[Feature] Allow facilities (esp. storage) to start with some inventory #673
Description
What is the motivation for your feature request? Please describe what you want to use it for.
There is currently no way for a facility to enter the simulation with an inventory of material other than a Source. It may be useful for facilities to be able to start their deployment with some material in their resource buffers.
Describe the feature you'd like.
The ability to define an initial inventory of material, with parameters similar to a source facility, that can be assigned to any facility.
Describe alternatives you've considered.
The current workaround is to have a source with the desired material and configure the source to transfer all of that material to the (storage) facility on the first time step. This is reasonable for many simulations but a little convoluted at scale.
How can this issue be closed?
New capability in at least one archetype to demonstrate an implementation of this. One approach may be a toolkit addition so that it could be applied to multiple archetypes.