Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5885468-20130126053846/@comment-6024139-20130301153958

60.225.75.98 wrote: actualy u could do this very easily in a number of ways eg u could probs do it with retrievers or regulators or many different things. however the best thing to actualy do is to use overclocker upgrades and just 1 macerator because the speed of a macerator is  S*(1.7)^(n)  where s is the speed of a macerator with out over clockers and n is the number of overclockers this means that if u put in 5 overclockers it will run just over 14 times faster than a single macerator also overclockers do increase energy useage but only by E*(1.6)^(n) where E is the energy used by a macerator with out overclockers which means with 5 overclockers it will only use the energy of just over 10 macerators (its like having an extra 4 macerators working for free and it takes up much less space) I don't know where you get these numbers but the wiki does not agree. For every overclocker you decrease the operating time by 30% and increase energy cost by 60%.

I believe you misread this line "Each upgrade reduces the operating time to 70% of the previous value and increases energy consumption by 60%. "