Better solar stills
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Better solar stills
There is in Cantr some machine like solar still. Maybe not everyone heard about it Why it is like that?
Because it's efficiency is very, very, very small and people don't want to build them on their ships.
I have calculated when resources we have to put in a solar still yield to us. We have to wait more than 40 cantrian years to receive some income of our effort.
I see two ways of repairing this state:
1) make solar still easier to be build (for example 10 grams of window glass instead of 100 gram) or
2) make output bigger (for example 10 grams of water per day instead of 2 grams)
EDIT: If we make output bigger maybe this will help with an overall lack of water/expensive water and it will response a little to suggestion of MakeBeliever who want to encourage sailors to work with the towns. Sailors will have water to sell - not much, but always sth
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I think that people will be more eager to build solar stills, when we will "repair" them.
P.S. Sorry if that kind of post was somewere else. I just couldn't find it.
Because it's efficiency is very, very, very small and people don't want to build them on their ships.
I have calculated when resources we have to put in a solar still yield to us. We have to wait more than 40 cantrian years to receive some income of our effort.
I see two ways of repairing this state:
1) make solar still easier to be build (for example 10 grams of window glass instead of 100 gram) or
2) make output bigger (for example 10 grams of water per day instead of 2 grams)
EDIT: If we make output bigger maybe this will help with an overall lack of water/expensive water and it will response a little to suggestion of MakeBeliever who want to encourage sailors to work with the towns. Sailors will have water to sell - not much, but always sth
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I think that people will be more eager to build solar stills, when we will "repair" them.
P.S. Sorry if that kind of post was somewere else. I just couldn't find it.
Last edited by €e$y on Sun May 31, 2009 2:57 am, edited 1 time in total.
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How does the solar still even work where Cantr has no sun? MAGIC IN CANTR
On-Topic: Think he has a point there, water via the boat would be a grand thing if the machine was easier to work with.
On-Topic: Think he has a point there, water via the boat would be a grand thing if the machine was easier to work with.
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SekoETC wrote:Because it doesn't require any work, thus after the initial investment, the water is free. \
You have completely right with that the water is free.
The main problem in my opinion is that these "initial investment" is very expensive to the result. You have to wait much about 40 years to receive back what you have invested (I have compared solar still with well). I think there is little people, who have such patience and in result solar stills are unique in Cantr (I know that from my own experience, maybe I'm not right. Btw. is there possibility to check that?).
I don't want to make them very effective, because it will be unfair (automatic project), but if we will slightly improve the results (for example 10 g of water >>> 8 years to receive income from your investment) people will be more willing to invest in solar stills.
Ps. I hope that my opinion is understandable. Sorry for my poor english;)
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It is automatic. And it is meant to be a luxury item. I don't like the inefficiency either, but at the same time, note that it's not only free water away from land with no work that this provides, but also the ability to grow and produce things shipboard such as tea and apothecary mixtures, which can be quite powerful. That said, I'm up for increasing the yield somewhat on the solar still. It was made overly restrictive at first just to test how they would be used, and I don't see much potential for abuse if yield's increased just a little.
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