it is not that simple. The increase of going from a 1 minute stopover to a 15 minute stopover means that you'll need 15 times the real estate that is in use for current filling stations. That would mean a total reconstruction of the situation around filling stations, whereas a drop-in replacement would pretty much have to be constrained to a maximum refill time roughly on par with what is common now.
The only way I can see that work is with a swap-out system using standardized battery packs.
Or feed one cow a batch of neos and watch the others cowtow (pun intended) to it.
Instant religion:)
(no, do not feed neos to anything because they tend to stick together in the digestive tract and will kill that particular organism, this was a *joke*, it may not be in good taste but it was a joke nonetheless).
Been there, done that, and again, that's just another stereotype. Canadians do not routinely bash Americans more than the Americans probably deserve on account of abusing tariffs and nafta.
not to mention goats in 4 varieties of leg length, uphill goats, downhill goats, leftfacing goats and rightfacing goats. Legs on the upper slope will be shorter.
Is today global stereotype day and did I miss the memo ?
Hitting on the Russians seems to be in real fashion these days, you'd almost think there was a political motive behind it. Is France out of fashion or so ?
Really, the reason these tools exist is because there are several requirements before you can deploy these tools, which are:
- access to international banking - a large base of hackers, preferably unemployed (I use 'hacker' in its original form) - organized crime
The USA, China, Germany and Russia all have these in abundance so that's where you will find your toolkits.
Time to start chatting up that hot co-worker of yours I guess;)
Sure there will be plenty of practical problems, but really working far away from the place where you live, especially if you're in the 'services' economy and could do your work from home is going to be a luxury that very few people will be able to afford in the long run.
Very true. That's the reason why diesel-electric locs have that big electro motor in the first place, maximum torque at 0 RPM.
Range is a *much* bigger issue than anything else at this point in time, and battery technology will need to go through at least another doubling of energy storage density and a factor of four in reduction of charge time before an all electric vehicle will be a real contender. Either that or a very fast swap system.
Nobody that I know really cares about the 'wimpy wimpy' image of alternatively fueled vehicles. I've driven a honda civic hybrid for two years and I really found it hard to tell the difference between the 'regular' one and the 'wimpy hybrid'.
Toyota seems to have found plenty of customers for whom 'wimpy' was just fine, at last count I think they sold a million priuses to date.
Mercedes will have a plug-in hybrid within the next couple of years, when German engineers make predictions you usually can make some money by betting on their side of the table.
The only people that won't buy an alternatively fueled vehicle because of 'image' have other problems (and much more serious ones) than fuel consumption.
Vehicles are for transportation first. What use is your gas guzzling monster to you if you can not afford to fill it up?
More power to you to have your 'image' sitting in the yard while I cruise by in my 'wimpy' electric vehicle.
Horsepower is only useful to a very limited number of people, most of those are in the agricultural business and they'll use diesel for its torque long before they'll go and spend a lot of $ on high octane fuel to avoid looking 'wimpy'.
The rest would do well to kiss their muscle cars goodbye and get a bit of an education, so that their 'image' does not project from the piece of metal in their driveways but from themselves.
not likely. The US is existing in its current form by the grace of cheap fuel more so than any other country. It has one of the lowest prices of fuel in the world, but at the same time the average standard of living is substantially behind the rest of the developed world.
In the long run that is an unsustainable model.
If you will not be prepared to move closer to where your work is (or generate work closer to you) then the third alternative is to be unemployed, which will quickly break the system.
I really don't think drilling for oil or pursuing alternative fuels is going to stop all of this trend from happening. Whether you personally will be touched depends very much on circumstance but I think that on average more people will be influenced by this than not.
Think of the cheap oil as a cosmic loan, one that allowed us to jumpstart an enormous amount of industry but which eventually runs out. The time to plan to avoid the current trend was roughly 30 years ago, the crunch is - at least in my opinion - unavoidable now. The effects are already very visible, and they'll get a lot worse before they'll get better again. Relocation is going to be a breeze compared to some of the alternatives.
Go take a ride in one of bmw's top of the line turbo d's, it'll make you cry. A friend of mine has one and I've *never* ever been in a car that had more torque, a shorter 0-100 time or top speed.
oh, they'll come and talk to you alright, but first they have to do this bit called development. And since this is 'news for nerds' and not 'topgear' I think it has its place here.
I think you do not deserve your 'insightful' one bit. Development platforms for a new technology do not have to be related in shape or function to the end product.
The length of the road on which they function has nothing to do with the length that they could be going to on real roads.
These are just abstractions, and in fact simplify the development process considerably. Think about how much more costly this would be if all these experimental vehicles had to conform to regular road standards and had to take a full complement of passengers.
that may be true, but lego is just playing the marketing game here, kids want to be able to build stuff and if a specific piece is only present in one set then they'll sell more. That would not be the case if the specific parts would not be there in the first place. It would also allow the less affluent to be able to build everything they wanted with only a few sets.
You used to be able to buy a big book full of drawings of all the lego models in the different sets even if you had not bought the actual sets, because all the parts were the same. Not much chance of that today.
This will have some effect, but it really is a band aid. If the certificate authorities would be doing their jobs and browsers would be more strict about using 'bad' certificates then this problem would not exist in the first place.
The greed of the certificate issuers is what has devalued the security.
Multiple layers of such security are not the same as a real solution.
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That should not be that much more difficult than getting them to agree on a single standard of fuel ?
Toch niet, geboren en getogen mokummer, 5 jaar in Canada gewoond, 2 jaar in Polen en sinds 2 jaar weer in nl (groningen).
it is not that simple. The increase of going from a 1 minute stopover to a 15 minute stopover means that you'll need 15 times the real estate that is in use for current filling stations. That would mean a total reconstruction of the situation around filling stations, whereas a drop-in replacement would pretty much have to be constrained to a maximum refill time roughly on par with what is common now.
The only way I can see that work is with a swap-out system using standardized battery packs.
Thank you for improving my English, I'll never be as good as a native speaker though.
Russian bashing was closer to what I had in mind.
ja hoor, wat dacht jij dan ?
j.
Or feed one cow a batch of neos and watch the others cowtow (pun intended) to it.
Instant religion :)
(no, do not feed neos to anything because they tend to stick together in the digestive tract and will kill that particular organism, this was a *joke*, it may not be in good taste but it was a joke nonetheless).
People would never tolerate 15 minute forced stopovers every 120 miles.
hilarious ;)
Been there, done that, and again, that's just another stereotype. Canadians do not routinely bash Americans more than the Americans probably deserve on account of abusing tariffs and nafta.
Well, I have this stash of about 400 neodymium magnets, I'm going to have lots of fun burrying them in the local farmers fields in exciting patterns.
Here in NL the cows have designer sunglasses and cell phones.
not to mention goats in 4 varieties of leg length, uphill goats, downhill goats, leftfacing goats and rightfacing goats. Legs on the upper slope will be shorter.
Is today global stereotype day and did I miss the memo ?
Hitting on the Russians seems to be in real fashion these days, you'd almost think there was a political motive behind it. Is France out of fashion or so ?
Really, the reason these tools exist is because there are several requirements before you can deploy these tools, which are:
- access to international banking
- a large base of hackers, preferably unemployed
(I use 'hacker' in its original form)
- organized crime
The USA, China, Germany and Russia all have these in abundance so that's where you will find your toolkits.
Time to start chatting up that hot co-worker of yours I guess ;)
Sure there will be plenty of practical problems, but really working far away from the place where you live, especially if you're in the 'services' economy and could do your work from home is going to be a luxury that very few people will be able to afford in the long run.
Very true. That's the reason why diesel-electric locs have that big electro motor in the first place, maximum torque at 0 RPM.
Range is a *much* bigger issue than anything else at this point in time, and battery technology will need to go through at least another doubling of energy storage density and a factor of four in reduction of charge time before an all electric vehicle will be a real contender. Either that or a very fast swap system.
Nobody that I know really cares about the 'wimpy wimpy' image of alternatively fueled vehicles. I've driven a honda civic hybrid for two years and I really found it hard to tell the difference between the 'regular' one and the 'wimpy hybrid'.
Toyota seems to have found plenty of customers for whom 'wimpy' was just fine, at last count I think they sold a million priuses to date.
Mercedes will have a plug-in hybrid within the next couple of years, when German engineers make predictions you usually can make some money by betting on their side of the table.
The only people that won't buy an alternatively fueled vehicle because of 'image' have other problems (and much more serious ones) than fuel consumption.
Vehicles are for transportation first. What use is your gas guzzling monster to you if you can not afford to fill it up?
More power to you to have your 'image' sitting in the yard while I cruise by in my 'wimpy' electric vehicle.
Horsepower is only useful to a very limited number of people, most of those are in the agricultural business and they'll use diesel for its torque long before they'll go and spend a lot of $ on high octane fuel to avoid looking 'wimpy'.
The rest would do well to kiss their muscle cars goodbye and get a bit of an education, so that their 'image' does not project from the piece of metal in their driveways but from themselves.
not likely. The US is existing in its current form by the grace of cheap fuel more so than any other country. It has one of the lowest prices of fuel in the world, but at the same time the average standard of living is substantially behind the rest of the developed world.
In the long run that is an unsustainable model.
If you will not be prepared to move closer to where your work is (or generate work closer to you) then the third alternative is to be unemployed, which will quickly break the system.
I really don't think drilling for oil or pursuing alternative fuels is going to stop all of this trend from happening. Whether you personally will be touched depends very much on circumstance but I think that on average more people will be influenced by this than not.
Think of the cheap oil as a cosmic loan, one that allowed us to jumpstart an enormous amount of industry but which eventually runs out. The time to plan to avoid the current trend was roughly 30 years ago, the crunch is - at least in my opinion - unavoidable now. The effects are already very visible, and they'll get a lot worse before they'll get better again. Relocation is going to be a breeze compared to some of the alternatives.
So, you'll end up working closer to home or living closer to your work. Count on it.
oh, it's manly allright, it just doesn't go very far :)
Go take a ride in one of bmw's top of the line turbo d's, it'll make you cry. A friend of mine has one and I've *never* ever been in a car that had more torque, a shorter 0-100 time or top speed.
oh, they'll come and talk to you alright, but first they have to do this bit called development. And since this is 'news for nerds' and not 'topgear' I think it has its place here.
I think you do not deserve your 'insightful' one bit. Development platforms for a new technology do not have to be related in shape or function to the end product.
The length of the road on which they function has nothing to do with the length that they could be going to on real roads.
These are just abstractions, and in fact simplify the development process considerably. Think about how much more costly this would be if all these experimental vehicles had to conform to regular road standards and had to take a full complement of passengers.
that may be true, but lego is just playing the marketing game here, kids want to be able to build stuff and if a specific piece is only present in one set then they'll sell more. That would not be the case if the specific parts would not be there in the first place. It would also allow the less affluent to be able to build everything they wanted with only a few sets.
You used to be able to buy a big book full of drawings of all the lego models in the different sets even if you had not bought the actual sets, because all the parts were the same. Not much chance of that today.
funny, the new insightful... I think we've come full circle now.
This will have some effect, but it really is a band aid. If the certificate authorities would be doing their jobs and browsers would be more strict about using 'bad' certificates then this problem would not exist in the first place.
The greed of the certificate issuers is what has devalued the security.
Multiple layers of such security are not the same as a real solution.