Range is problematic, and even if you did get 300 miles out of a single charge, it's still 2-4 hours (in an ideal world, even) to do it again. Weight is problematic.
Not for me. I will buy an electric car that can reliably get 150 miles per charge when the temperature is -10F and the battery pack is 5 years old. THis easily will cover my needs for a 40 mile one way commute and associated driving that day. I will GLADLY plug in everynight and let it charge for 8 hours.
Problem is the Nissan Leaf in cold weather will get 1/2 the quoted range and it's battery is wearing faster than most people though. a Lot of owners lave lost 15% of their battery capacity after 1 year of ownership.
I would buy one now, but then I'm not the typical idiot that has to drive a v8 400hp 5800pound 8 foot wide SUV all alone to and from work every day... I currently drive a civic as it gets the best gas mileage/cost ratio out there.
Chevy Volt is a joke. it's so overpriced that I might as well buy the same size car (civic) and pay for gas because the price difference is the gas cost for 10 years of driving.
Most people will buy electric if the math ads up and there is savings. Almost nobody buys a car to be "green" I dont give a rats ass about being green, I'm a cheap bastard that barely makes enough to begin with. I need a cheap small car that controls my cost of commuting to work.
And for you idiots that say "move closer to work" I say, I would love to, tell work to pay me 2X my salary so I can afford the rent near them.
“Grams/Power for a 180 days charge Hydrogen: 18000 g Nickel: 10000 g”
According to my calculations this would compute to:
100 g of hydrogen, and about 56 g of nickel per day to run a 1 MW plant; OR 4.17 g of hydrogen, and 2.3 g of nickel per hour.
Fuel use would be 0.00417 g of hydrogen, and 0.0023 g of nickel per kWh.
How nice and neat that 1MWh power generation for 1 day = 100grams of Hydrogen used. nice clean round numbers that come out after all the losses have been accounted for.
even for laymen this guy is full of crap, or is lying about what he is doing or using. NOTHING in physics is nice clean round numbers as if they had been pulled randomly out of a hat.
This is the single most stupid idea ever. Humans are fickle about "comfort" and if you have more than 1 person there they will never be equal. the BEST way to save energy is to buy a setback thermostat that also has an outside temperature sensor so it can make smart decisions based on outside conditions and energy loss factor of the home. a better one will also have a windspeed measurement as a home will lose heat faster when the winter winds are blowing.
Want to know what saved me a LOT of cash? I removed the real thermostat and replaced it with temp sensors in each room and put a dummy one up that the wife can play with.
The house can now adjust heat properly based on energy saving curves AND my wife has something she can change to make her feel better.
Huh? with heatpipe tech I can go fanless, that's 800X quieter than a sealed liquid setup.
There are massive i5, i7 and amd heatpipe setups available. you nee a giant case for it, and some guys even add more supports, and if you set up the case right you get a chimney effect that causes good airflow without any fans AND still running full clock speeds.
and we are. we have Retarded executives making infrastructure decisions that dont even have the IQ or education to decide how to make coffee. WE have Critical SCADA systems on public networks, we have stupid design decisions driven by managers, Security catering to users that think passwords are "hard".. etc....
WTF? it's not hard to start messing with a satellite C&C. IT's not like they are on the internet and the older ones have completely open interfaces.
All it takes is a PC with a sound card, custom software, and some ham radio gear and a nice big antenna array. if you can overwhelm the C&C signal from the main control point you can certainly start messing with it, non GEOSYNC birds typically are only communicated with when needed so it's easy to just contact it and send a command.
Hell if a hacker made a big enough antenna array they can screw with Mars rovers.
A little bit of education in how things you rely on work will turn your WTF! into a DUH!. mostly because most older satellites don't even require a username and password to connect and control it.
This fairytale again. NOBODY but the rich get to retire, any point in time most people worked until they died. Retirement has always been a fantasy dangled in front of the working by the rich.
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You mean DISPOSABLE domestic animals.
My working dog (Rough collie) gave me a total of 12 good years. she was not useful her first 2 years, and the last 2 she also has reduced useability. She is now an old dog with failing eyesight and hard of hearing with mild arthritis. WE have to take care of her and she mostly lives in the house, she tries to still work but runs out of energy after a few hundred yards and either lies down or walks back home. The Vet says she is healthier than most dogs 1/2 her age but is just old.
Now I could be like the typical scumbag and put a bullet in her head as that tool is worn out, but now is when I pay her for the service she provided.
So please define "domestic animals" are you talking the type that are used by assholes and scumbags that will kill them when their usefulness is past, or are you talking about those of us that are not neanderthal savages?
I use ipCop that gives me 80X of what DD-WRT can and a pair of dedicated ap's. works far better than any consumer router running DD-WRT and delivers more "flexibility".
Real 802.11n at 5 ghz is where your performance gains are, avoid the Fake 802.11n routers or ap's that are not dual band with 5ghz. I bought a decent pair of dual band N ap's and a tiny mini-itx based PC that had 3 networks ports, this was 2X the price of a consumer grade real N router but it's far more powerful, flexible and gives me the ability to have a secure network and a insecure one for friends protected by true network isolation.
It seems that the skill of Semi truck drivers have went from skilled professionals to "i can drive a truck" idiots. you used to feel somewhat safe around semi trucks, now mostly idiots drive them that in order to drive 0.5mph faster than the one in front of them they cut hard into passing traffic, many times causing accidents so they can drive 0.5mph faster than the other truck that they were getting a drafting effect from and saving fuel.
in the past 4 years we have had 5 semis drop off of an overpass because it seems they cant read the big yellow sign that says, "25mph ramp speed"
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"you would cause a vacuum metastability event, which would destroy the observable universe."
so do it with your eyes closed. the worst that will happen is that your eyelids will vaporize.
Range is problematic, and even if you did get 300 miles out of a single charge, it's still 2-4 hours (in an ideal world, even) to do it again. Weight is problematic.
Not for me. I will buy an electric car that can reliably get 150 miles per charge when the temperature is -10F and the battery pack is 5 years old. THis easily will cover my needs for a 40 mile one way commute and associated driving that day. I will GLADLY plug in everynight and let it charge for 8 hours.
Problem is the Nissan Leaf in cold weather will get 1/2 the quoted range and it's battery is wearing faster than most people though. a Lot of owners lave lost 15% of their battery capacity after 1 year of ownership.
I would buy one now, but then I'm not the typical idiot that has to drive a v8 400hp 5800pound 8 foot wide SUV all alone to and from work every day... I currently drive a civic as it gets the best gas mileage/cost ratio out there.
Chevy Volt is a joke. it's so overpriced that I might as well buy the same size car (civic) and pay for gas because the price difference is the gas cost for 10 years of driving.
Most people will buy electric if the math ads up and there is savings. Almost nobody buys a car to be "green" I dont give a rats ass about being green, I'm a cheap bastard that barely makes enough to begin with. I need a cheap small car that controls my cost of commuting to work.
And for you idiots that say "move closer to work" I say, I would love to, tell work to pay me 2X my salary so I can afford the rent near them.
“Grams/Power for a 180 days charge
Hydrogen: 18000 g
Nickel: 10000 g”
According to my calculations this would compute to:
100 g of hydrogen, and about 56 g of nickel per day to run a 1 MW plant; OR
4.17 g of hydrogen, and 2.3 g of nickel per hour.
Fuel use would be 0.00417 g of hydrogen, and 0.0023 g of nickel per kWh.
How nice and neat that 1MWh power generation for 1 day = 100grams of Hydrogen used. nice clean round numbers that come out after all the losses have been accounted for.
even for laymen this guy is full of crap, or is lying about what he is doing or using. NOTHING in physics is nice clean round numbers as if they had been pulled randomly out of a hat.
It will work for a short amount of time....
and then slowly drop in output and fail.
Because all the AA batteries that are hidden inside all the equipment will have been drained.
It has not detected any of the Zynga games at all.
"You can't just be SWAT on Halloween, you need to be psycho SWAT."
So an oakland police officer then?
This is the single most stupid idea ever. Humans are fickle about "comfort" and if you have more than 1 person there they will never be equal. the BEST way to save energy is to buy a setback thermostat that also has an outside temperature sensor so it can make smart decisions based on outside conditions and energy loss factor of the home. a better one will also have a windspeed measurement as a home will lose heat faster when the winter winds are blowing.
Want to know what saved me a LOT of cash? I removed the real thermostat and replaced it with temp sensors in each room and put a dummy one up that the wife can play with.
The house can now adjust heat properly based on energy saving curves AND my wife has something she can change to make her feel better.
The above post brought to you by the american Tea Party.
Huh? with heatpipe tech I can go fanless, that's 800X quieter than a sealed liquid setup.
There are massive i5, i7 and amd heatpipe setups available. you nee a giant case for it, and some guys even add more supports, and if you set up the case right you get a chimney effect that causes good airflow without any fans AND still running full clock speeds.
"The Chinese think we're pretty laughable."
and we are. we have Retarded executives making infrastructure decisions that dont even have the IQ or education to decide how to make coffee. WE have Critical SCADA systems on public networks, we have stupid design decisions driven by managers, Security catering to users that think passwords are "hard".. etc....
We are pretty darn laughable.
we are also winning the war against poverty...
Shock and Awe... Tomorrow we nuke the poor people!
we steal all the other languages words.
WTF? it's not hard to start messing with a satellite C&C. IT's not like they are on the internet and the older ones have completely open interfaces.
All it takes is a PC with a sound card, custom software, and some ham radio gear and a nice big antenna array. if you can overwhelm the C&C signal from the main control point you can certainly start messing with it, non GEOSYNC birds typically are only communicated with when needed so it's easy to just contact it and send a command.
Hell if a hacker made a big enough antenna array they can screw with Mars rovers.
A little bit of education in how things you rely on work will turn your WTF! into a DUH!. mostly because most older satellites don't even require a username and password to connect and control it.
Which is why I am dressing is SWAT gear and beating random passers by and throwing CS gas grenades at the groups.
Trying to be as patriotic as possible by violating their rights!
If only all the assholes did this....
There was a crying baby the whole flight in seat 22C with a mother that is trying to reason with it.
Also the scumbag in 47B hogging the arm rest, I'm stealing your bag of peanuts!
Then your AFAYK is very limited in scope and you need to educate yourself more.
Ford is a HUGE patent troll of the automotive world. They regularly stole small guy patents, for example intermittent wipers.
GM tried in the 90's to patent the GAS PEDAL.
Motorola is also a huge patent troll in the semiconductor world.
Etc....
SO you don't buy Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Sony, Panasonic, Kenwood, Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Harley Davidson, or LG products then?
Or are you just some idiot that like to parrot what others say without actually thinking.
Lick to unlock.
It's not as popular, but I can call their patent a ripoff of mine!
"put in a 65 retirement age"
This fairytale again. NOBODY but the rich get to retire, any point in time most people worked until they died. Retirement has always been a fantasy dangled in front of the working by the rich.
You mean DISPOSABLE domestic animals.
My working dog (Rough collie) gave me a total of 12 good years. she was not useful her first 2 years, and the last 2 she also has reduced useability. She is now an old dog with failing eyesight and hard of hearing with mild arthritis. WE have to take care of her and she mostly lives in the house, she tries to still work but runs out of energy after a few hundred yards and either lies down or walks back home. The Vet says she is healthier than most dogs 1/2 her age but is just old.
Now I could be like the typical scumbag and put a bullet in her head as that tool is worn out, but now is when I pay her for the service she provided.
So please define "domestic animals" are you talking the type that are used by assholes and scumbags that will kill them when their usefulness is past, or are you talking about those of us that are not neanderthal savages?
AS outsourcing is cheaper than building the robot.
Slave human labor (or very low pay labor) is always cheaper than building a mechanical slave and maintain it.
climb up on the rig at your fuel up and wrap tinfoil over the dome, remove it when you are back on the "route" and play stupid when asked.
But this would require a smart truck driver to figure out.
Ditch DD-WRT.
I use ipCop that gives me 80X of what DD-WRT can and a pair of dedicated ap's. works far better than any consumer router running DD-WRT and delivers more "flexibility".
Real 802.11n at 5 ghz is where your performance gains are, avoid the Fake 802.11n routers or ap's that are not dual band with 5ghz. I bought a decent pair of dual band N ap's and a tiny mini-itx based PC that had 3 networks ports, this was 2X the price of a consumer grade real N router but it's far more powerful, flexible and gives me the ability to have a secure network and a insecure one for friends protected by true network isolation.
It seems that the skill of Semi truck drivers have went from skilled professionals to "i can drive a truck" idiots. you used to feel somewhat safe around semi trucks, now mostly idiots drive them that in order to drive 0.5mph faster than the one in front of them they cut hard into passing traffic, many times causing accidents so they can drive 0.5mph faster than the other truck that they were getting a drafting effect from and saving fuel.
in the past 4 years we have had 5 semis drop off of an overpass because it seems they cant read the big yellow sign that says, "25mph ramp speed"
it's just idiots driving big rigs.