Guardian on HECToR

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Rather dreary bit of puffery on HECToR in today's Graun. The last paragraph, however, is telling:

It has cost £5.6m less than the £65m estimate to build, but its annual running costs have jumped from the £5.4m estimate to £8.2m. Trew said this was because electricity prices in the UK had nearly doubled since the planning stages. "I think the initial estimates for power costs were unrealistically low, but power does cost an awful lot more today than it did five or six years ago," he said.

Which rather explains the six month delay in finding a site to host the damn thing...