Suggestion: Mobile Recharger for Mining Laser [Not Approved]

Quote from Xaiier

The mining laser in all its awesomeness is definitely lacking in hardware. Drills and chainsaws can be put in generators, recharged from batteries,and given bat-packs to use, but the mining laser can't do any of that,and requires its own special machine to power it up. It seems wasteful to make multiple mining lasers to allow for longer trips, so I think that mobile rechargers should be able to accept energy crystals and recharge mining lasers, instantly of course. This would minimize on inventory space for its use and would give it more of an edge on the other tools.

Also, maybe make a crystal pack made with the same recipe as the bat-pack but crystals.

The mining laser used to only have 16 shots (Waaay back when it was first implemented). The reason it's only rechargeable a crystal generator, is to compensate the higher number of shots you get. (It's a balancing issue to have a stationary charging system, since the number of uses was increased).

As Adien said:
Earlier, the Laser WAS battery-driven.
However, like all crystal-crafted equipment (f.e. nanosuit), it's now in need of a Crystal Charger. Otherwise, said charger would be useless... as there's no use for charged crystals since the wiring update.