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Does anyone know why wind tunnel use costs $500 an hour? Electricity bill?

• nodata 12y ago
  Because someone will pay $500 per hour.
• rasz_pl 12y ago
  Setup costs.
  • jtheory 12y ago
    That's my guess -- they must be quite expensive to build, with quite a bit of specialized hardware involved (not exactly off-the-shelf stuff!), and highly-specialized people to run it ...but then only one experiment can use the whole shebang at a time (including setup/teardown time), so they can't spread out the costs across lots of concurrent users.
• Too 12y ago
  It's not just a big fan, they also come with all the measurement equipment.