On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Onno Meyer wrote:
Johannes replied to me:
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.
The problem with this scheme is that it takes both incoming and
outgoing shipping capacity, so it has to make as much profit as
the shipping costs.
If there is a trade imbalance going one way, the freight can be
carried for a dime, just to reduce losses.
I was thinking of cases like top TL worlds, that will not use it's
workforce to produce tupperware for local consumption. That pattern will
not apeare always though. Your version can work in other places.
Organic waste will definitly
need to be transported to Agragrarian worlds, since somehow the food they
export needs to come back.
Why can't the agricultural world accept that mass loss? On the
planetary scale, it isn't much.
I was thinking of carrying organic waste/fertilizer to vacuum
worlds to make up for less-than-perfect recycling systems.
Agrarian worlds will need to fertilize anyway. I guess over long periods
time local sources of fertilizer will dry up, especially if what you
harvest will not come back indirectly, since you shipped it offworld.
I guess vacuum worlds in general will import food, and the better part of
the food will be processed to become fertilizer eventually, so i guess
vacuum worlds will be in general net exporters of organic waste.
I just have calculated the possible prices for the cheapes specuative
trade good that can come out of the tables. Unless i made a calculation
mistake, that costs a bit more then 0.02 Credits/liter. Sounds right for
garbage.
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