Aeronaut wrote: TCG, the operating numbers are probably a lot better than I floated as worst case above. They charged the installation and setup engineering fees for each and every core swap. I see the installation as a very minute share of the real pie for the salesmen, much like printers make the money by selling ink. If you can lock PG&E into a 20 year service contract for 1,000 or more reactors, you could price the lot however you wanted in order to get the real prize.
FF could probably use the same method for ramping up the sales.
Sell the printers cheap and the cartridges expensive…
