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[Puck]

Well I see some "workaround" for this:

Build a cistern, fill it with water.
Make an outlet that lets the water run past a waterwheel,
use dwarf to pump the water back up to cistern level.

You can then draw the power off the waterwheel, but basically the energy is created by a dwarf.

If you built all that you might as well have built a perpetuum mobile device, but wth, its not as cool as a dwarf in a treadmill.

Also,

In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

[MuonDecay]

All that power is good for is pumps and millstones. You can get dwarves to manually pump and make querns instead of millstones to mill manually. Until there's new uses for power which can't be done manually, there's really no point to a dwarf powered power grid.

If we had something that was the equivalent of a dwarf-capacitor... we wouldn't need CONSTANT pumping anymore.

daydreams heh?

Large coil springs, or a weight on a cord which is lifted as they wind.

Both are methods of converting torsional force into a mechanically stored source of energy (coincidentally, both examples I took from clocks)

[Puck]

Same with water and a cistern