On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 12:02:48 -0400
"jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com" <jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com> wrote:
The story behind this, told by a colleague, is that a
Chinese company
has pirated only half of the plans to make capacitors. Their recipe
left out the most important part.
And naturally Wikipedia has something about it, The Capacitor Plague:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague