Utilities/Pollution Page

As you play through let's build a zoo, you will eventually be charged for polluting the earth. With this, you will also be given money for the extra power or water you generate. Each of these is affected in a different way and this page will explain it all. This page is in the process of being edited, so sorry for lack of info.

## Power

The more buildings you have will increase the electricity used, leading to a bigger bill. With the different moralities in the game comes different options for power.

### Good

On the good path, you can unlock wind turbines. Each of these will cost $100 to place down, but you will have to have 5 positive morality points to use them. They will generate 15 Kilo-watts per day to start, but when you unlock 3 total good energy packs, this will increase to 30 KW a day. If you then unlock 1 more good energy pack, it will again increase, but this time to 50 KW a day. Any extra energy you make form these turbines will reward money at the end of the week, however, this caps out at $1000 per week. Generating power with this method will also gain you morality.

### Evil

I am currently still testing this, as I have not gone Bad path yet.

## Water

The more water troughs in animals pens, the more water used, leading to a larger bill. Again, different morality path will lead to different outcomes.

### Good

In the skill tree, you will find water towers. They each cost $300 to place down, but you need 5 positive morality points to use them. As far as testing has shown, each water tower produces 102 gallons of water per day. Any extra water produced will be sold at the end of the week, with a cap of $1000. Generating water through this method will result in you getting morality points.

### Evil

Going down the evil path, you will unlock the sewage recirculator. This will reuse water from pets and visitors, making it so you have no need to pay for water. This will completely eliminate the cost of water. To use it, you need to have 20 negative morality. I am still testing further.

## Trash

The more items you sell and the more people that visit, the more trash there will be on the floor.

### Good

As you advance on the skill tree, you find both the recycling bins and recycling center. When you pair these together, you will start to not produce trash, instead recycling. Any time one of these recycling bins are emptied, they will be brought to the recycling center, where it is manufactured into plastics (which can be sold using the warehouse). Any bins that are not recycling bins will have their contents thrown away as normal, which will make you pay a fine at the end of the week. This can be changed with the "All Bins Recycle" upgrade in the research tree. If your bins overflow and trash ends up on the ground, this will also be thrown away without recycling it, so it is recommended to place more recycling bins in crowded areas. Since you will make money from this by selling the plastics made, you will not directly see the extra money generated on the Utilities + Pollution page, but you will still make money regardless. Recycling will result in positive morality gain.

### Evil

Unlocking the furnace will allow you to burn your trash to get rid of trash pickup costs, but adding to the CO2 in the air. To use it, you need 30 negative morality. Testing further.

## Fuel

### Good

If you unlock the water pump upgrade, any methane you collect can be used for gas. However, it does not use all of the methane you collect for gas, it is closer to a third of the methane. This will reduce fuel costs slightly, but not a large amount. Further testing.

## Carbon

### Good

To reduce the CO2 in the air, you will have to use trees. As you get better buses, they will produce more CO2, meaning you will have to place more trees. I am testing to find the ratio of trees to buses.

### Evil

To be evil, the game wants you to produce more CO2, so placing less trees will easily get you to this goal.

## Methane

### Good

In the skill tree, you can unlock the water pump upgrade. This will allow you to upgrade water pump to be able to collect methane form pens. Each pump is upgraded separately for $700. As far as I can tell, The water pump range has to cover the entire pen for it to collect all the methane from the pen. There is no consequence for methane that is not collected, but if you collect it, it will be used as fuel for your buses, which reduces the bill from fuel at the end of the week.

### Evil

I do not believe there is a way to negatively collect methane, so just do not collect and you will be fine. Luckily, there is no fine for the methane released.