20% reclamation of the 60% energy wasted as heat is 12% extra efficiency. If that 12% is worth only $80, that means that 100% of annual gasoline expenses is only $670. At $4 a gallon (which is 2008's average, not 2013's), that's 166.7 gallons, which at 35MPG is 5833 miles. 500 miles a month.
The scientists say they'll have a product on the market in something like 3-4 years. Which, since they're working under the Ohio State patent office, means they're probably close to producing the product itself, and are just talking about patent and licensing time. The zT:1.5 material isn't a very competitive product, at 10% efficiency, to enter the very conservative automobile market with its new technology and approach. I expect that they expect to market the zT:3 material, with its 21% efficiency in the car engine operating range.
A device made from this stuff wouldn't be complex at all, about as complex as a catalytic converter, and possibly combined with one (or just a "premuffler"). The electricity it uses would be useful right away for all the car's accessories other than driving the wheels. Hybrids could use it directly for motive power. And within 5 years, regenerative brakes will likely be standard on many models, with the electricity used inside the car already.
Oh, and $4 a gallon is already disappearing in the rearview mirror. $10:gal gasoline makes all those other changes closer than they appear.
Thanks for the offer. I've already got my own management software / scripts. But if VMWare (or other virt SW) could do it, integrated with its other process management and installation features, that would be a reason to look again at VMWare. Especially since a common environment instead of my own idiosyncratic scripts for this completely universal task would be a good evolution of the biz. So I'll look at Canonical's projects. Thanks.
Feinstein used her seats on both Judiciary and Intelligence to force through telco amnesty in the screwed up FISA she voted for.
Government does quite a lot of good. Your inability to realize how much government does that protects you is a measure of how good it is, and how good it is at staying out of your way. But Republicans have indeed proven their ideology that "government always fails", whenever Republicans have controlled it.
Democrats are not by any means immune from incompetence or malfeasance. But theirs is usually sustainable. An inefficient government that is better than either no government or a perfectly efficient government abusing us. Republicans are the ones that misgovern as a rule, not the exception.
If airplanes were as available as these jet packs would be, in expense and licensing, then I'd be saying exactly what you're saying. If I survived long enough to say it.
"Homophobic"? You Republicans tried to rewrite the Constitution to enforce homophobia, and you've got the balls to call me "homophobic" for using assfucking as a metaphor for the way you govern us? You just did a 720 degree head rotation.
You people are deranged. You're not fooling me into thinking I'm homophobic, but you probably believe it.
Thanks for supporting the troops. By killing thousands of them, and demanding more.
I have nothing more to say to crazed liars like you. Except that I won't be noting any of your business advice, as I continue to build my telco amidst the rubble you Republicans made of my country and its economy.
Dianne Feinstein is an excellent argument for not just more, but better Democrats in Congress.
I'd say the same about Republicans, but they seem incurably hellbent on "more", and never the possibility of "better". Which has sent them spiraling towards minor party status.
You people have been wrong about everything. I just backed up what I said with the simple economic logic, as well as the facts, as I have personally worked with them. In return, you've got mere asserted denial.
And some inane Republican "night is day" nerve in calling my calling you Republican "McCarthy". McCarthy was a Republican.
I called you a "Republican" because you are. It's your fault that the word has become synonymous with a bodily function. The function of a Dick jammed into a Colin, masked by a fake Bush to cover the screams.
What I can't understand is why my cellphone's signal strength bars go up and down rapidly, even when the phone is sitting on a desk in a single location. In New York City, where there's lots of signal. But even in Brooklyn and Queens, where there's only 3-5 storey buildings, and not a lot of chance for multipath noise.
Some places are sometimes stable. But sometimes those same places will see my bars jumping from 0-100% and points between, cycling randomly across a few seconds. No rain, or even wind.
What is that? Is my phone lying about something? Is it some kind of cry for help?
Frankly, that is just stupid, poorly thought out, and has relatively little to do with catering to corporate interests or negative impact on customers.
"Frankly", what you jsut said is stupid, poorly thought out, and has everything to do with catering to corporate interests and negative impact on customers.
The telecom industry is a cartel. That is why its rates are controlled by the government. Landline phones are the worst: there's practically no competition in any one place, and between Sprint, Verizon and AT&T that's practically every landline. Who routinely collude on all kinds of rates.
I own a small telephone company that interconnects the major long distance networks. There are really only about 8 of those, even though they do compete geographically. They always coordinate their pricing and marketing to first ensure they keep out any new competitors, then ensure they equally exploit their own customers, and finally, if there's any opportunity left, to fight viciously for each other's customers.
Cablecos have even less competition with each other in any one place. And their bundling is even tighter, without even a difference between the "local" and "long distance" networks they operate as vertical monopolies.
There is also very little competition between telcos and cablecos, wherever they can compete for the same customer.
The government's role in the market is keeping it free of monopolies and cartels. The FCC, as friendly as it is to monopolies and cartels (as a Bush crony regime agency, that's its ideology), has quite a lot of work keeping the balance between cartels and the market sustainable. Part of that protection is ensuring that the telcos reinvest in what's mutually beneficial for the market and the telcos. Which research (including internal, by telcos, as I found when I helped the NY City Council produce a "Net Neutrality" hearing) shows is to build more capacity, not to create content tiers. Instead, telcos are trying to control traffic based on its content, so that they can compete unfairly with new competitive entrants to their markets that they want to keep out, or crush where they've already found niches (eg. Vonage).
What am I "proposing"? I just called out the cranks like McDowell who say that requiring equal access to WANs is somehow "handcuffing the engineers", when it's just stopping executives from continuing to game the system, which is always their first choice.
I'm talking as someone who runs a telco, and who has advised the NYC legislature on telecom for over 5 years, with real facts and market logic taken from real history. You are talking as some kind of ideological Republican. Er, I mean "libertarian" (that old brand doesn't fool anyone anymore).
No, what I want is an environment that is actually 3 separate servers, but with all their configs on each synchronized, so the environment is identical. Having a single virtualized environment around which I send instances of an entire host, that I can archive and restore, ensures "sync" is really "identity" by having that single environment.
A single virtual environment (with all OS/apps/configs/etc), deployed to 3 different physical servers, for execution in each of their different roles on the identical SW.
I want to deploy a given instance of the entire environment, and archive it, all together. And I want to do that deployment simply and quickly.
Current virtualization doesn't do that, I suppose. I'll keep watching for when it does, if it does.
No, I am saying that I would prefer that Congress regulate them, and that the president, whether Bush or someone else, faithfully execute the laws Congress passes.
Bush has not converted me, or this country, into corporate anarchy yet. That is still the exception rather than the rule. I'm not giving up on being an American just because 60M+ of my fellow Americans have helped to destroy our country. I'm taking it back, and demanding the rule of law, not the rule of cronies.
McDowell, though, is working diligently on exactly the programme you imply.
Another scenario I'd like is using virtualization to connect say 3 machines by Gb-e (maybe 2 NICs each in a triangle, or even 4 NICs each in a double triangle), use one machine as the development server, the second as the test server, the third as the deployed server. Use virtualization to roll out/back between the different hosts. Keep each executing version archived on each server along with its source code / configs. So I can very quickly (a few seconds) roll out or back to any version on any server.
My OS is Debian (or Ubuntu). Can any virt layer do that yet?
What McDowell is really saying is that telecom CEOs should be able to operate their cartel however they want, without the people banding together (that's what the government really is) to protect ourselves from them.
He's "protecting the engineers making engineering decisions" about as much as Bush, who appointed Republican McDowell in 2006, is "protecting the troops" by ensuring their commanders can keep the war going as long as they want.
That is to say, not at all, but rather keeping them in the line of fire for a contrived "strategy" that protects only the corporate interest.
So has VMWare (or any other virtualization layer) gotten to the point where I can install it on say, 3 PCs hooked up to a Gb-e switch, and run from a single console that just seems to run 3 times as fast? or that can handle 3 times as many processes, without my having to notice that it's really 3 PCs?
But this new material is already projecting a zT:3 as part of their current scope of R&D.
A Technology Review article explains that in car engines, these zT jumps deliver efficiency from the old 6%, to the new 10%, looking at 21%. So it seems that this material does quite well at that hard job.
Even if we extract 20% of the energy from hot exhaust, it'll still have 80%, which will make it work about how it works now. But the radiator and manifold won't have to work as hard, be made as durable, consume as much energy in manufacture, deployment and recycling.
Current zT:0.87 can get about 6% efficiency; these new materials at zT:1.5 get about 10%; their forecast zT:3 materials will get about 21%, in engines like in our cars. I don't know where you're getting that 3% efficient heat recovery figure from.
Every mechanical process could benefit from recovering significant amounts of heat. Most heat engines, especially gasoline/diesel types, include extra machinery for exhausting heat which could be replaced with probably simpler devices that are like "catalytic converters" capturing the heat instead of exhausting it. Even the windmills and other turbines you prefer would benefit from the increased efficiency: everything would.
The question with a device like a heat reclaimer is whether the energy it captures during its lifetime is greater than the energy it costs to make, deploy and recycle it. Since these devices are said to last a long time, decades perhaps, they probably can pay for their supper. And in constant-duty machines like windmills, they're probably a faster payback than in cars that run for only about 5% of their calendar lifetimes.
We need to use everything we've got to get past the energy/Greenhouse crisis already upon us. We're never going to not care about efficiency, especially as we power ever smaller devices, more mobile and independent of a wired infrastructure.
I think increasing the efficiency of thermoelectric materials will be welcome in all thermal plants, whether stationary on land or otherwise. There is no need for competition in these technologies, they're complementary. I'd love to see geothermal efficiency jump by 20%.
But there's also probably lots of places that can't support a full geothermal plant. But which could support some dinky infrastructure about as heavy as an old-West windmill. If it were made of this stuff, that could mean quite a lot of power. Especially in remote locations, a combination of wind/solar/geothermal with storage could add a geothermal "trickle charge" to the statistical average wind/solar recharge blasts, and guarantee full power at constant duty.
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20% reclamation of the 60% energy wasted as heat is 12% extra efficiency. If that 12% is worth only $80, that means that 100% of annual gasoline expenses is only $670. At $4 a gallon (which is 2008's average, not 2013's), that's 166.7 gallons, which at 35MPG is 5833 miles. 500 miles a month.
Something's wrong with your math. Average annual mileage is at least double that.
Besides, there are other costs for the lower mileage. More frequent fillup stops/trips. Environmental damage.
People will pay more than $500 more for a car to get 33.6 instead of 30MPG, even if they don't save as much in gas expenses while they own the car.
The scientists say they'll have a product on the market in something like 3-4 years. Which, since they're working under the Ohio State patent office, means they're probably close to producing the product itself, and are just talking about patent and licensing time. The zT:1.5 material isn't a very competitive product, at 10% efficiency, to enter the very conservative automobile market with its new technology and approach. I expect that they expect to market the zT:3 material, with its 21% efficiency in the car engine operating range.
A device made from this stuff wouldn't be complex at all, about as complex as a catalytic converter, and possibly combined with one (or just a "premuffler"). The electricity it uses would be useful right away for all the car's accessories other than driving the wheels. Hybrids could use it directly for motive power. And within 5 years, regenerative brakes will likely be standard on many models, with the electricity used inside the car already.
Oh, and $4 a gallon is already disappearing in the rearview mirror. $10:gal gasoline makes all those other changes closer than they appear.
Thanks for the offer. I've already got my own management software / scripts. But if VMWare (or other virt SW) could do it, integrated with its other process management and installation features, that would be a reason to look again at VMWare. Especially since a common environment instead of my own idiosyncratic scripts for this completely universal task would be a good evolution of the biz. So I'll look at Canonical's projects. Thanks.
Evidently, the strategy you prefer doesn't work. Feinstein can walk badly and chew gum catastrophically at the same time.
The Geek Nation's fingers are lean, mean, typing machines!
With a whole brigade of specialists in one-handed operations.
Feinstein used her seats on both Judiciary and Intelligence to force through telco amnesty in the screwed up FISA she voted for.
Government does quite a lot of good. Your inability to realize how much government does that protects you is a measure of how good it is, and how good it is at staying out of your way. But Republicans have indeed proven their ideology that "government always fails", whenever Republicans have controlled it.
Democrats are not by any means immune from incompetence or malfeasance. But theirs is usually sustainable. An inefficient government that is better than either no government or a perfectly efficient government abusing us. Republicans are the ones that misgovern as a rule, not the exception.
If airplanes were as available as these jet packs would be, in expense and licensing, then I'd be saying exactly what you're saying. If I survived long enough to say it.
"Homophobic"? You Republicans tried to rewrite the Constitution to enforce homophobia, and you've got the balls to call me "homophobic" for using assfucking as a metaphor for the way you govern us? You just did a 720 degree head rotation.
You people are deranged. You're not fooling me into thinking I'm homophobic, but you probably believe it.
Thanks for supporting the troops. By killing thousands of them, and demanding more.
I have nothing more to say to crazed liars like you. Except that I won't be noting any of your business advice, as I continue to build my telco amidst the rubble you Republicans made of my country and its economy.
That's a funny glitch.
Here's the link to Dianne Feinstein's Senate legislative record.
Dianne Feinstein is an excellent argument for not just more, but better Democrats in Congress.
I'd say the same about Republicans, but they seem incurably hellbent on "more", and never the possibility of "better". Which has sent them spiraling towards minor party status.
My neighbors can't even handle driving SUVs, but the roads are full of them (and the hell they've made of driving among them).
Turning these people into missiles with jetpacks is a great argument for prioritizing personal force field research.
You people have been wrong about everything. I just backed up what I said with the simple economic logic, as well as the facts, as I have personally worked with them. In return, you've got mere asserted denial.
And some inane Republican "night is day" nerve in calling my calling you Republican "McCarthy". McCarthy was a Republican.
I called you a "Republican" because you are. It's your fault that the word has become synonymous with a bodily function. The function of a Dick jammed into a Colin, masked by a fake Bush to cover the screams.
What I can't understand is why my cellphone's signal strength bars go up and down rapidly, even when the phone is sitting on a desk in a single location. In New York City, where there's lots of signal. But even in Brooklyn and Queens, where there's only 3-5 storey buildings, and not a lot of chance for multipath noise.
Some places are sometimes stable. But sometimes those same places will see my bars jumping from 0-100% and points between, cycling randomly across a few seconds. No rain, or even wind.
What is that? Is my phone lying about something? Is it some kind of cry for help?
The Senate's rules require that Stevens immediately give up his committee chairs or "ranking member" status that gives him privileges in controlling most Senate business:
Indictments should be a lot more common for that gang of crooks.
"Frankly", what you jsut said is stupid, poorly thought out, and has everything to do with catering to corporate interests and negative impact on customers.
The telecom industry is a cartel. That is why its rates are controlled by the government. Landline phones are the worst: there's practically no competition in any one place, and between Sprint, Verizon and AT&T that's practically every landline. Who routinely collude on all kinds of rates.
I own a small telephone company that interconnects the major long distance networks. There are really only about 8 of those, even though they do compete geographically. They always coordinate their pricing and marketing to first ensure they keep out any new competitors, then ensure they equally exploit their own customers, and finally, if there's any opportunity left, to fight viciously for each other's customers.
Cablecos have even less competition with each other in any one place. And their bundling is even tighter, without even a difference between the "local" and "long distance" networks they operate as vertical monopolies.
There is also very little competition between telcos and cablecos, wherever they can compete for the same customer.
The government's role in the market is keeping it free of monopolies and cartels. The FCC, as friendly as it is to monopolies and cartels (as a Bush crony regime agency, that's its ideology), has quite a lot of work keeping the balance between cartels and the market sustainable. Part of that protection is ensuring that the telcos reinvest in what's mutually beneficial for the market and the telcos. Which research (including internal, by telcos, as I found when I helped the NY City Council produce a "Net Neutrality" hearing) shows is to build more capacity, not to create content tiers. Instead, telcos are trying to control traffic based on its content, so that they can compete unfairly with new competitive entrants to their markets that they want to keep out, or crush where they've already found niches (eg. Vonage).
What am I "proposing"? I just called out the cranks like McDowell who say that requiring equal access to WANs is somehow "handcuffing the engineers", when it's just stopping executives from continuing to game the system, which is always their first choice.
I'm talking as someone who runs a telco, and who has advised the NYC legislature on telecom for over 5 years, with real facts and market logic taken from real history. You are talking as some kind of ideological Republican. Er, I mean "libertarian" (that old brand doesn't fool anyone anymore).
No, what I want is an environment that is actually 3 separate servers, but with all their configs on each synchronized, so the environment is identical. Having a single virtualized environment around which I send instances of an entire host, that I can archive and restore, ensures "sync" is really "identity" by having that single environment.
A single virtual environment (with all OS/apps/configs/etc), deployed to 3 different physical servers, for execution in each of their different roles on the identical SW.
I want to deploy a given instance of the entire environment, and archive it, all together. And I want to do that deployment simply and quickly.
Current virtualization doesn't do that, I suppose. I'll keep watching for when it does, if it does.
No, I am saying that I would prefer that Congress regulate them, and that the president, whether Bush or someone else, faithfully execute the laws Congress passes.
Bush has not converted me, or this country, into corporate anarchy yet. That is still the exception rather than the rule. I'm not giving up on being an American just because 60M+ of my fellow Americans have helped to destroy our country. I'm taking it back, and demanding the rule of law, not the rule of cronies.
McDowell, though, is working diligently on exactly the programme you imply.
Another scenario I'd like is using virtualization to connect say 3 machines by Gb-e (maybe 2 NICs each in a triangle, or even 4 NICs each in a double triangle), use one machine as the development server, the second as the test server, the third as the deployed server. Use virtualization to roll out/back between the different hosts. Keep each executing version archived on each server along with its source code / configs. So I can very quickly (a few seconds) roll out or back to any version on any server.
My OS is Debian (or Ubuntu). Can any virt layer do that yet?
What McDowell is really saying is that telecom CEOs should be able to operate their cartel however they want, without the people banding together (that's what the government really is) to protect ourselves from them.
He's "protecting the engineers making engineering decisions" about as much as Bush, who appointed Republican McDowell in 2006, is "protecting the troops" by ensuring their commanders can keep the war going as long as they want.
That is to say, not at all, but rather keeping them in the line of fire for a contrived "strategy" that protects only the corporate interest.
So has VMWare (or any other virtualization layer) gotten to the point where I can install it on say, 3 PCs hooked up to a Gb-e switch, and run from a single console that just seems to run 3 times as fast? or that can handle 3 times as many processes, without my having to notice that it's really 3 PCs?
So really that laptop costs $13,000. As a promotional stunt, they'll give you 99 laptops free.
But this new material is already projecting a zT:3 as part of their current scope of R&D.
A Technology Review article explains that in car engines, these zT jumps deliver efficiency from the old 6%, to the new 10%, looking at 21%. So it seems that this material does quite well at that hard job.
Even if we extract 20% of the energy from hot exhaust, it'll still have 80%, which will make it work about how it works now. But the radiator and manifold won't have to work as hard, be made as durable, consume as much energy in manufacture, deployment and recycling.
Current zT:0.87 can get about 6% efficiency; these new materials at zT:1.5 get about 10%; their forecast zT:3 materials will get about 21%, in engines like in our cars. I don't know where you're getting that 3% efficient heat recovery figure from.
Every mechanical process could benefit from recovering significant amounts of heat. Most heat engines, especially gasoline/diesel types, include extra machinery for exhausting heat which could be replaced with probably simpler devices that are like "catalytic converters" capturing the heat instead of exhausting it. Even the windmills and other turbines you prefer would benefit from the increased efficiency: everything would.
The question with a device like a heat reclaimer is whether the energy it captures during its lifetime is greater than the energy it costs to make, deploy and recycle it. Since these devices are said to last a long time, decades perhaps, they probably can pay for their supper. And in constant-duty machines like windmills, they're probably a faster payback than in cars that run for only about 5% of their calendar lifetimes.
We need to use everything we've got to get past the energy/Greenhouse crisis already upon us. We're never going to not care about efficiency, especially as we power ever smaller devices, more mobile and independent of a wired infrastructure.
I think increasing the efficiency of thermoelectric materials will be welcome in all thermal plants, whether stationary on land or otherwise. There is no need for competition in these technologies, they're complementary. I'd love to see geothermal efficiency jump by 20%.
But there's also probably lots of places that can't support a full geothermal plant. But which could support some dinky infrastructure about as heavy as an old-West windmill. If it were made of this stuff, that could mean quite a lot of power. Especially in remote locations, a combination of wind/solar/geothermal with storage could add a geothermal "trickle charge" to the statistical average wind/solar recharge blasts, and guarantee full power at constant duty.