It's not like they had a wood door with a deadbolt. They were locked in an underground bunker with 8ft thick concrete walls and multiple 3ft thick steel blast doors. They were not going to let their "friends" inside.
I have toured this site and it is very impressive. As far as getting in, they have a phone at the entrance to the silo that you use to contact an officer inside the silo and code in. Once he opens the first blast door you enter a corridor that is basically an airlock. The 1st blast door closes behind you and you have so many seconds to get to the second blast door phone and code in. If you don't make it or fail to code in correctly there were several truck loads troops on their way from nearby Davis-Monthan AFB.
Thanks for doing your part to save the planet by posting to slashdot with a typewriter instead of a power wasting computer. Your sacrifices are appreciated.
Yeah, that's why we should ban deaf people from leaving their houses. Making a law to set an output level on a mp3 player to protect people who are too stupid to look both ways while crossing the street makes about as much sense.
According to the recent census, only 60% of folks live in single family dwellings.
Does that directly correlate to the number of people who have garages or electrical service where they park their car. What if I live in a condo or townhouse with a garage?
Your time estimate is about 1/2 of what Telsa claims.
You need a 240-volt 40-amp draw for 8 hours for a full charge.
Except the Tesla charger is 70 Amps. Simple math: 240V @ 70Amps = 16,800 Watts. The Tesla battery capacity is 53kWh. 53,000Wh / 16,800W = 3.15 hours in an ideal world. Makes their claim of a 3.5hour full charge using the high power connector reasonable.
Most older homes have less than a 100-amp main panel, so 40-amps would be a stretch.
The average main service in the US is 240V @ 200A, not "less than 100 amp." My heat pump is on a 60A breaker.
To put that in perspective, that's a 9.6 kW load or the equivalent of running an electric dryer 24 hours. At the national average of 12cents/kwhr that's around $9.
You fail math. 9.6kW for 24 hours is 230.4kWh. You could charge the Tesla over 4 times with that. In the real world 240V @ 70A for 3.5 Hours is 58.8 kWh x 12 cents a kWh national average = 7.05 dollars to charge the battery from full dead. With an average 244 miles a charge that's 34.6 miles per dollar. Unless gas gets back down to a dollar a gallon you won't beat that. Also I pay 3.5c a kWh in my nuclear and hydro powered state so it would be 2.06 dollars a charge for me or 118 miles per dollar.
Also, perhaps the most important thing to remember is that the Tesla was not designed as an economy car but as a high performance sports car. Show me any car that can match the 0-60mph time (which is faster than many Ferraris and Lamborghinis) that costs less to drive per mile than a Honda Civic.
Theoretically a 64 bit OS and proccessor could support 16 Exabytes (actually 16 Exbibytes) but in reality the current hardware can only handle a 40bit physical address (1TiB) with the ability to go to 52bit(4PiB).
His numbers were only low-balled if he is in the top few percent of taxable income. You can't just divide the cost of a program by the number of tax payers when the top 20% pays over 80% of total taxes.
How about the Submarine Force Library & Museum in Connecticut? I toured the Nautilus several years ago and it is definitely worth the trip if you are in the North-East.
Aboard NAUTILUS, experience first-hand the thrill of being a submariner as you walk the decks that made Naval history: the world's first nuclear powered vessel, first ship to go to the North Pole and first submarine to journey "20,000 Leagues under the sea." Explore the spaces where the crew of this amazing ship worked, ate, slept, and entertained themselves on their long voyages far beneath the ocean's waves.
Quoting the worst case scenario of a 15amp 120v wall outlet is pretty disingenuous, if you are buying a $100K car you should set aside a couple hundred to hire an electrician to install a proper outlet in your garage. The Tesla charger is capable of 240V @ 80A input. That's 19,200 watts, almost 10x more. This is why it only takes 3.5 hours rather than 30 hours to charge the Tesla.
Also, do we really need any better than that in our garages for electrics to be viable? How long does it take you to fill your gas tank in your garage now?
So now that you've (hopefully) admitted to yourself that charging your car in your garage for 3.5 hours every night is much more convenient than stopping at the gas station to fill up for your commute do you agree that all we really need now is some fast charging stations along the interstates that can handle charging in less than half an hour? That is the last hurdle that I see, occasional long distance trips, and it doesn't seem like impossible infrastructure to implement. Especially considering that most commercial services are 480V 3 phase so at the same current as the home charger (80A) and a power factor of.8 you could charge the car from dead to full in one hour and 160A to charge in a half hour is not ridiculous for a commercial charging station on the side of the interstate in my opinion.
The waste issue has been solved. Nuclear reprocessing IS the answer to the waste problem. The fact that political opposition stands in the way does not change the fact that a valid solution exists.
Guys rarely go into female only fields like nursing or pre-school teaching for the same reasons girls don't do tech
Except that 10% of nurses are now male, rising every year. On top of that 20% of current nursing students are male, again, rising every year.
Is it really so hard to believe that more men find electrical engineering interesting and more women find psychology interesting? Do we really have to be the same to be equal? I hope not, that would be pretty boring.
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Don't you mean "i interpret it as yelling, more specifically the yelling of a crazy man on a street corner."
It's not like they had a wood door with a deadbolt. They were locked in an underground bunker with 8ft thick concrete walls and multiple 3ft thick steel blast doors. They were not going to let their "friends" inside.
Ah, its only 15 miles south of Tuscan.
I have toured this site and it is very impressive. As far as getting in, they have a phone at the entrance to the silo that you use to contact an officer inside the silo and code in. Once he opens the first blast door you enter a corridor that is basically an airlock. The 1st blast door closes behind you and you have so many seconds to get to the second blast door phone and code in. If you don't make it or fail to code in correctly there were several truck loads troops on their way from nearby Davis-Monthan AFB.
Thanks for doing your part to save the planet by posting to slashdot with a typewriter instead of a power wasting computer. Your sacrifices are appreciated.
God there needs to be a RFC for this.
Both?
FLIR does not emit IR and can "see in the dark."
Yeah, that's why we should ban deaf people from leaving their houses. Making a law to set an output level on a mp3 player to protect people who are too stupid to look both ways while crossing the street makes about as much sense.
Or you can just Opt Out
They aren't magic. You can still hear. Besides, if hearing is your main truck avoidance mechanism, you've got other problems.
Helicopters can auto-rotate so crashing into the ground at 50-60mph like they say is a pretty severe crash.
Does that directly correlate to the number of people who have garages or electrical service where they park their car. What if I live in a condo or townhouse with a garage?
No, it is not.
Except the Tesla charger is 70 Amps. Simple math: 240V @ 70Amps = 16,800 Watts. The Tesla battery capacity is 53kWh. 53,000Wh / 16,800W = 3.15 hours in an ideal world. Makes their claim of a 3.5hour full charge using the high power connector reasonable.
The average main service in the US is 240V @ 200A, not "less than 100 amp." My heat pump is on a 60A breaker.
You fail math. 9.6kW for 24 hours is 230.4kWh. You could charge the Tesla over 4 times with that. In the real world 240V @ 70A for 3.5 Hours is 58.8 kWh x 12 cents a kWh national average = 7.05 dollars to charge the battery from full dead. With an average 244 miles a charge that's 34.6 miles per dollar. Unless gas gets back down to a dollar a gallon you won't beat that. Also I pay 3.5c a kWh in my nuclear and hydro powered state so it would be 2.06 dollars a charge for me or 118 miles per dollar.
Also, perhaps the most important thing to remember is that the Tesla was not designed as an economy car but as a high performance sports car. Show me any car that can match the 0-60mph time (which is faster than many Ferraris and Lamborghinis) that costs less to drive per mile than a Honda Civic.
Theoretically a 64 bit OS and proccessor could support 16 Exabytes (actually 16 Exbibytes) but in reality the current hardware can only handle a 40bit physical address (1TiB) with the ability to go to 52bit(4PiB).
Oh IDK, how about LA.
His numbers were only low-balled if he is in the top few percent of taxable income. You can't just divide the cost of a program by the number of tax payers when the top 20% pays over 80% of total taxes.
Please look up the difference between a democracy and a republic. If you claim there is no difference then explain this; link.
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Serious question: Does that include the cost of spent fuel storage?
Quoting the worst case scenario of a 15amp 120v wall outlet is pretty disingenuous, if you are buying a $100K car you should set aside a couple hundred to hire an electrician to install a proper outlet in your garage. The Tesla charger is capable of 240V @ 80A input. That's 19,200 watts, almost 10x more. This is why it only takes 3.5 hours rather than 30 hours to charge the Tesla.
.8 you could charge the car from dead to full in one hour and 160A to charge in a half hour is not ridiculous for a commercial charging station on the side of the interstate in my opinion.
Also, do we really need any better than that in our garages for electrics to be viable? How long does it take you to fill your gas tank in your garage now?
So now that you've (hopefully) admitted to yourself that charging your car in your garage for 3.5 hours every night is much more convenient than stopping at the gas station to fill up for your commute do you agree that all we really need now is some fast charging stations along the interstates that can handle charging in less than half an hour? That is the last hurdle that I see, occasional long distance trips, and it doesn't seem like impossible infrastructure to implement. Especially considering that most commercial services are 480V 3 phase so at the same current as the home charger (80A) and a power factor of
3g CDMA RIM devices use SIM cards.
The waste issue has been solved. Nuclear reprocessing IS the answer to the waste problem. The fact that political opposition stands in the way does not change the fact that a valid solution exists.
Guys rarely go into female only fields like nursing or pre-school teaching for the same reasons girls don't do tech
Except that 10% of nurses are now male, rising every year. On top of that 20% of current nursing students are male, again, rising every year.
Is it really so hard to believe that more men find electrical engineering interesting and more women find psychology interesting? Do we really have to be the same to be equal? I hope not, that would be pretty boring.
But then people who don't want to pay for a data plan can use their phone!!