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Von Kroll
Caldari Paxton Industries Paxton Federation
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Posted - 2009.11.16 18:00:00 -
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Can someone explain the economics of raw Moon mats to me? I can't see a reason anyone would mine raw moon materials, based on POS fuel costs, but many obviously do. Obviously, I'm missing something when I do my cost-benefit analysis.
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Claire Voyant
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Posted - 2009.11.16 18:12:00 -
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Edited by: Claire Voyant on 16/11/2009 18:14:58 Does it help to know that you get 100 units per hour? So fuel cost for a small tower works out to be something like 500 isk per unit.
Edit: left out a zero, oops!
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Kalrand
Charles Ponzi School of Business GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.11.16 18:19:00 -
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Originally by: Von Kroll Can someone explain the economics of raw Moon mats to me? I can't see a reason anyone would mine raw moon materials, based on POS fuel costs, but many obviously do. Obviously, I'm missing something when I do my cost-benefit analysis.
What you need to calculate is not actually the price of running the POS, but that marginal increase in Liquid Oxygen and Heavy Water that a silo and a moon harvesting array consume on a tower. That should be your floor.
There are a number of Lab and ratting POSs out there that mine whatever is on a moon to help offset the fuel costs of running the POS for its primary purpose.
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Von Kroll
Caldari Paxton Industries Paxton Federation
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Posted - 2009.11.17 03:44:00 -
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Originally by: Kalrand
Originally by: Von Kroll Can someone explain the economics of raw Moon mats to me? I can't see a reason anyone would mine raw moon materials, based on POS fuel costs, but many obviously do. Obviously, I'm missing something when I do my cost-benefit analysis.
What you need to calculate is not actually the price of running the POS, but that marginal increase in Liquid Oxygen and Heavy Water that a silo and a moon harvesting array consume on a tower. That should be your floor.
There are a number of Lab and ratting POSs out there that mine whatever is on a moon to help offset the fuel costs of running the POS for its primary purpose.
So what you're saying is, if you use the POS for research, really the Tungsten or evaporites can be mined merely to sell to subsidize the research? How then does the market find the real cost of those raw materials? They would very cheap indeed if you only considered the small increase in fuel costs over the research fuel costs.
Thanks to you both.
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EvilweaselFinance
Weasel Enterprises Ltd GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.11.17 03:55:00 -
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Originally by: Von Kroll
Originally by: Kalrand
Originally by: Von Kroll Can someone explain the economics of raw Moon mats to me? I can't see a reason anyone would mine raw moon materials, based on POS fuel costs, but many obviously do. Obviously, I'm missing something when I do my cost-benefit analysis.
What you need to calculate is not actually the price of running the POS, but that marginal increase in Liquid Oxygen and Heavy Water that a silo and a moon harvesting array consume on a tower. That should be your floor.
There are a number of Lab and ratting POSs out there that mine whatever is on a moon to help offset the fuel costs of running the POS for its primary purpose.
So what you're saying is, if you use the POS for research, really the Tungsten or evaporites can be mined merely to sell to subsidize the research? How then does the market find the real cost of those raw materials? They would very cheap indeed if you only considered the small increase in fuel costs over the research fuel costs.
Thanks to you both.
rarity and demand
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