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		octaane 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotla... Sounds like they need to get the quality control down pat if only 1 out of 4 of the turbines achieved this goal - still a promising milestone, though.

Peanuts99 6 months ago | [–]

Engineering for machines underwater is tough because the environment is extremely hostile. For a test bed device, 25% success is very good.

lostlogin 6 months ago | [–]

Upgrades and changes are mentioned, so it’s not clear that reliability is the only cause of downtime.

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