Quote: “”Is building new nuclear plants possible?The chief question is: Can it be done in time and at a cost consumers can afford? History says, “no.” “” New nuclear is much too expensive – they have multi-Billion dollar cost overruns. New nuclear takes too long to build – they have had decade long construction delays.
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Me and my high school friend made a DC to DC converter that would give us 30 or so volts at a couple amps from a 12 volt battery. We used germanium power transistors which could not go much above 10 kHz. The Delco’s and the 2N458A’s were our favorites – we managed to push
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From FB comment Monty Ross It’s true that optocouplers are used for isolation. But I have seen whole sections of PC boards with a hole burned where the optocouplers used to be. It is incredible how much damage the power lines do to the PC boards due to high voltage spikes in the power. Transformers
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