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All numbers regarding things that will happen in the future tend to be estimates, no matter which long term engineering project you care to pick. For fairly obv

• maxerickson 12y ago
  Sure, that's why I said Those estimates are probably going to be reasonable, because I don't think it is a problem that they are estimates. But it is sometimes nice to peer through the wikipedia and see what lies beneath.
  • lotsofmangos 12y ago
    Your point seemed to be that the first of the studies you picked was based on estimates for things like total lifetime and decommissioning. But the fact that the first thing you picked relied on estimates for those things tells us nothing at all about the quality of the data, just that estimates were used for something where estimates are always used.
    • maxerickson 12y ago
      I suppose my point was that it is unfortunate that so much context is lost by the time a chart ends up in Wikipedia. At a minimum, they should probably get rid of some of the decimal places in their table. I was not trying to paint it as likely that the other studies would be similar to the one I looked at (I see why my phrasing doesn't necessarily communicate that, but I was simply trying to say that I hadn't done more than look at the 1 study).