WRT ninjaburger and their meat source
Random side thought: unwaved biomass is probably by default a fair bit more valuable than waved biomass. You can never *really* get the stuff out completely, after all, and it's not like it's difficult to find handwavium in space if you want to do the conversion the other way.
Side thought to the side thought: if that holds, there'd be a niche for someone with a device that takes waved biomass in the one end, and drops out handwavium in one out-hopper and biomass in the other.
Quote:How expensive *is* it to bring supplies up the gravity well? I was under the impression that t too a decent amount of time, and, if you want to bring all that much, a ship purpose-built for freight, but it always seemed to me that it wasn't particularly more effort or cost than, say, piling it all into a mundane truck and driving it halfway across the country. Could someone hand me the clue on the current benchmark? It's been niggling at me for a bit now - ever since I saw the bit about the biomass economy, really.
It's possible that they're getting their supplies from Earth. (They may be getting their lettuce and tomatoes from Earth as well.) The expense of bringing supplies up the gravity well makes this problematic at best.
Random side thought: unwaved biomass is probably by default a fair bit more valuable than waved biomass. You can never *really* get the stuff out completely, after all, and it's not like it's difficult to find handwavium in space if you want to do the conversion the other way.
Side thought to the side thought: if that holds, there'd be a niche for someone with a device that takes waved biomass in the one end, and drops out handwavium in one out-hopper and biomass in the other.