HP ( and Dell, I believe ) has taken the microchip-in-an-inkjet trick to laptop AC adapters. The plug might fit, the voltage might match but no current will flow if the right adapter isn't detected.
What would it cost to replace, parts and labour? Is it possible to put a more powerful pack of a different chemistry as a drop-in replacement or would modifications be needed to make it work properly?
If Pike had lived during Edison's time, I'm sure he would have made a strong case for staying on good old woodburning stoves and gas lamps and none of that newfangulated, electrothingamajiggy, no sirree.
I have only anecdotal evidence about Prius battery life but the link below has lots of names and locations of owners claiming anywhere from 100000 - half a million mile s (this last I find implausible). Feel free to let them know what lying sacks of shit you think they are. Let us know what they have to say and thanks in advance.
There's a powerful smell of bullshit coming off that link.
For example - "Additionally, electric car batteries must be replaced after about four years". REALLY??!!?
Most of the RAV4 EVs and original Priuses are still on their original batteries, some after more than 200,000 miles. And every carmaker selling EVs is guaranteeing battery life of approx 8 yrs. They can't all be so stupid to guarantee free replacements for twice the expected life of the product.
And, the batteries are not exhausted after those 4 or 8 yrs but reduced to ~70% - that still a heckuva lot of life and can be recycled or refurbished into other products such as UPSes or some other stationary storage with weight and performance characteristics that'll stomp lead-acid.
By the way, have a look at the bios of the good people at the IER - not a single scientist or engineer among them
It's probably not practical or affordable to put lithium batteries in transport trucks but if the Sumitomo low-temp molten-salt battery lives up to the hype, that could change. I've read that almost 10% of the fuel consumption of a tractor-trailer is when it's NOT running ie idling or driver sleeping.
The DragTimes YouTube channel claims the Tesla Model S uses 1.1 kWh for a 12.3 second 1/4 mile drag race but recaptures 0.5 kWh through regen braking. That's very impressive.
Even if we don't make the switch to cleaner sources, it's still a win. Collecting or cleaning up the emissions at a few thousand power plants should be easier, more efficient and cost-effective than doing it at tens of millions of tailpipes. Plus, it means that you don't get the smog-forming exhaust and ground-level ozone in your population centers. You also get some noise reduction since EVs are quieter and there's no engine idling.
So does lead-acid production yet we've gotten a handle on that. And nobody seems to care about battery pollution when it's for PCs, smartphones and flashlights. It'll be a while until EVs start increasing that by a significant fraction.
I'm not saying there aren't problems but they are manageable - if the environmental standards are strong and enforced. In some places, that's a big if, at the moment.
Changes in rainfall patterns would badly screw over poor Africans and has already happened as the Ethiopian droughts of the 80s were linked to global dimming.
Just to be clear - the capability is present in every Model S. If by prototype, you mean the machine that does the battery swap, then I agree that's correct.
However, Better Place, notwithstanding their bankruptcy, has been doing battery swap for a while and Tesla's tech seems scarcely any different.
Too many dimwits have been convinced or convinced themselves that everything was rosy until Obama's Kenyan Muslim army rolled into Washington and have never heard of Hoover's FBI, Echelon, etc.
After watching some of the exchanges in Congress, I'm afraid that the "that decent" ones are very, very, very much in the minority or have no real clout. Anything that could theoretically make Obama look good is to be denied, delayed or destroyed unless huge concessions can be won.
This is the party that where members routinely vote against bills they themselves introduce.
I would love to see a return to sanity among the GOP but I'm not sure I'll live that long.
Troll moderation?? Really? Which jackass hasn't figured out that a) any solar thermal or PV project would be most effective in the Southwest and b) with the exception of CA (Blue) and NV / NM (Purple), the entire southwest is a GOP bastion.
Guns in civilian hands are just one deterrent against tyranny, not the first or the only deterrent.
It will not be gun-owning US civilians who start shooting first. It WILL be US civilians who shoot last if the government starts shooting, however.
The only way the US government could win a shooting war against the US population is if the government used WMDs to kill most of the population, but that doesn't leave much to rule over. Not to mention, the rest of the world might have a problem with the US government employing nuclear/chemical/biological weapons on a large scale for domestic genocide.
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If you truly fear that the government is becoming a fearsome tyranny, you cannot wait for they start shooting if you hope to win - they have too many means at their disposal. It's not just about firepower but mobility, control of the infrastructure and who has the high ground.
They know every inch of the country, have fighter jets, bombers, aircraft carriers, satellites and spacecraft - and they know almost everything about everyone, as Edward Snowden has revealed.
The resistance could survive a very long time but they'd be living underground and doing everything by cover of night.
Also, a US Civil War nowadays could have a serious impact on the world economy and it's not likely that the rest of the powerful nations would stand idly by - and there's no telling who's side they would come down on.
And if you're serious about being armed and ready to fight against gov't tyranny, please tell your comrades to get in shape - those fat fucks on the scooters at the gun shows are only going to be useful as a food source when shit hits the fan.
Things that you may have avoided doing when you were younger may not be as difficult as you think and there are few things as satisfying as mastering something difficult. Pick two - something that you've only ever been average or below average at doing and something that you've always been terrible at or that terrifies you.
It doesn't have to be technical, it could be a sport or learning to sing or dance.
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HP ( and Dell, I believe ) has taken the microchip-in-an-inkjet trick to laptop AC adapters. The plug might fit, the voltage might match but no current will flow if the right adapter isn't detected.
What would it cost to replace, parts and labour? Is it possible to put a more powerful pack of a different chemistry as a drop-in replacement or would modifications be needed to make it work properly?
If Pike had lived during Edison's time, I'm sure he would have made a strong case for staying on good old woodburning stoves and gas lamps and none of that newfangulated, electrothingamajiggy, no sirree.
I have only anecdotal evidence about Prius battery life but the link below has lots of names and locations of owners claiming anywhere from 100000 - half a million mile s (this last I find implausible).
Feel free to let them know what lying sacks of shit you think they are. Let us know what they have to say and thanks in advance.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mr-roadshow/ci_23057096/prius-goes-530-000-miles-same-battery
There's a powerful smell of bullshit coming off that link.
For example - "Additionally, electric car batteries must be replaced after about four years". REALLY??!!?
Most of the RAV4 EVs and original Priuses are still on their original batteries, some after more than 200,000 miles. And every carmaker selling EVs is guaranteeing battery life of approx 8 yrs. They can't all be so stupid to guarantee free replacements for twice the expected life of the product.
And, the batteries are not exhausted after those 4 or 8 yrs but reduced to ~70% - that still a heckuva lot of life and can be recycled or refurbished into other products such as UPSes or some other stationary storage with weight and performance characteristics that'll stomp lead-acid.
By the way, have a look at the bios of the good people at the IER - not a single scientist or engineer among them
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/staff/
It's probably not practical or affordable to put lithium batteries in transport trucks but if the Sumitomo low-temp molten-salt battery lives up to the hype, that could change. I've read that almost 10% of the fuel consumption of a tractor-trailer is when it's NOT running ie idling or driver sleeping.
The DragTimes YouTube channel claims the Tesla Model S uses 1.1 kWh for a 12.3 second 1/4 mile drag race but recaptures 0.5 kWh through regen braking. That's very impressive.
Even if we don't make the switch to cleaner sources, it's still a win. Collecting or cleaning up the emissions at a few thousand power plants should be easier, more efficient and cost-effective than doing it at tens of millions of tailpipes.
Plus, it means that you don't get the smog-forming exhaust and ground-level ozone in your population centers. You also get some noise reduction since EVs are quieter and there's no engine idling.
So does lead-acid production yet we've gotten a handle on that. And nobody seems to care about battery pollution when it's for PCs, smartphones and flashlights.
It'll be a while until EVs start increasing that by a significant fraction.
I'm not saying there aren't problems but they are manageable - if the environmental standards are strong and enforced.
In some places, that's a big if, at the moment.
It's a lot less than coal or petroleum
http://www.livescience.com/2324-solar-power-greenhouse-emissions-measured.html
Changes in rainfall patterns would badly screw over poor Africans and has already happened as the Ethiopian droughts of the 80s were linked to global dimming.
Just to be clear - the capability is present in every Model S. If by prototype, you mean the machine that does the battery swap, then I agree that's correct.
However, Better Place, notwithstanding their bankruptcy, has been doing battery swap for a while and Tesla's tech seems scarcely any different.
Too many dimwits have been convinced or convinced themselves that everything was rosy until Obama's Kenyan Muslim army rolled into Washington and have never heard of Hoover's FBI, Echelon, etc.
After watching some of the exchanges in Congress, I'm afraid that the "that decent" ones are very, very, very much in the minority or have no real clout.
Anything that could theoretically make Obama look good is to be denied, delayed or destroyed unless huge concessions can be won.
This is the party that where members routinely vote against bills they themselves introduce.
I would love to see a return to sanity among the GOP but I'm not sure I'll live that long.
Troll moderation?? Really?
Which jackass hasn't figured out that a) any solar thermal or PV project would be most effective in the Southwest and b) with the exception of CA (Blue) and NV / NM (Purple), the entire southwest is a GOP bastion.
JSUIX may be very fast but JSLINUX is NOT that slow
The stupidity of their stubborn resistance is that a project like this would be a huge boon for states that are solidly Republican.
Don't they both matter? A material that stores as much energy per kilo as gasoline but has a density of an aerogel is going to be somewhat impractical
Is that a pipe bomb in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
If you truly fear that the government is becoming a fearsome tyranny, you cannot wait for they start shooting if you hope to win - they have too many means at their disposal. It's not just about firepower but mobility, control of the infrastructure and who has the high ground.
They know every inch of the country, have fighter jets, bombers, aircraft carriers, satellites and spacecraft - and they know almost everything about everyone, as Edward Snowden has revealed.
The resistance could survive a very long time but they'd be living underground and doing everything by cover of night.
Also, a US Civil War nowadays could have a serious impact on the world economy and it's not likely that the rest of the powerful nations would stand idly by - and there's no telling who's side they would come down on.
And if you're serious about being armed and ready to fight against gov't tyranny, please tell your comrades to get in shape - those fat fucks on the scooters at the gun shows are only going to be useful as a food source when shit hits the fan.
Things that you may have avoided doing when you were younger may not be as difficult as you think and there are few things as satisfying as mastering something difficult.
Pick two - something that you've only ever been average or below average at doing and something that you've always been terrible at or that terrifies you.
It doesn't have to be technical, it could be a sport or learning to sing or dance.
But you can use your legally-purchased, concealed-carry firearm to shoot your phone and then hand it over, I guess.
Well played.
About 5 years ago, an HP instructor told us that the US Military wanted VMS to never be sunset.
I wonder what changed.
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