RubberElectrons

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[โ€“] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They fucked up San onofre so bad it's now being decommissioned ๐Ÿ˜ก

https://newsroom.edison.com/stories/sce-formally-serves-mitsubishi-with-notice-of-dispute

It was a $680mill job, and SoCal Edison (SCE) had such an inept legal team, they missed a term in the contract with Mitsubishi which limited payout for failure within the 20yr warranty to $125mill.

Can you fucking believe that shit? I only found this out after investigating why there was a $3 "decommissioning fee" on my first electric bill after moving to California.

The alternative explanation is immediately where I jumped to halfway through the story, though of course one pin would have to be contacting the metal body somehow.

Or, otherwise, it was forced into being a really cruddy capacitor ...

Hell yeah, awesome ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 77 points 6 days ago (15 children)

Damn, that's where it happened?? I fucking bike right past that!!

[โ€“] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

๐Ÿ˜ฌ damn, sorry homie. I guess if it's lifetime warranted, resell the replacements?

Not particularly relevant, but it'll help you see through marketing dreck no matter how it evolves: Plasma arcs can go that high in temp, but has no effect on what makes something "hard" or "soft": interatomic bond strength. I'm certain you know this, but carbon (as in the diamond) holds hands really strongly with other carbon, more strongly than iron to iron as in a steel spatula.

In theory, an actual diamond surface (not sprayed on, but grown) would be impervious to steel implements. But in reality, making a fully uniform diamond coating is extremely difficult, and thus tear-jerkingly expensive.

Spraying chunks of diamond onto a surface as the mfgr has done really means there's a thin sticky coating on the pan before they start, so that these hot pieces of diamond partly melt into it and are "glued". Safe bet that later is PTFE. That means when your pan is hot on the stove, the layer softens and you wind up eating little bits of diamond with each meal. One day, food sticks, as you'll have found a spot missing too many diamonds, it's just the substrate with a bunch of tiny holes to make food stick even worse than a smooth plastic surface.

[โ€“] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

All technically true & correct.

I'll add that cast iron consistently works better for longer: My ceramic or PTFE pots start great, but after a while become so terrible they're useless in spite of silicone spatulas etc. I cook almost daily, so I found the new tech pans fully degraded within a year or less.

Cast iron, I've car camped and daily stove topped, no problem. I season it once every couple of years, works great.

Nah I want graphene (sigh, sorry calyxos) and a real keyboard.

Then they become human ablating lasers as the tech keeps shrinking...

There's positive tech stuff out here too, bud. You'll likely need to look for yourself though, the recruiter reaching out to you is better funded for some reason.

You and I have disagreed on other things occasionally.

But a bunch of downvotes for someone pointing out the shitty idea behind credit scores, and an upvoted brand new account justifying them.. how curious.