They happen fairly frequently, and if they are intense enough they can damage satellites, blackout radio signals, and damage electrical equipment.
FORBES: Intelligence Community Warns Solar Storms Could Collapse Electric Grid
The eyes, in particular the cornea, are very prone to damage from tanning equipment.
Besides the mice, researchers lost precious specimens and suffered damage to sensitive equipment from the blackouts and flooding from the nearby East River.
Elyissia is still calculating the damage to inventory and equipment.
Damage to the grid: Power surges and electrical system failure due to high loads can cause power outages and damage to BC Hydro equipment and infrastructure, including the premature failure of distribution transformers.
Directed energy (DE) is an umbrella term covering technologies that produce a beam of concentrated electromagnetic energy or atomic or subatomic particles as a direct means to damage or destroy adversary equipment, facilities, and personnel.
Mr. Prendergast and his team won particular praise for successful planning ahead of superstorm Sandy, helping the MTA escape some of the more severe damage to trains and equipment that afflicted other regional transportation systems.
Multiple factors could affect revenue loss, including the amount of finished goods inventory available, extent of the damage to the building and the equipment, the length of time for operations to resume back to full production.
FORBES: Thailand Floods Causing Tech Supply Chain Issues (Updated)
Rolled out in the late 1990s, many of these original satellites have suffered suspected radiation damage to their S-band transmitter equipment, which has limited their ability to handle two-way communications.
Firm or slightly higher HDD pricing will help the industry invest in new capital equipment to repair the flood damage as well as invest in capital required for volume increases and technology transitions expected in the next few years.
FORBES: Capital Equipment Likely Needed for Thailand HDD Factory Repairs
Gym owners got instructions to disconnect every piece of workout equipment from the wall to prevent damage during power surges.
New rules imposed by the NRC require plant operators to install or improve venting systems to limit core damage in a serious accident and set up sophisticated equipment to monitor water levels in pools of spent nuclear fuel.
Refiners are reluctant to blend more than 10% ethanol into gasoline because consumers don't want it, and because a higher blend can damage the engines of older cars, boats and electrical equipment.
It said the fire damage was so extensive it was having to rebuild the box and associated equipment.
The damage was most evident in autos, down 44.5%, and power equipment, down 48.7%.
As the hard disk drive and drive component companies start to get back into their factories to access the damage there will undoubtedly be a lot of facility cleanup and repair and likely replacement of some expensive capital equipment particularly when this equipment was on the first floor of a flooded building.
FORBES: Capital Equipment Likely Needed for Thailand HDD Factory Repairs
The plants also must improve protection of safety equipment installed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and make sure they can handle damage to multiple reactors at the same time.
Flooding wasn't extensive in Manhattan during the storm, but it caused some spectacular damage where it did occur, inundating subway stations and tunnels, crippling critical electrical infrastructure and destroying the mechanical equipment in waterfront skyscrapers.
Businesses and private non-profit organizations of any size may borrow funds to repair or replace disaster damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory, and other business assets, or to make improvements that lessen the risk of property damage by future disasters of the same kind.
应用推荐