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Green Cars You Can't Buy
Geoffrey.landis writes "Auto industry blogger Lawrence Ulrich notes that Honda is now making a "Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle" (or PZEV for short) version of the 2008 Accord, an all-new vehicle that is redesigned to meet California emission standards. He notes "So, just how green is a PZEV machine? Well, if you just cut your lawn with a gas mower, congratulations, you just put out more pollution in one hour than these cars do in 2,000 miles of driving."
But the irony is that it's actually illegal for automakers to sell these green cars outside of the special states they were designed for! Apparently, anybody selling one of these ultra-green vehicles out of the correctly-designated venue — which means either California, or seven northeast-states with similar pollution laws — "could be subject to civil fines of up to $27,500. Volvo sent its dealers a memo alerting them to this fact, noting that its greenest S40 and V50 models were only for the special states.""
I'm totally screwed. I live in a red state.
and more importantly, can you divide by partial zero?
Ah, the smell of technology innovation being stifled by stupid legal action in the morning.
"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time." Danny Vinyard -American History X
Well, it's a bit like fuzzy logic. When a zero is sufficiently large, it's almost as much as a little bit of one.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
... you cant buy one :)
Vincent Price's Orphan Powered Death Machine has zero emissions too; it does not exist.
Or does it..?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
> can you divide by partial zero?
Of course you can. That's the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
Yes, but only a little bit.
Does that mean it's partially non ridiculous?
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
"Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle"
You have to take it into context.
It obviously means that part of the car has no emission.
With today's technology they can easily make a car have only emission from the exhaust.
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Does anybody else wonder whether the US government has been taken over by somebody (possibly giant alien lizards) who are deliberately trying to ruin the country?
The Republican party believes government is incompetent to provide many basic public services and therefore underfunds it and runs it incompetently in order to prove their point.
Edith Keeler Must Die
My spoon is too big.
Sounds almost "like a virgin".
Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
After they closed many of the mental hospitals in America, they had to put the more dangerous lunatics somewhere, and they're far less of a threat to ordinary citizens being locked up in Congress than allowed out on the streets.
As for the giant alien lizards, I have to disagree. Deranged creatures from the corridors of time seem much more likely.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Correct. The result of this calculation is either "small infinity", "mostly undefined", or "sort-of-not-a-number", depending on context.
Rolls off the road much easier too.
Karnal
Hurray for Super Ultra Vehicles!! (SUV)
> Nope, it's in engineering. We're taught to despise Marketing folk. :-D
Sigh engineering is a superior school. Poor Information Technology students learn to despise marketing folks all by themselves.
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This certainly is an improvement from (especially British) vehicles of yesteryear which emitted oil, gas and water even in the garage.
Progress as promised!
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
But only for sufficiently small values of one....
Still not clear. Can someone explain it with say, a car analogy?
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wow... i can't believe how fast my eyes glazed over when reading your post.
Thank you for the college lecture flash back... every once in a while I forget about all the negatives of being in college and I only remember positives.
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all language nazi's will burne in heil!
So you're saying that the part of the car not consisting of engine and tailpipe produces zero emissions? Genius!!
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.