Posts Tagged ‘failure’:

2023-11-28 SMRs Aren’t Viable – a History Of Failures

The article was disheartening – but understandably the reality is renewables plus storage is so much cheaper that SMRs can’t compete The utilities will not contract for a nuclear power plant when they can get solar, wind and battery storage for a fraction of the cost per MWh. What I saw no mention of so

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2022-05-28 Capacitors: Inferior Or Compromise

Long discussion about the great electrolytic capacitor failure fiasco of 2003. Someone said Dell lost $420 million on in-warranty repairs (we had Optiplex 270 and 280 MoBoards with those bad caps). Tom May One single video of cheap capacitors failing could be an individual with an axe to grind, trying to blemish a company. I

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