuff is also so complicated it demands its own thread, which has been handled very well anyway.
Look at the CRCS system thread then, with helium coolant cells you can avoid most of the copper cost.
Interesting.
They show up in NEi and the crafting table, but I can't actually remove them from the crafting table.
Here's a cheaper cooling system on the BrickedKeyboard uranium arrangement.
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/v3/reactorplan…kwkhjrbvz9507pc
The centrifuge should have tipped me off 
This is my zero copper deign, gets 230 EU/t
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/v3/reactorplan…rtsv4eaje4cem80
This is my thorium/plutonium design, takes 40 copper (5 as of 2.79a).
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/v3/reactorplan…zo6mugza2jj22gw
Its not terribly fuel efficient though, a ton of thorium gets wasted.
Now, as of 2.79a thorium multicells take copper ingots instead of plates, so if you've updated Gregtech, this design (from BrickedKeyboard) will cost just 25 copper and gives 367 EU/t. The fuel use is matched perfectly to the output of centrifuging re-enriched uranium.
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/v3/reactorplan…63bvlromd9i28zk
What on earth are you doing that takes 5000 EU/t?
With or without gregtech?
I can't seem to turn thermal expansion recipes off (gregtech recipes also work).
Greg made a dedicated thread for gregtech rectors.
Here's the problem : for 1 every unit of thorium you burn, you end up with THREE excess unburned units of thorium. This is terrible for efficiency : you'd need to create a whole bunch of thorium reactors for every one of these in order to burn up all of that thorium. (since you started you wanted to avoid consuming copper)
Or, more realistically, you won't bother and that thorium will pile up in chests.
Point is, unburned fuel is inefficient, even if you get great numbers for the fuel you did burn.
And having to create tons of extra reactors and reactor parts is also inefficient, since that's usually the limiting factor, not fuel availability.
My unoptimized design is better, because instead of making 2 reactors with two different designs : one to burn the excess thorium and one to burn the plutonium + thorium, you build 2 reactors of that same design that each give 367 EU/tick. (versus getting 416 for one and maybe 100 for the other)
Copper has always been my limiting factor, and 5 quad cells costs more copper than a single chamber reactor reactor complete with cooling.
Though, the price drop in copper cost for thorium cells you mentioned is a freaking huge deal, so I'll probably be jumping on your earlier fuel config once I update gregtech.
Ok, something I'll probably actually build. This is not nearly as efficient as BrickedKeyboard's designs in terms of uranium ore (takes twice as much plutonium), but uses 1/5th the copper and still manages 324 EU/t.
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/v3/reactorplan…zo6mugza2jj22gw
I can probably throw the excess thorium into an LV reactor for an extra boost.
Works for creating high efficiency plutonium as well: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/v3/reactorplan…suv22k712hbjeo0
416 EU/t, 4 plutonium and 4 quad thorium.
Some actual production designs off of this concept tomorrow I think.
Edit: Damn, other people ahve hit the concept.
I'm not sure where you're getting 5:1 from though Bricked. Thorium and plutonium come out at 4:1 in the centrifuge (re-enriched as the source), you can get craplaods of thorium and a little bit of plutonium from mining by hand of course, but rock cutting a stack of coal is not worth my time by the point this is relevant. After you figure in the difference between how long they last you want 10 thorium in the reactor for every plutonium, which is *exactly* what you have.
(Jesus, if I did all the math right that's the equivalent of 367 EU/t for 5 uranium and 40 copper)
I realized something.
You can use thorium as reflectors of sorts.
proof of concept: 325 EU/t, 4 quad thorium cells, 5 uranium cells.
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/v3/reactorplan…t8k760oajwpv11c
Did not test in computer cube.
This is pretty perfect at what it does. Second one works because component exchangers handle 36 per pulse, not 24.
I'm not so sure that what it does is useful though. I'd have to run 13 of my 12 cell design to use it all!
While that's mostly true, I've seen a few good things, and the last time he updated it was November.
Rick has stated, twice, that he will no longer be maintaining the reactor design sticky, and that somebody else needs to take over.
There' has been zero discussion on this in the thread, I don't believe many people saw his posts. I am willing to take over, but I will understand if others feel that someone else should, in which case we need a different volunteer.
1. be an order of magnitude larger without increasing the slots, to account for shielding.
Minimum size safe shield is a 7x7 casing of reinforced stone...
3. the recipies sould be waaay more expensive
I've built reactors that cost over 2000 copper. Not including shielding (see above).
Use GregTechadvanced pump instead
It is even able to extract liquids without causing block updates preventing flowing water/lava!
This is totally not a GregTech Intergalactical advertisement.
I cannot find this advanced pump you speak of.
I'm just thinking, from now on all ludicrously impractical designs based on the fact the planner will always tell you an LZH completes the cycle should use plutonium instead of uranium. It's never gonna be built anyway after all.
