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As an aside, does Wisconsin even make sense from a logistical standpoint for LCDs?
by jimsparkman 6y ago
As an aside, does Wisconsin even make sense from a logistical standpoint for LCDs?
- t3rabytes 6y agoThat’s mentioned in the article — no. It was going to be cost and logisticly prohibitive to make LCDs.
- Lazare 6y agoPut it this way: It's possible that you could manufacture LCDs profitably in Wisconsin... ...but nobody has ever proposed an even vaguely plausible plan to do so. Foxconn seems to have to viewed it as so obviously absurd they never even tried to develop a plan, much less started building a factory. Whatever else you may say about Foxconn, they seem to be pretty decent at manufacturing things cheaply. If they considered the idea to be a joke, it's probably safe to assume it's utterly impractical.
- hashtagmarkup 6y agoThe manufacturing process requires a lot of clean water. Racine built them a pipe directly to Lake Michigan to take all the fresh water they want for free. Dump the wastewater back in the farmland and you've got yourself a nearly free dystopia.
- avs733 6y agoMy sense is that wasn't something they considered relevant to their decision making.