reptar Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 Am I the only one who thinks that oil refineries require far too much power to actually be useful? When I first started playing technic, I thought oil would be the most valuable resource in the game, unsustainable, but unparalleled in energy output. In my first world I even tried to build a fuel based electricity generation plant, using combustion engines and energy links. However, I quickly abandoned that plan after struggling to keep a refinery powered for a few minutes, to only produce a few buckets of oil. I think that oil could be king again if fuel production wasn't so damned consuming. Just wondering what other peoples thoughts on this were.
Milk Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 Why would you bump a discussion post, not even a bug report, and only 28 minutes later? And then sign your bump?
Torezu Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 bump -reptar How did you manage to do so well on the first post in the thread, then break 2 rules at once on the second? Anyway, try running the refinery off combustion engines using the fuel it produces.
reptar Posted August 9, 2012 Author Posted August 9, 2012 I figured as long as I was going to piss the mods off, I might as well not go half-assed. Anyway, not used to the speed of this forum. And I'll give that a try torezu, but that feels kinda catch 22. Edit: I've read the rules, trolling you softly.
Torezu Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 And I'll give that a try torezu, but that feels kinda catch 22. It's not at all. In fact, the BuildCraft wiki recommends getting your first bucket+ of fuel processed using oil-powered combustion engines, then processing the fuel with fuel-powered combustion engines from then on. Just make sure to feed them water... :twisted:
OmegaJasam Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 The sheer power of fuel means that it's optimal to actually /use/ fuel in it's own production. If you get it running full whack (two fuel based combustion engines if I recall right) it processes it very quickly. You need a /lot/ of steam or a rediculious amount of red stone engines to achieve the same.
littleweseth Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 Oil is, in fact, infinite, provided that you have the energy link and oil fabricator enabled. Behold: This is a fuel feedback machine. It uses combustion engines to power oil fabricators and refineries, which refuel the combustion engines. It produces fuel in excess of what's needed to run the engines.
Korialstrasz Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 mh that looks awesome. just one question how do you get the excess amount of fuel out of the system without breaking it?
littleweseth Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 Put some buffer tanks in the fuel line between the refineries and the engines. Eventually all the engines will fill up with fuel, the pipes will back up, and the tanks will begin to fill up with the excess fuel.
reptar Posted August 10, 2012 Author Posted August 10, 2012 So it works kinda like the cow rape emc generator?
littleweseth Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 Not really. The cow rape EMC generator is effort, challenge, and supervision-free, as well as being rather cheap. This is expensive and goes boom if not properly supervised. In addition, the amount of excess fuel produced is rather small.
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