Posts by SirusKing

Quote from Thutmose

idea looks good, but one thing to point out: Most RTGs irl use plutonium, and are extremely easy to shield the radiation from, as they mainly emit alpha radiation, which is mostly harmless if it is outside your body (skin blocks it). the same is true for uranium and thorium, as the gamma produced from their decay is minimal. The main reason why coal plants result in such a high effective background radiation (still less than average background) is that the uranium and thorium are dispersed into the air, where they can be breathed in, which is where alpha radiation becomes the most dangerous (maybe second most, after certain specific energies of neutron radiation)

edit: another thing to note: RTGs produce significantly less energy/mass of fuel over their life time than an induced fission system. This is due to the significantly greater change in size of nuclei for the fission over the decay method. Fission systems are also much more energy efficient for the stage after heat production, as they produce enough heat to use conventional steam systems, which are on the order of 30-40% efficient for thermal -> electric, whereas RTGs struggle to get much higher than 10% for thermal -> electric. The primary advantages of RTGs are small size and lack of moving parts, which allow them to be used in places which the larger, conventional plants cannot be used.

Which is where they come in for people who cant be bothered for the more expensive but much more producing Steam powered reactor.

I FOUND THE DIFFERENCE!!!!!
Gamma, Xray Alpha and beta are all forms of "Ionizing" Radiation. The rest arent.

Quote from MatLaPatate

I agreed with the rest, but ... WHAT ?
Alpha and Beta aren't EM, right, there are He-Nucleus and Electron-Positron. But, apart from Gamma and Microwaves ... waves used for radio are radiations. Light is radiation (I mean the one you can see). Unless I'm mistaking because of some english terms, Microwaves mean "lower frequency than Infra Reds" (and higher than some others, but we don't care), and Gamma is "Higher than X-ray" ... so there are still plenthy of radiations between [and I'm only talking of light]
Especially assuming that, according to Quantum Physic, every single body has a wave-function, which means everything is a radiation ... (even if we don't care for something like a human, a planet or a car, but that means Neutrons are radiations, even if you don't use to call these like that).

As for new machine, Molten Salt reactors could be (GT here ... ^^), but these wouldn't be as fun (as the only thing that act on their efficiency is the concentration of Thorium in).

Damn, got Microwaves and Xrays consumed. Although "Radiation" covers all forms of EM Waves in Physics, it doesnt in Chemistry. Definitions are pretty loose.
Yes Alpha particles are infact identicle to a Helium Nucleus, but with extremely high energy, hence why they are horrible for you. Still not as bad as Oxygen.
How the fuck do i know this stuff im only 14

Quote from Viper8797

Also, about the "coal radiation", you must account for the different types of radiation. Light and Infra reds are radiations themselves. and i rather be bombarded with those instead of Gamma waves...

Coal contains small amounts of both Uranium and thorium, and when coal Ash is burnt into fly ash, the Ur/Th is concentrated up to 10x as much. In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy. And anyway, Light and Infrared (Along with Ultraviolet) arent technically "Radiation", just different wavelengths of Electromagnetism. The 4 current forms of radiation only cover 2 EM Waves, Gamma and Microwaves, the other 2 are Alpha and Beta particles, which arent EM Waves.

Quote from SpwnX

The thing is that unmanned watermills, when in clusters generates so few EU.
Considering your "horizontal tower" style, each one generates 0,16 EU/t.

As i said, mainly for asthetics, but i replaced them with 4 Ocean wave generators, which make about 0.25eu/t and they still actually output.

When i use the Vajra, and Left click + Right click i crash with this:

Quote from Mars

I think the craft of gravitation suite is a little easier. Should replace the superconductors ( Gravitation Suite ) by the superconductors ( Gregtech) in all recipes. We can enable this option in the config file.

Pretty sure they are both in the same oreDict, not sure if Sentinel has his recipies as oreDict though.
And i would say Gravisuits conductors are easier, the only hard thing about Gregtechs hardened Iridum plates is the tnt needed.

Quote from Zudguard

Probably not an issue, but double check the wire length. even one block over 39 will stop those watermills from being able to transmit energy to your storage. You can also use tin wire for watermills to save your glass fibre. As I have been using.

Not sure why people think they are so bad. compared to solar panels 2 unmanned water mills (i.e. one generators worth) produces just about the same energy over a minecraft day. A little less if I remember my calculations, however factor in rain turning your solars off and it is pretty similar. Then looking at the resource costs watermills are a lot cheaper. So if you want to spend the time to set them up they aren't a bad deal. Especially when gregtech sucks up so much coal for other uses.

No, i was checking the cable directly next to the water mill, no power at all ever came out, but the Energy storage device gained about 1000eu randomly in an hour.

Quote from Viper8797

IMO, both reactors should have a radioactivity effect, not because realism, but because HAYO. (I'm portraying my nuclear power plant, with a HAZMAT suit on a armor stand next to a sign "ALL employees must wear HAZMAT gear prior to entering reactor room). Tough RITEG should have a bit more... larger area of effect and/or stronger effects.

I also think that any reactor you build will be conventional by defaul, attack a cable onto it, and it automatically becomes a RITEG.

This is my suggestion on radioactivity:

-You will get small effects if you are holding nuclear cells without a full hazmat gear, or quantum or nano armor. Like hunger, nausea e.t.c. Temporary effects.

-Get into a room with a reactor without a Hazmat or quantum armor and you will get moderate effects, like withering, no health regeneration, e.t.c, however, if you stay too long next to a reactor, the effect becomes permanent. How can you heal yourself? build a decontamination chamber, supply it with EU and right click. You will enter it and see a progress bar. Once its is done, tadaaa. You are good to go.

-Nuclear Explosions have a massive amount of radiation, killing everything in its radius in a short time. You have to be extra fast not to die, and you will likelly get permanent effects.

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I like the contamination thing actually, gives a good down side to the awesomeness of reactors.
Fun fact of the day: Conventional reactors, if handled properly, emit less radiation then Coal generators.
Yolo.

Quote from _Tim_

2 Quarries each powered by 2 fast electric engines from Transformers, dumping the non-essentials into 2 recyclers, each with 8 overclocker upgrades and a transformer upgrade. All this makes for a rather high volume of scrap!

The scrap is going via logistics pipes into an auto crafting table to make a scrap box and into my mass fabricator. 22 Stacks of UU-Matter and counting ..

Mass Fab? Not a matter fab? D:
Still, nice scrap setout. I tend to go for a Scraponator (20x Igneas extruders feeding cobble into super mega overclocked recycler, turning scrap into scrap boxes > New items)

Quote from Requia

Windmills are also ugly as sin.

You report it to the bugtracker yet?

I Would of thought it was reported already, but ok. I shall.

HV Cable supports 2048eu/t, and HV Transformers convert 2048eu/t into 4x 512eu/t, so stick 2 transformers directly to your Reactor.
EDIT: DAMN BEAT ME TO IT!!! I need to refresh more often

I set up around 128 Water mills, it got a few bits of energy into my AESU but after a few seconds stopped entirely. I measured the cable with the EU reader and although the AESU Gained 2000 EU, in about 5 hours the eu reader said "0 EU".

Quote from RawCode

current reactor is already radioisotope generator, there is good reason to suggest reactor improvements, not same machine with different name.

The Current reactor is a Conventional reactor but without steam. Replace the current one with a Conventional steam powered reactor, and if you want Pure EU use the RITEG, which doesnt make that much power (10 eu/t per Quad Uranium?) but lasts alot longer. Also has no risk of Exploding, but does emit Radiation, hurting all things nearby.

Quote from GregoriusT

You DO realise that thats supposed to be a struck Lightning Rod?

Lightning rod Saber >:D
Generates its own lightning with Teslacoils and nukes

Quote from karolk

Why would a RTG need a seperate block turbine? they are always compact and mostly used on rovers for use on other celestial bodies.
Yes, it does run with steam, but only with very tiny amounts of it.

We were talking about Conventional Reactors, not RITEGS. RITEGS/RTG's arent actually reactors, they just use the heat from Decaying radioactivity, so no Steam is created other then from Condensation from water vapour.

Quote from Sinnaj63

But we still gonna impale you as food for the allmighty Dragon Lord Moderator Albaka!

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:Iridium::Teleporter::Iridium:
:Teleporter::Nuke TNT::Teleporter:
:Iridium::Tesla Coil::Iridium:
My Saber is better then yours

Quote from Viper8797

I fully support multiblock structures and structures with high infrastructure cost. The most expensive part in a nuclear reactor plant is not the reactor itself, but all the structure and building needed to keep it going.

Maybe IC2 should add a steam turbine of its own, larger, but cheaper and weaker than railcraft ones, mainly for use in low power reactors or when you are low on steel. Tough the best, would be if Railcraft Turbines got cheaper and IC2 added a better and expensivier way to turn steam into EU also, visually cooler

Also, reactors need water input to be fully HAYO. And honestly, radioactivity needs to be buffed. Hunger, seriously? The calclavia modpack (Universal Eletricity) adds a radioactivity that triggers if you get too close to a reactor, you get withered.

This. And for the turbines, something you need to build that looks a little like the ones from Atomic science. Feed your reactor Water, then it emits actual steam from nearby, if your near you get radiation poisoning but if you are really close the Steam scalds you! Place the turbine ontop and the reactor in an enclosed area, steam goes up into turbine, eu produced

Quote from Sinnaj63

Watermills are the baddest Greengen anyway. Look at SpwnX´s Tutorial and build some Windtowers, they work and are efficent.

It was more of a theme thing for my gaint dam i made
Imma fill it with fish and Plesiosours. I might boost Watermills in the config if they are that weak.

Quote from SpwnX

His intention is to have environment contamined with radiation which is what i'm talking about being CPU intensive and hard/nearly impossible to code.

Ah, i see.