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		robocat on Nov 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OVH outage explained So now the system fails due to frothy diesel. Or due to failures of the additional pumps (adding mechanical complexity to a system often decreases overall reliability)

robryk on Nov 12, 2017 [–]

Yes. This is a tradeoff between a chance of catastrophic failure (fire fed by fuel from the storage tank) and "normal" failure.

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