Cost at Scale
This cluster centers on skepticism toward technical solutions or ideas deemed impractical due to high costs, especially when scaling up production or deployment. Commenters repeatedly highlight economic unviability, lack of economies of scale, and prohibitive expenses as key barriers.
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That would be horribly costly at scale so i doubt they would envision that.
It’s obviously not impossible, it’s just expensive, which is a problem in the given context.
Except doing that on a large scale would be super expensive.
Sounds like an incredibly expensive solution to a problem that could be tackled more efficiently at a larger scale.
Could be extremely expensive or impractical to produce at scale, could be extremely brittle, etc.
Cost and noise would make that extremely unpractical.
Lots of things are possible but not ecomomical
Because that would be extremely complex and expensive to do for a negligible effect.
There isn't a big enough market for it, so any device capable of doing this would be expensive due to lack of economies of scale.
It can, but that would be slow and cost would be prohibitive.