If electrolysis in your home were 100% efficient and electricity cost $0.15/kWh, it would cost $5.50 to replace in hydrogen the amount of energy in a gallon of gas. That's not even theoretically possible. Expect it to be closer to $30
The gains from a BEV aren't because electricity is cheaper than gas, it's because electric motors and batteries don't throw away 3/4 of it.
And if you are to believe one part of the Bible, you must believe all of it.
Wow. I don't even know what to say to that. Seriously, is that what you're going with? Parts of the bible are true, so all of it must be true? In that case, the ancient Greeks have way more surviving texts, many of them older, and they have a whole pile of gods. Some of the things they say have been proven to be true, therefore the rest of them must be too.
Eventually, it all boils down to "I don't know how it works, so it must be magic."
"Weapons? What? Oh, these? Yeah, we're going to go play baseball later. Yeah, turns out everyone has their own favourite bat."
The trick is to not appear threatening at all, aside from that one thing that says "You do not have absolute power over us. We can hurt you. We just choose not to."
The Tesla Roadster costs USD $109k does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and a 1/4 mile in 12.8. It's top speed is regulated to 125mph though. I don't know much about cars. Can you post some numbers for the ones you mentioned?
It doesn't have to be much. Maybe tie in a baseball theme and have everyone have a bat sticking conspicuously out of a backpack. Nothing too threatening, just enough for them to think "If I try something stupid, someone might be scraping my brains off the asphalt."
They'll take their swimming pool full of beer on their private artificial island and like it. If it makes them feel better, I'll give them small metal discs in exchange for turning a crank or something.
Ethics: People who help each other out generally live longer. People who screw each other over don't live long past running out of people to take from.
Beauty: If there's anything your genes are all about, it's making more genes and who to do it with.
Community: see ethics.
Wonder: people who stop to look at things tend to learn about them. Leaning something new is hardly ever a bad thing.
Love: In the case of humans, your children, and by extension your genes, will do better if you stick around for a while.
Ignoring for a moment that we are watching evolution in progress and have even influenced it to some degree, do you honestly think "a wizard did it" is a better explanation?
Like you say, it won't happen overnight. Progress will be slow enough for people to adjust to it. Plenty of innovations have meant unemployment for many, but we've gotten over it. I don't think many in industrialized nations would like to go back to cutting wheat with a scythe and grinding flour with a big rock, or spinning thread and weaving cloth. We have better things to do now.
Well, I believe that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster some time last Thursday after getting totally wasted. He invented Christianity just to troll people. Is your belief any more or less valid than mine?
When labour is out-sourced, money moves from a wealthier country to a poorer one. Eventually, they don't want your crappy jobs, or you can't afford to hire them. Robots however, only drive costs down. Economic development multiplies labour, so it takes less work to produce the same output. You just have more time on your hands to think big ideas. With universal hands-off automation, demand for labour is almost non existent, but supply is only limited by the mass of the solar system. You can't get work, but everything is free. Computer: tea: earl grey: hot.
This. He could have gotten much more volume for the same surface area. I just thought to duct tape them together, I'll have to remember to try ironing if I ever make one.
We knew this already. They're realistic enough to fool our brains into thinking human, but different enough that the "human" has something seriously wrong with it. That something might be contagious, so you get the "stay the hell away" signal. Imagine a zombie horde where all the zombies are replaced by normal people, but they still act like zombies. Still has the squick factor.
The way Fox spins it, it's a committee that decides who is and is not worth saving. What it actually is is doctors educating people about living wills, do not resuscitate orders etc. You can say "I don't want my brain dead body taking up a hospital bed." or "I don't want to spend the last week of my life on life support, delirious and full of morphine."
Distributed periodic electricity sources would be better off charging load leveling supplies. Those may as well be batteries, and those batteries may as well be on wheels.
Actually, it is more efficient to burn landfill gas in a turbine and charge a battery than to convert it to hydrogen for a fuel cell. Either way, landfill gas is not a significant source of energy. It will become even less significant when the majority of waste is recycled.
I can't think of any renewable source of energy that would be more efficient converted to hydrogen than directly to electricity. Distributed electrolizers are worse, since smaller plants are less efficient, and now you have to go through long power lines. If you're not liquefying it, you're only throwing away 15% of it rather than 40%, so that's a bit better.
Liquid rockets aren't as simple as mixing LH2 and LOX and throwing a match at it. Rocket engineers like to say that they're really a turbo pump with two tanks and a bell nozzle bolted on.
Charging stations will almost certainly be powered by HVDC lines and have flywheels for load leveling. They'll probably have superconducting generators and cables too.
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If electrolysis in your home were 100% efficient and electricity cost $0.15/kWh, it would cost $5.50 to replace in hydrogen the amount of energy in a gallon of gas. That's not even theoretically possible. Expect it to be closer to $30
The gains from a BEV aren't because electricity is cheaper than gas, it's because electric motors and batteries don't throw away 3/4 of it.
And if you are to believe one part of the Bible, you must believe all of it.
Wow. I don't even know what to say to that. Seriously, is that what you're going with? Parts of the bible are true, so all of it must be true? In that case, the ancient Greeks have way more surviving texts, many of them older, and they have a whole pile of gods. Some of the things they say have been proven to be true, therefore the rest of them must be too.
Eventually, it all boils down to "I don't know how it works, so it must be magic."
Or do away with DNS all together. I can't remember the last time I typed in a domain name.
The only reasonable source of hydrogen is fossil fuels.
"Weapons? What? Oh, these? Yeah, we're going to go play baseball later. Yeah, turns out everyone has their own favourite bat."
The trick is to not appear threatening at all, aside from that one thing that says "You do not have absolute power over us. We can hurt you. We just choose not to."
The Tesla Roadster costs USD $109k does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and a 1/4 mile in 12.8. It's top speed is regulated to 125mph though. I don't know much about cars. Can you post some numbers for the ones you mentioned?
It doesn't have to be much. Maybe tie in a baseball theme and have everyone have a bat sticking conspicuously out of a backpack. Nothing too threatening, just enough for them to think "If I try something stupid, someone might be scraping my brains off the asphalt."
They'll take their swimming pool full of beer on their private artificial island and like it. If it makes them feel better, I'll give them small metal discs in exchange for turning a crank or something.
Microsoft knows the Windows trademark would never stand up in court. It protects it with intimidation and bribes.
When creationism has stood a test, then we'll have a contest.
Ethics: People who help each other out generally live longer. People who screw each other over don't live long past running out of people to take from.
Beauty: If there's anything your genes are all about, it's making more genes and who to do it with.
Community: see ethics.
Wonder: people who stop to look at things tend to learn about them. Leaning something new is hardly ever a bad thing.
Love: In the case of humans, your children, and by extension your genes, will do better if you stick around for a while.
Ignoring for a moment that we are watching evolution in progress and have even influenced it to some degree, do you honestly think "a wizard did it" is a better explanation?
Like you say, it won't happen overnight. Progress will be slow enough for people to adjust to it. Plenty of innovations have meant unemployment for many, but we've gotten over it. I don't think many in industrialized nations would like to go back to cutting wheat with a scythe and grinding flour with a big rock, or spinning thread and weaving cloth. We have better things to do now.
Well, I believe that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster some time last Thursday after getting totally wasted. He invented Christianity just to troll people. Is your belief any more or less valid than mine?
When labour is out-sourced, money moves from a wealthier country to a poorer one. Eventually, they don't want your crappy jobs, or you can't afford to hire them. Robots however, only drive costs down. Economic development multiplies labour, so it takes less work to produce the same output. You just have more time on your hands to think big ideas. With universal hands-off automation, demand for labour is almost non existent, but supply is only limited by the mass of the solar system. You can't get work, but everything is free. Computer: tea: earl grey: hot.
This. He could have gotten much more volume for the same surface area. I just thought to duct tape them together, I'll have to remember to try ironing if I ever make one.
To be fair, it's a "lets trick people into downloading and running programs" and not a "shit, lets execute data".
Title, summary and article all fail. It's an executable who's name ends with ".pdf" and has a pdf icon.
We knew this already. They're realistic enough to fool our brains into thinking human, but different enough that the "human" has something seriously wrong with it. That something might be contagious, so you get the "stay the hell away" signal. Imagine a zombie horde where all the zombies are replaced by normal people, but they still act like zombies. Still has the squick factor.
The way Fox spins it, it's a committee that decides who is and is not worth saving. What it actually is is doctors educating people about living wills, do not resuscitate orders etc. You can say "I don't want my brain dead body taking up a hospital bed." or "I don't want to spend the last week of my life on life support, delirious and full of morphine."
Distributed periodic electricity sources would be better off charging load leveling supplies. Those may as well be batteries, and those batteries may as well be on wheels.
Actually, it is more efficient to burn landfill gas in a turbine and charge a battery than to convert it to hydrogen for a fuel cell. Either way, landfill gas is not a significant source of energy. It will become even less significant when the majority of waste is recycled.
I can't think of any renewable source of energy that would be more efficient converted to hydrogen than directly to electricity. Distributed electrolizers are worse, since smaller plants are less efficient, and now you have to go through long power lines. If you're not liquefying it, you're only throwing away 15% of it rather than 40%, so that's a bit better.
I'd like to see this twenty atom hydrogen molecule of yours.
Liquid rockets aren't as simple as mixing LH2 and LOX and throwing a match at it. Rocket engineers like to say that they're really a turbo pump with two tanks and a bell nozzle bolted on.
Charging stations will almost certainly be powered by HVDC lines and have flywheels for load leveling. They'll probably have superconducting generators and cables too.