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Re:Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 by CraigJPerry on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:49AM (#26213094)
I suspect the parent is fully cognisant of this. They are illuminating one of the fallacies of the free market extremists.
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Re:Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 by austincheney on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:32AM (#26214153)
Free market vs regulation are irrelevant to my comment. Neither make rare conditions required for testing less rare.
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Re:Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 by CraigJPerry on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:30AM (#26214715)
Apologies - I misunderstood the intent of what you wrote. For testing would it not be possible to use modelling instead?

E.g. in the way that you might fire drill recovery from a nuclear reactor instability without first melting part of the core.

Or how you might test a martian lunar rover before sending it off to Mars.

Even if modelling the entire system wasn’t possible with sufficient fidelity, why couldn’t you replicate the system in a geographic environment with the requisite conditions?

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