Well, it took a while, but I finally "finished" my factory. For a glorious two hours, I was launching about 1 rocket per minute. That lasted until one of my copper mines evaporated and caused my green circuit production to fall behind. The mine in question is south of the copper smeltery and still has a few miners sputtering along, but nowhere near enough to keep filling up trains. At its peak the factory draws about 3.7 GW of power and spews enough pollution to piss off (presumably) every biter in the known universe.
For size perspective here's a shot of my production science area, which comically enough, is out of stone bricks. Guess I need to add another train or two hauling stone. The basic layout produces 1200 science packs per minute, though beaconed and moduled, I get about 2200 per minute.
Whew, that was fun. but I think it's time to put the game away for a while and reclaim my life. I have well over 100 hours and a lot of scratch paper invested in this factory. Maybe I should go spend some time with my wife...or at least make sure she hasn't left me sometime in the past couple of weeks.