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Red Mountain

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12. Current thinking......

Reply to NNadir (Reply #11)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 08:33 PM

Oct 2019

is that all of the associated lifetime costs aren't worth it.

That's why they aren't getting replaced/built.

What is wrong with that thinking and how do we change?

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