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Reducing ice volume: compress or reprocess?
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Kaivar Lancer
Doomheim
#1 - 2015-11-04 21:00:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Kaivar Lancer
What's the best way of reducing ice volume? I believe compressed ice is only 10% volume of raw ice (so it goes from 1000m^3 to 100m^3 per block). Would I be better off just reprocessing ice into minerals? My quick calculation seems to say yes, so what's the point of compressing ice?
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#2 - 2015-11-04 22:06:01 UTC
sucks to be you to be mining lol

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

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Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2015-11-04 22:20:18 UTC
Not 100% sure, however I think that compressed ice can go into specialised ore/ice holds (eg the Miasmos), while ice products can't. So which is better may depend on what you have to transport it.
Do Little
Bluenose Trading
#4 - 2015-11-04 22:22:07 UTC
Setup a few PI planets to make Coolant and Enriched Uranium, buy some Robotics and make fuel blocks
Capsups
Atomic Mangocorp
#5 - 2015-11-05 08:09:47 UTC
Kaivar Lancer wrote:
What's the best way of reducing ice volume? I believe compressed ice is only 10% volume of raw ice (so it goes from 1000m^3 to 100m^3 per block). Would I be better off just reprocessing ice into minerals? My quick calculation seems to say yes, so what's the point of compressing ice?


Like Elena said, compressed ice can go into ore holds while ice products can't.