Too cheap to meter refers to a commodity so inexpensive that it is cheaper and less bureaucratic to simply provide it for a flat fee or even free and...
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Lewis Strauss (category Rejected or withdrawn nominees to the United States Executive Cabinet)
energy, and he predicted that atomic power would make electricity "too cheap to meter". At the same time, he downplayed the possible health effects of radioactive...
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Atomic Age (section 1970s to 1990s)
states that nuclear energy will be "too cheap to meter". 17 October 1956 – The world's first nuclear power station to deliver electricity in commercial...
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nuclear energy: It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic...
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000,000". Treehugger. Retrieved 2022-06-12. Greg (March 12, 2009). "Too cheap to meter". oklo.org. Retrieved March 29, 2025. "High-Frequency Traders Literally...
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Sunk cost (section Desire not to appear wasteful)
reluctant to terminate economically unviable nuclear plant projects. In the 1960s, the nuclear power industry promised "energy too cheap to meter". Nuclear...
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order to have the possibility of four intersecting points. Conventional practice inverts the cumulative frequencies for "too cheap" and "cheap/good value"...
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ISSN 0162-2439. JSTOR 689009. S2CID 145616169. Cohn, Steve (1997). Too cheap to meter: an economic and philosophical analysis of the nuclear dream. SUNY...
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in the nation to implement the practice on a trial basis. Flat fee MLS Flat rate (finance) Flat tax Rural Internet Too cheap to meter "Businessdictionary...
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AEC chair Lewis Strauss foresaw electricity as "too cheap to meter". Strauss was likely referring to fusion power, part of the secret Project Sherwood—but...
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that atomic energy would be "too cheap to meter" in the 1950s proved overly optimistic, however. Atomic energy grew to be a large part of several nations...
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expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter". September 29 – The Catch (baseball): A notable defensive play is...
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Digital Wonderland", "News of Inspectors General" and "Clean, Safe, Too Cheap to Meter" use original music recorded and sung by Shearer. "Clintonsomething"...
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to be effective against unprotected targets... and are less likely to rupture a hull than a plasma bolt. Energy is a resource literally too cheap to meter...
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An electricity meter, electric meter, electrical meter, energy meter, or kilowatt-hour meter is a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed...
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Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30884-0. Cohn, Steven Mark (1997). Too Cheap to Meter: An Economic and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuclear Dream. SUNY...
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communicates the information to the consumer and electricity suppliers. Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) differs from automatic meter reading (AMR) in that...
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slogan — "too cheap to meter" — described as the foundation of another myth. The book argues that nuclear power is not and has never been cheap but rather...
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"Council for a Livable World". 15 December 2014. Steve Cohn (1997). Too cheap to meter: an economic and philosophical analysis of the nuclear dream SUNY...
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September 1954 (category Articles to be expanded from October 2015)
expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter". Born: Ashrita Furman, born Keith Furman, American record-breaker...
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metering (or net energy metering, NEM) is an electricity billing mechanism that allows consumers who generate some or all of their own electricity to...
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sensors and current transformers (see clamp meters). Current shunts are considered more accurate and cheaper than Hall effect devices. Common accuracy specifications...
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lenses had a "meter coupling ridge" cam on the lens aperture ring that pushed on a spring-loaded "meter coupling lever" on the Photomic head to transfer aperture...
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Lovely Rita (redirect from Lovely rita meter maid)
Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It is about a meter maid and the narrator's affection for her. The term "meter-maid", largely unknown in...
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record holder in the 200-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter butterfly, 200-meter individual medley, and 400-meter individual medley. He has...
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JP Aerospace (section Airship to Orbit project)
specializes in lighter-than-air flight, with the stated aim of achieving cheap access to space. An early suborbital space launch attempt using a rockoon (balloon-launched...
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Instrumentation (redirect from Meter (device))
reported to diagnostic equipment. Navigation systems can provide voice commands to reach a destination. Automotive instrumentation must be cheap and reliable...
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Top Gear challenges (redirect from Cheap Car Challenges (Top Gear))
by the "How hard can it be?" and Cheap car challenges, which are much larger in scope. How fast do you have to drive to be undetected by a speed camera...
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appearing in minor roles in both films and television shows before rising to fame in early October 2002. She played Sarah Tobin from Greetings from Tucson...
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