Yea its hardcore greg tech.
Already doing this. We actually have a lava age on the mp server, but before that i had my pump in the nether. This is currently what everything is running off. I have magmatics as well for the mj power.I've found the best bang early on is to get yourself into the Nether and start tesseracting lava for Thermal Generators. You can literally build your entire base around this process, use Xycraft tanks for looks and ease of use and just build 2-4 max sized ones and run 12 generators off each. For a small amount of resources (relatively) you get yourself in the 768-1536eu/t range and you can literally do it as soon as you have a single chamber nuclear power source up and running with an MFSU to power the machines. Most of that can go straight into the matter fab too and you're already good to go on UU Matter production.
What I didn't know were the parts about nuclear power - I was really just trying to get a mark 1 reactor that had a huge amount of power production, but so far thats not really been possible, though I don't really full understand that system and all its part. I built what should've been a mark 1 reactor with the reactor planner java applet but it blew up on me, so i'm wary of using that again.
Currently I have it running at 460eu/t with 8 quad cells but have to replace roughly a third of the coolant cells half way through. it may just not be possible to do a mark 1 with that number of cells.
also i have to also say that applied energistics is an amazing mod. its probably the one mod i couldn't live without now that i've used it. probably couldn't live without my mining turtles either though, they're super helpful when starting out.
God damn I'm lazy.
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