Not even close. No substance has yet been found to exhibit the 3 properties of superconductors anywhere near the normal freezing point of water. Thos properties are 1) zero electrical DC resistance, 2) superconducting phase transition and 3) the Meissner effect ( magnetic levitation through expulsion of magnetic flux )
No material yet invented or found exhibits these properties above -135 deg C
Agreed. Also, when the presumably fit bikers are walking around they're doing so with much less effort than the fat fucks who only drive or ride the bus. I'm positive the overall daily CO2 emissions are less for your typical bicyclist than the average American lardass.
"Letting people run around with loaded guns and allowed to kill people requires a different standard" That's called the 2nd Amendment and Stand Your Ground.
Even at the most optimistic sales projections, it'll be at least a decade before EVs are a significant fraction of cars in any large jurisdiction and most of these will charge at night. There aren't many utilities that are worried and several have publicly stated that EVs pose little risk. In fact, a few utilities are looking foward to the development of V2G in order to take advantage of large numbers of EVs as backup power and storage.
I've not yet had the opportunity to drive a Tesla but know several who have and all have done so in cold temps. I've also read many reviews. Deliveries of the car has been ramping up in the last few months which means that at least some drivers would be driving in cold weather. This is the 1st complaint of its kind that I've heard.
From what I can tell, there are 3 likely possibilities - this particular Model S if flaky, James Broder is an idiot or James Broder is a liar.
Since Tesla is a low-volume manufacturer, it would be blindingly stupid to deliver the high-end version at this time of year if the winter performance is dismal.
Motor Trend also picked it as the 2013 Car of the Year over 45 other entries and a unanimous decision by 11 reviewers who actually know how to evaluate a car, during which they drove the Model S about 1400 miles.
And for the counterpoint, there's James Broder, who couldn't find a 6ft tall charging station in front of a fast-food restaurant in a 100-car parking lot.
The "range loss" was because the battery cooled down due to the car not being plugged in overnight. Driving the car again would warm the battery and the missing range would have come back.
Since Broder didn't plug the car in overnight, the battery cooled down and the charge estimate decreased because of the change in impedance. By driving the car and warming up the battery, the "missing charge" would have come back.
The Model S has been reviewed multiple times was named 2013 Car of the Year by both Motor Trend and Automobile Mag. They know cars and how to test them. Motor Trend drove the cars over 1000 miles and it was unanimously chosen as the winner by all 11 judges, beating out 45 other cars.
Not every day unless you do one hell of a lot of driving, way above the average. Besides there are a lot more electric plugs than there are gas stations, even if most will charge relatively slowly.
While natgas has been radically displacing coal in the US, it seems that it comes with its own problems - and I'm not referring to the claims about fracking.
It appears that the wells are leaking significant amounts of methane??
That's wonderful toy but still a toy. If you read the history of its decommissioning, you'll find it was no easy task. Not insurmountable problems but not trivial either. The earliest you could hope to see thorium reactors would be the mid-2020s if everything went well.
That's a long time to wait for the power of radioactive unicorn farts - we need to act NOW ( actually 10 yrs ago but water under the bridge and all that )
I'm all for R&D into MSRs / LFTRs / Thorium / Fusion, etc but let's STOP promoting the THEORETICAL capabilities of reactors that have NOT yet been BUILT & TESTED!!!
That one toy reactor that was built at Oak Ridge does NOT count; it only establishes that the tech is feasible. For the record, it never produced electricity and never actually ran on thorium.
Funny but I don' t think the math adds up. Let's look at a 50 year period and assume a constant heart rate and skip pesky leap
So for Joe Average, that's 26,280,000 minutes at 70 bpm or 1,839,600,000 beats.
Now in that time Frankie Fitness works out 5 hrs per week for 50 yrs at a heart rate of 150 beats per minute so 780,000 min or 117,000,000 beats during exercise.
Assume that drops his average heart rate to 60 bpm so over 50 years, the number of heartbeats outside when not exercising would be 60 * 25,500,000 = 1,530,000,000. So Frankie's total heartbeats over 50 years would be 1,647,000,000 so he saves close to 200 million beats over Joe Average.
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Not even close.
No substance has yet been found to exhibit the 3 properties of superconductors anywhere near the normal freezing point of water.
Thos properties are 1) zero electrical DC resistance, 2) superconducting phase transition and 3) the Meissner effect ( magnetic levitation through expulsion of magnetic flux )
No material yet invented or found exhibits these properties above -135 deg C
Ease up on the poo, drinky. It seems to be worse for you than any kind of exhaust.
Agreed.
Also, when the presumably fit bikers are walking around they're doing so with much less effort than the fat fucks who only drive or ride the bus.
I'm positive the overall daily CO2 emissions are less for your typical bicyclist than the average American lardass.
+1 Funny
Are you a geekoid (135745) sockpuppet, or vice versa?
You both seem to have the same difficulty with the common words AND and TRY.
Congrats on a score of 5, Informative for a reading failure.
immediate steps shall be taken to inform him of the specific wrong of which he is accused AND to TRY him or to dismiss the charges and release him.
Where there any 3/5ths whites?
"Letting people run around with loaded guns and allowed to kill people requires a different standard"
That's called the 2nd Amendment and Stand Your Ground.
No military law required.
looks like the RIAA / MPAA is, once again, stepping up their game
Even at the most optimistic sales projections, it'll be at least a decade before EVs are a significant fraction of cars in any large jurisdiction and most of these will charge at night. There aren't many utilities that are worried and several have publicly stated that EVs pose little risk. In fact, a few utilities are looking foward to the development of V2G in order to take advantage of large numbers of EVs as backup power and storage.
I've not yet had the opportunity to drive a Tesla but know several who have and all have done so in cold temps. I've also read many reviews.
Deliveries of the car has been ramping up in the last few months which means that at least some drivers would be driving in cold weather.
This is the 1st complaint of its kind that I've heard.
From what I can tell, there are 3 likely possibilities - this particular Model S if flaky, James Broder is an idiot or James Broder is a liar.
Since Tesla is a low-volume manufacturer, it would be blindingly stupid to deliver the high-end version at this time of year if the winter performance is dismal.
Motor Trend also picked it as the 2013 Car of the Year over 45 other entries and a unanimous decision by 11 reviewers who actually know how to evaluate a car, during which they drove the Model S about 1400 miles.
And for the counterpoint, there's James Broder, who couldn't find a 6ft tall charging station in front of a fast-food restaurant in a 100-car parking lot.
The "range loss" was because the battery cooled down due to the car not being plugged in overnight. Driving the car again would warm the battery and the missing range would have come back.
Since Broder didn't plug the car in overnight, the battery cooled down and the charge estimate decreased because of the change in impedance.
By driving the car and warming up the battery, the "missing charge" would have come back.
The Model S has been reviewed multiple times was named 2013 Car of the Year by both Motor Trend and Automobile Mag. They know cars and how to test them.
Motor Trend drove the cars over 1000 miles and it was unanimously chosen as the winner by all 11 judges, beating out 45 other cars.
The full review and methodology is at http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear/car/1301_2013_motor_trend_car_of_the_year_contenders_and_finalists/viewall.html
Not every day unless you do one hell of a lot of driving, way above the average.
Besides there are a lot more electric plugs than there are gas stations, even if most will charge relatively slowly.
The biggest concern about methane is that warming of the north would trigger a massive release of methane from permafrost and shallow seas.
I would think that steampunk would be more about kitting-out cows with fore and aft igniters rather than filters.
Enjoy your buttplug fantasies as much as you like but cows BURP a lot more methane than they fart.
While natgas has been radically displacing coal in the US, it seems that it comes with its own problems - and I'm not referring to the claims about fracking.
It appears that the wells are leaking significant amounts of methane??
Thank you all for the explanations but the Slashdot editors could easily have done a better job.
That's wonderful toy but still a toy.
If you read the history of its decommissioning, you'll find it was no easy task. Not insurmountable problems but not trivial either.
The earliest you could hope to see thorium reactors would be the mid-2020s if everything went well.
That's a long time to wait for the power of radioactive unicorn farts - we need to act NOW ( actually 10 yrs ago but water under the bridge and all that )
I read the title 5 times and still have no fucking idea what it's about.
I'm all for R&D into MSRs / LFTRs / Thorium / Fusion, etc but let's STOP promoting the THEORETICAL capabilities of reactors that have NOT yet been BUILT & TESTED!!!
That one toy reactor that was built at Oak Ridge does NOT count; it only establishes that the tech is feasible.
For the record, it never produced electricity and never actually ran on thorium.
Funny but I don' t think the math adds up. Let's look at a 50 year period and assume a constant heart rate and skip pesky leap
So for Joe Average, that's 26,280,000 minutes at 70 bpm or 1,839,600,000 beats.
Now in that time Frankie Fitness works out 5 hrs per week for 50 yrs at a heart rate of 150 beats per minute so 780,000 min or 117,000,000 beats during exercise.
Assume that drops his average heart rate to 60 bpm so over 50 years, the number of heartbeats outside when not exercising would be 60 * 25,500,000 = 1,530,000,000.
So Frankie's total heartbeats over 50 years would be 1,647,000,000 so he saves close to 200 million beats over Joe Average.
Since God won't reply, allow me to assist.
You are an American democrat.
Satisfied?