It would definitely have to be a private service. Chartered aircraft are exempt from TSA screening.
I don't believe anyone would have to give up their car. Since it's a service geared for high-income clientele, it's not really a stretch for them to keep a car in parking nearby and use that to get around. For example, maybe they fly from Brigham City Airport to Salt Lake City, get on a dedicated shuttle to the parking garage where their in-town Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt, or plug-in Prius is waiting on a charger. They use that to drive to the office, run errands, whatever, come back to the garage at the end of the day, plug the car back in, take the shuttle to the airport, get on the plane back to Brigham City Airport, watch the traffic chaos on I-15 from the air at 250+ MPH, and drive the short few miles home or take the shuttle.
Winter can be awful here. I've seen snowplows go off the road at times. Aircraft can have trouble with snow-ingestion causing flame-outs, but an electric aircraft doesn't have to deal with that. The instant response of electric motors could prove advantageous when taking off and landing in severe weather. Heating/de-icing could at least partially be accomplished by circulating battery coolant throughout the craft.
In terms of energy requirements, Brigham City Airport is across the street from a steel processing facility that uses so much energy it makes a couple more megawatts from several planes charging at once look like a drop in the bucket. Salt Lake City Airport already has sufficient electrical capacity.
I don't know much about flying planes, but I know a craft like that wouldn't have to fly very high and we're already 4200' above sea level. 1500' AGL would be plenty, saving plenty of energy. Runway length wouldn't even be a problem since Brigham City Airport has an 8900' runway, saving wear on the motors and battery by not having to go full speed on take-off.
I'll be watching this. It's economically-viable, locally, but I don't know whether it's profitable just yet. A battery with half the capacity would even be fine if charging were available during load/offload at each end.
About 20 years ago, Morton International (now Autoliv) used a private jet to shuttle explosive airbag initiators between the Tremonton, Utah and Brigham City, Utah plants. It was a 20 mile flight and ridiculously-expensive (because Learjet), but the initiators were illegal to transport via the freeway. Ultimately, the Tremonton initiator plant was closed. The airport closed a short time later because that jet was the only real reason it stayed open.
There's a lot of distance between cities in Utah. Brigham City isn't that big at ~18,000 people and it's a 30 mile flight North to Logan with a population of 50,000 or a 30 mile flight South to the Ogden Metro area with a population around 500,000. It's a further 30 miles to the Salt Lake City Metro area with a population over 1,000,000.
Booking full 9-passenger flights between Brigham City and Salt Lake City would be easy. A round-trip would be faster and cheaper than the FrontRunner train (which is supposed to link to Brigham City in the distant future) in terms of operating expenses, even at half-capacity. Engineers, Doctors, etc, who live in the less-crowded Brigham City area already commute to Salt Lake. Saving an extra two or three hours a day on the commute (not to mention the stress of traffic) is something people with the money would gladly pay for.
Somehow, whenever I visit Youtube, I have to go to settings to switch annotations off (no, I don't want to 'log-in'). Why don't they just default to off, instead of scrapping the entire feature?
That's as likely as Facebook defaulting your feed to "Most Recent".
I worked for a company where a maintenance guy who was closing in on 80 and could have retired at 60 refused to leave and refused to train a successor. "If I train a replacement, I'll get replaced." (False. That would be age discrimination.)
He ended up having a stroke and died soon after. He had never documented the hacks and workarounds that kept most of the long-since-discontinued machines running over the years and that knowledge died with him. The capital investment the company had to make after things started breaking immediately surpassed every dollar the guy made during his lifetime.
And he had been making some damn good money.
The machines were only part of the expense. Most of the tooling had to be remade and people had to be trained on the new stuff, plus the new stuff had to be re-qualified for some processes involving mil and medical products.
It sure would be nice if licensing were more streamlined.
Music licensing today is what game engine licensing was 20 years ago where the barrier to entry was ridiculous and you were stuck forking over thousands of dollars, minimum, just to open a dialog. Don't even get me started on console development.
Now AAA game engines are available for a song and dance. UE4 is pretty much everywhere. I was able to become an XNA developer on Xbox 360 in 2007. I had a lot of fun with that. And, on top of that, Nintendo allowed me to become a third-party Wii U developer a few years ago instead of just sending me a head-patting form-letter. Granted, I didn't go anywhere with the Wii U thing because nobody bought one, but Nintendo opening up like that was jarring.
Actually, it reminds me more of a cartoon. Aqua Teen Hunger Force - The Meat Zone
Meatwad ends up being able to predict the future and, after a request from Master Shake, correctly predicts the winning lottery numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 but Master Shake chose different numbers despite this and gets angry.
The thing about Subway is, in my town of like 20,000 people, I can literally stand just outside the Subway at the local Walmart and see the Subway across the parking lot. Plus, were it not for one single tree in the way, I could see the sign for the truck stop a few miles away where there's, you guessed it, another Subway.
A short trip up the highway from Walmart, there's a building that used to be a Subway, the only Subway in town, that closed down about 10 years before the one in Walmart opened. A block up the road from that, there's the building where a Quizno's Subs used to be. It tanked when there was only one Subway in town (the one in Walmart), long before Quizno's as a company almost tanked.
Locally, we got sick enough of Comcast and Centurylink's shit to build our own fiber network "With Blackjack and Hookers".
250/250 for $65 a month. 1000/1000 for $20 more.
Comcast doorknockers come around and get laughed at. Fairplay after those assholes locked people in on shitty 2 year contracts just before entire neighborhoods lit their fibers. Cords got cut and the natives rejoiced.
"Here! We'll give you 300/12 Internet and a shitty TV package for $150 and include free lube*!"
* We reserve the right to switch to Tabasco sauce and sandpaper without notice.
I played the shareware edition and ending up upside-down and backward was a pain in the ass. The commercials claimed it was like Doom, but better. Bullshit. It was nothing like Doom and there wasn't even any awesome violence. Blowing evil things to bits was so much fun.
Quake was a game changer. It was exactly 20 years ago that I bought an Intergraph Intense 3D Voodoo card with the Voodoo Rush 3D chip and played GL Quake for the first time. Braingasm.
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It would definitely have to be a private service. Chartered aircraft are exempt from TSA screening.
I don't believe anyone would have to give up their car. Since it's a service geared for high-income clientele, it's not really a stretch for them to keep a car in parking nearby and use that to get around. For example, maybe they fly from Brigham City Airport to Salt Lake City, get on a dedicated shuttle to the parking garage where their in-town Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt, or plug-in Prius is waiting on a charger. They use that to drive to the office, run errands, whatever, come back to the garage at the end of the day, plug the car back in, take the shuttle to the airport, get on the plane back to Brigham City Airport, watch the traffic chaos on I-15 from the air at 250+ MPH, and drive the short few miles home or take the shuttle.
Winter can be awful here. I've seen snowplows go off the road at times. Aircraft can have trouble with snow-ingestion causing flame-outs, but an electric aircraft doesn't have to deal with that. The instant response of electric motors could prove advantageous when taking off and landing in severe weather. Heating/de-icing could at least partially be accomplished by circulating battery coolant throughout the craft.
In terms of energy requirements, Brigham City Airport is across the street from a steel processing facility that uses so much energy it makes a couple more megawatts from several planes charging at once look like a drop in the bucket. Salt Lake City Airport already has sufficient electrical capacity.
I don't know much about flying planes, but I know a craft like that wouldn't have to fly very high and we're already 4200' above sea level. 1500' AGL would be plenty, saving plenty of energy. Runway length wouldn't even be a problem since Brigham City Airport has an 8900' runway, saving wear on the motors and battery by not having to go full speed on take-off.
I'll be watching this. It's economically-viable, locally, but I don't know whether it's profitable just yet. A battery with half the capacity would even be fine if charging were available during load/offload at each end.
About 20 years ago, Morton International (now Autoliv) used a private jet to shuttle explosive airbag initiators between the Tremonton, Utah and Brigham City, Utah plants. It was a 20 mile flight and ridiculously-expensive (because Learjet), but the initiators were illegal to transport via the freeway. Ultimately, the Tremonton initiator plant was closed. The airport closed a short time later because that jet was the only real reason it stayed open.
There's a lot of distance between cities in Utah. Brigham City isn't that big at ~18,000 people and it's a 30 mile flight North to Logan with a population of 50,000 or a 30 mile flight South to the Ogden Metro area with a population around 500,000. It's a further 30 miles to the Salt Lake City Metro area with a population over 1,000,000.
Booking full 9-passenger flights between Brigham City and Salt Lake City would be easy. A round-trip would be faster and cheaper than the FrontRunner train (which is supposed to link to Brigham City in the distant future) in terms of operating expenses, even at half-capacity. Engineers, Doctors, etc, who live in the less-crowded Brigham City area already commute to Salt Lake. Saving an extra two or three hours a day on the commute (not to mention the stress of traffic) is something people with the money would gladly pay for.
ICQ had a mode that did the same thing 20 years ago.
Vivint will take it over.
It's like the "Fuck you, I'm out." scene from Half-Baked.
But without anyone/anything cool.
I need a cigarette... and I don't even smoke.
Somehow, whenever I visit Youtube, I have to go to settings to switch annotations off (no, I don't want to 'log-in'). Why don't they just default to off, instead of scrapping the entire feature?
That's as likely as Facebook defaulting your feed to "Most Recent".
Can they do something about the videos with the fake robot voiceover that reads wikipedia entries next?
Yes! Thank you!
I worked for a company where a maintenance guy who was closing in on 80 and could have retired at 60 refused to leave and refused to train a successor. "If I train a replacement, I'll get replaced." (False. That would be age discrimination.)
He ended up having a stroke and died soon after. He had never documented the hacks and workarounds that kept most of the long-since-discontinued machines running over the years and that knowledge died with him. The capital investment the company had to make after things started breaking immediately surpassed every dollar the guy made during his lifetime.
And he had been making some damn good money.
The machines were only part of the expense. Most of the tooling had to be remade and people had to be trained on the new stuff, plus the new stuff had to be re-qualified for some processes involving mil and medical products.
Amazon: "Thoughts and prayers"
Well that makes it all better then. Nothing to see here, folks. Case closed.
It sure would be nice if licensing were more streamlined.
Music licensing today is what game engine licensing was 20 years ago where the barrier to entry was ridiculous and you were stuck forking over thousands of dollars, minimum, just to open a dialog. Don't even get me started on console development.
Now AAA game engines are available for a song and dance. UE4 is pretty much everywhere.
I was able to become an XNA developer on Xbox 360 in 2007. I had a lot of fun with that.
And, on top of that, Nintendo allowed me to become a third-party Wii U developer a few years ago instead of just sending me a head-patting form-letter.
Granted, I didn't go anywhere with the Wii U thing because nobody bought one, but Nintendo opening up like that was jarring.
I guarantee Moony McMoonface will come up at some point. Probably already has.
It's not like Yahoo is a candidate... or Bing.
No. IDGAF what you're paying.
I wish I could search local-only by default.
... and then there are criminals like these.
I guarantee FARK is having a field day with this one, assuming they're aware of it.
Arby's did a good thing by selling Gyros. The Lamb "traditional" Gyros are damn good and I hope they're permanent this time.
Pretty solid nutrition, too, especially for fast food. I ate worse in my teen years.
Actually, it reminds me more of a cartoon. Aqua Teen Hunger Force - The Meat Zone
Meatwad ends up being able to predict the future and, after a request from Master Shake, correctly predicts the winning lottery numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 but Master Shake chose different numbers despite this and gets angry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Verboten! This will not end well. *defeated sigh*
Your average THOT owns an iPhone.
Counting on something so fragile is a risky proposition for anyone who gets serious shit done.
I can imagine you're right.
The thing about Subway is, in my town of like 20,000 people, I can literally stand just outside the Subway at the local Walmart and see the Subway across the parking lot. Plus, were it not for one single tree in the way, I could see the sign for the truck stop a few miles away where there's, you guessed it, another Subway.
A short trip up the highway from Walmart, there's a building that used to be a Subway, the only Subway in town, that closed down about 10 years before the one in Walmart opened. A block up the road from that, there's the building where a Quizno's Subs used to be. It tanked when there was only one Subway in town (the one in Walmart), long before Quizno's as a company almost tanked.
The whole thing is baffling.
Locally, we got sick enough of Comcast and Centurylink's shit to build our own fiber network "With Blackjack and Hookers".
250/250 for $65 a month. 1000/1000 for $20 more.
Comcast doorknockers come around and get laughed at. Fairplay after those assholes locked people in on shitty 2 year contracts just before entire neighborhoods lit their fibers. Cords got cut and the natives rejoiced.
"Here! We'll give you 300/12 Internet and a shitty TV package for $150 and include free lube*!"
* We reserve the right to switch to Tabasco sauce and sandpaper without notice.
If you answer to a corporation and not your customers, it's a franchise.
It's basically Amazon Avon.
It's just how they are, thank heavens.
I played the shareware edition and ending up upside-down and backward was a pain in the ass. The commercials claimed it was like Doom, but better. Bullshit. It was nothing like Doom and there wasn't even any awesome violence. Blowing evil things to bits was so much fun.
Quake was a game changer. It was exactly 20 years ago that I bought an Intergraph Intense 3D Voodoo card with the Voodoo Rush 3D chip and played GL Quake for the first time. Braingasm.