Dude, that's so 5 years ago. I just bought a wall clock for my kitchen that takes an AA battery, and it syncs to the UK nuclear clock signal. It's great.
Cost? 8 pounds.
You don't know the Cost but it weighs 8lbs. Kinda heavy for a clock.
I know what you mean. I wish the look and feel guys from KDE would get together with the application guys of gnome. work together rather than seperately. right now we have competeing desktops that both suck. Picking and choosing and combining efforts would work much better.
That's why I'm a capitalist rather than a socialist/communist. People try to say that money is an evil motivator. But social services motivation is vague, usually derived from power grabs and political shenanigans.
You think someone in the public service is going to say, "We had plenty of money. I just fucked up and browsed slashdot all day rather than actually do something usefull with it."
The 7 Phased rotor is still only one moving part. and 2500 rpm is rather slow for an electric motor but more than plenty fast enough for the average car. I saw elsewhere that someone calculated a top speed of about 175MPH.
Electric motors, especially the new(ish) brushless motors are nearly maintance free. Having only two critical failure points being the front and rear bearings there is almost no reason for these things to break down. Kept clean I wouldn't be supprised to see a million miles on the motors. I'd say even to the point that you may be able to buy new cars without motors and swap in your old ones.
Don't tell me you think both of these technologies weren't held back by the industries you mention. If Kodak embraced digital cameras out the gate don't you think we'd have had 10MP cameras 10 years ago?
Which is why you need a dual battery setup. during normal daily operation you have one battery set in your garage charging/conditioning while the other is being used. Then trade out when you get home.
On longer trips you load both batteries together. and get a much longer traval distance. (not quite twice due to extra weight.)
Plus gas stations could become battary swap stations. Bring in your Brand X battery and swap it out for a fully charged and testing brand x battery.
Electric motors still generate heat and will most likly have a heat sink attached to them. A little Duct work and you have a heater.
As far as brown-outs go, sure if everyone went out tomorrow and bought an electric vehicle this would be a problem. More likely it will trickle in at a much slower rate. It'll still cause some problems as the load goes up but the electric companies will be able to react. It's not like 100 Million people are going to plug in their electric car at 5pm tomorrow.
RTFA!! No transmisions. These produce enough torq at 1 RPM to accelerate a car and will spin at 2500rpm. Each of the 4 motors will be directly hooked up to the wheels. This also means far less to go wrong because electric motors are 1000x more simple than an IC engine.
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Dude, that's so 5 years ago. I just bought a wall clock for my kitchen that takes an AA battery, and it syncs to the UK nuclear clock signal. It's great.
Cost? 8 pounds.
You don't know the Cost but it weighs 8lbs. Kinda heavy for a clock.
I know what you mean. I wish the look and feel guys from KDE would get together with the application guys of gnome. work together rather than seperately. right now we have competeing desktops that both suck. Picking and choosing and combining efforts would work much better.
and it is all solid state engineering so it is less prone to breakage than moving parts.
That's why I'm a capitalist rather than a socialist/communist. People try to say that money is an evil motivator. But social services motivation is vague, usually derived from power grabs and political shenanigans.
Which is more evil?
That's why I think they should all start in a frozen state and then you could right click it and select start if you really wanted to see it.
You think someone in the public service is going to say, "We had plenty of money. I just fucked up and browsed slashdot all day rather than actually do something usefull with it."
I'd prefer Right Click - Start.
Why start off with punching monkeys???
I got flashed in the park. Last thing I wanted to do after that was smack the monkey.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present" (Abraham Lincoln)
Entrenched in a dogmatic prision of current *IAA practices keep them from moving forward.
The 7 Phased rotor is still only one moving part. and 2500 rpm is rather slow for an electric motor but more than plenty fast enough for the average car. I saw elsewhere that someone calculated a top speed of about 175MPH.
Electric motors, especially the new(ish) brushless motors are nearly maintance free. Having only two critical failure points being the front and rear bearings there is almost no reason for these things to break down. Kept clean I wouldn't be supprised to see a million miles on the motors. I'd say even to the point that you may be able to buy new cars without motors and swap in your old ones.
Don't tell me you think both of these technologies weren't held back by the industries you mention. If Kodak embraced digital cameras out the gate don't you think we'd have had 10MP cameras 10 years ago?
Which is why you need a dual battery setup. during normal daily operation you have one battery set in your garage charging/conditioning while the other is being used. Then trade out when you get home.
On longer trips you load both batteries together. and get a much longer traval distance. (not quite twice due to extra weight.)
Plus gas stations could become battary swap stations. Bring in your Brand X battery and swap it out for a fully charged and testing brand x battery.
Electric motors still generate heat and will most likly have a heat sink attached to them. A little Duct work and you have a heater.
As far as brown-outs go, sure if everyone went out tomorrow and bought an electric vehicle this would be a problem. More likely it will trickle in at a much slower rate. It'll still cause some problems as the load goes up but the electric companies will be able to react. It's not like 100 Million people are going to plug in their electric car at 5pm tomorrow.
RTFA!! No transmisions. These produce enough torq at 1 RPM to accelerate a car and will spin at 2500rpm. Each of the 4 motors will be directly hooked up to the wheels. This also means far less to go wrong because electric motors are 1000x more simple than an IC engine.
By looked at one I think he ment a new one. of course staring at the same one for 10 years it's not going to get any better.
$23.95
more or less.
I call liar!!! You're posting to slashdot. Liar! Liar!!
Anyone single male using a VAN is most likly a pervert looking for kidie porn.
Extortion - The taking of money or goods by threat of force.
Kinda like taxes.
"Call me a naysayer, but the future does not appear to lie in America."
You're right, the future appears to be an American Lie.
I think you kinda messed up the events
.....
CIA: Mr. President we have this report for you.
(hands president loony toons tape)
Bush: I'll review this and pass it on to congress
(few hours later)
Bush: My god Mars is working on a WMD to destroy the earth. We have to get that little Marvin Bin Laden
Congress: This looks like a major threat. Here is the order.
Kerry: Go get em.
(one year later)
Bush: Ahh well, couldn't really find that Marvin guy. Don't even really think about it any more.
Kerry: I never wanted to find him anyway.
Bush: Lets blow up Saturn.
Is he just sarcastic? Or sarcasticly sarcastic? AHHHH!!!!! Sarcasim overload!!!!
Patent them all! Let Lawyers sort 'em out.