Talk:Energy Crystal/@comment-174.50.132.81-20121126095201

CainMorningstar: "Powering Machines:? The energy crystal doesn't charge many of the machines, but, oddly enough, it does power the? Induction Furnace."

This is likely due to the fact that an energy crystal qualifies as a tier 2 eu storage device, and therefore a tier 2 eu output entity. The induction furnace, if I am not mistaken, is one of about 2 machines that actually starts off as a tier 2 machine, and as a result, can take medium voltage currents as is. The energy crystal, being a tier 2 eu storage/out device/entity, would therefore supply not only an ample, but also a tolerable amount of energy for the induction furnace, and likely for any other tier 2 machine that is usable in-game, making it an ideal metal refinery resource for power using what is known as a window of opportunity by timing redpower to take out the empty energy crystal when it has no charge and replacing it during the time the internal power of the induction furnace is drained, the window of opportunity, as it were, for the timing system to have a "delayed" load up of the energy crystal, but still provide it before the internal power is completely drained from the induction furnace.