Forget crush (It's not that difficult to armor the batteries)... What happens when you short one out?
It also wouldn't be that hard to put a circuit breaker or some sort of relay in the battery itself to protect against this kind of failure. Trip the circuit in the event of a crash. I'm actually surprised it isn't already in these hybrid batteries since they're such high-voltage.
I don't know about other hybrids, but the Toyota Prius has:
1. A relay disconnecting the HV battery when the car is off. (The car's computer runs from the 12V battery and switches on the relay after booting and an inverter powers the 12V circuit from there on.) And all firefighters would start with turning the car off before attempting to cut any car I hope.
2. A big bright orange manual disconnect plug on the battery
3. A HV fuse inside the disconnect plug.
As surprising as it may seem, I think car manufacturers actually think about safety when designing cars.:)
Part joke, part true worry seeing how ridiculous lawsuits today can be.
BTW I'm Hungarian and never "officially" learned English, German was the only language taught in my school. My English is based on years of Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and downloaded English language movies (i prefer original instead of dubbed):P
With respect to labeling, an interesting question will be what kinds of marketing will be viable for artificial meat producers. For example, livestock producers would probably object to advertising claims that their animals suffer or that there's anything wrong with meat production. If artificial meat producers are unable to make this claim and don't have very low prices on their side, then this cedes an important competitive advantage, and it will be interesting to see the result.
"No animals were harmed in the making of this meat."
"Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menubar is going away. To be replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon(now in Paint and Wordpad too). Many apps still retain the menubar as an option to be pinned or to be shown briefly by holding the Alt key."
It talks about the menu bar getting replaced with the ribbon IN WINDOWS AND OTHER MS APPS! Not adding the ribbon to firefox!!! They DO plan to make a new "menu-less" UI, that would need LESS space than the current one. For the actual design plans check the wiki link.
Just a stupid fail article, nothing to see here, move along.
So, instead of the EMP only killing the electronics in the power plant, the electronics responsible for controlling the power distribution in switching stations and the electronics to be powered in your house... it ALSO kills your power meter?
Oooooor.... you could just go to a gas(/charging) station and charge there, like you do with a gas car now. If you want to charge at home, it will take longer. Choose whichever you like.
No, he is talking about the mining and refining of the materials in the battery itself, not the source of the energy that the battery is storing.
But you only need 1 battery per car (assuming the battery lasts trough the cars lifetime) and it can be recycled, while you constantly need new fuel for a gasoline car, which also has to be pumped and refined. That also has environmental problems (oil spills, etc.)
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What about this: Piaggio MP3 Hybrid?
Hybrids don't run on batteries, they run on gas/electricity. The battery only stores the electricity.
You could also complain about the fuel tank of a regular car needing raw materials and energy to manufacture.
Forget crush (It's not that difficult to armor the batteries)... What happens when you short one out?
It also wouldn't be that hard to put a circuit breaker or some sort of relay in the battery itself to protect against this kind of failure. Trip the circuit in the event of a crash. I'm actually surprised it isn't already in these hybrid batteries since they're such high-voltage.
I don't know about other hybrids, but the Toyota Prius has:
1. A relay disconnecting the HV battery when the car is off. (The car's computer runs from the 12V battery and switches on the relay after booting and an inverter powers the 12V circuit from there on.) And all firefighters would start with turning the car off before attempting to cut any car I hope.
2. A big bright orange manual disconnect plug on the battery
3. A HV fuse inside the disconnect plug.
As surprising as it may seem, I think car manufacturers actually think about safety when designing cars. :)
Part joke, part true worry seeing how ridiculous lawsuits today can be.
BTW I'm Hungarian and never "officially" learned English, German was the only language taught in my school. My English is based on years of Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and downloaded English language movies (i prefer original instead of dubbed) :P
Hmm...
OurSQL
ORACLE
Pronounce them both.
I smell trademark issues.
And eliminate it with the infrared death ray.
Lard Disk?
Stop eating next to the PC!
No wonder it doesn't work.
With respect to labeling, an interesting question will be what kinds of marketing will be viable for artificial meat producers. For example, livestock producers would probably object to advertising claims that their animals suffer or that there's anything wrong with meat production. If artificial meat producers are unable to make this claim and don't have very low prices on their side, then this cedes an important competitive advantage, and it will be interesting to see the result.
"No animals were harmed in the making of this meat."
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Around the same amount as with one huge central UPS, only in smaller units?
Intel's planning on releasing x86 CPUs with GPUs on the die. Why can't nVidia?
Because they don't have a x86 license.
BTW AMD will have on die GPUs too.
RTFS!
"If all goes according to plan the plane will be able to fly day and night without fuel, signaling a bright future for solar-powered flight."
Yeah, because pirates are currently destroying the money they don't spend on games and stuff.
Think of the money!!!
And the last time I checked, that is called a Series Hybrid. In the Volt's case it is a Plug-In Series Hybrid.
+1
"Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menubar is going away. To be replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon(now in Paint and Wordpad too). Many apps still retain the menubar as an option to be pinned or to be shown briefly by holding the Alt key."
The quote is from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Sprints/Windows_Theme_Revamp/Direction_and_Feedback
It talks about the menu bar getting replaced with the ribbon IN WINDOWS AND OTHER MS APPS! Not adding the ribbon to firefox!!!
They DO plan to make a new "menu-less" UI, that would need LESS space than the current one.
For the actual design plans check the wiki link.
Just a stupid fail article, nothing to see here, move along.
Conficker is not a case of a serious bug, it is a case of serious user idiocy.
Easy.
The black box is actually just a piece of plastic with no electronics inside.
The actual device is in the next room, aimed at the test room.
You won't find them on cheap macs either.
Because they don't exist!
So, instead of the EMP only killing the electronics in the power plant, the electronics responsible for controlling the power distribution in switching stations and the electronics to be powered in your house... it ALSO kills your power meter?
That is one step too far!
Why aren't big capacitors in your laptop/phone/mp3player?
It seems to me that battery tech is more advanced/widespread than capacitors.
Oooooor.... you could just go to a gas(/charging) station and charge there, like you do with a gas car now.
If you want to charge at home, it will take longer.
Choose whichever you like.
So you have a direct pipeline from the nearest refinery to your garage?
No, he is talking about the mining and refining of the materials in the battery itself, not the source of the energy that the battery is storing.
But you only need 1 battery per car (assuming the battery lasts trough the cars lifetime) and it can be recycled, while you constantly need new fuel for a gasoline car, which also has to be pumped and refined. That also has environmental problems (oil spills, etc.)
Yeah, it's not like Toyota would pay you $200 for a dead Prius battery...
Oh, wait, they do.
Are 300x400 resoluion wikipedia photos useful for book pictures?