Dagga Roosta

Right on. Sorry if I sounded grumpy, I didn't doubt that it would get fixed eventually. For the time being the heat generators works fine for an early electric source.

But really, it's a killer bug that needs a patch before it drives everyone back to Technic. The early phase is already complicated enough without the tedious workarounds. Yet it seems none of the development builds have addressed it yet. Unfortunate.

I have the same problem as well. It takes bronze to make a coal generator and bronze requires tin dust, so no that's not a working solution. Heat generators and biofuel generators are the only sources of electricity that don't require some kind of enriched dust; the biofuel also requires a crusher, and especially at the early stage of the game the required platinum is pretty scarce (too scarce IMO, for how much you need). I'll report back if the heat generator is a viable workaround.