Nuclear Reactor: Realistic and efficent ice gen

[Xerphiel]

Hi All,

I've never liked the idea of energy collector/condensors or the snow man methods of ice generation for nuclear reactor cooling.

I built a system that utilizes water pumps and compressors to generate ice, but the amount of power required to generate the required ice is almost the same as the EU/t the reactor generates and seems to be proportionate to reactor size.

Does anyone know of an efficent and realistic method of generating ice to cool a reactor? I've had no luck finding one so far.

Thanks for your help.

[Lear85]

Have you tried using Thermal Expansion? I'm not sure how much power those machines take but it could work.

[progrendon]

how about getting one ice then using EE if you have it available

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[Lear85]

That would work very well, but he said he wants it to be "realistic"... If he really wants that he shouldn't be playing Minecraft.

[Jorcer]

Well, using Ice to cool a reactor doesn't sound very realistic...

[progrendon]

try the terrafirmmacraft mod then

[Xerphiel]

@Lear85, how does Thermal expansion work?

@progrendon, thanks but thats the method i dont want to use.

[progrendon]

link to a spotlight on thermal expansion

[Industrial Miner]

There is a faster method than using the compressor+pump combo if you don't want to use EE or Thermal Expansion; snow golemn generator and a overclocked compressor.

You have a block breaker or a fast piston pushing the small layer of snow ( The snow golemns can only make snow in a cold biome such as Taiga or icy plains), pumping it straight into the compressor.

But if you think that this golemn generator is also "unrealistic", go and use Thermal Expansion then.

[progrendon]

he doesn't like snowmen i recived the same with EE

[RadioactiveSand]

I did some experiments with reactors and Thermal Expansion a while back. Its do-able. One Aqueous Accumulator can supply up to 4 Glacial Percipitators with water and each Glacial Percipitator can automatically eject snowballs into IC2 Compressors. Percipitators generating ice blocks is too slow to be useful for reactor cooling unless you have an insane amount of them or a low yield reactor. The compressors need to be overclocked to keep up with the Percipitators and the demand of the reactor. However, the design isn't without its costs as the Compressors need a large chunk of eu to keep running so you're going to need some additional source of power, at least in the beginning, to stockpile ice.