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AR1500, artists’ illustration. one, to also prove it is reliable.”

Phase 1A will prove the concept and reli- ability. Future steps for the project will be about reducing costs. “We are always going to be look- ing for cost reduction,”

Collier says. “Part of that will be doing every- thing cheaper next time and ? nding ways to get the cost of the turbine down.”

As good as it could be

So far, the project is going as well as it could do, Collier says. “The nice thing about other ways of doing it, which we did, and we changed a few what we have done, having been there from the start, is that we things, and it has gone about as well as it could do. The process have the project design about right,” he says. “No one has said is to learn as much as we can along the way and feed that into we cannot do this or they want to change that. From a personal the next array.” point of view, that’s pleasing. For a nascent industry with nascent technology, MeyGen is “We had a plan, and we said we were prepared to listen to showing the way.

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