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> No one has offered any plausible suggestion for how to contain corruption costs for nuke construction Honestly, I had assumed this was how the US worked in a
by pyrale 4y ago
> No one has offered any plausible suggestion for how to contain corruption costs for nuke construction
Honestly, I had assumed this was how the US worked in any industry. The tech industry (most recently crypto) has certainly spent lavishly on politics in recent years, either to escape accountability or to get special status.
- ncmncm 4y agoIt is particularly a problem in high capex projects with opaque cost accounting, particularly nukes, urban tunnels, weapons procurement, and crewed spaceflight. Solar and wind projects seem thus far relatively immune.
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- a9h74j 4y ago> Solar and wind projects seem thus far relatively immune. The relative priority/urgency assigned by governments is probably a factor here. I have seen analysis suggesting the "learning curve" for wind has turned upward in places, rather than declining. There might also be some political science term for there being a learning curve in corruption as well. Or as is ascribed to Eric Hoffer, every social initiative ends, in a third phase, as a racket.
- ncmncm 4y agoRenewables have the structural advantage that costs are relatively transparent. N units x P per unit x fractional overhead k (<<2) is C, expected cost.