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My textbook says that a battery in analogous to a water pump- it pumps water (charge) uphill, which subsequently flows downhill. What I'm confused about, then, is why charges in the circuit wouldn't lose all their potential energy even without a resistor? If they are flowing "downhill" through the circuit wouldn't their potential energy be lost even without something to dissipate it?