As long as you keep it in a closed system and replace the current cooling system you could very easily make this work at a net gain of no more than 30-50lbs. A small steam turbine and alternator wouldn't be that heavy and being able to run a 25-30hp electric motor instead of the 12-15hp current motor in the same trends as currently run the car over all would be more responsive and have better gas mileage.
PS I don't drive in the mountains all the time, but enough to see the trends. Actually if I could just get about triple battery life for the electric motor I'd do much better. Driving up and down mountains isn't much diffrent than stop and go traffic. It just requires longer use times.
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Not if you use the steam turbine to turn a small alternator/generator. This could be used to help keep your batteries at peak charge and allow you to use a larger and more powerful electric motor on the hybrid.
I drive a civic hybrid in Arizona and we have lots of mountains to drive through. Many times I run the batteries completely down while climbing mountains and then I am stuck with the 95hps of the gass motor and none of the 15hps of the electric. While the engine just runs faster and I can still climb at 70+mph my mpg goes down a quite a bit. With a small steam turbine hooked to a generator it could help to keep the batteries full and the electric generating power to the wheels. When batteries are full and engine isn't running there is no need for the steam turbine to be running.
Yes I think this is a tech that really should go into hybrid cars. They need to use everything they can to reclaim all energy.
1. 1600 page books look impressive. 2. Keep the information hidden. bury it in useless data and it is hidden in plane site. 3. Make TCP/IP look 1000x more complicated than it is. Network Engineers get paid more.
1600 pages for something that would have to have a lot of fluff to fill half that and could probably be covered really well in 1-200 pages.
You sir are a comunist falling for the good ole line of "If everyone worked for the fun of it everyone would be happy." Unfortunatly not enough people will work for the fun of it to make sure that everyone can eat.
Yea perhaps we could shell out more cash to poor people as that seems to really help. Or we could funnel it to Africa some more because it seems to have brought them around.
At least the Hubble Billions are going to people who want to work and not going to help insure that those unwilling to work don't have to.
What you're talking about is Deflation and it is actually a bad thing. If money gets more valuble just by sitting still then people are going to be less likely to invest and it hurts the economy as a whole. A small amount of inflation helps keeps money moving. Which is the sign of a good economy. Of course too much inflation is bad as well. Trying to find the right amount is what Economists are for.
And the name Goat-toe is much funnier than an article about goto making faster code.
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I would have to say that out of the some 40,000 pictures that were taken throughout all the Appolo missions that there would be a few with trick shadows and lighting. If NASA can take that many pictures and only have 10-15 of them come up as weird when fakeing a moon landing then they did pretty damn good. Hell real movie producers cant get any where near that close.
Umm, if you think there is no diffrence between gamers bitching about CSI and Lawyers seuing and getting legislation made against GTA, you myfriend have a very distorted view of the world.
At least he didn't create another TLA, (technically, not possible: there were only 26^3 possibilities in English, and we've used them all).
I propose three extentions to the TLA. An ETLA (Extended TLA) A VLTLA (Very Long TLA) and a VLETLA (Very Long Extended TLA.) This will give us 26^6 possibilities in the English language. This should be enough to give every Cell in everyone's body their own *TLA.
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Could it be that the whisleblower and advocate of truth could actually be a fraud with his own agenda?
Hmm, he does work for a rival firm...
No no this is just the ultimate form of masterbation.
Yea I think Korea is a conspericie cooked up by battle.net and blizzard to piss off gamers.
As long as you keep it in a closed system and replace the current cooling system you could very easily make this work at a net gain of no more than 30-50lbs. A small steam turbine and alternator wouldn't be that heavy and being able to run a 25-30hp electric motor instead of the 12-15hp current motor in the same trends as currently run the car over all would be more responsive and have better gas mileage.
PS I don't drive in the mountains all the time, but enough to see the trends. Actually if I could just get about triple battery life for the electric motor I'd do much better. Driving up and down mountains isn't much diffrent than stop and go traffic. It just requires longer use times.
Not if you use the steam turbine to turn a small alternator/generator. This could be used to help keep your batteries at peak charge and allow you to use a larger and more powerful electric motor on the hybrid.
I drive a civic hybrid in Arizona and we have lots of mountains to drive through. Many times I run the batteries completely down while climbing mountains and then I am stuck with the 95hps of the gass motor and none of the 15hps of the electric. While the engine just runs faster and I can still climb at 70+mph my mpg goes down a quite a bit. With a small steam turbine hooked to a generator it could help to keep the batteries full and the electric generating power to the wheels. When batteries are full and engine isn't running there is no need for the steam turbine to be running.
Yes I think this is a tech that really should go into hybrid cars. They need to use everything they can to reclaim all energy.
I can think of 3 reasons to make a book this big
1. 1600 page books look impressive.
2. Keep the information hidden. bury it in useless data and it is hidden in plane site.
3. Make TCP/IP look 1000x more complicated than it is. Network Engineers get paid more.
1600 pages for something that would have to have a lot of fluff to fill half that and could probably be covered really well in 1-200 pages.
Nope it was only there to make sure that business majors would be scared of UNIX and pay UNIX admins a lot more money.
Yes, yes you are.
One of the sole Slashdotters that is married. And of course to a stupid woman. Slashdotters can't find the good ones.
Not true. You're missing out on the new science of "God did it." to explain anything more complex than a typical red neck can understand.
(*) see Intelligent design
Thanks for showing that it is. the DMCA is not part of the free market and capitalizm. It is social control of the market and hense restricts freedom.
You sir are a comunist falling for the good ole line of "If everyone worked for the fun of it everyone would be happy." Unfortunatly not enough people will work for the fun of it to make sure that everyone can eat.
Cotton Candy is the work of the Devil.
Ohh that puffy billowy goodness. Pure evil I tell you. Pure evil...
Yea perhaps we could shell out more cash to poor people as that seems to really help. Or we could funnel it to Africa some more because it seems to have brought them around.
At least the Hubble Billions are going to people who want to work and not going to help insure that those unwilling to work don't have to.
Eww, the evil conservative that I am.
What you're talking about is Deflation and it is actually a bad thing. If money gets more valuble just by sitting still then people are going to be less likely to invest and it hurts the economy as a whole. A small amount of inflation helps keeps money moving. Which is the sign of a good economy. Of course too much inflation is bad as well. Trying to find the right amount is what Economists are for.
It always warms my heart to htink that the buracracy of the court system is worse than the punishment for the crime.
And the name Goat-toe is much funnier than an article about goto making faster code.
I would have to say that out of the some 40,000 pictures that were taken throughout all the Appolo missions that there would be a few with trick shadows and lighting. If NASA can take that many pictures and only have 10-15 of them come up as weird when fakeing a moon landing then they did pretty damn good. Hell real movie producers cant get any where near that close.
Simpler still, Are you hiring?
Ohh, my dream job. Build stuff then blow it up.
Gamers get pissed when things never change, but riot when they do.
Or
people get pissed when things never change, but riot when they do.
Take your pick.
The process may not be easy but the results are.
The unemployment soared to 30%. Pundents blame the lack of supply chain jobs.
Like Java? It's standard, it's cross platform, and it's already in widespread use. Plus performance has already been tuned to extremes
Uhh, they tuned it to the wrong extremes. Small size and fast speed is what they should have tuned for not huge swapping and slow response.
Umm, if you think there is no diffrence between gamers bitching about CSI and Lawyers seuing and getting legislation made against GTA, you myfriend have a very distorted view of the world.
At least he didn't create another TLA, (technically, not possible: there were only 26^3 possibilities in English, and we've used them all).
I propose three extentions to the TLA. An ETLA (Extended TLA) A VLTLA (Very Long TLA) and a VLETLA (Very Long Extended TLA.) This will give us 26^6 possibilities in the English language. This should be enough to give every Cell in everyone's body their own *TLA.