Too many variables. How much charge is in the current battery, how much wear and tear are in the battery you just got versus what you just gave, what happens when you get a partial dud, how many batteries can be swapped out a day, the physical labor of swapping batteries, what do you charge/how do you come to the cost and how does that make you competitive with your competition.
The gas stations don't seem to have a problem swapping propane tanks, which have similar problems.
The only real problem is labor, which can be solved with simple robots. Drive to the swap spot, park, and the robot lines up with the markings on the battery under the car, removes it, spirits it away, returns with a fresh, fully charged battery, and installs it.
Nothing you don't see a million times a say in any factory in America.
Electric is good for basic commuting where the route will be basically the same day after day, it is not good for if you do not know how far you will drive a day. Although the long recharge time is part of it, the main part is that you do not want to buy more battery than you are going to be using since the battery will be one of the most expensive parts of the car.
Why not just make the batteries swappable at service stations? Then the only range that matters is the distance to the next service station.
If they just picked up on whatever codecs the OS supports, then anyone with Windows Vista or earlier would have no H.264 unless the user installed it themselves. Whatever codec wins in the end really needs to be implemented in the browser, not the OS.
You wouldn't claim Pratt & Whitney is capable of flying someone across the country, would you? Then why claim they are capable of launching someone into low earth orbit?
An engine is just propulsion.
The characters have been active for 23 years, not in suspended animation. You could genetically modify some preschoolers so they never grow up if you want. Having sex with them would be perfectly legal. The genetic manipulation, not so much.
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what would disprove global warming?
A cooling trend?
Does the U.S. have native coal and oil supplies that make these other sources more viable?
Enough coal to last 200 years last I checked.
I was undecided on whether to go into robotics or demolitions. Now I don't have to choose!
At the end of the day people need marketed to because they don't know where to go for the things they want/need.
Can't they just Google it?
It's not 3 cents a click, it's 3 cents an impression. Those 103 clicks probably took you thousands of impressions to get.
The those Obama voters who supported Scott Brown are idiots of infantine proportions.
Not really. Brown voted for Massachusetts' equivalent of Obamacare.
Too many variables. How much charge is in the current battery, how much wear and tear are in the battery you just got versus what you just gave, what happens when you get a partial dud, how many batteries can be swapped out a day, the physical labor of swapping batteries, what do you charge/how do you come to the cost and how does that make you competitive with your competition.
The gas stations don't seem to have a problem swapping propane tanks, which have similar problems. The only real problem is labor, which can be solved with simple robots. Drive to the swap spot, park, and the robot lines up with the markings on the battery under the car, removes it, spirits it away, returns with a fresh, fully charged battery, and installs it. Nothing you don't see a million times a say in any factory in America.
Electric is good for basic commuting where the route will be basically the same day after day, it is not good for if you do not know how far you will drive a day. Although the long recharge time is part of it, the main part is that you do not want to buy more battery than you are going to be using since the battery will be one of the most expensive parts of the car.
Why not just make the batteries swappable at service stations? Then the only range that matters is the distance to the next service station.
I take it you're not an ex-marine, then.
There are webcam girls on Digg?
If they just picked up on whatever codecs the OS supports, then anyone with Windows Vista or earlier would have no H.264 unless the user installed it themselves. Whatever codec wins in the end really needs to be implemented in the browser, not the OS.
If I modify, redistribute, or compile Chrome from source is the H.264 license still valid?
At this point we don't even have an idea when humans will finally get there.
We had a pretty good idea until a few days ago.
Before the USPTO (at least this was true a few years ago) one has to inform them of the closest prior art you know about.
Which is why only a fool bothers trying to find prior art prior to filing for a patent.
You're right, they buy software from companies that license patents, just like everyone else.
We could get Tim Burton and make them all the same midget.
You wouldn't claim Pratt & Whitney is capable of flying someone across the country, would you? Then why claim they are capable of launching someone into low earth orbit? An engine is just propulsion.
Market-based solutions work better than taxes, even when the market is government mandated.
I can't wait for the first space war, when the other countries have armoured battleshuttles and we have to hitch a ride on a tourist boat.
If you had a choice of LEO capable companies, wouldn't you be more apt to choose one that's gone to the moon?
That's a pretty big if. There are no LEO capable companies.
You do not have the right to drive, hence the requirement for a driving test, and if you fail, you cannot drive.
Actually, you only need a license to drive on public roads.
If I were paying for a license, I would have the right to read the text even if my purchased copy were destroyed,
Then you're definitely not paying for a license when you buy software.
The characters have been active for 23 years, not in suspended animation. You could genetically modify some preschoolers so they never grow up if you want. Having sex with them would be perfectly legal. The genetic manipulation, not so much.
My favorite game distribution platform is the internet.
The novels i've read lately sure seem to be formulaic.