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Of the cluster's three subjects, one was a method rather than a service — techno-economic analysis; the other two stayed honestly out.

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Explanatory reference: why a technology works and where the science is unsettled. Drafted with AI assistance; pages carry no per-claim references and have not yet been reviewed by a subject expert — use them for orientation, not as a citable source. The evidence for each technology, with graded sources, is in its dossier. How this reference is made →

This cluster passed the sector’s stingiest sieve: scale-up consulting duplicates the scale-up-centers page, and a data marketplace is a market. One subject survived because TEA is not a service but a method with its own structure and limits. Its mechanism is an accounting identity wrapped around a mass-and-energy balance: the minimum selling price falls out of a discounted cash flow, and sensitivity analysis shows whose assumption — usually titre and downstream yields, for dilute products — owns the answer. That is why an honest early-stage TEA reports a distribution, not a number.

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Techno-economic analysis as a method
A TEA is an accounting identity wrapped around a mass-and-energy balance: the minimum selling price is the price that zeroes net present value, and sensitivity analysis names the assumption that owns the answer.