Slag refinement
Perhaps a tech to refine the slag even more and capture the oxygen that's off gassed from the assorted oxides In the slag the major components of these slags include the oxides of calcium, magnesium, silicon, iron, and aluminium, with lesser amounts of nanganese, phosphorus, and others depending on the specifics of the raw materials used. Furthermore, slag can be classified based on the abundance of iron among other major components.[1] We are missing huge amounts of potential money by just tossing it said Aside Imagine a production chain to refine the slag into elemental metals in addition to the rare metals. We could be sitting on a gold mine of stuff. A crusher to turn it back into regolith just for simplicity sake. Then shove it into a multi refiner or an all new refinery that exports various elements that can be sold or used for colony things. Expensive at first but cleans up yer messes eventually. Anything resulting could be marked as unsatisfactory for further refining and sent
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16 Jan
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Slug generator. Consumes slug, produce power.
Else something more realistic)) Like slug>>tranport>>move to someplace on Moon>>drop XD -
01 Nov, '24
JonJonI am thinking multiple options to deal with excessive slag.
Research options that get exponentially expensive to improve Regolith refineries to reduce slag output.
Or maybe specialized building (Slag refinery) to deal with it (probably along the research)...refine or destroy or make it into something sellable on the market (maybe the Mars project needs something...Crust 2...Moon and Mars or more). Of course there should be a limit to how far you can go.
Maybe a new kind of flight control type center (slag control) to see this rubbish to the sun (or wherever....with the appropriate consequences)...but the sun should be safe (we hope)
The idea is to be able to handle excessive slag.....It cannot be cheap/easy (maybe research options come available to make it cheaper/faster) -
06 Nov, '24
TheorialA simple solution for maybe the first research tier/project could be a plain old slag pit. It would take up a lot of surface space, like the size of the expedition center but squared off. You could dump it all in there to hold for later use but have it be able to hold millions of tons. A couple of visual effects of it filling up and becoming a mountain when nearing full. Other games do it, just saying...