31. One such process, set up in or about 1973, took 100KW from the ESB
at the far end of the Western rural distribution network, to run a
furnace to grow quartz crystals. The firm did not survive. There was
at that time a certain lack of sophistication on the part of those
administering development grants to industry in the West; the lessons
have by now been learned.
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