User blog comment:10667t/My Optinion On Tekkit Lite/@comment-1757231-20130721130814

I feel the same way, but there are a lot of alternatives which can streamline the process, which I've listed in most useful to least:

1. BC3 Domination: We all hate mining. Though, once you're able to clock up some Redstone Engines, a Quarry and some Land Marks, you can start auto-mining your resources, and use Distribution Pipes to sort them in a way like a Condenser. While it isn't what you're using it to replace, it still works quite well.

2. .minecraft Revolution: Remember ComputerCraft? It's a great mod, which, at the mid game, lets you use mindless Turtle minions to do your bidding, so you can have a 64x64 square cleared out in less than a second. Using ComputerCraft allows you to be the true Millenium Generation: absolute laziness.

3. Like Vanilla Ice Cream: Remember those old Vanilla Tactics that we exiled after the advent of the mods? You don't need to dig sand: simply place a Torch underneath them, and they all fall to your mercy! Don't continuosly find lakes: make that Infinite Water Source no one seems to remember. Use those Vanilla tricks again!

4. Wait...: EE3 actually is still under development: it has been said that Condensers will make a return, but with nerfed capabilities. Energy Collectors will be nerfed, renamed, but at least kept. If you wait a few months, you no longer need to go sand digging!