flexrockets

I'm baffled by karbonite. I have the latest version and have it installed with KSP 0.24. I landed a module with a karbonite generator, two karbonite drills, a half-full karbonite tank, and a few 1k batteries on Munmis (in a karbonite hotspot). I can't for the life of me get the drills to actually get karbonite. I've deployed/enabled drilling and tried with the generator both on and off. Time warping (with the generator on) just destroys my reservoir of karbonite that I landed with. Does the generator use karbonite infinitely faster than the drills mine it? I would think that the drills should be faster, since I would guess that karbonite is an efficient combustible resource, and thus would be capable of producing more energy than it takes to extract. I've tried peering through the forum here, but at 213 pages it's starting to make War and Peace look like a short story.