1.5 KiB
Iridium Production Calculations
200 total iridium ingots needed
Making Plates
No iridium is needed in ingot form, everything can be converted to plates!
50 Plates are needed for the Fusion Reactor. Nothing needed for anything else!
An Implosion Compressor makes 1 plate per second from Iridium Alloy Ingots. That takes a minute for all Iridium Plates needed in the run, using 32EU/t. Basically completely irrelevant other than having to place the machine once.
For 50 Iridium Plates, 400 Industrial TNT are needed.
Making Iridium Alloy Ingots
Make in a rolling machine using 4 Iridium Ingots, 4 Advanced Alloys and 1 Diamond Dust. Takes 5 seconds per Plate. For 50 Plates that is about 4 minutes. Uses MJ.
Making Ingots
From Ore: Compress 1 ore to 1 ingot.
From Sheldonite: Grind Sheldonite with mercury cells in the Industrial Grinder. Takes 5s per ore and 128EU/t. Produces 2 Iridium Nuggets and 3 Platinum Dust per ore. Platinum Dust can be centrifuged to Iridium Nuggets 1:1, so in total that is 5/9 Iridium Ingots per Sheldonite Ore. Compress the nuggets into ingots.
From Ferrous Ore: Grind Ferrous with mercury cells in the Industrial Grinder. Takes 5s per ore and 128EU/t. Produces 1 Platinum Dust per ore.
Centrifuging Platinum Dust
1 Centrifuge takes 1 Platinum Dust (no cells) and makes 1 Iridium Nugget (and 1 tiny pile of Nickel Dust) in 150s using 5EU/t.
One stack of centrifuges produces 0.427 Iridium Nuggets per second, which is 0.047 Iridium Ingots per second or 2.84 Iridium Ingots per Minute.