You start with H20. You use energy to turn H20 to 2x H2 + 1x O2. You then turn 2x H2 + 1x O2 into H20. Where is the net gain in the system? Unless you are running you car from a fusion generator you are losing energy.
You are the one confused. The amount of energy required for electrolysis is MORE then then amount of energy that can be recovered from a fuel cell even if the fuel cell was 100% efficient. You can not go from water to hydrogen to water again and expect a net gain in energy.
Your analogy with oil is completely wrong because the energy you extract from gas was created over million of years by geological heat and pressure. It was not put there by the drilling team. They are not creating the energy. They are only transporting the energy.
Thats stupid. Why would you use energy to make hydrogen to make electricity in a fuel cell to run an electric motor when you could of just used that same energy to run the motor in the first place?
Thats true but the end result is it saves you money. Guess what, banks just pass the cost down to the consumers. at 40 billion checks a year it wouldn't be long for royalties to total over $1 billion.
No you are wrong. Theres no way to produce enough hydrogen "on the go" with a 15% efficiency. You would be better off with a standard photo voltaic cell and an electric motor.
I have to agree here. When I was in college I earned some extra cash working in a salvage shop. We would buy up old equipment from the colleges in the area, refurbish it and resell it. What we couldn't get working we broke down and parted out. One of the biggest revenue streams was laptops. Most laptops we got didn't work but you could salvage the hard drive, screen, power supply etc. and sell them for good money. There were always a long line of nearly new Power books and iBooks to work on. These things were falling apart. They had cracked screens, broken hinges, busted cases or just didn't work. On the other hand the think pads we got were all 8+years old. Most of them actually worked but they were so old that they had been replaced. I actually saw a few of the old units with the butterfly keyboard.
Nevada and Delaware maintain favorable tax treatment to attract businesses to develop there. That hasn't really worked out has it? Its not like Nevada is seeing any revenue from MS. So have your employees in a state where there is no payroll tax and then have your corporation in a sate without Corporate tax. Who looses out? The people of Washington who have to pay for the infrastructure to support MS. Guess what, if its not coming from payroll tax and not from corporate tax its coming out of property and sales tax.
This is of course just one of many examples of how our tax system is horribly out of date.
Nope, the closest is the Thinkpad X61 from Lenovo. Same Processor, Same HD, only 1GB memory standard but starts at $1020. Thats 70% cheaper then the Apple.
DRM in no way alters the risk of copying. It only alters the difficulty of copying. A thief trying to break into a car that is locked takes on inherently more risk then a car that is unlocked because he is more likely to be seen. Copying a DRMed song from itunes is no more risky then copying a song from a CD.
No If the purchasing manager for Best Buy did this he would be fired and replaced with someone who had better judgment. Also encrypting remotes is laughable. Remotes are purposefully unencrypted so that TV sets will work with universal remotes.
The big difference between the Apple store and big box stores is the nice fat profit margin. Better profit margin = better pay = better employees. Theres not a huge mystery to it. Since Apple has pricing agreements with all of its retailers it ensures it can not be undercut. No competition means that they can keep prices high and keep their boutique stores open.
The a stupid analogy. How about I fire a gun while blindfolded in your general direction. Reckless endangerment or my 4th amendment right to bear arms? You decide.
It would be virtually impossible for an aircraft to fly into your laser beam if you were using it to point to a constellation. To get that laser into the cockpit or a helicopter you would have to be trying pretty hard.
I agree. For FMV it was horribly dated. The voice acting was bad and they didn't show anything that isn't in generic shooter #657. It seems like a desperate "Hey look at us. We are still alive!" ploy.
People seem to have some odd notion that aliens are out there looking for radio waves. This strikes me as foolish. Radio waves only travel at the speed of light and as such would be stupid to use as a means communication through deep space. This leaves 2 possible scenarios.
#1) Its not possible to travel faster then the speed of light. There is very little to fear for aliens because anything that functions on our timescale is unlikely to care enough to send matter through deep space to reach us.
#2) It is possible to travel faster then light. In which case an advanced civilization would be unlikely to be looking for radio waves as they would be using some faster method of communication and we would be virtually invisible to them.
That is of course total bull. For a book to show up at your library several things had to occur.
#1) The author must have taken the time (ie money) to write the book.
#2) The editor must have gone through the book.
#3) A publisher must have thought that the book had enough merit to print.
#4) A librarian must have thought that the book had enough merit to buy.
By the time the book got into your hands it has been vetted at least 3 times. Maybe it has not been throughly researched but you can be assured that at least someone thinks that the book is worthwhile.
A book in your local library has just a smidge more credibility then a random guy on a message board.
Thats a nice deal. As for me, I kept calling stores for weeks but I eventually got mine just by walking into Best Buy and there were 2 on the shelf. I bought one and I saw the other one on Craig's List that evening. Havn't seen any on shelves since and that was months ago.
The article is completely out of context. It deals with mortality rates, not life span. What comes out of this study is fat people are likely to die of heart disease and liver failure before they get to an age where they would die of cancer or Alzheimer's. Many studies have found that being overweight decreases your life span and quality of life.
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Then maybe you shouldn't comment on things when you have no idea how they work?
You start with H20. You use energy to turn H20 to 2x H2 + 1x O2. You then turn 2x H2 + 1x O2 into H20. Where is the net gain in the system? Unless you are running you car from a fusion generator you are losing energy.
They have not addressed the hydrogen storage problem at all. It is currently very inefficient at store hydrogen.
You are the one confused. The amount of energy required for electrolysis is MORE then then amount of energy that can be recovered from a fuel cell even if the fuel cell was 100% efficient. You can not go from water to hydrogen to water again and expect a net gain in energy. Your analogy with oil is completely wrong because the energy you extract from gas was created over million of years by geological heat and pressure. It was not put there by the drilling team. They are not creating the energy. They are only transporting the energy.
Thats stupid. Why would you use energy to make hydrogen to make electricity in a fuel cell to run an electric motor when you could of just used that same energy to run the motor in the first place?
Thats true but the end result is it saves you money. Guess what, banks just pass the cost down to the consumers. at 40 billion checks a year it wouldn't be long for royalties to total over $1 billion.
No you are wrong. Theres no way to produce enough hydrogen "on the go" with a 15% efficiency. You would be better off with a standard photo voltaic cell and an electric motor.
I have to agree here. When I was in college I earned some extra cash working in a salvage shop. We would buy up old equipment from the colleges in the area, refurbish it and resell it. What we couldn't get working we broke down and parted out. One of the biggest revenue streams was laptops. Most laptops we got didn't work but you could salvage the hard drive, screen, power supply etc. and sell them for good money. There were always a long line of nearly new Power books and iBooks to work on. These things were falling apart. They had cracked screens, broken hinges, busted cases or just didn't work. On the other hand the think pads we got were all 8+years old. Most of them actually worked but they were so old that they had been replaced. I actually saw a few of the old units with the butterfly keyboard.
Nevada and Delaware maintain favorable tax treatment to attract businesses to develop there. That hasn't really worked out has it? Its not like Nevada is seeing any revenue from MS. So have your employees in a state where there is no payroll tax and then have your corporation in a sate without Corporate tax. Who looses out? The people of Washington who have to pay for the infrastructure to support MS. Guess what, if its not coming from payroll tax and not from corporate tax its coming out of property and sales tax. This is of course just one of many examples of how our tax system is horribly out of date.
Nope, the closest is the Thinkpad X61 from Lenovo. Same Processor, Same HD, only 1GB memory standard but starts at $1020. Thats 70% cheaper then the Apple.
DRM in no way alters the risk of copying. It only alters the difficulty of copying. A thief trying to break into a car that is locked takes on inherently more risk then a car that is unlocked because he is more likely to be seen. Copying a DRMed song from itunes is no more risky then copying a song from a CD.
Its not that hard to visit the website of any American company to look up an address.
No If the purchasing manager for Best Buy did this he would be fired and replaced with someone who had better judgment. Also encrypting remotes is laughable. Remotes are purposefully unencrypted so that TV sets will work with universal remotes.
Because a fire can be managed if it is caught before it spreads through the cargo hold. This message brought to you by Captain Obvious.
The big difference between the Apple store and big box stores is the nice fat profit margin. Better profit margin = better pay = better employees. Theres not a huge mystery to it. Since Apple has pricing agreements with all of its retailers it ensures it can not be undercut. No competition means that they can keep prices high and keep their boutique stores open.
Worlds worst engineering disasters meets groundhogs day. Could be fun :P
The a stupid analogy. How about I fire a gun while blindfolded in your general direction. Reckless endangerment or my 4th amendment right to bear arms? You decide.
So you are saying we should let people try over and over until they kill someone. Good thinking there.
It would be virtually impossible for an aircraft to fly into your laser beam if you were using it to point to a constellation. To get that laser into the cockpit or a helicopter you would have to be trying pretty hard.
I agree. For FMV it was horribly dated. The voice acting was bad and they didn't show anything that isn't in generic shooter #657. It seems like a desperate "Hey look at us. We are still alive!" ploy.
People seem to have some odd notion that aliens are out there looking for radio waves. This strikes me as foolish. Radio waves only travel at the speed of light and as such would be stupid to use as a means communication through deep space. This leaves 2 possible scenarios. #1) Its not possible to travel faster then the speed of light. There is very little to fear for aliens because anything that functions on our timescale is unlikely to care enough to send matter through deep space to reach us. #2) It is possible to travel faster then light. In which case an advanced civilization would be unlikely to be looking for radio waves as they would be using some faster method of communication and we would be virtually invisible to them.
That is of course total bull. For a book to show up at your library several things had to occur. #1) The author must have taken the time (ie money) to write the book. #2) The editor must have gone through the book. #3) A publisher must have thought that the book had enough merit to print. #4) A librarian must have thought that the book had enough merit to buy. By the time the book got into your hands it has been vetted at least 3 times. Maybe it has not been throughly researched but you can be assured that at least someone thinks that the book is worthwhile. A book in your local library has just a smidge more credibility then a random guy on a message board.
Thats a nice deal. As for me, I kept calling stores for weeks but I eventually got mine just by walking into Best Buy and there were 2 on the shelf. I bought one and I saw the other one on Craig's List that evening. Havn't seen any on shelves since and that was months ago.
People still Like Beethoven, does that make him a better artist then Justin Timberlake? I contend it does.
The article is completely out of context. It deals with mortality rates, not life span. What comes out of this study is fat people are likely to die of heart disease and liver failure before they get to an age where they would die of cancer or Alzheimer's. Many studies have found that being overweight decreases your life span and quality of life.