Did Al Gore touch you in a bad place when you were young or something? What is it with this Al Gore obsession? Besides, every project has milestones, were the one applying for the grant sets dates along the lines of "if this works out, by this time we should have shown this and that". But, as soon as it touches climate, it obviously is a CONSPIRACY.
I can't really assess the accuracy of the paper, but, apart from the fact you rightly point out, the paper is about the analysis of short term circumannual effects, which may, or may not, have any relevance for climate modelling. Spurious at best.
Obviously someone on the payroll of the Heartland Institute, someone with a history of bullshit claims, someone who discredited himself a scientist by endorsing "intelligent design", however, has a reputation of being unbiased and can be believed. No, the bad astronomer has the burden of proof. Sure.
Well, in addition to that, Spencer has a history of publishing spurious analyses which have been debunked over and over again. It's not only global warming he is railing on about, he obviously is an expert in evolution, too, and therefor, naturally, a proponent of intelligent design. Signing an "evangelical" statement which basically says "God provides, therefor global warming cannot be real" is just the icing on the cake. Do I need to mention the Heartland Institute or his self-proclaimed title of "Glenn Beck's climate expert"?
We have learned a lot about combustion products and particle inhalation since the asbestos days. Carbon fibre burns neutral, that is not the problem. The polymer matrix, well, that can range from benign to outright nasty, but we have a huge amount of regulation regarding the use of plastics in place already, at least here in Europe. Other fibres, yeah, there might be problems - especially if you look at glass or ceramic fibre material. But it is a known problem, basically.
Well, in any modern space frame, partial repair of a damaged component is basically out, anyway. So whether you go aluminium, aluminium-steel-hybrid or fibre-molded - you'll end up with a whole-part exchange in case of damage anyway.
Pretty much what I am talking about - the really interesting details are somewhat hard to evaluate from this video though, it being a 2-vehicle crash instead of going against a barrier, so the second vehicle obscures the actual crash process. And, obviously, no extreme slow motion. But it demonstrates the main points i mentioned above - the Volvo has the front wheel on impact side pushed into the footwell, probably together with the transmission box getting rammed up the tunnel. Huge deformation on the safety cell frame, as obvious from the shape of the door after crash. The Renault beautifully keeps the safety cell in shape, you see a slight compression wave going through when the roof glassing blows out, but that amount is just about unavoidable. Door frame kept its shape, wheel and suspension-strut dome follow a pre-determined path and do not intrude into the cell, gearbox probably slid out down, as it is planned these days, so you get no intrusion into the middle tunnel section of the safety cell - not perfectly sure about that, but the quick view into the passenger room didn't show any significant tunnel deformation. This is how it is done today. Forget your two tons of steel - go with smart engineering and well-defined damage paths and scenarios.
The Fiat 500 vs Audi Q7 linked from your vid is enlightening too. Of course, the Fiat suffers, but the Q7 has heavy flaws - you can see the wheel intrusion, and, in particular, if you look at the side of the Q7, a massive compression wave traveling through the side wall. Notice how the gap between door and frame is gaping open for a few milliseconds, how the door cover is rippling? That driver door is stuck shut, I'll bet you a case of beer on that.
The Fiat is overwhelmed, though, and seems to suffer from an ill-planned side airbag - notice that it doesn't catch the driver's head when it rolls off the main airbag? Ouch. He hits the window frame quite hard. Then again, Fiat is not what I would put forth as model for small car safety anyway.
In all honesty, I can't say how their R&D looks like these days - I am doing business only with the German industry and get to see what is going on in their research departments. Patent searches for innovative topics like this tend to yield more German and Japanese patents than US ones, though.
How about learning about crash safety? I'd rather crash in an Audi A3 than in some crap-ass SUV that only gives you the illusion of safety. Watch some crash test vids on youtube once in a while. One interesting thing to watch is not the devastation at the front, but rather how the wheels react in an offset crash, watch for them being shoved in towards the footwell. Also interesting, watch the side around the driver's door, how the distortion ripples through it. Tells you a lot about real safety if you know what to look for. And, in all cases, SUVs look like crap in crash tests.
Oh my, roman is at it again. We are now at the point, and I quote, of "the highway system that robs people of their freedoms"? Damn those evil highways, bastards are out for you. Come on, that is over the top even for you. In the process of readjusting your meds? Hope it works out, mate.
Uhm, techniques like resin transfer molding using pre-laid or pre-woven fiber structures are scaling well lately - from what I hear out of the business, several German car makers are scaling it for mass production right now. They've been researching the topic like mad in the last couple of years.
Well, the thing with taking democratic socialism to its conclusion is along the lines of Schumpeter then, I guess. That's one of the brighter projections of the future, indeed. I have to admit that I am not that versed in the classic theory of anarchism, I was working from my experience with current examples that I had met. I don't know much about Bakunin, in particular I have no idea how he would ensure that his egalitarian anarcho-socialist utopia would stay stable. How do you prevent concentration of power and downfall of such a system? All I ever got was a belief in an essentially good nature of the individual - but I kinda doubt that this is reality. If you got anything to enlighten me there - feel free to do so. I am interested.
Of course you have nothing to say. We knew that. By the way, asshole, this is an insult, not an ad hominem. We are not saying "roman is an asshole, therefor his arguments have no merit", we are saying "roman's arguments are prima facie worthless, but, as he won't engage his two remaining braincells at any time, he is an asshole." Just plainly insulting you - that's not a fallacy, that's a rhetorical tactic. For the lulz.
You mean keeping what you earned by benefiting from the whole society around you, all the infrastructure and background services it provided you? No, cannot be, it is all YOURS, you are the sole prodigy that came up out of nothing with no help at all, so you are DESERVING to KEEP IT ALL! Right? But thanks for making it clear. The mentality of a sociopath.
Nothing high end on my side - not even 30 years old, but I love my Nakamishi IA-3 amp. Pure transistor tech, minimalistic layout, signal paths as short as possible. Rich, warm sound. The volume potentiometer started to add a crackle when being turned lately, though - so I guess sooner or later I have to break out my soldering iron and fix the thing. Oh, to complement it, just an ok-ish pair of small Mission boxes. Nothing fancy at all, but in my opinion, it still beats a lot of "home theater" setups today, which probably cost 5 times as much.
Yeah, that summarizes it, doesn't it? The mere presence of anyone dissenting from you, it hurts, no? Your callousness, your open disregard for anyone else, your barely concealed hatred for anyone that does not operate on your "give me mine, fuck yours!" attitude. As long as some of us are around that are not like you, you are constantly reminded that your attitude is sociopathic. And that burns in that small remainder of your consciousness. It burns, no? But be at peace, if you get yours, we will finally die in the gutters and you'll have your sociopath utopia - until someone stronger comes around and shits on you. Savor the taste, then, and think of us.
Ah, one dollar for everyone without an argument making a snipe at my username. It's a pretty good idiot trap, isn't it? Helps me recognize the point when further discussion is useless.
Your ideas are based on the one single ideology to leave the unfortunate to rot in the streets - and to gleefully watch over it. You made that abundantly clear in hundreds of posts. Me, I am just insulting you. I know what you are. You have no ideas worth discussing, because your frame of mind is lightyears outside of civilization. Equating me insulting you with you wishing to cancel the social contract is just one more example for how far you are disconnected from humanity.
The teabaggers don't give a shit about the finances. They have seen an opportunity for a major power grab and are on to it now. They redefined a routine move, that was expected to come when the last budget was voted for, into a make-or-break moment for the US. And they are perfectly willing to break it for their power gains.
As if "less government power" or "small government" was a virtue in itself. That's pretty much the core of the problem, the tea party has no ideology, except for an irrational hate towards everything "government" and in extension, everything democratic. Should they actually succeed to break the US, which is the only goal they seem to share, you'll be able to watch a quite entertaining power grab by them. Expect a feeding frenzy, pigs on the trough.
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Did Al Gore touch you in a bad place when you were young or something? What is it with this Al Gore obsession? Besides, every project has milestones, were the one applying for the grant sets dates along the lines of "if this works out, by this time we should have shown this and that". But, as soon as it touches climate, it obviously is a CONSPIRACY.
I can't really assess the accuracy of the paper, but, apart from the fact you rightly point out, the paper is about the analysis of short term circumannual effects, which may, or may not, have any relevance for climate modelling. Spurious at best.
Obviously someone on the payroll of the Heartland Institute, someone with a history of bullshit claims, someone who discredited himself a scientist by endorsing "intelligent design", however, has a reputation of being unbiased and can be believed. No, the bad astronomer has the burden of proof. Sure.
Well, in addition to that, Spencer has a history of publishing spurious analyses which have been debunked over and over again. It's not only global warming he is railing on about, he obviously is an expert in evolution, too, and therefor, naturally, a proponent of intelligent design. Signing an "evangelical" statement which basically says "God provides, therefor global warming cannot be real" is just the icing on the cake. Do I need to mention the Heartland Institute or his self-proclaimed title of "Glenn Beck's climate expert"?
We have learned a lot about combustion products and particle inhalation since the asbestos days. Carbon fibre burns neutral, that is not the problem. The polymer matrix, well, that can range from benign to outright nasty, but we have a huge amount of regulation regarding the use of plastics in place already, at least here in Europe. Other fibres, yeah, there might be problems - especially if you look at glass or ceramic fibre material. But it is a known problem, basically.
I see you found a pal in roman - share your meds, guys, perhaps it helps.
Well, in any modern space frame, partial repair of a damaged component is basically out, anyway. So whether you go aluminium, aluminium-steel-hybrid or fibre-molded - you'll end up with a whole-part exchange in case of damage anyway.
Pretty much what I am talking about - the really interesting details are somewhat hard to evaluate from this video though, it being a 2-vehicle crash instead of going against a barrier, so the second vehicle obscures the actual crash process. And, obviously, no extreme slow motion. But it demonstrates the main points i mentioned above - the Volvo has the front wheel on impact side pushed into the footwell, probably together with the transmission box getting rammed up the tunnel. Huge deformation on the safety cell frame, as obvious from the shape of the door after crash. The Renault beautifully keeps the safety cell in shape, you see a slight compression wave going through when the roof glassing blows out, but that amount is just about unavoidable. Door frame kept its shape, wheel and suspension-strut dome follow a pre-determined path and do not intrude into the cell, gearbox probably slid out down, as it is planned these days, so you get no intrusion into the middle tunnel section of the safety cell - not perfectly sure about that, but the quick view into the passenger room didn't show any significant tunnel deformation. This is how it is done today. Forget your two tons of steel - go with smart engineering and well-defined damage paths and scenarios.
The Fiat 500 vs Audi Q7 linked from your vid is enlightening too. Of course, the Fiat suffers, but the Q7 has heavy flaws - you can see the wheel intrusion, and, in particular, if you look at the side of the Q7, a massive compression wave traveling through the side wall. Notice how the gap between door and frame is gaping open for a few milliseconds, how the door cover is rippling? That driver door is stuck shut, I'll bet you a case of beer on that.
The Fiat is overwhelmed, though, and seems to suffer from an ill-planned side airbag - notice that it doesn't catch the driver's head when it rolls off the main airbag? Ouch. He hits the window frame quite hard. Then again, Fiat is not what I would put forth as model for small car safety anyway.
That, however, is a completely different, and way more viable argument than electric cars "taking ages from 0 to 60". Just saying.
In all honesty, I can't say how their R&D looks like these days - I am doing business only with the German industry and get to see what is going on in their research departments. Patent searches for innovative topics like this tend to yield more German and Japanese patents than US ones, though.
How about learning about crash safety? I'd rather crash in an Audi A3 than in some crap-ass SUV that only gives you the illusion of safety. Watch some crash test vids on youtube once in a while. One interesting thing to watch is not the devastation at the front, but rather how the wheels react in an offset crash, watch for them being shoved in towards the footwell. Also interesting, watch the side around the driver's door, how the distortion ripples through it. Tells you a lot about real safety if you know what to look for. And, in all cases, SUVs look like crap in crash tests.
Oh my, roman is at it again. We are now at the point, and I quote, of "the highway system that robs people of their freedoms"? Damn those evil highways, bastards are out for you. Come on, that is over the top even for you. In the process of readjusting your meds? Hope it works out, mate.
Right. You are aware of the torque an electric motor produces?
Uhm, techniques like resin transfer molding using pre-laid or pre-woven fiber structures are scaling well lately - from what I hear out of the business, several German car makers are scaling it for mass production right now. They've been researching the topic like mad in the last couple of years.
Aye, thanks - compressed air and perhaps contact spray like the poster above suggested first, before I break out the heavy gear ;)
The "not even 30 years" comment was directed at my equipment, not at me ;)
Well, the thing with taking democratic socialism to its conclusion is along the lines of Schumpeter then, I guess. That's one of the brighter projections of the future, indeed. I have to admit that I am not that versed in the classic theory of anarchism, I was working from my experience with current examples that I had met. I don't know much about Bakunin, in particular I have no idea how he would ensure that his egalitarian anarcho-socialist utopia would stay stable. How do you prevent concentration of power and downfall of such a system? All I ever got was a belief in an essentially good nature of the individual - but I kinda doubt that this is reality. If you got anything to enlighten me there - feel free to do so. I am interested.
Of course you have nothing to say. We knew that. By the way, asshole, this is an insult, not an ad hominem. We are not saying "roman is an asshole, therefor his arguments have no merit", we are saying "roman's arguments are prima facie worthless, but, as he won't engage his two remaining braincells at any time, he is an asshole." Just plainly insulting you - that's not a fallacy, that's a rhetorical tactic. For the lulz.
You mean keeping what you earned by benefiting from the whole society around you, all the infrastructure and background services it provided you? No, cannot be, it is all YOURS, you are the sole prodigy that came up out of nothing with no help at all, so you are DESERVING to KEEP IT ALL! Right? But thanks for making it clear. The mentality of a sociopath.
Nothing high end on my side - not even 30 years old, but I love my Nakamishi IA-3 amp. Pure transistor tech, minimalistic layout, signal paths as short as possible. Rich, warm sound. The volume potentiometer started to add a crackle when being turned lately, though - so I guess sooner or later I have to break out my soldering iron and fix the thing. Oh, to complement it, just an ok-ish pair of small Mission boxes. Nothing fancy at all, but in my opinion, it still beats a lot of "home theater" setups today, which probably cost 5 times as much.
Yeah, that summarizes it, doesn't it? The mere presence of anyone dissenting from you, it hurts, no? Your callousness, your open disregard for anyone else, your barely concealed hatred for anyone that does not operate on your "give me mine, fuck yours!" attitude. As long as some of us are around that are not like you, you are constantly reminded that your attitude is sociopathic. And that burns in that small remainder of your consciousness. It burns, no? But be at peace, if you get yours, we will finally die in the gutters and you'll have your sociopath utopia - until someone stronger comes around and shits on you. Savor the taste, then, and think of us.
Ah, one dollar for everyone without an argument making a snipe at my username. It's a pretty good idiot trap, isn't it? Helps me recognize the point when further discussion is useless.
Your ideas are based on the one single ideology to leave the unfortunate to rot in the streets - and to gleefully watch over it. You made that abundantly clear in hundreds of posts. Me, I am just insulting you. I know what you are. You have no ideas worth discussing, because your frame of mind is lightyears outside of civilization. Equating me insulting you with you wishing to cancel the social contract is just one more example for how far you are disconnected from humanity.
The teabaggers don't give a shit about the finances. They have seen an opportunity for a major power grab and are on to it now. They redefined a routine move, that was expected to come when the last budget was voted for, into a make-or-break moment for the US. And they are perfectly willing to break it for their power gains.
As if "less government power" or "small government" was a virtue in itself. That's pretty much the core of the problem, the tea party has no ideology, except for an irrational hate towards everything "government" and in extension, everything democratic. Should they actually succeed to break the US, which is the only goal they seem to share, you'll be able to watch a quite entertaining power grab by them. Expect a feeding frenzy, pigs on the trough.