X-Nico

unusual facts about economies of scale



Colorburst

Because color TVs were so common between the 1960s and 2000s, economies of scale have driven down the cost of colorburst crystals, which often find uses in various other applications, such as amateur radio (3.579 MHz is common QRP calling frequency at 80m band).


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Eurotrain

After a meeting on 17 December 1999, freshly installed DB CEO Hartmut Mehdorn and SNCF CEO Louis Gallois called on the European rail industry to create a joint high-speed train platform, to realise economies of scale.