That won't help trucks and that sounds like a very awkward way to charge city buses. It would be better to charge them at the bus garages or have a few designated swap stations. Lightweight is good but, for a bus, not a deal breaker. And for buses and trucks that are out one the highway, range and drag are of greater concern.
Footprint irrelevant? Not everyone can afford to be evicted from a 3000 sq ft house. Cheap and recyclable is good but so is smaller, safer, efficient and long-lasting.
One advance I'm looking forward to from Sumitomo is their lower-temp ( below 100 deg C) molten-salt battery as it could finally be cheap storage for electric buses / trucks.
Really? They seem to have spent quite some time and effort on making it buzzwordy and still offer it for sale.
I'd be grateful is someone could translate this gobbledegook into English: From www.framework.com
What is FRAMEWORK ?
Framework is a unified computing architecture encompassing an operating system, API, GUI, applications, interactive programmability, RTOS sensor handling and information management. It is developed and maintained as a semiconductor design with a parallel software version which runs with the help of simulation and virtualization on other operating systems. Framework's design aim is to provide full hardware based computing functionality with no additional software but it does support running x86 programs on an x86 simulator.
While maintaining backward compatibility and following the original design principles of the Ashton-Tate product Framework was rebuilt as an architectural computing concept based on linguistic principles and path based automata. The new architecture overcomes the inherent limitations of parallel processing that the inherently serial CPU-based arithmetic computing imposed. Framework's architectural building blocks are channels that handle its perceptible, inherently selectable and ordered contextual objects. The result is not only an efficiency that cannot be matched in CPU based computing but also a generic highly ergonomic interface which can be internalized with no visual support. Framework employes RAM-based state machines on operating systems such as Windows while taking advantage of massive parallelism on its FPGA based system to provide an instantaneous data handling with Big-O of one. The Big-O of one technology supports SATA based storage available to users as well as Framework's own internal content-based memory and dependency management system. This enables the Framework's inherent parallelism and its extendable interpretation available with the FRED language. Simply put, there is no practical limit on the number of uniquely named FRED functions, nor a delay penalty associated with increase in that number or with an increase in the size of data stored on hard drives.
The red flag regarding unwittingly giving the President sole control on all spending was raised by pundits on the right. Go argue with David Frum and Fox News.
Thanks for that link - it'll make finding certain stats much easier. But looking at the stats for China's imports and exports with both the US and rest-of-world, I'm not convinced they need the US as much as you may think. But I'm quite surprised to see their volume of trade with the rest of the Far East.
The GOP haven't been "normal" since Obama took office. They've been working from a playbook that says 2 things - 1.) We don't compromise 2.) If Obama proposes something and we accept it, it's a compromise. See rule 1
Since so much of our manufacturing has moved overseas, mostly to China, why would they need to invest in the US economy? Apart from real estate, perhaps? Anything they want, they already know how to make. The only thing the US has left that China might want is intellectual property, which they can either buy cheaply or simply steal, like they've done for decades.
You're both wrong - Congress has been dominated for decades by greedy self-serving career politicians who whore themselves out to industry and get regularly sucked off by lobbyists. And then there are the crazy ones who get secret messages from above beamed directly to their brains, sometimes while enjoying the charms of whores, rentboys, and industry lobbyists.
There's a way out, if Obama has the nerve. Leave the limit as it is and then pick and choose which bills get paid and which programs get funded. I believe he has sole authority to do this. If he follows through the TeaPublicans will bitch, cry and moan as always but they'll agree to raise the limit. And, if he has a lick of sense, he shouldn't make any concessions. They walked out of the negotiations so, this time, they get to eat it and smile.
If the voters who are left holding the bag subscribe to the Tea Party philosophy, there's precious little chance of a clean-up, more likely a greater clean-out. They have been quite successful in convincing the voting public that the wealthy have the best interests of the middle and lower-class in mind and will gladly bestow gold, frankincense and myrrh upon the babes sleeping in Tent City, if only they were freed of the bondage of taxation.
After seeing the Arab Spring, perhaps it's time for an American Summer, demanding the heads of Wall Street be bereft of theirs.
You're putting a lot of blame on a single president for things that started before he got elected. And tell me again, whose administration was tightly connected to the oil industry. That said, I don't approve of the current White House being stacked with Wall St types. The links between industry and government has to change and corporate lobbyists have to be banned from any government office, at any level. Allowing policy to be determined by who can ante up the most is a complete subversion of one-person, one-vote.
The best spots for dams in North America are mostly all taken although there's lots of potential for run-of-river power generation. But, I see great potential for solar in 2 forms - solar thermal in desolate, desert-like places where you can build storage tanks and PV in cities and communities as there are no shortage of flat, unshaded rooftops and the cost of PV seems to be falling rapidly and the efficiency is slowly getting better. I don't think much is needed in the way of incentives, either - local generation puts less stress on the grid so the utilities should be the ones driving PV installs in cities as it'll (should?) reduce their running costs for peak demand, slew rate and wear-and-tear
What's your definition of large-scale? There are plenty of sunny places you can do this where the waste heat wouldn't be a big deal, like the Mojave. The plants take up a lot of space but much less so than an hydro reservoir.
Perhaps but those pesky hydro reservoirs are a long way from where the pesky people live. Just building the (700 km) access road to the James Bay dam would cost $2B today.
This is a project I would love to see get off the ground; probably one of the coolest, achievable massive projects ever. I read there were plans to generate electricity from solar thermal in the Sahara on a large scale nearly 100 years ago but cheap oil killed that idea.
Some of them, like GE were getting big money for nuclear, natgas, hydro AND coal - and doesn't pay taxes. To paraphrase an old expression, utilities win or lose, GE just gets paid.
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That won't help trucks and that sounds like a very awkward way to charge city buses. It would be better to charge them at the bus garages or have a few designated swap stations. Lightweight is good but, for a bus, not a deal breaker. And for buses and trucks that are out one the highway, range and drag are of greater concern.
Footprint irrelevant? Not everyone can afford to be evicted from a 3000 sq ft house. Cheap and recyclable is good but so is smaller, safer, efficient and long-lasting.
One advance I'm looking forward to from Sumitomo is their lower-temp ( below 100 deg C) molten-salt battery as it could finally be cheap storage for electric buses / trucks.
Really? They seem to have spent quite some time and effort on making it buzzwordy and still offer it for sale.
I'd be grateful is someone could translate this gobbledegook into English:
From www.framework.com
What is FRAMEWORK ?
Framework is a unified computing architecture encompassing an operating system, API, GUI, applications, interactive programmability, RTOS sensor handling and information management. It is developed and maintained as a semiconductor design with a parallel software version which runs with the help of simulation and virtualization on other operating systems. Framework's design aim is to provide full hardware based computing functionality with no additional software but it does support running x86 programs on an x86 simulator.
While maintaining backward compatibility and following the original design principles of the Ashton-Tate product Framework was rebuilt as an architectural computing concept based on linguistic principles and path based automata. The new architecture overcomes the inherent limitations of parallel processing that the inherently serial CPU-based arithmetic computing imposed. Framework's architectural building blocks are channels that handle its perceptible, inherently selectable and ordered contextual objects. The result is not only an efficiency that cannot be matched in CPU based computing but also a generic highly ergonomic interface which can be internalized with no visual support. Framework employes RAM-based state machines on operating systems such as Windows while taking advantage of massive parallelism on its FPGA based system to provide an instantaneous data handling with Big-O of one. The Big-O of one technology supports SATA based storage available to users as well as Framework's own internal content-based memory and dependency management system. This enables the Framework's inherent parallelism and its extendable interpretation available with the FRED language. Simply put, there is no practical limit on the number of uniquely named FRED functions, nor a delay penalty associated with increase in that number or with an increase in the size of data stored on hard drives.
Milk comes in jugs or bags. Or jugs that eventually become bags.
The red flag regarding unwittingly giving the President sole control on all spending was raised by pundits on the right.
Go argue with David Frum and Fox News.
That's EL Ocho to you, gringo.
Thanks for that link - it'll make finding certain stats much easier. But looking at the stats for China's imports and exports with both the US and rest-of-world, I'm not convinced they need the US as much as you may think.
But I'm quite surprised to see their volume of trade with the rest of the Far East.
The GOP haven't been "normal" since Obama took office. They've been working from a playbook that says 2 things - 1.) We don't compromise 2.) If Obama proposes something and we accept it, it's a compromise. See rule 1
Since so much of our manufacturing has moved overseas, mostly to China, why would they need to invest in the US economy? Apart from real estate, perhaps?
Anything they want, they already know how to make.
The only thing the US has left that China might want is intellectual property, which they can either buy cheaply or simply steal, like they've done for decades.
Oh, for fuck's sake - listen up closely; I'll say this again.
Ready? SOCIAL SECURITY HAS A $2.5 TRILLION SURPLUS. IT'S NOT A FUCKING PROBLEM AND WE HAVE DECADES TO IMPROVE IT.
You're both wrong - Congress has been dominated for decades by greedy self-serving career politicians who whore themselves out to industry and get regularly sucked off by lobbyists. And then there are the crazy ones who get secret messages from above beamed directly to their brains, sometimes while enjoying the charms of whores, rentboys, and industry lobbyists.
There's a way out, if Obama has the nerve. Leave the limit as it is and then pick and choose which bills get paid and which programs get funded. I believe he has sole authority to do this. If he follows through the TeaPublicans will bitch, cry and moan as always but they'll agree to raise the limit.
And, if he has a lick of sense, he shouldn't make any concessions. They walked out of the negotiations so, this time, they get to eat it and smile.
If the voters who are left holding the bag subscribe to the Tea Party philosophy, there's precious little chance of a clean-up, more likely a greater clean-out. They have been quite successful in convincing the voting public that the wealthy have the best interests of the middle and lower-class in mind and will gladly bestow gold, frankincense and myrrh upon the babes sleeping in Tent City, if only they were freed of the bondage of taxation.
After seeing the Arab Spring, perhaps it's time for an American Summer, demanding the heads of Wall Street be bereft of theirs.
I was going to go with Eye of Sauron but I guess yours is more appropriate.
You're putting a lot of blame on a single president for things that started before he got elected. And tell me again, whose administration was tightly connected to the oil industry.
That said, I don't approve of the current White House being stacked with Wall St types. The links between industry and government has to change and corporate lobbyists have to be banned from any government office, at any level. Allowing policy to be determined by who can ante up the most is a complete subversion of one-person, one-vote.
The best spots for dams in North America are mostly all taken although there's lots of potential for run-of-river power generation. But, I see great potential for solar in 2 forms - solar thermal in desolate, desert-like places where you can build storage tanks and PV in cities and communities as there are no shortage of flat, unshaded rooftops and the cost of PV seems to be falling rapidly and the efficiency is slowly getting better. I don't think much is needed in the way of incentives, either - local generation puts less stress on the grid so the utilities should be the ones driving PV installs in cities as it'll (should?) reduce their running costs for peak demand, slew rate and wear-and-tear
Because 9\11 gave them an excuse to allow the airlines to charge you $3 for bottled water in flight?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104743/
Live Wire, with Pierce Brosnan
What's your definition of large-scale? There are plenty of sunny places you can do this where the waste heat wouldn't be a big deal, like the Mojave. The plants take up a lot of space but much less so than an hydro reservoir.
Perhaps but those pesky hydro reservoirs are a long way from where the pesky people live. Just building the (700 km) access road to the James Bay dam would cost $2B today.
This is a project I would love to see get off the ground; probably one of the coolest, achievable massive projects ever. I read there were plans to generate electricity from solar thermal in the Sahara on a large scale nearly 100 years ago but cheap oil killed that idea.
Instead of making solar cells, let's build some solar towers and use them to fry those "mean-evil-nasty" (tm) chemmies. Solar thermal FTW!
Some of them, like GE were getting big money for nuclear, natgas, hydro AND coal - and doesn't pay taxes. To paraphrase an old expression, utilities win or lose, GE just gets paid.
Hmm, guess that would be a win-win for Cisco and China.