It was suggested that we REDThread this discussion. So here I am, moving it here.
In the interest of full disclosure I made two edits to my quote and didn't try to replicate all the nested quotes.
Now for my continuation on the thread.
The problem is it's the same exact functionally to a player. They get stuff they didn't work for. Which is the ONLY valid argument I have yet seen in this discussion (and other similar ones). There are a dozen ways to obtain Reikas materials that don't involve personally walking his tech tree, his focus on EMC in particular is blindered and shows a distinct lack of understanding on how the systems work as implemented by Project E, there's been a couple places on the comments where he's said things (paraphrasing here, possibly misremembering) like "I was told" or other hints that the information he was basing his opinion on is at best second hand. Obtaining it from another player does not magically make you able to use Reika's mods. It's literally functionally equivalent to using a Trade-o-mat or creative mode/NEI to cheat in those items. You get items for no personal effort, thereby skipping the tech tree. ProjectE is FAR from unique there, and in fact is a reasonably balanced method for obtainment of resources from ones you find otherwise useless.
"What about players that complain to me because they broke their world" Is some kind of logical fallacy or deflection that I don't know the whole list well enough to explicitly name, but it's most certainly disingenuous. Users WILL complain, those complaints WILL be illegitimate much of the time. What you do is inform them they're being idiots and MOVE ON. This is no author's fault in any way, and asking another author to subvert the ENTIRE POINT OF THEIR MOD because it can be made to interact poorly with yours is bad form! I may as well say to Reika "Your mods are OP. Players get unbreakable tools and armor, and can spawn mobs too fast, and fly, and generate millions of RF/tick, and radiation is deadly, and the neutrons are killing my livestock, and ore decitriplification (13 times multiplier... only available to some very specific ores, the extractor for "standard" ores is... 5? Why can I not remember the value right now? I know it's lower than 9 and above 3... oh well) is WAY overpowered!!!!111!one". It demonstrates a practically criminal negligence in my investigation of the mod and a blatant misunderstanding of the difficulty required to get these capabilities.
"Well if ProjectE does it, why aren't I allowed to do it?"
In what way? Project E allowing you to create items from useless stuff? Can't MineChem decompose/recompose reika's stuff (haven't tried), or the TT essentia constructor thingy? As far as I am currently aware, the only issue at current is with EMC. That could obviously be wrong as I haven't done any actual research into this... But it's irrelevant to my answer: "Because Project E does not allow me to block my items", or "because I have decided to personally support Project E", or "because you haven't asked", or any number of other responses you're going to have to deal with ANYWAY no matter WHAT you decide on basically ANY issue. People are people, and that kind of question is a part of life as a content creator, especially a mod author in Modded Minecraft.
As for EMC generation from power, that's actually not something that's in-line with the way EMC works originally and with the way Reika generates power could make the solar flowers look like dinky little toy waterwheels as compared to the Three Gorges Dam (it does do hydro-electric power, yeah?). EMC is at its core a method of turning items into other items via an intermediary step, sometimes using them as fuel. Being able to convert the millions of RF/tick that Reika's mods can generate into diamonds or whatever else is something I personally would NEVER support. I already dislike collectors being able to pump EMC into condensers with the relay bonus system, and the proposed idea would make that system look like a useless toy. I shudder in fear. That would do nothing but tarnish the reputation of EMC mods and Reika even further.