Talk:Conductive Pipes/@comment-76.7.157.213-20120814051403/@comment-844098-20120815063743

Redstone engines only produce a power of 1 and are generally only useful powering mining wells or wooden pipes.

Combined with power loss over distance and more powerful machines you'll need massive number of redstone engines to power things.

For example a Quarry needs 96 or 98 (I forget exactly) redstone engines to run at full strength.