Was wrong earlier this session claiming demolition gives nothing back.
FIO's /rain/userplanetbuildingreclaimables confirms partial material
return (observed 50-90% depending on material, not a fixed fraction -
looked up live, not approximated). --remove now prices the real
reclaim for anything actually built and nets it against new capex,
so a demolish-and-reinvest question gets the true net cash picture
instead of double-penalizing the removed building.
Used this to check "demolish BHP's HWP, build a 2nd CHP or POL
instead" - both are clearly net losers even counting the ~57,750 AIC
reclaim credit (net capex still positive, and marginal profit is
negative either way) - dominated by just adding the new building
without removing anything, since nothing scarce actually forces the
swap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>