Friday, November 24, 2017
More Kraut "efficiency"
Carrying on from the realization that "German efficiency" is mostly a slogan.
I've been slowly building a fancier version of Volney Mathison's meter. Slowly because paid courseware takes priority. Got a break between deadlines this week, so got some soldering done.
Tested the built part. One side works nicely, the other side immediately warmed up the battery. Short somewhere. Discouraging.
Then I read this article about Berlin's perpetually unfinished airport.
90km of cables were incorrectly installed, 4,000 doors were incorrectly numbered, the escalators were too short and the emergency line to the fire department was faulty. It has also been reported that the airport’s roof was twice the authorised weight. The one success airport management can ‘boast’ about, is that after 11 years of construction, 51 percent of the airport’s automated doors are fully functional.Made me feel a little better. One creaky old coot, $40 of parts, three hours of soldering, and half of it works. Thousands of well-paid workers, $7.8 billion cost so far, 11 years of construction, and half of it works. Priceless. ¶ 3:57 PM
