Posts by MatLaPatate

Quote from Thutmose

Suggestion: "Uranium from water"

Based on something that was mentioned in the original GT thread, I decided to bring back up this idea.

I worked out, that to sustain a RL nuclear plant, requires only about 3.2*107m3 of sea water per second.

Converting to minecrafts gross underestimates of stuff, I would say this makes a stack of water per second sound ok.

Two ways to go about implementing this:

The first way is to add a machine that has water piped into it, and requires that a constant amount of water be supplied to it (3200mB/t would conform to the above suggestion).
While it is getting water at the above rate, the progress bar slowly fills, and after the time that a uranium cell lasts, It produces a uranium ore (the real systems produce yellow cake from sea water)

The second way is to add a machine (preferably multi-block giant thing) that you place in an ocean, and provided that there is a large enough amount of contiguous water, It will slowly generate uranium ore, in the same way as the above, but without consuming water. Then have a restriction of too many of these in one place, will slow down the other's production.

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I guess it'd be quite OP ... and, even if it's theoretically feasible, we'd before exctract sodium for water, don't you think ?

Quote from Requia

There's a ton of precise damage value options, the problem is if the cell misses that precise damage value it *never* gets removed, and overheats instead.

Why not using RP/GT timers ? Reactors are predictible, you know ?

Quote from SirusKing

And that where you are unfortunately wrong. It is feasible to directly convert energetic alpha particle into electricity, by slamming it to the reactor wall charged with +1.5 million volts, and it will generate electricity... Although it will generate a lot of heat .The direct conversion process is about 70%, so a 100 MW fusion output reactor would generate 70 MW electrical and 30 MW heat!!, although it will be more efficient than to convert alpha particle to heat that used to drive a steam turbine, as steam turbine efficiency is about 37%, so the same 100 fusion output reactor would generate 37 MW electrical and 63 MW heat!!!!!!! And that is a lot of waste heat that should go somewhere! Fortunately, that same 30 MW waste heat from direct conversion could be used to drive a steam turbine, so the same 100 MW fusion output reactor could generate 70 MW electrical, and that 30 MW heat is used to drive that same 37% efficient turbine can generate 11.1 MW electrical and 18.9 MW heat, which is more manageable.

Could you please add a link to "prove" that ? Because I assume harnessing ionized particles on a wall ... is quite hard lol. It'd also be the quicker way to turn your wall into radioactive waste

Quote from SirusKing

Your Factory should produce Single use Chainsaws, Ran out of power? Throw it away and grab another

Could you please, explain this statement ? I mean, maybe it'd be clearer with some " " " and ... could you explain us how it's related with that thread ?

I know I already suggested part of that but ... as you're planning to add a Coal Generator, I thought you could also add a Coke Oven-like (or an almost-Coke Oven-like).
So I'm suggesting a few things:


1) Remove the Coal Ore to Thorium Dust using the I. Grinder and put instead a recipe producing Unrefined Coal Dust [2] (which is kind of a cokable Coal Dust), Radioactive Dust [1/4].


2) Assuming the Coal Ore is in fact Bituminous Coal Ore (which explain the Coke Oven), make a machine that makes Coal Coke (Dust, because it's from Unrefined Coal Dust) and Firedamp instead of Creosote Oil. That Coal Coke Dust would be Coal Coke, but with maybe recipie to get some IC²(-like, or the current one if you don't wanna implement one ^^)-Coal Fuel. So for those that don't want to use Creoste Oil for Rails, they could use this machine to get a bit more of energy (because firedamp is Methane/CO/Idon'trememberwhatelse,butIguessmostlyMethane,so...yesyoucoulddirectlyaddMethanetotheByproduct,butthat'dbetoomuchenergyIthink [and yes, I'm freakking annoying because I didn't put any space "for fun" ^^]. I think a +15 000 EU/Coal Ore [Edited, since I realized grinding the coal would also consume a lots of EU: maybe you can just assume this is a Methane Cell, so no need to make another Gas + even more energy ] could be nice (-1000 for the energy consumption of the machine), since it'd be a non-renewable energy, and since Coal is, too bad, not very used as an energy source.


3) Add Anthracite a Nether-Ore. It'd be an Ore giving 1 Anthracite Chunk while mined, and 1 Anthracite Chunk + 1 Coal Dust + 1/4 Thorium Dust (it contains less C14, because it's older and because of decaying laws, but more Thorium/Actinides because it crossed more of those ^^). Anthracite Chunk would be kind of a double Coal Coke (and it couldn't be coke, since it is almost pure carbon), but could also be macerated to get 2 Coal Dust.


4)Radioactive Dust would be 1/4 Th, 3/4 C14. (so, centrifuge recipies). C14 could be used as cells to emit Neutrons into your Nuclear Reactor, and so increasing efficiency of nearby cells, but would'nt produce energy by itself, or very little.


5) As for the Coal Generator you're planning, I'd suggest it to be more efficient that others, to be able to run on Dusts for a bit more of output (and efficiency, to get like 500 EU more after the maceration), to be able to consume O2 cells as an amplifier to get *2 EU/t for quite A LONG AMOUNT OF TIME, NOT TO BE A WASTE. Also, I'd like to have an output slot if not using O2, to get the non-consumed Coal, like 0.33% chance of getting 1/4 Coal Dust for each Coal/Coal Dust burning in (and so more for Anthracite chunks).


I know some are already suggested, at least by me, but ... they didn't appeared on your list ^^. Btw, the point of Anthracite would be to provide Coal Dust, and wouldn't be very good as a Fuel, while Coal Ore would be (2 Coal Coke + 1 Firedamp Cell = about 45 000 EU). And radioactive dust ... to add a new fun Nuclear component/nerf Coal Ore/makes it more realistic.

Quote from Celant

LESUs? I don't believe I am familiar with those

Try GregTech
I suggested those months ago to vanilla IC2, Greg added it, but they're ... kind of UP

Quote from SirusKing

Too bad mobs dont respawn in nature. I was on a server with a 5000x5000 map, and after a year, since mob farms were banned, no Cows or pigs existed on the server at all. I dont normally make actual mob traps, i just make farms with a RC Feeder and some wheat/netherwart/carrots. If i need large amounts of food i just set up a Railsystem to pick up animals and dump them into a COGM Saw blade since that acts as a Looting 1 Sword.

Yeah, that is cool, I like the Idea of breeding peaceful mobs for any benefit but ... I was mainly aiming at hostile mobs

Quote from MagusUnion

Although I personally think that principles like Science and Education are above the concepts of patriotism for nationalities.

I agree, but as countries always subsidize Science (or almost) to get any political/economical/military advantage ... Seriously, do you think the Manhatan project has been funded for "human species" ? That's as if I was telling France chose Nuclear to learn about Nuclear Physic. You'd answer me "no, that was just to be able to generate its own energy". It is often thought that great scientist are making Science just because they love that and want the mankind in general to improve. Some are like that. But not that much, that'd be forgetting the fact the 2 things that probably contribute the most to Science (as for money): army and big companies

Quote from Celant

-Multi-block energy storage structure

LESUs ? I'd like actual MultiBlock structure (because LESU are UP for now), because these can be cheaper than others devices, but will take some space, so this is kind of a balance you have to determine. I know it doesn't really make sense in SSP/Role Play, but it's cool in PvP

Quote from SirusKing

But everyone makes Mob Farms Anyway

No. Not me, because I'm against. And because I find funnier fighting mobs. I'd like a way to nerf trap towers while buffing nomal ways of killing mobs, and Mojang seems to agree, but it appears to be hard to do.
They should add a config to prevent mobs from dying of anything who can be automated (gravity, lava, water ... ^^). You'd say: "hey, my CC-turtle will still wok" and I'd answer: "not my fault if so, you're already using an OP mod."

Quote from SirusKing

Officialy Suggesting the Mob Grinder
Big Funnel made of Machine Casings, if a mob goes in it they get "pulled" down like they would with water. Big Spinny blade at bottom, if mob touches that they get Killed, Blood spraying everywhere, and a Looting 3 like effect for the Drops (More Meat/Wool/Leather ect) and a small amount of Liqified Flesh is made, which then can be used in a Centrifuge for Methane

In favor of traptowers, and so promoting lag (and trap towers are basically the most known exploit of MC). So I guess kind of denied.

Quote from SpwnX

Suggestion :
Reworking the LESU to be a big wireless energy storage device.

Every LESU block it has increases its maximum range by 0,5 alongside storage.
Maximum range is 128 blocks (it is counted from the main block)
New upgrade, Wireless energy upgrade, all GT machines can accept it.
Wireless energy is transfered with a loss depending on distance (every 2 blocks from the main LESU block adds 1% packet loss).
Energy transfered depends on the EU packet size machine can accept.

Two LESU that are close to each other (maximum 16 blocks far) and has at least 32 LESU block will exchange energy depending on their current %, like thaumcraft nodes. [Maximum energy exchange is 2000 EU/t]
LESU energy exchange is lossless

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That sounds nice. As the inventor of the LESU, I approve that

Quote from SpwnX

"Creative mode is the next step!"
Fill your whole inventory with diamond blocks.

That's not IC²-related. (even assuming you mean "you'll use UUM for that". You'd better play EE or making a RP2 machine to do that. And that's not a good achievment, since nobody ever would do it. (without cheating)

Quote from thepowdertoy

As far as I know it is possible to combine 2 protons by using proton-proton chain fusion, which is happening in our sun: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/energy/ppchain.html (there is a wiki article about that, but when I tried to copy paste that into this, it changes into proton%something%proton) It just sad that the power/volume is equal to a compost pile

Yup, but the energy needed to start that fusion would be quite higher. Just because, you know, ITER is supposed to use the Deuterium + Tritium reaction because it's the cheaper available (others would be triggered by an even higher temperature)

Quote from SirusKing

and redstone engines are so patheticly weak,

I thought they fixed these ... we can still power anything with Redstone engines only ? With pipes and such ?

Quote from GregoriusT

Wait? Alpha Radiation, wasn't that just Helium Atoms without Electrons? I got that information from School so it could be wrong...

It is. But with a high speed

Quote from SpwnX

(which i don't like much).

Same here.

Quote from jonch

Anti-electrons, because F*** PHYSICS!!!
Positrons are blasphemy

Positons anyone ?

Quote from SirusKing

Its got a different name :3
thar for it muast bee differant

Nope, that's just ... the first anti-particle discovered ever, and the pysician that discovered it didn't know what antimatter is. Or maybe he was thinking this was the only possible-antiparticle. So guess, what, he called it posi(tive elec)tron. Because it had exactly the properties of an electron, a part from having a "e+" charge.

Quote from Dj_777

---
"Why is IC2 not updated yet?"
"Don't know. Don't care."
"HERETIC!!! You must die in the name of Eloraam!"
"*Facepalm* Wrong modder, noob."
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!?"
"I called you a noob, you noob."
*Ragequit*
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"What is this 'lag' you speak of?"
"Is this your first time playing Minecraft with mods?"
"Yes."
*Multi-nuclear meltdown*
"OH GOD, WHY IS MY COMPUTER SLOWING DOWN? IS IT BROKEN?! DID I JUST BREAK MY SOFTWARE? WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?"
"Lag."
---
"Is this the testing site?"
"No. This is the command center..."
"Erm... I may have already activated a nuke while you were talking..."
"Argh... I hate noobs."

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Sorry, I don't wanna flame anyone but ... it doesn't seem plausible. I bet you invented those 3 quotes.

Anyone think we'd need an industrial-crossbreeded replacement to bees producing, let's say, Oil ? I think breeding stickreeds and melon could give something looking like an Oil-plant, don't you think ?

Quote from SpwnX

Well, knowledge is power so i might feel like keeping it to myself.

... especially with PvP incoming ... don't explain our oponents how we'll do to beat them all