narc0tiq
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11 years ago I still don't see liquid UU as a power generator by itself (as entertaining as "antimatter reactor" sounds), but I'm thinking about electrolyzed water as a liquid. If we could make it a TextureFX with occasional sparks, it might look really neat, and give you a way to store EUs in liquid form, as it were. For that matter, a generator might need both -- the electric water to "activate" the UUM and prod it into generating EUs, and then UU consumption for as long as the reaction holds out (think biogas engine and lava, maybe?).
On the same subject, perhaps this also suggests a liquid electrolyzer -- water in one tank, electrolyzed water in another, and the side on which you connect the pipes determines which of the tanks gets filled or drained. Same principle as the regular electrolyzer: electrolyze water when there's an excess, de-electrolyze when there's a deficit. Really hard to hook up multiple tanks to that, though -- how do you de-electrolyze when the water tank is full? And how do you empty it while still providing water when necessary?
...oh, that makes an interesting suggestion: multi-block structure (sort of): detect tank blocks on the sides of the liquid electrolyzer and use the liquids out of those! Don't let the electrolyzer connect to liquid pipes at all (or don't accept liquids).
Further suggestions: electrolyzed UUM? Either using the machine or by combining the two items in a refinery? UUM is already pretty damn powerful, what more would it do if electrolyzed that wouldn't be terribly OP?
As per Fenrir at http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&postID=84725#post84725, see also the next post by Lefty suggesting the Forestry biogen as a pre-existing block that could just do it.
Alternately, electrolyzed water?