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I think that the copper backtank should be used to store (little) mechanical energy, so that players don't have to make constant use of cranks and waterwheels when they want to setup a temporary machine somewhere far from their base. It could work like it does right now, but if you power it while it is placed down, instead of consuming power, it produces it (reducing its durability).

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maybe the equivalent of a pneumatic wrench powered by the backpack? acts like a more powerful version of the crank for a short time. would also be great for helping kickstart heavy generators that you can't start by cranking them normally.

Conversely, the newly made only-cosmetic flywheel could be a rotation battery, like it ir IRL... It would be nice to, for example, reignite blazes when they extinguish and your whole factory turns off, without rellying on a secondary rotatation source...

@mrlyht not quite: that's not what they're used for irl. They're not batteries, they are capacitors, to suppress fluctuations in rotational speed. They wouldn't make very good batteries irl, and I don't think they should be used like that in create