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My guess would be that this figure also includes costs for downtime and the like, but that's just a guess. Would be interested to see a more detailed breakdown
by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
My guess would be that this figure also includes costs for downtime and the like, but that's just a guess. Would be interested to see a more detailed breakdown of the $400k.
- catalogia 7y agoHow would you measure the cost of downtime for a toilet system? Number of people in the infirmary with constipation?
- Carpetsmoker 7y agoI would imagine that repairing it would mean it'll be out of commission for a few hours up to a few days, for example by waiting until the repair techs arrive or whatnot, interrupting regular operations. Depending on how the costs are counted, even just a few hours can quickly catch up if you add all the personal costs of the sailors on the ship etc. It's the same with things like outages, an outage lasting a day may "cost" $1 million, but what's actually meant is that you missed $1 million in profits for the day, not that you had to pay $1 million. If operating a carrier costs $400k/day then you could say then fixing something for a day "costs" $400k, but that's kind of a simplistic way of putting it.