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[Suggestion] The large steam turbine consumes too much steam #1445

Open yanhaozhe opened 3 years ago

yanhaozhe commented 3 years ago

In my practice, the large steam turbine cost 8192 - 16384mB per tick. In the latest version, the highest tungsten steel boiler only produce 7800mB steam per stick at the highest temperature. It means we need at least two such boilers to make it work. And the pipe cannot take so much flow at the same time, Therefore, I suggest to reduce the steam cost of the large turbine.

GTCE Version: 1.10.9.612 mc version: 1.12.2

thecodingchicken commented 3 years ago

If you need to transfer fluids faster than the 2400mb/t speed of the Large Tungstensteel Pipes, you can always use tanks and pumps. While that can be rather expensive, and look weird, an EV pump can transfer 81920mb/sec(well over the 2400mb/t), which should help in transferring more of whatever liquid you like.

However, the fact that no pipe is fast enough is a fact, but Gregtech powergen has more options, like oil-based power. It is to my knowledge that you are intended to use oil-based power when you get to that point.
Still, this might be something to look into.

Just my thoughts on the issue

warjort commented 3 years ago

I can confirm you need 2 boilers to get that turbine running. It needs about 12,000mb/t just to get the rotor gaining rps and the 2 boilers need to be running nearly flat out to get enough backlog of steam such that it doesn't keep glitching on and off.

You don't need pipes or tanks, etc. you can just have 2 fluid input hatches on the turbine and place the fluid output hatches of the boilers directly facing into them. They will automagically transfer the steam.

For the amount of steam used: To get it into a running state it generated about 30,000,0000 mb of water which you can multiply by 15 to get to the steam needed. That huge amount of steam didn't even fill an hv energy output hatch until the rotor started gaining speed. :-)

DISCLAIMER: I have never used this multiblock in a real game so there maybe better ways to do this? I generally switch away from steam as soon as possible because of its low energy density. e.g. in GTCE default config, 1mb of light fuel burns for 10 times longer than 60mb of steam to produce the same EU.