Posts Tagged ‘failure’:

2025-06-14 Biofuels Policy Has Been A Failure – Ethanol From Corn, Soybeans

This has eaten up farmland and done other damage.  Quote  “”American farming is, by far, the largest source of domestic nitrous oxide emissions already—about 50 percent.”” https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/biofuels-policy-has-been-a-failure-for-the-climate-new-report-claims/

2024-08-15 Apple Wireless Charger Was A Failure, Tesla’s Was A Success

Apple’s wireless charger would burn up when charging more that two devices. 

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

(Read More…)

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

(Read More…)

© RustyBolt.Info/wordpress
CyberChimps