[NicknamedBob]

"So, while one "boring" machine might just grind up a material, another might actually be designed to vaporize it, distill out certain elements from the vapor, and deposit the various materials in storage containers."

This is the primary reason wee cobbled together our first crude nuclear reactors.

The electricity needs were enormous.

[NicknamedBob]

Not blaming Darks.

I was eating an orange.

[Dead Corpse]

The electricity needs were enormous.

Things are pretty balanced now. We were able to set up a lot of surplus capacity from all those shuttle motors. As long as no one tries to heat via induction anything bigger than say, Ceres, we should be ok...