Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-10940479-20130616194325/@comment-5627887-20130617174630

You may want to familiarise yourself with Factorization, which I found is overlooked somewhat by the average Tekkit Lite player, at least if quality of wiki articles were anything to go by when I first joined the wiki. Factorization actually provides the biggest yields of ingots from ore that you can get, but it's not as straightforward or quick as IC2, it's something you would look into implementing once you were off the ground with IC2 and Thermal Expansion, perhaps (it works well with Thermal Expansion's Induction Smelter to provide rediculous amounts of coal from Nether Coal Ore for example, once you go through the various steps involved).