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Re:The booming business of knitting together the world’s ele... by rgbrenner on Sunday October 17, 2021 @01:59PM (#28898333)
China has the newest plants in the world: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/age-profile-o...

We don't know how they'll perform as they age. If we calculated quality as you suggest, they would probably win.. but we would expect brand new plants to have fewer issues than 30 year old plants.

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Re:The booming business of knitting together the world’s ele... by littlestymaar on Sunday October 17, 2021 @04:45PM (#28899636)
> but we would expect brand new plants to have fewer issues than 30 year old plants.

That's a strange expectation to have. Ever heard of the bathtub curve ?

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