For what its worth, I had really good results by getting into solar and wind in the early game. They're kind of pitiful and useless later on, but I found it useful to charge up industrial coils with these green sources.
I skipped gas engines and went straight to performance, but it appears a recent version change has made it so you go through the accelerant waaaaaay faster than before, rendering them useless unless you are mass-producing blaze powder, gunpowder or redstone (via magical crops or what have you). By using your green power as much as possible you'd be able to save your ethanol for gas engines when you need the extra early game kick.
I think the issue is consistency. Its like a fiction book: a story introduces rules, and you expect the story to abide by them, even if those rules involve elves and pixies and left handed people. I don't mind the game mixing magic and tech, but don't give me a smurf and tell me its a horse or I'm liable to get annoyed.
Some mods introduce concepts that seem to indicate a ruleset, but then blithely hop outside it. They give us fuel-power (coal, lava) and green-power (wind, solar), and then throw in something which purports to function legitimately (electrolysis) but doesn't. The dressing makes all the difference. Go away, smurf, you're ruining my book.
