from_scratch: (f ~ real sun)
Campbell Mark Swan ([personal profile] from_scratch) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia 2015-10-15 11:35 pm (UTC)

"If you say so. There is separately a question of how high-tech I should make the dam and wiring and things. It's almost a linear tradeoff between features like efficiency and safety versus the ability to easily teach locals to maintain them. I won't be making anything with a manufacturing defect, I have no reason to use flimsy cheap materials, and the high-tech stuff wouldn't want upgrading or replacement nearly as quickly - but if something catches fire or someone goes around deliberately cutting cables you want to be able to patch it yourselves if you can't get ahold of me, I assume."

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