The downside with that is that you can't really charge one battery while you're using the other, and you're carrying a lot of extra weight.
I suppose if you're only traveling one battery charge worth of distance you can leave one at home on charge, but they're not something the average driver these days could change. Hell, most people can't change a wheel or check the windscreen washer fluid by themselves, how well do you think they'd cope with a quarter tonne battery?
The battery technology is already here. Lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries are perfect for electric cars.
The problem is charging them, and physics won't let you do that any quicker. That's what's stopping electric cars from developing - the fact that you either need incredibly high voltage and current to charge the battery, or a long recharge time.
Where are you getting $15 from? I expect it would cost a bit more to release a Linux port than that, but if that's all it takes they can have the money now. At current exchange rates, that's the price of a bacon roll and a cup of tea from the burger van outside.
How much would it cost to release a port of Source to Linux? Come up with a figure, and we - the Linux gaming community, who bought every iD game ever written simply because it had Linux support straight away - will come up with the cash.
The reactors are still running, since the seawater isn't used to cool them. It's the steam part of it that has problems. If the jellyfish were 40 miles up the coast, they'd be causing problems for a couple of coal power stations.
So if he had to fork over a large amount of money, that *wouldn't* be punishing him?
If you were arrested and bailed, you would (most likely, if you're in the US - not so much in the UK) hand over some money. Do you not value that money?
Bear in mind, the kid has been charged, not convicted.
But if you RTFA, you'll see that giving up his Xbox is part of his bail conditions. Over here we tend not to operate bail the way it does in the US (I can't speak for NI, I live in Scotland - but the principle is similar), presumably because of the ease with which a suspect could travel outside the jurisdiction of the police force they were arrested by. So, people tend not to be asked to put up large sums of money for bail, but it is possible to impose certain bail conditions. For example, if you start a fight in a pub and commit assault, your bail conditions may include barring you from that pub (or indeed any pubs at all), or possibly a curfew order.
I think they already know the answer. It *is* clean. Tsunamis aren't particularly clean. What's the Gaelic word for "tsunami"? Hmm, doesn't look like there is one. Wonder why?
Have you ever seen the wasteland around China's battery and solar panel factories?
Well, no, because solar doesn't work when we need the electricity. Unless you've got some magic batteries that can run an entire country for six months, that is...
Far easier to build a couple of clean, efficient, modern nuclear power stations than deal with dirty, inefficient solar power that doesn't actually work.
You do realise we don't actually border any country that has extensive pump-storage hydroelectric systems, right? And I'm guessing you know how much it costs to run electrical cables long distances under the sea...
We have electric rail systems in urban areas, but they're no good on the west coast. Electric cars will never be a practical proposition here, the distances they need to cover is just too great. Solar panels won't provide a useful amount of electricity in winter no matter where you put them.
I don't know why you keep bringing up the word "thrifty". The average Scottish home uses more electricity than the average American home, particularly in winter when we tend to use electric heating in addition to oil- or gas-fired heating - assuming the house isn't electric-only.
A very small amount of pump storage, in one location. It can provide power to about 200,000 homes for a couple of days.
As a side note, if you find yourself in that part of Scotland, it's well worth a visit. The turbines and generators are housed in a massive underground cavern hollowed out of the rock - looks like a perfect supervillain lair. I refitted all their radio equipment recently, and got a tour into the very non-public areas;-)
You also live a long way south, where you get lots of sunshine, and - crucially - long days during the winter.
Solar power is completely bloody useless if you haven't got long days. Clear sunshine isn't so important. Guess when you tend to need electricity the most? On dark winter days. Guess when solar panels just plain don't work? Go on... there, I knew you could say it.
Here in Scotland we have one of the largest on-shore wind farms in Europe. It's spent roughly three-quarters of the year to date shut down, because it's either not windy enough, or too windy to operate it. So, wind is right out. We've got hydroelectric power too, but flooding huge areas isn't exactly ecologically very nice either.
We need to invest in modern nuclear plants. All this "renewable" stuff is just putting a pretty green elastoplast on a gaping wound.
5.6km ought to be doable *if* you've got clear line-of-sight. If it's for a fairly permanent installation, it might be worth just dropping the cash on some commercial gear - Ubiquiti make some nice kit that is very reasonably priced.
The Rob Flickenger "cantenna" design doesn't work. A Pringles tube is too small to be resonant anywhere near 2.4GHz, and the threaded rod with the stack of washers just blocks the signal from coming out of the end. It actually works better sideways, since the cardboard doesn't block any of the signal (and the silvery plastic doesn't act as a reflector).
Stopped waveguide antennas *do* work, but for a "cantenna" like that to work it would need to be about 80mm diameter and much shorter. I've built a couple like this, and they give about 6-8dB gain over a dipole. The really neat thing is that you can use them as a dish feed, although on all but the largest satellite dishes you find lying around it will be grossly over-illuminated. If you really want to feed a dish, put a USB wifi (or bluetooth) dongle in a corner reflector at the focus of an old satellite dish - make a wooden block that holds the USB dongle just about 5mm back from the front of where the LNB would go.
Incidentally, "Cantenna" is the name of an old Heathkit dummy load, so be careful asking radio amateurs about them - depending on the context you could be talking about a stopped waveguide or an old paint tin full of resistors, sand and engine oil...
It's worth pointing out that it's probably illegal to do this in most countries, without an appropriate licence. In Afghanistan, I suspect it's not a big deal.
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That's a good idea, actually. It looks like zinc-bromine batteries might be able to do just that.
The downside with that is that you can't really charge one battery while you're using the other, and you're carrying a lot of extra weight.
I suppose if you're only traveling one battery charge worth of distance you can leave one at home on charge, but they're not something the average driver these days could change. Hell, most people can't change a wheel or check the windscreen washer fluid by themselves, how well do you think they'd cope with a quarter tonne battery?
The battery technology is already here. Lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries are perfect for electric cars.
The problem is charging them, and physics won't let you do that any quicker. That's what's stopping electric cars from developing - the fact that you either need incredibly high voltage and current to charge the battery, or a long recharge time.
Aren't those houses built out of thin sheeting tacked to thin timbers? Basically a packing crate with windows cut in?
Where are you getting $15 from? I expect it would cost a bit more to release a Linux port than that, but if that's all it takes they can have the money now. At current exchange rates, that's the price of a bacon roll and a cup of tea from the burger van outside.
How much would it cost to release a port of Source to Linux? Come up with a figure, and we - the Linux gaming community, who bought every iD game ever written simply because it had Linux support straight away - will come up with the cash.
Go on, do it. The money is waiting.
The reactors are still running, since the seawater isn't used to cool them. It's the steam part of it that has problems. If the jellyfish were 40 miles up the coast, they'd be causing problems for a couple of coal power stations.
So, are you saying that handing over cash for bail isn't a punishment?
And not forgetting:
He was a sweet and tender hooligan, hooligan
And he said that he'd never, never do it again
And of course he won't
oh, not until the next time
So if he had to fork over a large amount of money, that *wouldn't* be punishing him?
If you were arrested and bailed, you would (most likely, if you're in the US - not so much in the UK) hand over some money. Do you not value that money?
Bear in mind, the kid has been charged, not convicted.
But if you RTFA, you'll see that giving up his Xbox is part of his bail conditions. Over here we tend not to operate bail the way it does in the US (I can't speak for NI, I live in Scotland - but the principle is similar), presumably because of the ease with which a suspect could travel outside the jurisdiction of the police force they were arrested by. So, people tend not to be asked to put up large sums of money for bail, but it is possible to impose certain bail conditions. For example, if you start a fight in a pub and commit assault, your bail conditions may include barring you from that pub (or indeed any pubs at all), or possibly a curfew order.
Hey, homeopathy totally works. You really can make something more powerful by diluting and ensuring you have less of it. Less is more!
I should know, because I'm a world-leading expert in homeopathy. Well, I skimmed the first chapter of a book on it, anyway. Less is more, right?
I think they already know the answer. It *is* clean. Tsunamis aren't particularly clean. What's the Gaelic word for "tsunami"? Hmm, doesn't look like there is one. Wonder why?
Have you ever seen the wasteland around China's battery and solar panel factories?
Well, no, because solar doesn't work when we need the electricity. Unless you've got some magic batteries that can run an entire country for six months, that is...
Far easier to build a couple of clean, efficient, modern nuclear power stations than deal with dirty, inefficient solar power that doesn't actually work.
Maybe this one won't eat batteries...
You do realise we don't actually border any country that has extensive pump-storage hydroelectric systems, right? And I'm guessing you know how much it costs to run electrical cables long distances under the sea...
We have electric rail systems in urban areas, but they're no good on the west coast. Electric cars will never be a practical proposition here, the distances they need to cover is just too great. Solar panels won't provide a useful amount of electricity in winter no matter where you put them.
I don't know why you keep bringing up the word "thrifty". The average Scottish home uses more electricity than the average American home, particularly in winter when we tend to use electric heating in addition to oil- or gas-fired heating - assuming the house isn't electric-only.
A very small amount of pump storage, in one location. It can provide power to about 200,000 homes for a couple of days.
As a side note, if you find yourself in that part of Scotland, it's well worth a visit. The turbines and generators are housed in a massive underground cavern hollowed out of the rock - looks like a perfect supervillain lair. I refitted all their radio equipment recently, and got a tour into the very non-public areas ;-)
You think "Dirty Thirty" is bad, look at the waste shaft at Dounreay...
How much would I need? A few acres of panels?
How well does it work when you have five hours of daylight, and most of that with heavy cloud cover?
Yeah, look, we get it. You're into solar power.
You also live a long way south, where you get lots of sunshine, and - crucially - long days during the winter.
Solar power is completely bloody useless if you haven't got long days. Clear sunshine isn't so important. Guess when you tend to need electricity the most? On dark winter days. Guess when solar panels just plain don't work? Go on... there, I knew you could say it.
Here in Scotland we have one of the largest on-shore wind farms in Europe. It's spent roughly three-quarters of the year to date shut down, because it's either not windy enough, or too windy to operate it. So, wind is right out. We've got hydroelectric power too, but flooding huge areas isn't exactly ecologically very nice either.
We need to invest in modern nuclear plants. All this "renewable" stuff is just putting a pretty green elastoplast on a gaping wound.
5.6km ought to be doable *if* you've got clear line-of-sight. If it's for a fairly permanent installation, it might be worth just dropping the cash on some commercial gear - Ubiquiti make some nice kit that is very reasonably priced.
The Rob Flickenger "cantenna" design doesn't work. A Pringles tube is too small to be resonant anywhere near 2.4GHz, and the threaded rod with the stack of washers just blocks the signal from coming out of the end. It actually works better sideways, since the cardboard doesn't block any of the signal (and the silvery plastic doesn't act as a reflector).
Stopped waveguide antennas *do* work, but for a "cantenna" like that to work it would need to be about 80mm diameter and much shorter. I've built a couple like this, and they give about 6-8dB gain over a dipole. The really neat thing is that you can use them as a dish feed, although on all but the largest satellite dishes you find lying around it will be grossly over-illuminated. If you really want to feed a dish, put a USB wifi (or bluetooth) dongle in a corner reflector at the focus of an old satellite dish - make a wooden block that holds the USB dongle just about 5mm back from the front of where the LNB would go.
Incidentally, "Cantenna" is the name of an old Heathkit dummy load, so be careful asking radio amateurs about them - depending on the context you could be talking about a stopped waveguide or an old paint tin full of resistors, sand and engine oil...
It's worth pointing out that it's probably illegal to do this in most countries, without an appropriate licence. In Afghanistan, I suspect it's not a big deal.
What do you need uranium for? It's completely useless as a nuclear fuel. Maybe you should start looking beyond 1950s-era reactors...
What is the UK planning to do about nuclear waste?
There's no such thing as nuclear waste. There's only stuff you haven't configured your mixed oxide plant for yet.