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> a management experiment Really? Billions and billions of Euros, hundreds of thousand of metric tons of concrete, hundreds of MW of power, thousands of gallon
by bambax 9y ago
> a management experiment
Really? Billions and billions of Euros, hundreds of thousand of metric tons of concrete, hundreds of MW of power, thousands of gallons of fresh water-per-minute, tends of thousands of nuclear waste, to run a "management experiment"?? This has to be the most ludicrous, expensive and ill-designed case study in the history of mankind.
Also, it seems the word "experiment" is inadequate. An experiment requires
1/ a theory and an expectation of what should happen
2/ a rigorous, controlled and replicable setup, where you test the theory and compare the actual result to the expected one
Having many people from different nations working together does not qualify as a "experiment"; maybe it's an experience, or a happening (like a concert). It's the Woodstock of science; it must certainly be fun for all involved but it's unlikely humanity will make much progress because of it.
- Jedd 9y ago> > a management experiment This is a disingenuous quote -- the parent said 'so the whole of things is also a management experiment'. You then go on to attack that decontextualised fragment by saying: > Really? Billions and billions of Euros, hundreds of thousand of metric tons of concrete, hundreds of MW of power, thousands of gallons of fresh water-per-minute, tends of thousands of nuclear waste, to run a "management experiment"?? This has to be the most ludicrous, expensive and ill-designed case study in the history of mankind. And I'd suggest: metric tonnes hundreds of MW thousands of imperial measurements of water that are re-usable tends <sic> of thousands of nuclear waste ... means what, precisely? refer you again to the 'also' runs a management experiment This clearly is not the most ludicrous, expensive, and ill-designed case study in the history of mankind, no matter how the coal industry wishes to describe it.
- bambax 9y agoSorry for the typos. I fail to see how the "coal industry" reference applies to me however, or indeed, critics of this mammoth project that makes absolutely no sense. I'm French and have been listening to politicians telling us the billions of Euros spent, and tons (why tonnes?) of concrete in an otherwise nice region would transform the production of energy, for most of my adult life. As I've always suspected, that's complete BS, as the article makes clear. Why people who are not politicians would want to defend ITER, I don't know.