Too easy to make ore from water?
Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 9:02 pm
I was putting together a calculator based on linear programming, and so I figured I'd put it through its paces to tell me how many lines of raw ore it took to make a full belt of iron ore. Joke is on me, because the result turned out that it didn't want any raw stiratite, saphirite, or jivolite. Nope, the most efficient way to make iron ore was to slurp up water and turn it into slag and thence to slag slurry.
Curious, I asked it to do 210/minute of each of the science packs. 2500/minute each of Stiratite, Jivolite, and Rubyite, 9500/minute of coal... and 86 million/minute of water, or somewhere in the range of 1200 offshore pumps. Granted, I did tell it that water wasn't so costly as the ores, but the ratio is 90 water costs as much as 1 Stiratite, which isn't entirely horrible.
Curious, I asked it to do 210/minute of each of the science packs. 2500/minute each of Stiratite, Jivolite, and Rubyite, 9500/minute of coal... and 86 million/minute of water, or somewhere in the range of 1200 offshore pumps. Granted, I did tell it that water wasn't so costly as the ores, but the ratio is 90 water costs as much as 1 Stiratite, which isn't entirely horrible.