You have drawings that show how it works and a supply of spare parts. When it stops working people can figure out why using the drawings and then fix or replace the broken or worn out components.
No I guess thats not so easy. Every new part in a design for a nuclear power station has to be certified. So just use another almost same chip is not so easy, because you have to make o lot of tests, so the new part is allowed. Thats why a lot of things for nuclear power station are so extreme expensive.
The components we are installing have chips in them, but we don’t worry about what chip because the manufacturer of the product keeps it working the same way. The modicon quantum Plc uses the pentium 166 chip and was released in 1994 and I can still buy it today from Schneider although they encourage new installations to use a newer product. I am sure I will still be encountering old quantum Plc in the field when I retire, the platform will have a 50 year lifespan.
Even when a line of controllers is end of life the manufacturers provide an upgrade path to their newer product line.
25k seems excessive, but 10% of a years anticipated revenue might be appropriate.
It is not unusual to have to but up a bond in order to bid on a contract.
the building was saved and moved instead of being torn down in order to preserve architectural heritage. From the outside the building doesn't look special.
One of my favorite places in Moscow [1], the Andreevskij Most, was moved from its place to new one to become pedestrian bridge (it was railroad bridge before that, I used to see fireworks from its heights).
The move was big deal back then - the preparation took eight months and the move itself took hour and a half (for about kilometer of walking distance).
It’s 6000 jobs, generating electricity without producing carbon, sustaining an industry and construction and manufacturing know how, and creation of a product for export. These seem like worthwhile pursuits to me and a good use of public funds.
Absolute numbers of jobs without a number of years aren’t useful (most of those may be transient), and they especially aren’t useful when not compared to the job creation impact of other expenditures of those same dollars.
Giving a grant to an existing company with a long history of technical excellence and delivering products to build a new product and a factory for it means jobs that don’t go away. A power plant built creates jobs to run it for as long as it exists.
On the other hand All construction jobs are not permanent - they finish building the project and have to move on to the next one, if it is the factory for the power plants, the power plant itself, the next power plant, or something else.
18 million pounds is a lot of money, but it’s a pittance compared to what tech companies are raising from VCs. In relation to the size of tech companies and the size of investments in them, 6000 jobs and the kick start to an industry for 18 million pounds seems like a bargain to me.
The cost of the property reflects the value of the rents, the cost of financing, property taxes and maintenance. Rents are probably not that out of wack with the landlords costs. If the landlords revenue does exceed costs you could see it as either money the landlord needs to save for future major repairs like new roof, new appliances, payment for their labour, return on the down payment invested, etc. if you can’t beat them join them and if you can’t join them then maybe it isn’t quite so easy and cut and dry.
There are little air strips all over the place you could land at and then instead of having to figure out a ride to your destination which can be difficult in rural areas you can drive.
A Canadian study linked the illness symptoms of Canadian and American diplomats in Havana to heavy use of the pesticide used against mosquitoes for Zika virus.
