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Comment Re: OK (Score 3, Informative) 169

You can not do repairs or inspections of any substance in a few hours at a natural gas plant. The turbines and boilers need a couple of days before it cools down enough to insert a bore scope without melting. You would also not be messing with pumps, filters, or anything else in the timespan of a few hours, as you wouldn't know when a dispatch order could come.

Comment Re: the capitalist mindset (Score 1) 26

Even if it only took a couple months for someone to be proficient with training and tuning models, that's too slow for a lot of the companies making these hires. It's a gold rush to be on top of this "next big thing", claims need to be staked out immediately. It doesn't matter that there might not be that much gold in the ground. A late mover isn't going to get any of it, so companies have to scramble to be there.

Comment Re: Eh (Score 1) 90

Mapping the ocean floor with side-scan sonar is the only realistic way it will be found. I suppose it may be possible to build robotic ships to do this, but the cost is still very high and the surviving pieces of airplane may be difficult to distinguish from the ocean floor. This would generate candidate sites that would need to be checked one by one by ROVs. There are many excellent autonomous underwater robots used in offshore oil and gas, but nothing that would work thousands of miles from shore without a sizeable support vessel.

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