I'm not sure about you guys, but I've got a pretty good thermal expansion set up using tesseracts (IMO)
it's using the energy tesseracts, yes they lose 25% of the MJ you send through them, but the convenience well makes up for it
In my base I've got a bank of engines, currently magmatic soon to be steam, which leads into a redstone energy conduit to the energy tesseract on this side
Then at my quarry, it sits on an energy tesseract, and then outputs into a diamond pipe, which voids dirt cobble and gravel, and the rest goes into my sorting system. Every time I move my quarry, it's just 5 blocks and then the landmarks.