Question

Will the Extreme Light Infrastructure facility come online as planned in 2018?

Resolved :No35%

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Total Forecasters53

Community Prediction35% (29% - 41%)

Make a Prediction

50%

community: 35%

Did this actually happen?No

Community Baseline Score

30.6

Community Peer Score

-4.7

Authors:

paulgabrielsen

Opened:

Nov 26, 2016

Closes:

Nov 15, 2017

Resolves:

Dec 31, 2018

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Technology

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Czech Republic

Extreme Light Infrastructure

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