Hi there, Sorry to cut in. I haven't played KSP for some time and just started up again and ELP being one of my goto mod (love it!). So I was a bit surprised when I noticed smelters now require LFO to operate, which makes sense to me on a planetary surface where resources are plentiful. Where things don't work for me is using LFO to run a smelter on an orbiting station. Would it not be more realistic to have smelters be electricity powered in orbit? I don't know about other players but I scrap obsolete/damaged vessels in orbit and then do the scrap metal -> metal -> rocket parts cycle and using LFO to power the smelter in orbit is not a practical or cost effective way to operate. So now I just abandon, crash or delete said vessel.
Just my two cents and I'm probably wrong somewhere, sorry.
AALF
PS : Think about it, Orbital Solar Smelter!, now one would have a reason for building HUGE solar arrays with massive battery/capacitor banks!
