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"Too cheap to meter". How does this compare with 1950s futurism? It at least has a nod to climate change and carbon capture and fuel synthesis.
by wffurr 5y ago
"Too cheap to meter". How does this compare with 1950s futurism? It at least has a nod to climate change and carbon capture and fuel synthesis.
- Ericson2314 5y ago"Too cheap to meter" == the investment does not pan out to the private sector. That's been the historical problem. No one wants to build a big fancy thing and thing run it at cost. The reason fission is going for prefab is not only volume lowering costs, but selling gizmos for a profit that the buyer runs at cost does make sense. (There are some interesting vaguely Marxian dynamics with high tech with minicsule operating costs that should always be considered. That we all drive cars and not ride trains is similar. The car industry surely involves 3+ orders of magnitude more people per mass * distance transported)