RE: Sour Grapes....much!11 Dec 2024 17:27
i don’t work for rolls, only have their shares; so i guess i’ve got a vested interest,,,, but i am an engineer, an educated engineer at that (but i do like to play with nuts and bolts too). i see this issue as part of the course, we (engineers) have had demands placed upon us to make items more cost affective, more environmentally friendly , more powerful, but there comes a point in the development and compliance where it becomes exponentially harder to achieve all three . to compare it to automotive engines; we can develop an engine with incredible durability, but as soon as you aim for greater environmental compliance, or reduced fuel usage , or more power – you end up with an item that is infinitely more complex and as such introduce more chance of things needing attention. compare a 70’s chain driven pushrod /valve engine to modern- twin turbo, injection ,ic controlled, dual overhead cam 16 v, with a cam belt (or even worse wet belt), centuries apart- quite literally. or a 70’s micro chip with no buffer, cache and simple registers to a modern speculative cpu with microcode, multi stage pipeline and multi level cache etc. there is natural more to go wrong and as such more maintenance needed. think back 8 years to the ‘melt down’ speculative venerability in virtually every single modern cpu (from most manufacturers – powerpc, arm, intel etc)
to ***** at rr really takes the biscuit, airlines have saved in fuel and been allowed to continue to fly (meeting ever increasing pollution targets)– and a consequence is that the engines which achieve this need more maintenance . correct me if i am wrong, comments welcome..
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