My most ambitious project so far: completed and tested phase one of my new 22-gigawatt power plant! Phase two is the conversion of fuel to turbo fuel.
Posted Nov 7, 2020, 10:47 AM UTC
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Nice and clean! I like how each unpacker has a curvy input. Breaks up the lines. My set up boring in comparison.
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Thanks! When I first built them, I wanted them right angled, but when I ran the first ones from the water extractor to the two packagers, I thought the slightly curved fork looked pretty neat. So I ran with it. 😁
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I will be posting my build either later today or tomorrow. I have a few finishing touches to make.
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I have made some minor changes since this post. The oil to residual refineries at the back have been shifted to the left to make room for the 36 turbo fuel refineries, and the two buffers originally put there to catch the fuel for the test are going to be permanent, and I stacked two more on top of each one. For now phase two is on hold until I can get a supply line of compacted coal up and running.
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Building the compacted coal was annoying. By far the least enjoyable part of the whole thing for me. Currently I have mine made up in the pink forrest. I then have 3 trains bring it all down. You should throw some photos up when you finish. I always enjoy seeing how people feed their machines.
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That looks awesome! I do have a suggestion, although I'm not certain it applies. I had an issue where empty canisters started bunching up at one end of each set (I did 6 packaging refineries as a group, and then tried 3 and 3 and still had the same general problem), so ultimately I kept each packaging/unpackaging set separate, which seems to work better. Something to consider.
Either way, your power plant looks much tidier than mine. Well done!
Thanks. So far there has been no bunching, and I do have some load balancing in there. It isn’t perfectly balanced, but I have two 780 lines feeding seven packagers each, and each of those splits three ways at the middle, three ones here side and one in the middle. I collect the empties at the other end the same way, and it loops back and goes through a large storage container. The funny thing is, I way underestimated the number of canisters the whole system would take!
And we will see if it stays neat once I get to phase three - the 147 fuel generators! This thing is going to be pretty tall by the time it is complete.