This may work on a small engine but not on a typical american gas guzzler
Once again: If you're driving a gas guzzler, you don't care about 5-10% saving.
It's a bit like saying "This is stupid, because the Formula 1 car I'm driving is seldom at a complete halt".
If you wish to drive in a gas guzzler, go ahead. If you wish to be sensible and save a few bucks, you probably are not driving a gas guzzler and you would probably like another 5-10% saving.
The statement by the engineer is correct as the battery sizes are not designed for so many starts. The primary issue of concern is that when a battery is not recharged fully it forms hard sulfation on the plates, which eventually leads to battery failure, and lead-acid batteries cannot safely be recharged at high rates, so there is a minimum time to recharge the battery.
An additional concern that I'm not seeing listed is that lead-acid batteries do not have a very good cycle life. Depending on how much the battery is drained, it may have a cycle life of only 500 cycles. This is a limitation of the technology. Even at 1000 cycles, it's hard to see a battery lasting much more than a year.
The only thing wrong with this, otherwise well thought-out, statement is the fact that there's hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cars with this technology on the roads today.
I somehow think, that it would have been in the news if people owning a MINI, a BMW, a Toyota or VW with this technology had to replace their battery once a year. For some reason, it doesn't seem to be the case.
We all know how American cars compare to the rest of the auto industry when it comes to reliability.
BMW, VW, Toyota and other brands manage to apply this technology without - apparantly - a huge increase in maintenance cost for the end-consumer.
In a TCO showdown between a start-stop car from any of the three companies and a similarly priced American car, what car would you expect to come out on top?
Well, I could rewrite to say: "If it's not being tested or measured by the government, it's not worth caring about".
Just because it isn't tested by EPA, doesn't mean it's a stupid thing to do.
Imagine if Ford had done this 10 years ago, and rumor had spread among car owners that "those non-hippie gasoline/diesel powered cars from Ford are really energy efficient". Perhaps they would have a larger market share today.
Of course, that requires thinking that goes beyond the next quarterly earnings report - something that's often hard to do for such companies.
We all know, the main reason is that pre-iPad tablets kinda had to be placed on the table. It made it impossible to use Facebook while in a boring meeting, compared to an ordinary laptop where the screen provided some privacy.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." - Edsger Dijkstra
But the purpose of doing simple BASIC programs and games on a home computer would not be to become a professional programmer. But the logic and other lessons learned might be useful in life in general.
As other have mentioned, there's a difference "unremarkable bits of plastic" and remarkable bits of plastic - like LEGO.
Or, you may get them an 80s home computer (Commodore 64 or similar). Hook them up with BASIC. That'll teach them logic, a bit math, programming and/or may scar them for life.
I'm not sure any data has been lost. Say they have a table with the following columns:
id (auto increment) felonid gps timestamp...
If the 2 billion number is simply id that has run over, there's still enough data in the database to recreate the felons whereabouts using the gps and timestamp columns. Might be a problem in the system pulling data (based on id), but probably no data has been lost.
But does Naxos release their records under a non-copyrighted, royalty-free, creative commons license?
I believe one of the major purposes of Musopen project is to release music you may use as you see fit. Without risking friendly mails from lawyers. Naxos might ot sue their customers either - but I believe it's a possibility?
Exactly how many shareholders/VCs would be interested in buying stock in a company, if there's a clause that prohibit them from selling to the highest bidder whenever they see fit?
How much was the loan for? It cannot remember the exact amount of money, fairly high but as I wrote, they will pay it back within 5-10 years.
How much will the city pay out in total to retire the loan? The interest is about 7% I think.
What about the burly men in vans that go around maintaining/repairing the lines? Most of these lines have been there for 15 years, when the one and only (at that time) telco was owned by the state they provided every 20000+ cities with hybrid cable. Maintaince accumulates below 15000 dollars per year.
The other questions I'm not able to answer right now, and the answers I've come up with is based on replies from one of my net-friends who live in Esbjerg.
"adopt a communist system of government as exists in Denmark"
Are you still required to show "papers" in Denmark when travelling from place to place, and submit all internet content to government approval?
It didn't know your education was THIS bad!!!
The communists have NEVER ruled in Denmark, they are representated in the parlament with about 4 persons out of 179 members.
Geez, I have never shown any papers when travelling, and I have never been censored.
In contradiction to the US, we do not have an censoring at all! Want pornography? Walk down at the local gas station or supermarket. Want horror movies? Turn on the public owned TV-station, they sent "Nightmare on Elm Street" yesterday, a quarter past midnight. Naturally the uncensored version. Do you really believe Americans are the most "free" people?
The city took out a loan. This will be paid back within the next 10 years (pessimistic), 5 years says the optimists.
They have a gang of geeks employed to administer it, their wage, the connection, and upgrades will be the only expenses after the loan has been paid back, allowing citizens to connect to the Internet at an even lower price.
So, if I did not have money to feed my family, I should just wander round, hoping a fat, wealthy tycoon would drop by and offer me and my family a dinner?
Well, unfortunately I can't wait for a tycoon to drop by, so I find my gun, go to the nearest grocery store and rob it. My family needs food, and the government will not provide for us.
Incredible that Americans are SO blind, well, I guess it is only outside US documentaries about the poorest in the society are being shown...
Slashdot Mirror
This page shows a lot of staged "tragedies" from the adversaries of Israel:
http://zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/
Perhaps the most interesting thing is, that Reuters, Associated Press and more keep buying the pictures, apparently with no quality control.
Funny how a game can emulate reality, and then reality can re-emulate the game: http://www.molleindustria.org/en/oiligarchy
... especially for dictators. Finally you're able to out those pesky rebels.
CS students with no experience with Linux when they start?
Damn.
RTFA. It says American car makers haven't implemented the technology, because it isn't tested by the EPA when rating the efficiency.
Everybody knows it improves efficiency. But because it isn't a part of the test, it's not implemented.
This may work on a small engine but not on a typical american gas guzzler
Once again: If you're driving a gas guzzler, you don't care about 5-10% saving.
It's a bit like saying "This is stupid, because the Formula 1 car I'm driving is seldom at a complete halt".
If you wish to drive in a gas guzzler, go ahead. If you wish to be sensible and save a few bucks, you probably are not driving a gas guzzler and you would probably like another 5-10% saving.
The statement by the engineer is correct as the battery sizes are not designed for so many starts. The primary issue of concern is that when a battery is not recharged fully it forms hard sulfation on the plates, which eventually leads to battery failure, and lead-acid batteries cannot safely be recharged at high rates, so there is a minimum time to recharge the battery.
An additional concern that I'm not seeing listed is that lead-acid batteries do not have a very good cycle life. Depending on how much the battery is drained, it may have a cycle life of only 500 cycles. This is a limitation of the technology. Even at 1000 cycles, it's hard to see a battery lasting much more than a year.
The only thing wrong with this, otherwise well thought-out, statement is the fact that there's hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cars with this technology on the roads today.
I somehow think, that it would have been in the news if people owning a MINI, a BMW, a Toyota or VW with this technology had to replace their battery once a year. For some reason, it doesn't seem to be the case.
Of course a V8 requires more power to start.
But if you're driving a V8, you apparently doesn't care about gas consumption, and the 5-10% saving that start-stop provides doesn't matter.
For the eco-friendly and/or guy on a budget, 5-10% gas saving annually on your commuting matters.
We all know how American cars compare to the rest of the auto industry when it comes to reliability.
BMW, VW, Toyota and other brands manage to apply this technology without - apparantly - a huge increase in maintenance cost for the end-consumer.
In a TCO showdown between a start-stop car from any of the three companies and a similarly priced American car, what car would you expect to come out on top?
I found this: http://www.tayna.co.uk/063-Numax-Car-Battery-P937.html
Specs:
Voltage - 12V
Capacity - 44Ah
CCA(SAE) - 360A
Dimensions(mm)
210 x 175 x 175
Does not look special at all.
Did use start-stop.
Don't know about the battery specs, but from I've been able to google in the last 5 minutes, it looks like a totally normal car battery.
Well, I could rewrite to say: "If it's not being tested or measured by the government, it's not worth caring about".
Just because it isn't tested by EPA, doesn't mean it's a stupid thing to do.
Imagine if Ford had done this 10 years ago, and rumor had spread among car owners that "those non-hippie gasoline/diesel powered cars from Ford are really energy efficient". Perhaps they would have a larger market share today.
Of course, that requires thinking that goes beyond the next quarterly earnings report - something that's often hard to do for such companies.
Well, Volkswagen made the Lupo back in the 90s. It was able to achieve 78 miles to the US gallon with a 1.2L diesel engine.
So, I guess he's full of it, if the battery pack on the big American cars are unable to store enough energy.
... "If it's not being tested or measured, it's not worth doing".
We all know, the main reason is that pre-iPad tablets kinda had to be placed on the table. It made it impossible to use Facebook while in a boring meeting, compared to an ordinary laptop where the screen provided some privacy.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." - Edsger Dijkstra
But the purpose of doing simple BASIC programs and games on a home computer would not be to become a professional programmer. But the logic and other lessons learned might be useful in life in general.
As other have mentioned, there's a difference "unremarkable bits of plastic" and remarkable bits of plastic - like LEGO.
Or, you may get them an 80s home computer (Commodore 64 or similar). Hook them up with BASIC. That'll teach them logic, a bit math, programming and/or may scar them for life.
I'm not sure any data has been lost. Say they have a table with the following columns:
id (auto increment) ...
felonid
gps
timestamp
If the 2 billion number is simply id that has run over, there's still enough data in the database to recreate the felons whereabouts using the gps and timestamp columns. Might be a problem in the system pulling data (based on id), but probably no data has been lost.
But does Naxos release their records under a non-copyrighted, royalty-free, creative commons license?
I believe one of the major purposes of Musopen project is to release music you may use as you see fit. Without risking friendly mails from lawyers. Naxos might ot sue their customers either - but I believe it's a possibility?
Exactly how many shareholders/VCs would be interested in buying stock in a company, if there's a clause that prohibit them from selling to the highest bidder whenever they see fit?
We do not have a long tradition of immigration.
Anders Ebbesen
It cannot remember the exact amount of money, fairly high but as I wrote, they will pay it back within 5-10 years.
How much will the city pay out in total to retire the loan?
The interest is about 7% I think.
What about the burly men in vans that go around maintaining/repairing the lines?
Most of these lines have been there for 15 years, when the one and only (at that time) telco was owned by the state they provided every 20000+ cities with hybrid cable. Maintaince accumulates below 15000 dollars per year.
The other questions I'm not able to answer right now, and the answers I've come up with is based on replies from one of my net-friends who live in Esbjerg.
Anders Ebbesen
Are you still required to show "papers" in Denmark when travelling from place to place, and submit all internet content to government approval?
It didn't know your education was THIS bad!!!
The communists have NEVER ruled in Denmark, they are representated in the parlament with about 4 persons out of 179 members.
Geez, I have never shown any papers when travelling, and I have never been censored.
In contradiction to the US, we do not have an censoring at all! Want pornography? Walk down at the local gas station or supermarket. Want horror movies? Turn on the public owned TV-station, they sent "Nightmare on Elm Street" yesterday, a quarter past midnight. Naturally the uncensored version. Do you really believe Americans are the most "free" people?
Anders Ebbesen
They have a gang of geeks employed to administer it, their wage, the connection, and upgrades will be the only expenses after the loan has been paid back, allowing citizens to connect to the Internet at an even lower price.
Anders Ebbesen
Well, unfortunately I can't wait for a tycoon to drop by, so I find my gun, go to the nearest grocery store and rob it. My family needs food, and the government will not provide for us.
Incredible that Americans are SO blind, well, I guess it is only outside US documentaries about the poorest in the society are being shown...
Anders Ebbesen