No matter WHO said it, it WAS out in the public forum, right?
That was MY point. What was yours?
My point is that the guy who said it had no idea what the hell he was talking about and the morons in the media ran wild with that quote. If they had just asked people in the industry, they would have been corrected.
People in the industry at that time were struggling to build the first commercial plants and did not know for sure if they would ever be competitive with coal. Turns out they were after years of hard work, but it was never and never will be “ too cheap to meter”. It’s just a very efficient way to make steam.