Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 32 The Fragile Grid Why Electricity Is Getting More Expensive

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https://youtu.be/X9xvBPkcyRI This episode dives straight into one of the most misunderstood issues in modern energy: what really happens when maintenance fails and why your electricity bill feels it. Recorded over…

Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 31 Streamline Conference C Suite ROI Energy and Emissions

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We attended the Streamline Conference this week, a book review of 'Condition Monitoring ROI Calculator' book and associated website by Abraham Brooks, and then the application of free US DOE…

Chaos and Caffeine Episode 29 Bridging the Gap from Theory to Real World Reliability

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In this episode we will have ChatGPT Juniper as our co-host - a fun little experiment and an attempt to go by a script (not very well). We discuss the…

Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 21 Its the Economy Stupid and the Trades in 2026

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We try the Starbucks Eggnog Latte then discuss the impacts and conditions surrounding 2025, including AI, policy decisions, and the impacts of all of them on small to medium businesses.…

Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 16 7 11 Cappuccino and Standards Meetings and Overview for Electric Machines

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Trying out 7/11 Cappuccino and then a discussion of the upcoming IEEE P1415 project on root cause failure analysis and condition based maintenance of electric machines, standards meetings from this…

Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 15 Pumpkin Spice Condition Based Maintenance

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We try and compare Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts pumpkin spice latte (shudder) and then discuss what's going on with modern condition-based maintenance with a combination of AI-generated jokes and a…

CIGRE Croatia Paper Practical Application of Electrical and Current Signature Analysis in DFIG Turbine Systems Oct 14 2025

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Abstract—On and off-shore wind generators and powertrain systems have significant reliability concerns that increase the operations and maintenance costs associated with ownership and affect individual tower availability. The primary failure…