Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.41.104.183-20130911230448/@comment-5112555-20130929125932

notes on your idea:

1. stone cover corners may seem cheap, but are expensive. they need a gem handsaw OR BETTER in order to be cut. therefore i would recommend dirt, wich only needs iron or better.

2. handsaws have a limited amount of uses, wich makes them more expensive to use than EMC-gain. also automatic crafting tables have a bug in wich a multi-use item will get destroyed after one use.

3. use lapis lazuli as output. it has higher EMC/UU.

acctully, the whole idea of this is, rudely said, stupid. the cost of this thing is gigantic, at least worth a couple RM.with the same amount of EMC you can make around a full

MK-1power flower. this only includes the minimum setup. for a good working, full time system you will, as said by simplest earlier, need a lot of solar panels. or, the loophole in the idea: a power flower (how surprising) feeding EMC into a automatic crafting system, making uranium cells and then feeding tem into a nuclear reactor, another power flower feeding dirt into recyclers. you will maybe even need both systems. also this last system will need advanced redstone to have the right amount of uranium coming in. this is even worth more RM, maybe even enough to make a MK-2 power flower. with this you can even produce more EMC than with the best possible setup for mass fab-EMC genning. in other terms: i wouldn't do it. and if you cannot use powerflowers, use a quarry. with the expense of this machine you can easily make a couple quarrys and a setup to macerate ore and condense/store stuff.

if my maths are wrong: please note i am just guessing.