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[CaterpillarEater]

I want to make a pump stack from an underground lake fed from a source off the map to an aqueduct.  I originally wanted to power it with a bunch of windmills but I don't have enough wind on my map which leaves waterwheels as my only option. I read that they can be powered by gradient flows in addition to rivers flowing off the map.  Does this mean if I were to build a pump stack and connect it to a bunch waterwheels which are on the same underground lake I could get the waterwheels to generate energy from gradient flow by manually starting the bottom pump? Moreover since the lake shares a wide border with the edge of the map would more and more water would continue to flow in allowing the waterwheels to power the pump stack in perpetuity?

[Broken]

Congratulations! You just discovered the dwarven water reactor!


http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Water_wheel#Dwarven_Water_Reactor

[ResMar]

^ I need to get around to moving that to its own, separate page.