I can't take it anymore, I'm going to have to have a rant about gregtech. Whilst I agree IC machines may be a little too easy to build, gregtech goes too far.
All I want to do is build a few water mills so I can trickle charge my bat boxes for when i want to use the machines or charge my batpack. I'm not really into building things on an industrial scale, so I find it really annoying when I've got to build power hungry high level devices just to get the aluminium I need to make some relatively basic water mills!!
When it's significantly easier to build comparable machines in thermal expansion, what exactly is the point of having gregtech and its frustraighting restrictions?