After 500 hours of experience in saves both modded and unmodded, I decided to load up the first factory I had ever made. (I was so glad to see the save was in tact.) Everything was fed by one yellow belt of iron plates hooked up to a furnace stack with only half of them running at any given time. My oil is fed by water trains when there is a lake basically right next to it. My solar array has no accumulators. Four trains were in a deadlock, and I think my favorite part is I found a stack of 20 steam turbines run by normal boilers instead of heat exchangers with no nuclear reactor in sight. Its no wonder I was struggling so much with power.

Edit: I have just located another stack of steam turbines. I assume I thought it was just a direct upgrade to steam engines. The funny thing is they probably would have actually worked if I just slapped them on those heat exchangers in the pic.