Alright, i'm willing to cede that you might be able to get some stellar numbers out of your Touareg, but aren't the EPA numbers still 20/29 city/highway? http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/32632.shtml
According to this, EPA standard fuel economy is still 23MPG combined. This is what i'm pointing towards when I say that it will be difficult to impossible to get to 38MPG in a truck with current crash standards. If i'm not mistaken there's not been a single truck that broke 30MPG in the new EPA testing methodology.
Second of all achieving 38MPG in a truck sounds impossible unless it was the size of an old volkswagen caddy. An F-150 with a highly tuned diesel might get 25 combined, if lucky.
That being said diesel is excellent technology. Strong (electric) hybrids are too. Hydraulic hybrids even better, due to the lack of materials harvested in extremely environmentally harmful ways in their construction, and they don't require any materials exclusive to a particular country. They might be able to be constructed with all US harvested materials, even.
They could have simply just rented out a server farm, isn't Amazon's EC2 pretty flexible? Having enough capacity for launch might have avoided alot of the bad reviews on Amazon and lead to more sales, and usually PC game download sales are pure profit so i'm sure more dollars have been lost than gained by skimping out on server rental money.
If Sony has Gaikai it would be interesting to see them support PS4 games on the PS3 precisely through streaming. Would definatley expand the sales of certain games.
Technically I think that's religionist, as my black Muslim friend demonstrates admirably. No specific race has an aversion to food products, only adherents of a given religion, and i'm sure there are countless races under the Islamic banner, and Jews are pretty diverse too. (The Jew I know the best is an adopted Korean American messianic Jewish convert)
It's possible that if they get used to it they may be able to get out themselves.
If you had a special facility for it, you could probably put an elevator platform at the pool. And the elevator platform would descend into the pool, and you stand on it and let it elevate you out.
But I remember when I was watching too fat for 15, the 500+ pound girl Tanisha said she really enjoyed swimming. So I admit, it's definatley an option for the overweight to excercise.
I also agree that food needs to be kept under control. But the vicious cycle needs to be broken somehow. Being fat leads to loss of self esteem which, most mega-obese people deal with by eating. The cycle needs to stop just before the eating part, probably counseling and support is just as important as diet for an ultimate, permanent solution.
It could help morbidly obese patients get back to a weight where they can excercise without excessive pain or joint problems. I imagine if you're over 500, regular excercise is not an option.
They don't need to. Worst comes to worst Intel begins to make ARM SOCs and apply their superior process technology (Intel is always atleast 1 node ahead of the curve in most cases) they don't even need to be a better designed processor. Just good 'nuff to beat the competition with their lithography advantage.
The hardening of bread is actually caused by moisture in the air crystallizing the starches in the bread. If you could build a breadbox that would keep humidity very low, you could probably keep your bread good for a long time.
However, bread goes stale faster in the refrigerator because it speeds up the process of starch crystallization, so if you could store it outside of the refrigerator without mold spores developing, you have extended the life of your bread by quite a bit.
Yeah. Many people have different transportation needs in Japan. I live in a compact city where my farthest commute is 7KM each way. So for me, a road bike works perfectly. Paid about 5 man for it, and I can make the commute out there in about 25 minutes. This works for me because i've essentially (with repairs) paid a little over 3 man a year i've had it, over 3 years. So it's been a good investment versus getting a kei car (20 man), driving school (no license, so 30 man), 3 years of insurance (30 man), shaken (10 man), and gas (my odo says i've gone 4k on my bike, so let's just say that would be probably about 6 man) . So i've saved about 10 grand.
But if I lived in a town where my farthest commute was more like 40km, cycling would be impractical. So i'd have to go that route. Plenty of people live in the burbs and commute in, for them a kei car is economical. That's their living situation.
However, where the Velo really comes in handy is when you're commute is like 20km, because a Velo can easily maintain 50kph with a fit cyclist, doesn't mind rain, and etc. If you're commuting 40km round trip, your kei would be eating 3/4 of gas a day. 5 days a week 45 weeks a year that's 8 man a year just for gas. You tack on supplemental insurance (10 man a year) and you're shaken (10 man every 2 years, so let's just say 5 man). So you're looking at a yearly running cost of of 23 man. At those prices, that 8000 euro velo will pay for itself in 4 years. And if you're spending say, half an hour in the gym per day to stay fit, you can shift that half an hour in the gym to your hour of cycling. Considering that, the times would equalize.
So there are many different angles you can work on this. Some people might pick the Velo. I know I would, for fitness. The same reason why I haven't bought a car, only having a bicycle forces me to cycle everywhere and has helped me loose 50 pounds.
No insurance, no Shaken, no gas bills? A battery small enough that you can drag it back to your apartment to charge it?
Kei cars, insurance and gas costs, at a conservative 5000 miles per year, will still run you like $1500 per year average. That pays for the velomobile in about 7 years.
I was a pack a day smoker, and switched to electronic cigarettes. Was off the cigs totally in a week and have been away from Tobacco (Electronic cigs the way alot of people use them, are a substitute not a method of quitting) and from all of the evidence are not a cancer or emphysema risk. You probably still take the cardio risk but that's something inherent to Nicotine that's never going to be resolved.
They don't have the same 'feeling on cloud nine' feeling you can get with cigs, but they can permanently postpone withdrawal and keep many of the stimulant and mood boosting properties of cigarettes, without messing with your brain chemistry as much as the MAOIs in tobacco tend to do.
Yeah. It goes double up. So 2 A4's one ontop of the other is an A3. Two A3's one ontop of the other is A2. 2 A2's one ontop of the other is A1. And 2 A1's, one ontop of the other is A0. So A0 is quite massive. But you can always get the second smaller size by folding in half.
One critical advantage of liquid hydrogen fuel, is that it weighs about 4x less for an equivalent amount of energy. And ALOT of airplanes take off weight is fuel. So this may work out to the airplane's advantage.
This is a big reason why the rocket programs very rarely use kerosene if cost is no expense. Hydrogen has a superior weight to power ratio.
If you use liquid hydrogen, you don't need compression tanks, only really good insulation and safety valves to vent off hydrogen if it exceeds saftey pressure on the ground. And refueling directly before flight would mean it would have little chance to out gas anyways before takeoff.
The caveat is that the volumetric energy is much less. 1/3 as much energy per gallon. So if the tanks aren't a significant portion of the volume of the aircraft now, it would work. And if the weight savings from carrying 1/4 the amount of fuel weight would offset the decreased amount of fuel you can take, that would also work.
Then there's the fact that it takes 1/3 as much energy in the hydrogen to liquify it, but that can be done with nuke plants or solar so it can still be carbon neutral.
The round trip efficency of using solar to produce hydrogen though, will be so miserable it will never pay for itself. It's nuke or nothing. Gen 4 nuke plants have high enough heat to run direct thermo-chemical processes to generate hydrogen, so they'll be a cheap enough source of hydrogen to make hydrogen fueled aircraft possible.
Trains can get about 400 ton-miles per galon of diesel.
So if it's 1600 miles to sweden by rail, that means that you're burning 4 gallons of diesel per ton of garbage transported.
4 gallons of diesel is about 32 pounds. So you're getting around 60 pounds of trash for 1 gallon of diesel.
I've seen some figures that peg municipal waste as ~4000 BTU/lb. If you're doing cogen then that's almost all used.
Diesel is probably closer to 16,000 BTU's per pound but even at those ratios, you're getting about 500 pounds diesel equivalent of energy out of 32 pounds of diesel.
That is a highly favorable ratio so no, it does not make transporting the garbage less energy efficent than burning diesel. Not by a long shot.
Also, if you believe in anthropogenic global warming, eliminating garbage by burning it keeps it from producing the much more AGW effecting methane gas.
The primary cost of CNG conversions is the cost of the tanks, I believe. High pressure tanks have a limited lifespan and will need to be replaced regularly, probably several times over the course of the cars lifetime. If you wanted to make an IMMEDIATE dent in the oil consumption of America, converting over 1/3 of the cars in America, at $4000 per car, would have cost 400B. If you take the easier route of converting trucks and heavily commercial, then you could make more of a dent with less vehicles, but it would still cost alot. Which is probably why T-boone never got it off the ground. I feel like Fischer tropsch would have been a better bet, due to the compared ease of transporting liquid fuels vs natural gas. Fischer tropsch derived diesel would also have no sulfur, eliminating a primarily pollutant. When you start with virgin natural gas, the amount of pollutants coming out of the tailpipe probably drops precipitously. The fueling infrastructure would have also been better. Fischer tropsch derived gasoline could integrate seamlessly into the existing framework, where as with natural gas you're either looking at a $2000 compressor at every house with natural gas access, or building massive natural gas storage facilities at all gas stations.
If we took the trillion dollars from the Iraq war and invested it in fischer tropsch plants, we could've built 500 fischer tropsch plants which could have converted our natural gas reserves and coal reserves into a whopping 22.5 million barrels of petroleum products a day. With a 40/60 gasoline/diesel split. If I remember correctly, the end price ends up being the equivalent of about 50 dollar a barrel oil. This is roughly equilvalent to the entire oil consumption of the united states.
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It'd probably be better just to use flop (floating point operation), and use the exponent
Like petaflops, exaflops, zetta flops, yotta flops..
Like if you have a machine that can execute 1 petaflops/s, then an hour at 1 petaflops, would probably about 3 zettaflops in one hour of computing.
Alright, i'm willing to cede that you might be able to get some stellar numbers out of your Touareg, but aren't the EPA numbers still 20/29 city/highway?
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/32632.shtml
According to this, EPA standard fuel economy is still 23MPG combined. This is what i'm pointing towards when I say that it will be difficult to impossible to get to 38MPG in a truck with current crash standards. If i'm not mistaken there's not been a single truck that broke 30MPG in the new EPA testing methodology.
First of all, even 2002 priuses are still doing well on original batteries according to this AOL auto article.
http://autos.aol.com/article/toyota-prius-reliability/
Second of all achieving 38MPG in a truck sounds impossible unless it was the size of an old volkswagen caddy. An F-150 with a highly tuned diesel might get 25 combined, if lucky.
That being said diesel is excellent technology. Strong (electric) hybrids are too. Hydraulic hybrids even better, due to the lack of materials harvested in extremely environmentally harmful ways in their construction, and they don't require any materials exclusive to a particular country. They might be able to be constructed with all US harvested materials, even.
They could have simply just rented out a server farm, isn't Amazon's EC2 pretty flexible? Having enough capacity for launch might have avoided alot of the bad reviews on Amazon and lead to more sales, and usually PC game download sales are pure profit so i'm sure more dollars have been lost than gained by skimping out on server rental money.
If Sony has Gaikai it would be interesting to see them support PS4 games on the PS3 precisely through streaming. Would definatley expand the sales of certain games.
not cheaper than free. if it aint broke dont fix it. if they already own it it makes sense
Technically I think that's religionist, as my black Muslim friend demonstrates admirably. No specific race has an aversion to food products, only adherents of a given religion, and i'm sure there are countless races under the Islamic banner, and Jews are pretty diverse too. (The Jew I know the best is an adopted Korean American messianic Jewish convert)
Tofu isn't very low in fat. It derives almost half of it's calories from it.
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/legumes-and-legume-products/4393/2
88 calories per half cup, 44 from fat.
I believe you might be referring to it being low in saturated fat, or trans fat. Which would be true. But there's tons of fat in there.
It's possible that if they get used to it they may be able to get out themselves.
If you had a special facility for it, you could probably put an elevator platform at the pool. And the elevator platform would descend into the pool, and you stand on it and let it elevate you out.
But I remember when I was watching too fat for 15, the 500+ pound girl Tanisha said she really enjoyed swimming. So I admit, it's definatley an option for the overweight to excercise.
I also agree that food needs to be kept under control. But the vicious cycle needs to be broken somehow. Being fat leads to loss of self esteem which, most mega-obese people deal with by eating. The cycle needs to stop just before the eating part, probably counseling and support is just as important as diet for an ultimate, permanent solution.
It could help morbidly obese patients get back to a weight where they can excercise without excessive pain or joint problems. I imagine if you're over 500, regular excercise is not an option.
They don't need to. Worst comes to worst Intel begins to make ARM SOCs and apply their superior process technology (Intel is always atleast 1 node ahead of the curve in most cases) they don't even need to be a better designed processor. Just good 'nuff to beat the competition with their lithography advantage.
I'd say that all speech is free speech, but libel or death threats will get you arrested and or punished.
The hardening of bread is actually caused by moisture in the air crystallizing the starches in the bread. If you could build a breadbox that would keep humidity very low, you could probably keep your bread good for a long time.
However, bread goes stale faster in the refrigerator because it speeds up the process of starch crystallization, so if you could store it outside of the refrigerator without mold spores developing, you have extended the life of your bread by quite a bit.
Sorry, that should've been clarified. A man is 10,000 yen, which roughly equals $120.
Yeah. Many people have different transportation needs in Japan. I live in a compact city where my farthest commute is 7KM each way. So for me, a road bike works perfectly. Paid about 5 man for it, and I can make the commute out there in about 25 minutes. This works for me because i've essentially (with repairs) paid a little over 3 man a year i've had it, over 3 years. So it's been a good investment versus getting a kei car (20 man), driving school (no license, so 30 man), 3 years of insurance (30 man), shaken (10 man), and gas (my odo says i've gone 4k on my bike, so let's just say that would be probably about 6 man) . So i've saved about 10 grand.
But if I lived in a town where my farthest commute was more like 40km, cycling would be impractical. So i'd have to go that route. Plenty of people live in the burbs and commute in, for them a kei car is economical. That's their living situation.
However, where the Velo really comes in handy is when you're commute is like 20km, because a Velo can easily maintain 50kph with a fit cyclist, doesn't mind rain, and etc. If you're commuting 40km round trip, your kei would be eating 3/4 of gas a day. 5 days a week 45 weeks a year that's 8 man a year just for gas. You tack on supplemental insurance (10 man a year) and you're shaken (10 man every 2 years, so let's just say 5 man). So you're looking at a yearly running cost of of 23 man. At those prices, that 8000 euro velo will pay for itself in 4 years. And if you're spending say, half an hour in the gym per day to stay fit, you can shift that half an hour in the gym to your hour of cycling. Considering that, the times would equalize.
So there are many different angles you can work on this. Some people might pick the Velo. I know I would, for fitness. The same reason why I haven't bought a car, only having a bicycle forces me to cycle everywhere and has helped me loose 50 pounds.
No insurance, no Shaken, no gas bills? A battery small enough that you can drag it back to your apartment to charge it?
Kei cars, insurance and gas costs, at a conservative 5000 miles per year, will still run you like $1500 per year average. That pays for the velomobile in about 7 years.
For what it's worth, i've heard a natural source of MAOIs is passion flower tea. It has harmine in it. (Harma alkaloids maybe? I forget)
Have you looked into electronic cigarettes?
I was a pack a day smoker, and switched to electronic cigarettes. Was off the cigs totally in a week and have been away from Tobacco (Electronic cigs the way alot of people use them, are a substitute not a method of quitting) and from all of the evidence are not a cancer or emphysema risk. You probably still take the cardio risk but that's something inherent to Nicotine that's never going to be resolved.
They don't have the same 'feeling on cloud nine' feeling you can get with cigs, but they can permanently postpone withdrawal and keep many of the stimulant and mood boosting properties of cigarettes, without messing with your brain chemistry as much as the MAOIs in tobacco tend to do.
Yeah. It goes double up. So 2 A4's one ontop of the other is an A3. Two A3's one ontop of the other is A2. 2 A2's one ontop of the other is A1. And 2 A1's, one ontop of the other is A0. So A0 is quite massive. But you can always get the second smaller size by folding in half.
Forgot Europe electrified most of their stuff.
That means an even clearer argument for the efficiency of importing garbage.
One critical advantage of liquid hydrogen fuel, is that it weighs about 4x less for an equivalent amount of energy. And ALOT of airplanes take off weight is fuel. So this may work out to the airplane's advantage.
This is a big reason why the rocket programs very rarely use kerosene if cost is no expense. Hydrogen has a superior weight to power ratio.
If you use liquid hydrogen, you don't need compression tanks, only really good insulation and safety valves to vent off hydrogen if it exceeds saftey pressure on the ground. And refueling directly before flight would mean it would have little chance to out gas anyways before takeoff.
The caveat is that the volumetric energy is much less. 1/3 as much energy per gallon. So if the tanks aren't a significant portion of the volume of the aircraft now, it would work. And if the weight savings from carrying 1/4 the amount of fuel weight would offset the decreased amount of fuel you can take, that would also work.
Then there's the fact that it takes 1/3 as much energy in the hydrogen to liquify it, but that can be done with nuke plants or solar so it can still be carbon neutral.
The round trip efficency of using solar to produce hydrogen though, will be so miserable it will never pay for itself. It's nuke or nothing. Gen 4 nuke plants have high enough heat to run direct thermo-chemical processes to generate hydrogen, so they'll be a cheap enough source of hydrogen to make hydrogen fueled aircraft possible.
You would be surprised.
Trains can get about 400 ton-miles per galon of diesel.
So if it's 1600 miles to sweden by rail, that means that you're burning 4 gallons of diesel per ton of garbage transported.
4 gallons of diesel is about 32 pounds. So you're getting around 60 pounds of trash for 1 gallon of diesel.
I've seen some figures that peg municipal waste as ~4000 BTU/lb. If you're doing cogen then that's almost all used.
Diesel is probably closer to 16,000 BTU's per pound but even at those ratios, you're getting about 500 pounds diesel equivalent of energy out of 32 pounds of diesel.
That is a highly favorable ratio so no, it does not make transporting the garbage less energy efficent than burning diesel. Not by a long shot.
Also, if you believe in anthropogenic global warming, eliminating garbage by burning it keeps it from producing the much more AGW effecting methane gas.
Forgot natural gas, which i'm pretty sure with fracking is going to be cost competitive with nuclear soon.
Honestly though, best put through Fischer tropsch to make gasoline though.
The primary cost of CNG conversions is the cost of the tanks, I believe. High pressure tanks have a limited lifespan and will need to be replaced regularly, probably several times over the course of the cars lifetime. If you wanted to make an IMMEDIATE dent in the oil consumption of America, converting over 1/3 of the cars in America, at $4000 per car, would have cost 400B. If you take the easier route of converting trucks and heavily commercial, then you could make more of a dent with less vehicles, but it would still cost alot. Which is probably why T-boone never got it off the ground. I feel like Fischer tropsch would have been a better bet, due to the compared ease of transporting liquid fuels vs natural gas. Fischer tropsch derived diesel would also have no sulfur, eliminating a primarily pollutant. When you start with virgin natural gas, the amount of pollutants coming out of the tailpipe probably drops precipitously. The fueling infrastructure would have also been better. Fischer tropsch derived gasoline could integrate seamlessly into the existing framework, where as with natural gas you're either looking at a $2000 compressor at every house with natural gas access, or building massive natural gas storage facilities at all gas stations.
Just an observation.
If we took the trillion dollars from the Iraq war and invested it in fischer tropsch plants, we could've built 500 fischer tropsch plants which could have converted our natural gas reserves and coal reserves into a whopping 22.5 million barrels of petroleum products a day. With a 40/60 gasoline/diesel split. If I remember correctly, the end price ends up being the equivalent of about 50 dollar a barrel oil. This is roughly equilvalent to the entire oil consumption of the united states.
Source: http://www.ualberta.ca/~tamminga/.hide/10-11/Semester_2/CHE-465/afs_backup/research/Rehan%20Research/42_2_SAN%20FRANCISCO_04-97_0667.pdf
That one is for fischer tropsch processing from natural gas.