ComputerCraft BigReactor Turbine automatic rate control

-- Title: ComputerCraft BigReactor Turbine automatic rate control software
-- Author: MyrddinE
--
-- Purpose: Control the allowed steam input to one or more turbines, based on the energy
-- remaining in one or more cells. Uses wired modems, one per turbine and one per cell.
-- You can have as many cells (of different types) and as many turbines as you want. The
-- cells must respond to 'getMaxEnergyStored' and 'getEnergyStored'; only tested with
-- ThermalExpansion cells, but should work with other cells that support those commands.
--
-- For the feedback process to respond in time, you should have about 100M RF storage
-- per turbine. Turbines take a long time to spin down and up, and a large buffer means
-- less wasted overpower, and no power underruns. Also, since each turbine generates up
-- to 30k RF/tick, and each cell (TE Resonant 50M) can only pass through 10K RF/tick per
-- face, you will be throughput limited unless you go through some complicated
-- shenanigans, so plan accordingly with extra cells. If you have lots of cells, a
-- 2-wide 'wall' of cells passes through 10k per cell, with room on the sides for the
-- modems. If you have lots of space and want to scrimp on the cells, you can jam in
-- four conduits (2 in, 2 out) and a modem around each cell to halve the cells needed.
--
-- Wiring Diagram
--
--       Overflow Storage (Optional)         More Power Storage (Optional)
--             ^             |                       ^            |
--             |             v                       |            v
-- Turbines -----------------------> Buffer Bank ------------------------> Load
--     T                                  T
--     |            Computer              |
--     |                T                 |
--     +----------------+-----------------+


-- Change this to be the side your wired modem is attached to the computer.
modem = peripheral.wrap('bottom')

-- Get the list of cells and turbines. Run once at startup. If you add or remove devices
-- terminate and restart the program.
name = modem.getNamesRemote()
turbine = {}
cell = {}
tCount = 0
cCount = 0
for i = 1, #name, 1 do
  p = peripheral.wrap(name[i])

  if name[i]:match 'BigReactor' then
    tCount = tCount + 1
    turbine[tCount] = p
  else
    cCount = cCount + 1
    cell[cCount] = p
  end
end
print(tCount," turbines, ",cCount," cells connected.")

-- Loop forever
while true do
  -- Add up the total (and max) power stored in the attached cells.
  energy = 0
  max = 0
  for i = 1, cCount, 1 do
    max = max + cell[i].getMaxEnergyStored('')
    energy = energy + cell[i].getEnergyStored('')
  end

  -- The emptier the cells, the faster it will set the turbines to go, up to the max of
  -- 2000mB/tick.
  rate = math.floor(2000*(1-energy/max))

  -- Set all attached turbines to the given rate. Total up how much RF they are
  -- producing at the same time, for display.
  RF = 0
  for i = 1, tCount, 1 do
    turbine[i].setFluidFlowRateMax(rate)
    RF = RF + turbine[i].getEnergyProducedLastTick()
  end

  -- Print some useful stats to the console.
  RF = math.floor(RF)
  batt = math.floor(100*energy/max).."%"
  print("Buffer at ",batt," - ",rate,"mB/tick - Making ",RF,"RF/tick")

  -- Sleep for 5 seconds.
  sleep(10)
end