For the same amount of energy you'd need for example: 8 towers, 13 layers each, fibre cable inside them, spaced 6 blocks between cables and built from the top of the world. It's just a question if you prefer large, flat solar arrays or tall windmill towers 
Posts by Dombas
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After some calculations:
In a wind-tower with 32 layers or less, every windmill (by average) makes more energy per iron used than a solar.
(I counted 10 iron for a windmill and 6 iron for a solar)
1 layer - 1.525 times more
2 layers - 1.462
4 layers - 1.35
8 layers - 1.228
16 layers - 1.13
32 layers - 1.005If it's more than 95 layers high (more like deep), the total energy produced decreases with every additional layer.
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Very nice windmill setup, suddenly they seem like a worthy opponent to solars :]
In actual usage, you'd need to either use fibre cable or batboxes (then the number of layers is limited by the 32 EU/s output of the batbox) or LV-transformers between every
34 layers (max output 128 EU/s) or tin cable once it's fixed. -
You could also use a LV-transformer if you want an even cheaper way. Just point the three-dot side to the source.
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It costs 64 coal dust, 9 flint and one brick, obsidian or iron block to create an industrial diamond. The EU's required for macerating and compressing all the stuff is: 46250, which if powered by a generator takes 12 coal.
[...]Isn't it 8 flint?
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Rotating machines would be intersting, although honestly I've never needed to rotate them.
I think there is a misunderstanding. When I said "machines*" I meant
*(transformers, storage or anything else that can be rotated)
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Description:
Left-clicking a machine* with a wrench would make it face** away from the player. This would make setting up chains of those machines without cable between them easier.*(transformers, storage or anything else that can be rotated)
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http://forum.industrial-craft.…?page=Thread&threadID=495
Look in this thread. Every solar needs to be connected to the mfe by cable. -
Could you show how you wired the solar panels? From the picture it would seem only one feeds the MFE.
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How many solar panels are feeding those MFEs? Maybe they didn't charge up enough (to 128 EU) in a short time.
Double check the output faces. -
The miner can't drill through non-block items like torches/redstone torches/switches/redstone wire/buttons
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Machine powering redstone when a adjacent BB/MFE/MFS reaches 70% capacity.
Similar to how electrolyzer works. It would allow, for example, to send only excess power to a mass fabricator by powering a transformer with redstone.An alternative:
Instead of redstone power, the Machine could simply send EU. That way the storage unit would essentially always send power through one cable and if over a certain capacity, also through the cable connected to the Machine. -
You could use a transformer (connect it correctly and then trigger it with redstone to cut off the power).
Would be nice if the cables were movable by pistons
