geni.com is good, not great (missing some advanced features from the old-school Family Tree Maker software). Their primary advantage is it is very collaborative, as many family members can add to your tree and you can connect to other parts of your family and their independent trees. The rub is to connect those disconnected trees, you will _both_ have to pony up for a $60/yr premium membership. I have cousins in Canada who are named in three different trees. When I finally broke down and paid for the membership, I found out that only one of the three other tree managers had paid for the membership, so I could only find out a third of the information out there. I now need to wait for two strangers to pony up their money to find out the rest of the information that has been entered on them.
Diesel engines afaik have always been more tunable to run very efficiently at specific speeds and are therefore a much better choice for generators in general. Using a fixed-speed diesel engine to generate electricity for a hybrid vehicle seems obvious, and its been done for both city buses and the military HMMV with great success.
The Chevy Volt takes advantage of this, and will be a series hybrid- no connection between the engine and the powertrain. This means that it will be a much better candidate for a diesel transplant, as city buses have recorded excellent gains in mileage from their non-hybrid brethren.
Surely Microsoft isn't the first record store to go dark. The largest perhaps. Is there a Wikilist with the record stores that have gone down this far?
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geni.com is good, not great (missing some advanced features from the old-school Family Tree Maker software). Their primary advantage is it is very collaborative, as many family members can add to your tree and you can connect to other parts of your family and their independent trees. The rub is to connect those disconnected trees, you will _both_ have to pony up for a $60/yr premium membership. I have cousins in Canada who are named in three different trees. When I finally broke down and paid for the membership, I found out that only one of the three other tree managers had paid for the membership, so I could only find out a third of the information out there. I now need to wait for two strangers to pony up their money to find out the rest of the information that has been entered on them.
Diesel engines afaik have always been more tunable to run very efficiently at specific speeds and are therefore a much better choice for generators in general. Using a fixed-speed diesel engine to generate electricity for a hybrid vehicle seems obvious, and its been done for both city buses and the military HMMV with great success.
The Chevy Volt takes advantage of this, and will be a series hybrid- no connection between the engine and the powertrain. This means that it will be a much better candidate for a diesel transplant, as city buses have recorded excellent gains in mileage from their non-hybrid brethren.
Surely Microsoft isn't the first record store to go dark. The largest perhaps. Is there a Wikilist with the record stores that have gone down this far?