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by lostlogin
3643 days ago
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There is also the motivations of the scanner owner to consider. They are paid to do scans. A cheap scan might be low hundreds of dollars per hour. A more commercial rate would be well into the thousands. We don't want to dry up now do we? |
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The scanner owners are almost all universities. One typically does have to pay to use the scanner(and quite a bit--$500+ per hour is typical), but this is typically meant to cover the scanner costs. The equipment costs at least four million dollars, plus some ongoing costs (cryogens, typically a full-time tech or two, and maintenance; the power bill is probably not trivial either).