To be fair:
Anyway…
I guess I don’t understand how the gearboxes work then? I thought they were like transformers in that they maintained the same total, just split over multiple packets. Can the gearbox actually cause the turbine to output (and importantly burn fuel as if outputting) 4096 RU/t?
And I hadn’t forgotten about the planetary gearboxes - you’d need them to power the mining drill anyway, as you’d need to split 4096 RU/t four ways as each face of the drill can only accept 1024 RU/t.
I’m not totally thrilled by the idea of running the centrifuges in pairs, but I suppose I would if given no choice. But I can’t see how I’d fit two mining drills onto the same deposit so that it would actually be worth doing.