On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Onno Meyer wrote:
Hello Johannes,
initially I had thought of organic waste (as fertilizer), but you
are right that it also works for other recycling-capable waste. A
ton of assorted electronic junk, another ton of plastic packaging,
and an entire village on a TL5- world to get it all cleaned,
sorted and put into bins.
Of course that scheme requires empty hulls going towards the lower
tech world. If they have something to export (raw materials?) why
can't they import cheap plastic buckets for those credits instead
of even cheaper plastic junk? Unless the incoming freighter brings
one flashy air/raft for all that ore, so the remainder if the hold
is free.
Still, there would be lots of different 'fill up' cargoes that
would never be transported, unless there are free holds going in
the right way.
I guess for large and regular freight, there can be shemes like that the
lower tech world exports plastic stuff and imports plastic junk, as
rawmaterial to make more plastic exports. Organic waste will definitly
need to be transported to Agragrarian worlds, since somehow the food they
export needs to come back.
However thoose trades will have only rarely have any direct effects on the
classic pc tramp frighters, as long as freight prices work like outlined
in Gurps-traveller-Free Trader, since the trampfrighters get mostly
freight that is sent on short notice. Garbage will likely not apeare on
short notice, and in most cases it can be stored for long times for little
cost*. So garbage transports will most likely go to regular lines.
However Tramp frighters might pick up garbage on their own as speculative
cargo. It might be worth something as raw materials elsewhere and it is
cheap.
* with the exception of high population worlds and worlds with delicate
ecosystems there will most likely plenty of space around. And most garbage
could even be put into some orbit in containers. Given you will need to
transport it outsystem, before it has any value (and likely event there
not particulary much) chances that it gets stolen will be low, and thus
also costs for security. Still i hope to get some opportunity to confront
the players with the accusation, that they have stolen 50 dtons of frozen
shit from some orbit.
One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle
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Johannes Trimmel
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