I didn't downplay the horrors of or glorify that time (and I'm pretty sure the US was never actually feudalist - you're saying they were serfs to...the conditions?). So...good strawman I guess.
Technically you're correct (the best kind of correct!) but what I meant was that taxiing would be much more efficient if that power was put into the wheels.
No in fact I agree with you. I'm not saying EVs are dirtier or shouldn't be pursued, it's a rare fringe case where EVs are dirtier but it is indeed possible.
You've got the right idea. Right now there are electric airplane tractors in development to save fuel when taxiing. But imagine the electric drive system needed to move a plane...you don't want that inside the plane.
Whoa a hyper-rich dude said it was the luxury ride of his life. Concorde tickets were unholy-expensive. If you wouldn't fly first-class in a conventional airliner, don't even think about it.
It would take way more fuel and be higher maintenance. Crew time is cheap and the only thing they'd save. Most customers would not pay for the increased fuel and maintenance costs to save a couple hours.
Besides, businesses turning their customers' time into their money is a common and lucrative tactic, like when the banks only have one teller on duty and a huge-ass lineup forms.
No it's legit. I've done research on this and a car that is run on 100% coal or close to it can be dirtier, by a decent margin, than a typical ICE car. Luckily there are only a couple of areas in the world where this is possible, in China and the US. I dug up the post I made on this:
But electric vehicles weigh less (no heavy engine and transmission)
Wait what? They weigh more now due to the enormous, heavy battery and they won't weigh less for a very long time. Compare the Elise and Tesla Roadster - the Roadster weighs about 600lbs more. Right now the only way to make an electric car lighter is with a low battery mass which would result in pathetic range.
It's absolutely horrible that libertarians deny the horrors of and even glorify the (first) gilded age. I really, really wish that I could send some of them back there. If you sent a holocaust denier back to a concentration camp I think they'd break down and admit they were wrong within just a few minutes...but a libertarian would try damn hard to make it. They'd have to live in it. Stew in the garbage they were spewing for a good, long while. I think it would take them quite a few years to break down and admit they were wrong. I'd get the delicious schadenfreude and they'd get the hard-earned enlightenment, everybody wins.
I still wonder if a plastic gun molded (or printed) in one piece could survive a single shot. Could be an assassin's or terrorist's dream tool, and maybe those silly old multi-barrel designs could make themselves useful for once by effectively packing many single-shot guns into one.
It was done the first time someone printed a copyrighted object without permission, which I'm sure happened long before we even saw the first news of lawsuits over this a couple of years ago.
Everyone will just skip it like ME and Vista and MS will rush out a new OS that doesn't suck so hard once they realize how bad they fucked up. This isn't the first time MS has given birth to a stillborn and then tried to convince us with the Dead Parrot sketch.
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I didn't downplay the horrors of or glorify that time (and I'm pretty sure the US was never actually feudalist - you're saying they were serfs to...the conditions?). So...good strawman I guess.
No and neither did I include the emissions from mining/reactor & dam building/electrical grid building & maintenance to power the electric cars.
Technically you're correct (the best kind of correct!) but what I meant was that taxiing would be much more efficient if that power was put into the wheels.
No in fact I agree with you. I'm not saying EVs are dirtier or shouldn't be pursued, it's a rare fringe case where EVs are dirtier but it is indeed possible.
Taxiing airplanes are inherently wasteful no matter what. They push against the air instead of the ground.
You've got the right idea. Right now there are electric airplane tractors in development to save fuel when taxiing. But imagine the electric drive system needed to move a plane...you don't want that inside the plane.
Whoa a hyper-rich dude said it was the luxury ride of his life. Concorde tickets were unholy-expensive. If you wouldn't fly first-class in a conventional airliner, don't even think about it.
Bad analogy. It doesn't have to go significantly faster. In fact it might not be as fast as a Deusenburg.
It would take way more fuel and be higher maintenance. Crew time is cheap and the only thing they'd save. Most customers would not pay for the increased fuel and maintenance costs to save a couple hours.
Besides, businesses turning their customers' time into their money is a common and lucrative tactic, like when the banks only have one teller on duty and a huge-ass lineup forms.
You could get something like a hummer with whale penis skin leather...almost.
http://m.wired.com/autopia/2009/11/dartz/
No it's legit. I've done research on this and a car that is run on 100% coal or close to it can be dirtier, by a decent margin, than a typical ICE car. Luckily there are only a couple of areas in the world where this is possible, in China and the US. I dug up the post I made on this:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2587134&cid=38463972
But electric vehicles weigh less (no heavy engine and transmission)
Wait what? They weigh more now due to the enormous, heavy battery and they won't weigh less for a very long time. Compare the Elise and Tesla Roadster - the Roadster weighs about 600lbs more. Right now the only way to make an electric car lighter is with a low battery mass which would result in pathetic range.
A lot of big mining equipment is electric already, they run on giant extension cords going to them. Seriously.
It's absolutely horrible that libertarians deny the horrors of and even glorify the (first) gilded age. I really, really wish that I could send some of them back there. If you sent a holocaust denier back to a concentration camp I think they'd break down and admit they were wrong within just a few minutes...but a libertarian would try damn hard to make it. They'd have to live in it. Stew in the garbage they were spewing for a good, long while. I think it would take them quite a few years to break down and admit they were wrong. I'd get the delicious schadenfreude and they'd get the hard-earned enlightenment, everybody wins.
I think he's confusing a nuclear reactor with the Enterprise.
You = genius.
Came here to say this. I really have to wonder if this guy is trolling us, can there really by an office full of cartoon frat boys out there?
Me too. Also, this needs to be done:
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/4/7/6/138476.jpg
I still wonder if a plastic gun molded (or printed) in one piece could survive a single shot. Could be an assassin's or terrorist's dream tool, and maybe those silly old multi-barrel designs could make themselves useful for once by effectively packing many single-shot guns into one.
It was done the first time someone printed a copyrighted object without permission, which I'm sure happened long before we even saw the first news of lawsuits over this a couple of years ago.
The internet's going insane today.
Dayum it's on now! Da game is ON!
Everyone will just skip it like ME and Vista and MS will rush out a new OS that doesn't suck so hard once they realize how bad they fucked up. This isn't the first time MS has given birth to a stillborn and then tried to convince us with the Dead Parrot sketch.
The ones that a huge fraction of all the traffic is going through? Those are the ones most likely to be sniffing traffic and doing MITMs.
LMAO what's wrong with you!? XD