• mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      30 days ago

      “Not blowing up later” would be part of the problem being solved

      Engineering for future requirements almost always turn out to be a net loss. You don’t build a distillation column to process 8000T of benzene if you only need to process 40T

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        29 days ago

        but you could design it to be easily scalable instead of having to build another even more expensive thing when you suddenly need to process 41T