Thanks TPL. I especially like the Saltpeter change, as its the only viable (early!) way I've found to create Fertilizer for multifarms. Unless you've a mind to give Apatite seeds a whirl? ;-)
For those talking about power - I had two oil wells near my primary area. Both are tapped out and refined now, and (after constant use by 6 BC combustion engines) I'm down to about 850 buckets of fuel left. I'm still not convinced about steam boilers here - the liquid ones seem too much of a drag on Fuel resources. I was considering plans for BC Ethanol (hence the multifarm experiments), but the Ethylene option seems like a good way as well (still using wheat as my catalyst). You could practically self-power Mek's 3x or maybe the 4x setup that way, though tbh once you cross into its 4x system the building footprint goes through the roof.
[Hmm. I just realized that same big oil well is copied in the spirit dimension. Transporting that by mariculture tanks is possible (I've done it with the original one) but admittedly insane. As a reference - 16 of their tanks is the same as one Barrel in other packs, and yes I have been 'manually' filling and emptying stacks of these little tanks when moving things around.]