making the engineers start the engine

[Sundance]

It's been suggested multiple times before, but I think we should tie power to the station's budget. Right now, there's no other job on the station which people are suggesting literally killing the employees for not doing. Give us a way to buy/sell power, so when the engineers are fucking off we can purchase gigawatts to fuel experiments, and when the engineers are riding the terawatt express, everyone can get rich off the slush funds.

I've seen this suggested before and I really like the idea. Call me old fashioned or hardcore RP, but I always like anything that's canon with the "storyline" and selling plasma would be one of those things that really fits in well.
One of the things that have been suggested is having detachable smes units, that would rock.