From a quick look at what you are talking about it seems this "Water4Gas" simply increases the ratio of hydrogen to carbon in your fuel source. Methane and Propane have a pretty high hydrogen to carbon ratio and the technology already exists to do so. Splitting water by electrolysis is not very efficient and would be a waste of energy. A better solution would be to break down plant material into methane and burn that in an engine.
Emissions aren't necessarily a problem. The more efficient an engine is, the cleaner the exhaust.
In theory, it should work that way. In real world, using air breathing engines, it becomes more difficult. The atmosphere has the unfortunate characteristic of being mostly nitrogen. While the carbon and hydrogen are trying to bond with oxygen the nitrogen tends to get in the way and bond with the oxygen instead. The nitrogen is less likely to bond with the oxygen at lower temperature's and pressures so they must be used to prevent pollution. Higher temperatures and pressures are better for extracting work and therefore a trade off must be made.
Ohio during the day (was it Ohio that has unrestricted speed limits during the day - or have they revoked that rule already!).
I think you are confusing Ohio with Montana. Ohio actually has the most speed traps in the US, and Montana got rid of that law. Germans actually used to travel to Montana because it was actually easier to drive fast in Montana than Germany due to all of the congestion on the Autobahn.
Here is a brief summary of the rules as taken from the draft on X-Prise website.
Fuel economy >100MPGe
4+ passengers
Must meet US EPA Tier II bin 5
Must meet US safety regulations
Must have features considered standard in today's automobiles at a cost that is not prohibitively expensive, and must provide a business case proving so.
Just modify an old Volkswagen TDI. The problem is making a 100MPG car that meets the USA safety and emissions standards. The car that results from this challenge won't be practical for those two simple reasons.
Gmail made a brilliant move by always calling their service a beta release. This way, when your email never arrives, or your personal information gets stolen, it's not their fault... it's just a beta release! Google can always argue that if you want reliable and secure communications, you should use a service that is a final release.
Disclaimer for Google fans: I'm not saying Gmail is not stable or reliable, just stating one possible business strategy.
I've posted about this topic before. The Wall Street Journal had an article a while back on the topic. It's under the blog section, so I think non-subscribers can read it. It basically says that adjusted for inflation Gone With the Wind is the highest grossing film of all time, and ticket sales have in fact remained flat. Slate also has severalarticles.
On another note: The heat from the arc is not the only thing that melts the metal. In processes that consume a filler material, such as MIG, the electric field between the metals actually causes the atoms to jump from one piece of metal to the other. This is why welding is possible above one's head. Arc welding is actually a much more sophisticated process than people think.
I consider MIG and TIG subsets of arc welding, so does wikipedia. Welding in earth's atmosphere without a shielding gas is typically called Flux-cored arc welding, or Shielded Metal Arc Welding. Both methods use a chemical "flux" to shield the weld from the atmosphere.
I stopped using shareware and only use open source software. You never know what kind of crap the programmer might have stuck in there unless you can read the source yourself.
After reading the article on the Canadian Space Agency's website I concluded that this thing is not nearly as cool as it could be. It's basically just an extension of the Canadarm. It can work independently of the Canadarm only if it's plugged into one of the Canadarm's power sockets located on the station.
If I was going to make a robot for use in outer space I would give it four arms, some rockets similar to an MMU, and a battery pack. This way it could jet it's way around the space station quickly with the MMU and then grapple on to the station with two of it's arms while performing tasks with the other two.
Actually you can weld in space. I had a professor in college that was developing different processes for doing so (Dr. Joseph Domblesky). Arc welding works the best because the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere is actually harmful to the arc welding process, (in simple terms it makes the metal burn instead of melt) this is why an inert gas such as argon is used in the process here on earth.
To settle the Firefox 64-bit question. I use Ubuntu 64-bit and am a contributer to the 64-bit forums. Firefox can be compiled for 64-bit. However, Flash and Java are only available in 32-bit. Adobe in particular is very stubborn about releasing versions of it's software for architectures other than x86. 64-bit Firefox will work with fine even with 32-bit Flash and Java using a plugin that was released with Ubuntu 7.10.
So, in summary don't blame Mozilla for Adobe's stubbornness. You can sign the petition to Adobe here, although it is unlikely to make a difference. The problem appears to be across Adobe's entire product line and on every operating system.
Economically speaking, there cannot be a shortage without some sort of cap on what people can pay. Not being happy with the prices in a free market is not a shortage. Supply and demand are always in equilibrium unless the government intervenes. I suggest companies stop whining and either open up their wallets or learn to do without!
this into English. It may make sense to the folks in the Great White North, but it's all Greek to me. For example: How does one buy DSL wholesale? Do you buy it at Sam's Club or Costco?
That's an old tunnel system, but a new one could be built with the ability to quickly isolate one problem section.
After doing some reading it turns out the original Chicago tunnels had watertight doors to prevent flooding. The doors were removed and sold for scrap after the railway went out of business.
Yeah, I noticed that information on the ameritech page linked in the article. It's CERA link shows pictures of some of the fiber runs in the tunnels back in 2000. The tunnels are so full of fiber that you have to duck down at the intersections to avoid hitting your head on the conduit.
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From a quick look at what you are talking about it seems this "Water4Gas" simply increases the ratio of hydrogen to carbon in your fuel source. Methane and Propane have a pretty high hydrogen to carbon ratio and the technology already exists to do so. Splitting water by electrolysis is not very efficient and would be a waste of energy. A better solution would be to break down plant material into methane and burn that in an engine.
I understand that, however, the article seems to ignore that critical point.
Here is a brief summary of the rules as taken from the draft on X-Prise website.
Fuel economy >100MPGe
4+ passengers
Must meet US EPA Tier II bin 5
Must meet US safety regulations
Must have features considered standard in today's automobiles at a cost that is not prohibitively expensive, and must provide a business case proving so.
Mod up please so others may read the rules! Note: This is referring to a draft of the rules not drafting other cars (like in NASCAR).
Just modify an old Volkswagen TDI. The problem is making a 100MPG car that meets the USA safety and emissions standards. The car that results from this challenge won't be practical for those two simple reasons.
Am I reading this right? Is this thing just a glorified keyboard and monitor? For $500? I could get a crappy laptop for that much.
It's great for handling matrices, vectors, plotting and umm... well, that's all it's good for.
Sooner or later you have to decide to freeze the design, fix the bugs, and release the product. Any new features can wait until version 2.0.
Gmail made a brilliant move by always calling their service a beta release. This way, when your email never arrives, or your personal information gets stolen, it's not their fault... it's just a beta release! Google can always argue that if you want reliable and secure communications, you should use a service that is a final release.
Disclaimer for Google fans: I'm not saying Gmail is not stable or reliable, just stating one possible business strategy.
I've posted about this topic before. The Wall Street Journal had an article a while back on the topic. It's under the blog section, so I think non-subscribers can read it. It basically says that adjusted for inflation Gone With the Wind is the highest grossing film of all time, and ticket sales have in fact remained flat. Slate also has several articles.
On another note: The heat from the arc is not the only thing that melts the metal. In processes that consume a filler material, such as MIG, the electric field between the metals actually causes the atoms to jump from one piece of metal to the other. This is why welding is possible above one's head. Arc welding is actually a much more sophisticated process than people think.
I consider MIG and TIG subsets of arc welding, so does wikipedia. Welding in earth's atmosphere without a shielding gas is typically called Flux-cored arc welding, or Shielded Metal Arc Welding. Both methods use a chemical "flux" to shield the weld from the atmosphere.
I stopped using shareware and only use open source software. You never know what kind of crap the programmer might have stuck in there unless you can read the source yourself.
After reading the article on the Canadian Space Agency's website I concluded that this thing is not nearly as cool as it could be. It's basically just an extension of the Canadarm. It can work independently of the Canadarm only if it's plugged into one of the Canadarm's power sockets located on the station.
If I was going to make a robot for use in outer space I would give it four arms, some rockets similar to an MMU, and a battery pack. This way it could jet it's way around the space station quickly with the MMU and then grapple on to the station with two of it's arms while performing tasks with the other two.
Actually you can weld in space. I had a professor in college that was developing different processes for doing so (Dr. Joseph Domblesky). Arc welding works the best because the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere is actually harmful to the arc welding process, (in simple terms it makes the metal burn instead of melt) this is why an inert gas such as argon is used in the process here on earth.
To settle the Firefox 64-bit question. I use Ubuntu 64-bit and am a contributer to the 64-bit forums. Firefox can be compiled for 64-bit. However, Flash and Java are only available in 32-bit. Adobe in particular is very stubborn about releasing versions of it's software for architectures other than x86. 64-bit Firefox will work with fine even with 32-bit Flash and Java using a plugin that was released with Ubuntu 7.10.
So, in summary don't blame Mozilla for Adobe's stubbornness. You can sign the petition to Adobe here, although it is unlikely to make a difference. The problem appears to be across Adobe's entire product line and on every operating system.
Economically speaking, there cannot be a shortage without some sort of cap on what people can pay. Not being happy with the prices in a free market is not a shortage. Supply and demand are always in equilibrium unless the government intervenes. I suggest companies stop whining and either open up their wallets or learn to do without!
It makes much more sense now. Thanks!
this into English. It may make sense to the folks in the Great White North, but it's all Greek to me.
For example: How does one buy DSL wholesale? Do you buy it at Sam's Club or Costco?
Yeah, I noticed that information on the ameritech page linked in the article. It's CERA link shows pictures of some of the fiber runs in the tunnels back in 2000. The tunnels are so full of fiber that you have to duck down at the intersections to avoid hitting your head on the conduit.