Things that will throw off these measurements and render them useless.
Thermal drift and expansion.
Component aging.
Background noise.
Other 802.11B devices.
Collisions.
Power supply variations.
Signal reflections coming off of common building materials.
A simple jamming technique can render the whole system useless.
Add some background noise (it's an unlicensed band).
Target calibrates system.
Change or remove background noise.
System goes belly up with false positives.
Repeat, until operator of target turns off protection.
"Don't be surprised if the police department is forced to
apologize. "
If I were arrested and jailed unjustly, I would want a lot more
than an apology. Especially since the case is all about citizen
attempting to report police abuse.
At a minimum.. dismissal of the police detective in question,
official reprimands for the other officers who co-operated conspiracy to cover the detective's misdeeds, and compensation for the victims.
"After Gannon turned down that deal, a police prosecutor,
attorney Kathleen Brown, dropped all charges against
Gannon on Wednesday, but said his case will be sent to the
Hillsborough County Attorney’s office for further prosecution.
"
“It’s going to be presented to a grand jury,”
Brown said.
That would be a very dumb move.. on Ms. Browns part..
Hopefully, the presiding judge would set her straight. That police
activities in public (with other witnesses present) are not covered..
I.E. Police officers acting in concert have no right to privacy.
Each is sworn to tell the whole truth and testifiy agains't each
other if need be.
I would petition the court to allow a special appearance before
the grand jury. And ask them to consider charging the detective and
all associated police officers with conspiracy to commit (trespass,
unlawful entry, unlawful detention, B&E, and theft property more
than $500) under color of law(authority). All transgressions become
federal felonies.
"Thus, “under ‘color’ of law” means
“under ‘pretense’ of law,” and “[a]cts
of officers who undertake to perform their official duties are
included whether they hew to the line of their authority or overstep
it.”
From first link..
"Gannon had set up cameras outside his home, a four-unit
apartment building, to record video and audio in response to threats
from a former tenant and incidents of vandalism, his wife said. A
sticker on the outside of the building warns of the recording
system."
"Karlis and other officers went to Gannon’s
home repeatedly last month while looking for the Gannon’s
15-year-old son, who was implicated in a late-night mugging downtown.
"
Second strike.. note the word "repeatedly".. I.E.
The detective was well aware of the security cameras, BEFORE they
entered the property. That is called implied consent..
"1 gal. of gasoline: 36 kWh/galon @ US$3/gal = $0.08/kWh 1
kWh of electricity: 1kWh/ $0.10 = $0.10/kWh
Electric power
today (to consumer; industrial costs are lower) is more expensive
than gasoline power!
Futhermore, Li batteries are not suitable for running cars
because these are low current devices, and extremely expensive at
that. "
Another couple of errors.. The engine
in a typical auto can never get more than 20% useful work(@wheels)
from the energy content of Gasoline. Average ICE eff is less than 10%.
An auto's IC engine is rarely run in it's optimum efficiency
range(RPM too high/low, power level under 15%, etc). The Toyota Prius currently holds the efficiency record(25%) with it's smaller Otto cycle engine combined
with it's (CVT/hybrid) transmission.
With these facts in full view, the REAL cost of
gasoline is (5 to 10 x higher) or $0.40 to $0.80/kWh @wheel.
As for current demands on Li-Ion, the
technology has vastly
improved
and they're now being used in portable power tools. Cost will
drop as production scales. Here are some links to 1,2,
and 3,
EV's currently under development.
As for weight difference.. 6
kWh/lb useful work output drops to (.6
kWh/lb). Meanwhile Li-ion 0.13kWh/lb useful work output drops to
(.117kWh/lb) and is rechargeable.
Next one must consider what an EV
doesn't need. Current auto's pay a heavy price in order to
incorporate a large IC engine.. Radiator, fan, coolant,
Alternator, Starter, Lead acid staring battery, exhaust manifold,
muffler, catalytic converter, gas tank,
fuel, Heat shields(+ firewall), heavy
duty chassis, heavy duty suspension, oversize
tires, power steering, reduced aerodynamic coefficient, etc.
"Hence to your
engine, the electric battery power cost comes out to be more like
$0.20/kWh (50% power lost due to charger, battery storage, discharge,
heat, etc.). To the gas engine, gas comes when it's still
$0.08/kWh"
Is wrong on all counts.. Modern power
switching technology allows charging in the 90%+ eff range, overnight
discharge less than 1%. As for the redundant Gasoline to ICE
$0.08/kWh claim, that one has already been disproven.
more like $0.40 to $0.80 kWh @ wheel. (And going up, up, up.)
EV's can be recharged via solar panels if need be, thus fixing a
consumers cost for the lifespan of several EV's. Note: Gasoline
cost in Europe easily doubles that in USA.. (I.E. $0.80 to $1.60 per
kWh @ wheel) .
One should note that Gasoline and other fossil fuels enjoy huge
subsidies. Yearly DOD(1/2) & IRAQ expenditures.. == ~$59
per barrel consumed.(in US) Mitigation of GW costs &
losses(500T$) over 50 year period == ~$587 per barrel consumed. (in
US).
The sooner we migrate to renewables the better. Deploying EV's is
a big step in the right direction.
"Gas/diesel car is 30% efficient (~10% cities,
upper-40% highway). Diesel is more efficient (better compression Re:
Carnot theorem) Hybrid car (gas/electric) on board is only
efficient in the cities, and less efficient on highways. Purely
electric car is actually only 24% efficient (cities and highways)
"
Wrong on two out three
counts..
Gasoline powered car.. averages less
than 10% efficiency to the wheel. On hwy
you're lucky to get near 20%.. Same goes for diesel, but add a
few extra percentage points.. (The big strike against ICE
engines is that they mostly run @ less 15% capacity, even @ hwy
speeds).
The Toyota Prius holds the record
(with it's CVT/hybrid) transmission and smaller gas engine @ 25%.
A few notes:
This is refined fuel energy
content to road wheels, there are substantial
losses in getting that energy into the car's gas tank. If you're
going to start comparing competing tech on a one to one basis ,
you've got to factor in all those other losses. In the case
of fuels derived from crude, you're going to drop those eff numbers
by at least 50%. The efficiency of the oil cycle is
dropping day by day, as depletion forces the usage of more
energy intensive recovery processes. (I.E.
The conversion/recovery effiicency is NOT a steady state. )
Hidden costs of fuels derived from
Oil... US oil consumption.. ~14M bbl/day,
world wide oil consumption 30% contribution to GW, each country
covers their own costs. Factor in the costs for intervening and
defending those Middle East supply lines. (US navy, army, airforce,
etc) Tack on 50% of DOD budget ($200B/yr)+ Iraq
operations($100B/yr). (add another $59 a barrel) And GW costs
hurricanes and submergence of US coastal cities & plains, 500T$
over next 50years*.30(GWc factor) = 3T$/yr . (add another $548 a
barrel)
As for a modern Electric
car.. It's way more efficient with it's
energy inputs. Even better if you use local PV panels solar
power. (Where PV eff. is a nop.)
Li-ion batteries can be recharged with
upwards of
95% eff, traction motor and controls >90% , overall EV eff
~80%.. Spare Li-ion battery capacity can be used to provide
nighttime household needs. Even using Power company electricity
with 35%.. ~eff. 0.80 * 35% = 28% EV eff to wheel still beats ICE numbers
in the 5 to 15% range.
Ultimately, we'll want to dump
fossil energy all together, and EV's are a worthy
first step towards a distributed renewable energy infrastructure.
The Supreme Court often changes it position on certain items. Likewise the criminalization (state and federal) of unauthorised disclosure can effect how the 4th is interpreted.
They can change their minds at any time, especially since the Executive branch now has a call record for all of the Justices, family members, associates, ditto for every judge beneath them and likewise for all the members of congress.
Just what one needs to wipe out due process..
If I were them.. I would be mighty pissed..
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This level of intelligence is perfect for picking up business transactions and using it for insider trading and/or other nefarious purposes. (Billions of Dollars to be made in the stock market.)
Just inform the judge, that both he and his family's phone records are also part of the NSA snooping database. Same goes for all of his colleagues on the bench, the Appeals court, members of Congress and Surpreme court. That'll raise an eyebrow or two !
Without FISA over site you don't know what the information will be used for. This level of intelligence is perfect for picking up certain business transactions and using it for insider trading and/or other nefarious purposes. (Billions of Dollars to be made in the stock market.)
I wouldn't be surprised if the court orders the NSA to be shutdown.
Me personally, I would go much further.. And Jail all the NSA employees and other agency personal (FBI, CIA, DOJ, DOD) who had access until such time as we can be sure we've found and destroyed all the copies and subsets thereof..
I.E.. In one hour the sun delivers,
to the earth, more energy than mankind consumes in a YEAR.
P.S. Just in case your worried about
solar conversion losses. Our fossil fuel society is based on
conversion losses stacked on top of other energy losses.
The overall conversion efficiency of oil in ground, into miles
traveled by a typical auto is less than seven(7) percent.
"Global NAPs cannot point to any language in the order that explicitly preempts state regulation of access charges for the non-local ISP-bound traffic at issue."
While it may not affect this particular case Federal Law 108-435 states... "No State or political subdivision thereof may impose any of the following taxes during the period beginning November 1, 2003, and ending November 1, 2007" `(1) Taxes on Internet access.
"Before I can seriously consider nuclear reactors, the
governmental limitation on damages would need to be lifted. If
companies think reactors are too dangerous to build without a
limitation on damages, then I think that they are too dangerous to
build. Also, if the company goes bankrupt in a liability suit, then
the executives personal fortunes should also be at stake. (Not just
the director, but everyone above supervisory level.) I don't see any
reason why the people who live near one of the things should bear all
of the risk, when they only get a small fraction of the benefits. "
The liability claims from a class 9
meltdown would far exceed company net worth and the deep pockets
than the executives.. You would also need to go after the
current/former share holders and Bankers.. The concept of
limited liability would have to be
eliminated.
I.E.. Damage claims would be in
the Trillions of Dollars.. [ 1982
CRAC-2 study by Sandia Labs adjusted for 24 years of land
inflation ].. And let's not forget that nearly every insurance
policy excludes coverage for any nuclear incident.
Additionally, each additional reactor
becomes a primary target . A large scale nuclear power reactor
represents a damage multiplier that is capable of removing an
multi-state area from human habitation/food production for several
hundred years.
Next is the nuclear proliferation
aspect. Any country/city state who has a
nuclear power plant can make nuclear weapons. Imagine a world with
dozens nuclear equipped N. Korea's and
Iran's.. (With plenty of juicy targets.. other N-plants)..
Lastly, there are still the thermal
pollution aspects, only 1/3 of a nuclear
reactors thermal output performs useful work.. the rest of the
thermal output is dumped into environment
(local warming). Meanwhile, renewables(wind/solar) are roughly
energy neutral with no extra energy dumped into the environment,
plus they have the possibility of removing energy from the
ecosystem. (I.E. H2 gas pumped into depleted NG wells, etc.)
..Using an award bios last copyrighted in 2003 for AMD's
latest FX-60 chip (2006).. ..Notice how the AMD Processor isn't
correctly id'd in the Bios post. ..Even though.. DFI has
distributed a new bios version to
suport FX60..
.. This thread
indicates that there is some video defect in RD480 chipset..
These red flags indicate that something is very fishy and Intel's
results should not be trusted... (rigged test)
"Yay, would this mean outsourcing is going down, or that
the industry is growing? Also, does this mean that it's actually
worth it for me to continue my education and get a degree in Computer
Engineering? "
The answer to the second question is no..... It's just the same pattern repeating itself.
(1998, 1999, 2000, 2005...)
... Tech companies are now forced into the domestic JOB market as
the H-1B quota is
closed for the remainder of the federal fiscal year (til Oct
1).
"In other words, outsourcing has actually helped our
economy and provided new employment opportunities for the displaced,
just like almost every respectable economist has said it would, just
like it has always done over the years. Yes, perhaps Paul Krugman
disagrees, but I said "respectable" economist, which
immediately disqualifies him. "
What they don't mention is that between the two sample points May,
2003 to May 2004 is that the DOL changed the way they calculate
employment statistics.
January
23, 2004, "Though U.S. jobs data have been ugly lately,
some economists think the government's annual benchmark revisions,
due in early February, will pretty the numbers up a bit. "
I for one wouldn't trust any number that the BLS publishes.
They also don't mention how many H-1B's ( 47% of FY2003
+ 100% of FY2004
+no cap's) + all of L-1's(???) they let into the country during that
period. My guess ~150,000... It doesn't look to good for US
citizens..
2nd item.. Inflation verses Table 1-9.. Salary gains
in the 2 to 4% range.
Just in case you have noticed. The biggest expense you'll ever
incur in your lifetime is housing ~50% and
climbing. Guess what is not measured in the CPI?? You got it,
housing.. (Oh the DOC screws around and tries
to mask it by measuring the rent, but that doesn't reflect to true
cost of living for a majority of Americans).
Guess what item has been inflating by leaps and bounds?.
Housing, after that is medical expenses.
My bet.. The Real Inflation rate for 2003 to 2004 was in the 15 to
20% range. That number kinda pooh-pooh's
US tech workers meager, 2 to 4% salary increase, if it ever existed..
Summary.. US tech workers were and still are loosing
ground,big time.
"Nuclear power plants are a reasonable option, if we can
do two things:
a) Depoliticize the running of them - the first
thing that suffers when politics overtakes reality is safety, as NASA
is a perfect illustration of. Having a good, long-term safety policy
built into an organization isn't something that can be done
overnight, and building an agency to replace the DOE is impossible in
the current polarized political environment.
b) Figure out how
to prevent proliferation of high-grade fissionable materals; the
technology for generating and seperating such is inherent with
breeder reactors, if I understand them correctly."
and..
C) Moving out of the fall out zone(s).. and.. Finding a way to avoid
eating any contaminated food from an area the size of several states for the next
thousand years.. (that could be a difficult problem.. Worldwide,
their are over 400 nuclear power plants in operation. )
Hint.. Chernobyl was less than a two
percent worse case incident, and has forced Belarus
to relocate people away from 155,000
sq. km. for the next ten to twenty generations.
Nuclear power plants have
always been designated as primary targets by
rival nuclear powers/enemies. Why, because they contain the
equivalent of Ten's to Hundred's of
MEGATON's worth of nasty fission byproducts.. That
material can be released to atmosphere by any minimal
yield(20kt) nuclear weapon.
Note: Fission byproducts are way nastier that fusion byproducts.
I.E. Fission == Large quantities of radioactive isotopes with half
life in the decades to millennial range
which are readily absorbed into the food chain.
Remember, as time progresses, any event with a probability
greater than zero will eventually occur.
In a world of proliferating nuclear powers and
unstable/irrational leaders that probability increases substantially.
There is a distinct possibility that France ( with 1000's of
N-weapons) will be ruled by Iman/religious
nut by the end of this century.
The best solution is to phase out the usage of nuclear power plants and replace them with renewables. The next best solution
is to make them harder to target(ships) and provide a mechanism
(scuttle them in deep water) in order to mitigate content release
into the atmosphere.
"Actually I did the calculation assuming the rate of
change will double every 5 years and the entire Greenland glacier ice
will melt in less than 60 years. Discovering that figure I thought
maybe it was better to assume that the rate of change has peaked. So
yeah maybe the assumption that the rate of change will remain
constant is not the best but to assume it will remain it's current
acceleration is not by default a better one. "
Peaked.. I don't think that is a good assumption.. .. The
hurricane overdrive trend is fairly new(1.5 years), indicating that
GW effects might be on a exponential curve.
Care to imagine what would happen if some decent summertime
thunderstorms, (warm water), started passing over Greenland glaciers?
The melt rate would increase >30 fold overnight.
"Solar powercells require platinum which is a quite scarce
and finite resource. While there are research into eliminating both
of these limitations its not expected to be dealt with anyday soon. "
The principle raw materials used to manufacture Solar cells/panels
are glass (Si02), Si, Al, Cu and some HC based resins. All of
which are available in large quantities(Sand) and recyclable.
There is NO Platinum or Palladium used
in the manufacturing of Solar cells and/or panels. ...H2 based
fuel cells are different story, they require an effective catalyst in
order to split H2's covalent bond.
However there are alternatives to H2 fuel cells. ...Current
generation of NG combined cycle power plants can be adapted to burn
H2 at fairly high efficiency, ~63%.
"You do not have to be "radical" or even a
"liberal"; to think bush sucks, and will continue to suck.
And this has everything to do with science. Will we get funding for ACTUAL science? Or Junk science - like oil company funded research that claims global warming is not happening? Will his cleaner domestic energy sources be real - or is he just saying that? Has he lied about things in the past? Should we trust him now?"
Trust... No.. Bush's promise to "Break the Addiction" was broken in less than twenty
four hours.
"What the president meant, they
said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels COULD displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.
But America still would import oil from the Middle East, because that's where the greatest oil supplies are."
"I still like to know how you equate that Global Warming
was the cause. If what you say is true then we should have the same
amount or more next season, correct? What if we have only 3 to 5 next
year"
Hurricanes are a thermally driven phenomenon.
My 2006 prediction for the Atlantic
basin is the formation of 30(+-5) cyclones.
How do I know?? Daily observations, I'm located in South
Florida, which is mostly surrounded by ocean. SF winter air temp is
significantly moderated by surrounding water temp. SF air temps are
averaging 7.5 to 10 degrees(F) above normal.. A significant delta(T)
over last year(2005).
As for the cause of GW. Atmospheric
CO2 measurements don't lie. Historical ice core data confirms
CO2 at unprecedented levels. CO2 is of organic nature(12C/13C
isotope ratio) (mankind). The chemical/optical, IR trapping,
characteristics of CO2 is well known. Solar energy input is
well known. Apply Occam's
Razor .
"I was talking to a woman in the store and she was saying
global warming, there has never been so many hurricanes, which at
that point in the season was not true. I told her that in 1921 they
nearly ran out of names for storms and if the global warming people
are right it should have been much cooler back then. "
First.. They didn't start naming storms until
the 50's.. So they couldn't have run out of names back in 20's..
Second.. The last peak was
in 1933 and that record stood at 21 cyclones.. until 2005 came
along and GW cooked up 27 cyclones, three of them Cat-5's (another
record) and one of those being the lowest central pressure
(strongest) ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.
"Unless the heater in the Prius is somehow different from
about every other vehicle's on the road, it cannot run on
electricity. A car heater is run by blowing air over basically a
small radiator (heater core) that the 190F engine coolant cycles
through. If the Prius's engine shuts off, the water pump will
probably stop and so will the heater. "
Err... no.. The Prius's Heater is quite different.. (IMHO... Far
Superior). .
"After 1,500 miles of driving in some of the coldest January
temperatures on record, I'd summarize the 2004 Toyota Prius as a quiet, roomy car that happens to have a hybrid drivetrain and an
excellent heater.Quick heat is no fluke. The Prius stores some coolant in an insulated reservoir when it shuts down. Later, when restarted, the stillhot coolant circulates into the engine primarily to reduce emissions, but an additional benefit is near-instant heat. This is one of several unusual features on this car.";
"Come on now, be civil. The Internet belongs to the world."
One BIG reason why US refuses is because the UN doesn't have a working LEGAL system. I.E. Courts to resolve disputes and contract issues, courts to review lower court decisions, etc.
The UN would be hard time pressed to come up with a replacement legal system. Heck the UN can't even police their own personal. I.E. Witness the Oil for food debacle.
"Rather, Health Advocates is claiming that the archive failed to follow the instructions in robots.txt that were intended to prevent access to historical material. "
Health Advocates has a a very high hurdle of evidence to cross.
A. That the HA web server was always accessible from any point on the Internet.
B. That their ISP wasn't dropping requests for Robots.txt.
C. That their DNS server wasn't dropping requests for their domain or websever.
D. That their was no packet loss between IA and HA servers at the time.
etc..
IA often registers false modification dates on some of the files, because it is impossible to make websites are available to IA 100.0000% of
the time. It's the nature of the Internet,
it's not 100.0000% reliable. I.E. One zombie attack on M$, often has unintended consequences.
IA only checks robots.txt at time of the archive request. If the inquiry for robots.txt fails between IA and the current web address/host for any reason.. sorry you're SOL..
Second item, I doubt that Health Advocates filed for a formal copyright just after publication. Thus no statutory damages, As for profits, IA is a not for profit institution.
Third item, Lack of standing. A judge in the original lawsuit would have forced HA to disclose all the relevant data or face sanctions. (This includes removing the robots.txt file for
discovery purposes). Usage of material supplied by IA in initial pleadings is immaterial to their loss in court. (Unless they were
lying, and concealing material evidence from
plantiffs, in which case their previous misconduct will prejudice their case against IA. )
"This seems to be more of a reflection of third world population growth than on innovation."
Sort of..
It's a reflection of the dropping
value of human labor. Nearly all inventions are driven by the cost/benefit ratio between the old and new methods. The devaluation of human labor
(globalization) reduces the cost of the older manual methods. I.E. Your time, my time, is worth less and less as globalization progresses,
therefore the cost/benefit ratio of a new invention must cross a higher threshold to become successful.
The second aspect of innovation is the amount of resources and free time one needs to
innovate. As value of human labor drops in respect to living standards, one must devote more and more time towards providing for subsistence. This leaves less time and resources for inventing.
A third aspect is government tampering the various markets.
Visa programs which flood a market with foreign tech workers, automatically devalues the skill set of domestic tech workers. In so doing damages innovation in both aspects listed above. Likewise the issuing millions of patents(17 year monopolies) each year
for non-inventions also damages the market by reducing the value and ability to market true innovations.
"Harris Miller (ITAA) Gives the intro spiel
about the company and how it can help the industry "stave off
short-term attacks" from academics and "activists"."
"Harris:.. And there can be two scenarios there: The companies may want to
hide behind me, they dont want to say anything... frequently
that happens in a trade association, you dont want to talk
about the issues as individual companies. We have that issue right
now with the Buy America Act, for example in congress. No company
wants to act like its against Buy America -- even though
theyre all against it so I take all the heat for them."
I
think that self incriminating statement made by Mr. Miller sums up
his scum bag ITAA lobbying group quite nicely. Buy into ITAA
and let Miller do the lying !
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Things that will throw off these measurements and render them useless.
Thermal drift and expansion.
Component aging.
Background noise.
Other 802.11B devices.
Collisions.
Power supply variations.
Signal reflections coming off of common building materials.
A simple jamming technique can render the whole system useless.
Add some background noise (it's an unlicensed band).
Target calibrates system.
Change or remove background noise.
System goes belly up with false positives.
Repeat, until operator of target turns off protection.
"Don't be surprised if the police department is forced to apologize. "
If I were arrested and jailed unjustly, I would want a lot more than an apology.
Especially since the case is all about citizen attempting to report police abuse.
At a minimum .. dismissal of the police detective in question,
official reprimands for the other officers who co-operated conspiracy to cover the detective's misdeeds, and compensation for the victims.
The Nasuha police department offered up a Plea Bargain, but the victim wisely refused..
"After Gannon turned down that deal, a police prosecutor, attorney Kathleen Brown, dropped all charges against Gannon on Wednesday, but said his case will be sent to the Hillsborough County Attorney’s office for further prosecution. "
“It’s going to be presented to a grand jury,” Brown said.
That would be a very dumb move.. on Ms. Browns part..
Hopefully, the presiding judge would set her straight. That police activities in public (with other witnesses present) are not covered..
I.E. Police officers acting in concert have no right to privacy. Each is sworn to tell the whole truth and testifiy agains't each other if need be.
I would petition the court to allow a special appearance before the grand jury. And ask them to consider charging the detective and all associated police officers with conspiracy to commit (trespass, unlawful entry, unlawful detention, B&E, and theft property more than $500) under color of law(authority). All transgressions become federal felonies.
"Thus, “under ‘color’ of law” means “under ‘pretense’ of law,” and “[a]cts of officers who undertake to perform their official duties are included whether they hew to the line of their authority or overstep it.”
From first link..
"Gannon had set up cameras outside his home, a four-unit apartment building, to record video and audio in response to threats from a former tenant and incidents of vandalism, his wife said. A sticker on the outside of the building warns of the recording system."
"Karlis and other officers went to Gannon’s home repeatedly last month while looking for the Gannon’s 15-year-old son, who was implicated in a late-night mugging downtown. "
Second strike.. note the word "repeatedly".. I.E. The detective was well aware of the security cameras, BEFORE they entered the property. That is called implied consent..
"1 gal. of gasoline: 36 kWh/galon @ US$3/gal = $0.08/kWh
1 kWh of electricity: 1kWh/ $0.10 = $0.10/kWh
Electric power today (to consumer; industrial costs are lower) is more expensive than gasoline power!
Futhermore, Li batteries are not suitable for running cars because these are low current devices, and extremely expensive at that. "
Another couple of errors.. The engine in a typical auto can never get more than 20% useful work(@wheels) from the energy content of Gasoline. Average ICE eff is less than 10%. An auto's IC engine is rarely run in it's optimum efficiency range(RPM too high/low, power level under 15%, etc). The Toyota Prius currently holds the efficiency record(25%) with it's smaller Otto cycle engine combined with it's (CVT/hybrid) transmission.
With these facts in full view, the REAL cost of gasoline is (5 to 10 x higher) or $0.40 to $0.80/kWh @wheel.
As for current demands on Li-Ion, the technology has vastly improved and they're now being used in portable power tools.
Cost will drop as production scales. Here are some links to 1, 2, and 3, EV's currently under development.
As for weight difference.. 6 kWh /lb useful work output drops to (.6
kWh/lb).
Meanwhile Li-ion 0.13kWh/lb useful work output drops to (.117kWh/lb) and is rechargeable.
Next one must consider what an EV doesn't need. Current auto's pay a heavy price in order to incorporate a large IC engine..
Radiator, fan, coolant, Alternator, Starter, Lead acid staring battery, exhaust manifold, muffler, catalytic converter, gas tank, fuel, Heat shields(+ firewall), heavy duty chassis, heavy duty suspension, oversize tires, power steering, reduced aerodynamic coefficient, etc.
"Hence to your engine, the electric battery power cost comes out to be more like $0.20/kWh (50% power lost due to charger, battery storage, discharge, heat, etc.). To the gas engine, gas comes when it's still $0.08/kWh"
Is wrong on all counts.. Modern power switching technology allows charging in the 90%+ eff range, overnight discharge less than 1%. As for the redundant Gasoline to ICE $0.08/kWh claim, that one has already been disproven. more like $0.40 to $0.80 kWh @ wheel. (And going up, up, up.) EV's can be recharged via solar panels if need be, thus fixing a consumers cost for the lifespan of several EV's. Note: Gasoline cost in Europe easily doubles that in USA.. (I.E. $0.80 to $1.60 per kWh @ wheel) .
One should note that Gasoline and other fossil fuels enjoy huge subsidies.
Yearly DOD(1/2) & IRAQ expenditures.. == ~$59 per barrel consumed.(in US)
Mitigation of GW costs & losses(500T$) over 50 year period == ~$587 per barrel consumed. (in US).
The sooner we migrate to renewables the better. Deploying EV's is a big step in the right direction.
"Gas/diesel car is 30% efficient (~10% cities, upper-40% highway). Diesel is more efficient (better compression Re: Carnot theorem)
Hybrid car (gas/electric) on board is only efficient in the cities, and less efficient on highways.
Purely electric car is actually only 24% efficient (cities and highways) "
Wrong on two out three counts..
Gasoline powered car.. averages less than 10% efficiency to the wheel. On hwy you're lucky to get near 20%..
Same goes for diesel, but add a few extra percentage points..
(The big strike against ICE engines is that they mostly run @ less 15% capacity, even @ hwy speeds).
The Toyota Prius holds the record (with it's CVT/hybrid) transmission and smaller gas engine @ 25%.
A few notes:
This is refined fuel energy content to road wheels, there are substantial losses in getting that energy into the car's gas tank.
If you're going to start comparing competing tech on a one to one basis , you've got to factor in all those other losses.
In the case of fuels derived from crude, you're going to drop those eff numbers by at least 50%.
The efficiency of the oil cycle is dropping day by day, as depletion forces the usage of more energy intensive recovery processes. (I.E. The conversion/recovery effiicency is NOT a steady state. )
Hidden costs of fuels derived from Oil...
US oil consumption.. ~14M bbl/day, world wide oil consumption 30% contribution to GW, each country covers their own costs.
Factor in the costs for intervening and defending those Middle East supply lines. (US navy, army, airforce, etc)
Tack on 50% of DOD budget ($200B/yr)+ Iraq operations($100B/yr). (add another $59 a barrel)
And GW costs hurricanes and submergence of US coastal cities & plains, 500T$ over next 50years*.30(GWc factor) = 3T$/yr . (add another $548 a barrel)
As for a modern Electric car.. It's way more efficient with it's energy inputs.
Even better if you use local PV panels solar power. (Where PV eff. is a nop.)
Li-ion batteries can be recharged with upwards of 95% eff, traction motor and controls >90% , overall EV eff ~80%..
Spare Li-ion battery capacity can be used to provide nighttime household needs.
Even using Power company electricity with 35%.. ~eff.
0.80 * 35% = 28% EV eff to wheel still beats ICE numbers in the 5 to 15% range.
Ultimately, we'll want to dump fossil energy all together, and EV's are a worthy first step towards a distributed renewable energy infrastructure.
Note to clueless..
The Supreme Court often changes it position on certain items.
Likewise the criminalization (state and federal) of unauthorised disclosure can effect how the 4th is interpreted.
They can change their minds at any time, especially since the Executive branch now has a call record for all of the Justices, family members, associates, ditto for every judge beneath them and likewise for all the members of congress.
Just what one needs to wipe out due process..
If I were them.. I would be mighty pissed..
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This level of intelligence is perfect for picking up business transactions and using it for insider trading and/or other nefarious purposes. (Billions of Dollars to be made in the stock market.)
"If this gets into court and holds ground,"
Just inform the judge, that both he and his family's phone records are also part of the NSA snooping database. Same goes for all of his colleagues on the bench, the Appeals court, members of Congress and Surpreme court. That'll raise an eyebrow or two !
Without FISA over site you don't know what the information will be used for. This level of intelligence is perfect for picking up certain business transactions and using it for insider trading and/or other nefarious purposes. (Billions of Dollars to be made in the stock market.)
I wouldn't be surprised if the court orders the NSA to be shutdown.
Me personally, I would go much further.. And Jail all the NSA employees and other agency personal (FBI, CIA, DOJ, DOD) who had access until such time as we can be sure we've found and destroyed all the copies and subsets thereof..
All renewable energy (except tidal and geothermal power), and even the energy in fossil fuels, ultimately comes from the sun. The sun radiates 174,423,000,000,000 kilowatt hours of energy to the earth per hour. In other words, the earth receives 1.74 x 10 ^17 watts of power.
That's 174 trillion kWh every hour.. or 4,186 trillion kWh per day.. or 1,528,929 trillion kWh per year..
2003 world energy consumption.. 417.605 quadrillion BTU per year.. .... yields
122 trillion kWh per year...
Divide by conversion constant 3412 BTU/kWh
I.E.. In one hour the sun delivers, to the earth, more energy than mankind consumes in a YEAR.
P.S. Just in case your worried about solar conversion losses.
Our fossil fuel society is based on conversion losses stacked on top of other energy losses.
The overall conversion efficiency of oil in ground, into miles traveled by a typical auto is less than seven(7) percent.
"Global NAPs cannot point to any language in the order that explicitly preempts state regulation of access charges for the non-local ISP-bound traffic at issue."
While it may not affect this particular case Federal Law 108-435 states... "No State or political subdivision thereof may impose any of the following taxes during the period beginning November 1, 2003, and ending November 1, 2007" `(1) Taxes on Internet access.
Looks like Global NAP needed better lawyers..
"Before I can seriously consider nuclear reactors, the governmental limitation on damages would need to be lifted. If companies think reactors are too dangerous to build without a limitation on damages, then I think that they are too dangerous to build. Also, if the company goes bankrupt in a liability suit, then the executives personal fortunes should also be at stake. (Not just the director, but everyone above supervisory level.) I don't see any reason why the people who live near one of the things should bear all of the risk, when they only get a small fraction of the benefits. "
The liability claims from a class 9 meltdown would far exceed company net worth and the deep pockets than the executives.. You would also need to go after the current/former share holders and Bankers.. The concept of limited liability would have to be eliminated.
I.E.. Damage claims would be in the Trillions of Dollars.. [ 1982 CRAC-2 study by Sandia Labs adjusted for 24 years of land inflation ].. And let's not forget that nearly every insurance policy excludes coverage for any nuclear incident.
Additionally, each additional reactor becomes a primary target . A large scale nuclear power reactor represents a damage multiplier that is capable of removing an multi-state area from human habitation/food production for several hundred years.
Next is the nuclear proliferation aspect. Any country/city state who has a nuclear power plant can make nuclear weapons. Imagine a world with dozens nuclear equipped N. Korea's and Iran's.. (With plenty of juicy targets.. other N-plants)..
Lastly, there are still the thermal pollution aspects, only 1/3 of a nuclear reactors thermal output performs useful work.. the rest of the thermal output is dumped into environment (local warming). Meanwhile, renewables(wind/solar) are roughly energy neutral with no extra energy dumped into the environment, plus they have the possibility of removing energy from the ecosystem. (I.E. H2 gas pumped into depleted NG wells, etc.)
"Classic. Maybe they need to pony up and get their name in the adsense block?!?!? "
Make that a NON-FUNCTIONAL AdSense block..
Sounds like they may have been involved in some click fraud schemes..
Or they're just using the obsolete code or broke some other rule... (like overlapping graphics.)
From KinderStart's home page..
"<!-- AdSense Code (07-10-2003, Garry) //--> //-->"
<!-- Updated 04-13-2004
Notice the dates of the AdSense updates.....
Corrected link to DFI bios update.. (using ATI's RD480) chipset..
Notice items.. 1, 2, and 10..
Something isn't right, from the screenshot.
..Using an award bios last copyrighted in 2003 for AMD's latest FX-60 chip (2006)..
..Notice how the AMD Processor isn't correctly id'd in the Bios post.
..Even though.. DFI has distributed a new bios version to suport FX60..
.. This thread indicates that there is some video defect in RD480 chipset..
These red flags indicate that something is very fishy and Intel's results should not be trusted... (rigged test)
"Yay, would this mean outsourcing is going down, or that the industry is growing? Also, does this mean that it's actually worth it for me to continue my education and get a degree in Computer Engineering? "
The answer to the second question is no..... It's just the same pattern repeating itself. (1998, 1999, 2000, 2005...)
... Tech companies are now forced into the domestic JOB market as the H-1B quota is closed for the remainder of the federal fiscal year (til Oct 1).
Hence ALL the squealing by President Bush and the industry lobbyists.
Lobbyists perpetuate their scam by claiming every position staffed by a contractor/consultant as unfilled !!
"In other words, outsourcing has actually helped our economy and provided new employment opportunities for the displaced, just like almost every respectable economist has said it would, just like it has always done over the years. Yes, perhaps Paul Krugman disagrees, but I said "respectable" economist, which immediately disqualifies him. "
1st item... Statistics used by the report. Table 1-8. Lists a net tech job gain of 110,000...
What they don't mention is that between the two sample points May, 2003 to May 2004 is that the DOL changed the way they calculate employment statistics.
January 23, 2004, "Though U.S. jobs data have been ugly lately, some economists think the government's annual benchmark revisions, due in early February, will pretty the numbers up a bit. "
I for one wouldn't trust any number that the BLS publishes.
They also don't mention how many H-1B's ( 47% of FY2003 + 100% of FY2004 +no cap's) + all of L-1's(???) they let into the country during that period. My guess ~150,000... It doesn't look to good for US citizens..
2nd item.. Inflation verses Table 1-9.. Salary gains in the 2 to 4% range.
Just in case you have noticed. The biggest expense you'll ever incur in your lifetime is housing ~50% and climbing.
Guess what is not measured in the CPI?? You got it, housing.. (Oh the DOC screws around and tries to mask it by measuring the rent, but that doesn't reflect to true cost of living for a majority of Americans).
Guess what item has been inflating by leaps and bounds?. Housing, after that is medical expenses.
My bet.. The Real Inflation rate for 2003 to 2004 was in the 15 to 20% range.
That number kinda pooh-pooh's US tech workers meager, 2 to 4% salary increase, if it ever existed..
Summary.. US tech workers were and still are loosing ground, big time.
"Nuclear power plants are a reasonable option, if we can do two things:
a) Depoliticize the running of them - the first thing that suffers when politics overtakes reality is safety, as NASA is a perfect illustration of. Having a good, long-term safety policy built into an organization isn't something that can be done overnight, and building an agency to replace the DOE is impossible in the current polarized political environment.
b) Figure out how to prevent proliferation of high-grade fissionable materals; the technology for generating and seperating such is inherent with breeder reactors, if I understand them correctly."
and..
C) Moving out of the fall out zone(s) .. and .. Finding a way to avoid
eating any contaminated food from an area the size of several states for the next
thousand years.. (that could be a difficult problem.. Worldwide,
their are over 400 nuclear power plants in operation. )
Hint.. Chernobyl was less than a two percent worse case incident, and has forced Belarus to relocate people away from 155,000 sq. km. for the next ten to twenty generations.
Nuclear power plants have always been designated as primary targets by rival nuclear powers/enemies. Why, because they contain the equivalent of Ten's to Hundred's of MEGATON's worth of nasty fission byproducts.. That material can be released to atmosphere by any minimal yield(20kt) nuclear weapon.
Note: Fission byproducts are way nastier that fusion byproducts. I.E. Fission == Large quantities of radioactive isotopes with half life in the decades to millennial range which are readily absorbed into the food chain.
Remember, as time progresses, any event with a probability greater than zero will eventually occur.
In a world of proliferating nuclear powers and unstable/irrational leaders that probability increases substantially.
There is a distinct possibility that France ( with 1000's of N-weapons) will be ruled by Iman/religious nut by the end of this century.
The best solution is to phase out the usage of nuclear power plants and replace them with renewables.
The next best solution is to make them harder to target(ships) and provide a mechanism (scuttle them in deep water) in order to mitigate content release into the atmosphere.
"Actually I did the calculation assuming the rate of change will double every 5 years and the entire Greenland glacier ice will melt in less than 60 years. Discovering that figure I thought maybe it was better to assume that the rate of change has peaked. So yeah maybe the assumption that the rate of change will remain constant is not the best but to assume it will remain it's current acceleration is not by default a better one. "
Peaked.. I don't think that is a good assumption..
.. The hurricane overdrive trend is fairly new(1.5 years), indicating that GW effects might be on a exponential curve.
Care to imagine what would happen if some decent summertime thunderstorms, (warm water), started passing over Greenland glaciers? The melt rate would increase >30 fold overnight.
"Solar powercells require platinum which is a quite scarce and finite resource. While there are research into eliminating both of these limitations its not expected to be dealt with anyday soon. "
The principle raw materials used to manufacture Solar cells/panels are glass (Si02), Si, Al, Cu and some HC based resins. All of which are available in large quantities(Sand) and recyclable.
There is NO Platinum or Palladium used in the manufacturing of Solar cells and/or panels.
...H2 based fuel cells are different story, they require an effective catalyst in order to split H2's covalent bond.
However there are alternatives to H2 fuel cells.
...Current generation of NG combined cycle power plants can be adapted to burn H2 at fairly high efficiency, ~63%.
"You do not have to be "radical" or even a "liberal"; to think bush sucks, and will continue to suck. And this has everything to do with science. Will we get funding for ACTUAL science? Or Junk science - like oil company funded research that claims global warming is not happening? Will his cleaner domestic energy sources be real - or is he just saying that? Has he lied about things in the past? Should we trust him now?"
Trust... No.. Bush's promise to "Break the Addiction" was broken in less than twenty four hours.
"What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels COULD displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.
But America still would import oil from the Middle East, because that's where the greatest oil supplies are."
"I still like to know how you equate that Global Warming was the cause. If what you say is true then we should have the same amount or more next season, correct? What if we have only 3 to 5 next year"
Hurricanes are a thermally driven phenomenon.
My 2006 prediction for the Atlantic basin is the formation of 30(+-5) cyclones.
How do I know?? Daily observations, I'm located in South Florida, which is mostly surrounded by ocean. SF winter air temp is significantly moderated by surrounding water temp. SF air temps are averaging 7.5 to 10 degrees(F) above normal.. A significant delta(T) over last year(2005).
As for the cause of GW.
Atmospheric CO2 measurements don't lie.
Historical ice core data confirms CO2 at unprecedented levels.
CO2 is of organic nature(12C/13C isotope ratio) (mankind).
The chemical/optical, IR trapping, characteristics of CO2 is well known.
Solar energy input is well known.
Apply Occam's Razor .
"I was talking to a woman in the store and she was saying global warming, there has never been so many hurricanes, which at that point in the season was not true. I told her that in 1921 they nearly ran out of names for storms and if the global warming people are right it should have been much cooler back then. "
First.. They didn't start naming storms until the 50's.. So they couldn't have run out of names back in 20's..
Second.. The last peak was in 1933 and that record stood at 21 cyclones.. until 2005 came along and GW cooked up 27 cyclones, three of them Cat-5's (another record) and one of those being the lowest central pressure (strongest) ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.
"Unless the heater in the Prius is somehow different from about every other vehicle's on the road, it cannot run on electricity. A car heater is run by blowing air over basically a small radiator (heater core) that the 190F engine coolant cycles through. If the Prius's engine shuts off, the water pump will probably stop and so will the heater. "
Err ... no.. The Prius's Heater is quite different.. (IMHO ... Far
Superior). .
Machine Design 2004 Toyota Prius
"After 1,500 miles of driving in some of the coldest January temperatures on record, I'd summarize the 2004 Toyota Prius as a quiet, roomy car that happens to have a hybrid drivetrain and an excellent heater. Quick heat is no fluke. The Prius stores some coolant in an insulated reservoir when it shuts down. Later, when restarted, the stillhot coolant circulates into the engine primarily to reduce emissions, but an additional benefit is near-instant heat. This is one of several unusual features on this car.";
"Come on now, be civil. The Internet belongs to the world."
One BIG reason why US refuses is because the UN doesn't have a working LEGAL system.
I.E. Courts to resolve disputes and contract issues, courts to review lower court decisions, etc.
The UN would be hard time pressed to come up with a replacement legal system.
Heck the UN can't even police their own personal. I.E. Witness the Oil for food debacle.
I suspect that the US Dept of Commerce also took notice on how easy it was for ICANN to get rid of the, "at large members", of the Board. That didn't go over too well and is another reason why ICANN wasn't given addditional control.
"Rather, Health Advocates is claiming that the archive failed to follow the instructions in robots.txt that were intended to prevent access to historical material. "
Health Advocates has a a very high hurdle of evidence to cross.
A. That the HA web server was always accessible from any point on the Internet.
B. That their ISP wasn't dropping requests for Robots.txt.
C. That their DNS server wasn't dropping requests for their domain or websever.
D. That their was no packet loss between IA and HA servers at the time.
etc..
IA often registers false modification dates on some of the files, because it is impossible to make websites are available to IA 100.0000% of the time. It's the nature of the Internet, it's not 100.0000% reliable. I.E. One zombie attack on M$, often has unintended consequences.
IA only checks robots.txt at time of the archive request. If the inquiry for robots.txt fails between IA and the current web address/host for any reason.. sorry you're SOL..
Second item, I doubt that Health Advocates filed for a formal copyright just after publication. Thus no statutory damages, As for profits, IA is a not for profit institution.
Third item, Lack of standing. A judge in the original lawsuit would have forced HA to disclose all the relevant data or face sanctions. (This includes removing the robots.txt file for discovery purposes). Usage of material supplied by IA in initial pleadings is immaterial to their loss in court. (Unless they were lying, and concealing material evidence from plantiffs, in which case their previous misconduct will prejudice their case against IA. )
"This seems to be more of a reflection of third world population growth than on innovation."
Sort of..
It's a reflection of the dropping value of human labor. Nearly all inventions are driven by the cost/benefit ratio between the old and new methods. The devaluation of human labor (globalization) reduces the cost of the older manual methods. I.E. Your time, my time, is worth less and less as globalization progresses, therefore the cost/benefit ratio of a new invention must cross a higher threshold to become successful.
The second aspect of innovation is the amount of resources and free time one needs to innovate. As value of human labor drops in respect to living standards, one must devote more and more time towards providing for subsistence. This leaves less time and resources for inventing.
A third aspect is government tampering the various markets.
Visa programs which flood a market with foreign tech workers, automatically devalues the skill set of domestic tech workers. In so doing damages innovation in both aspects listed above.
Likewise the issuing millions of patents(17 year monopolies) each year for non-inventions also damages the market by reducing the value and ability to market true innovations.
Here is some background on Mr. Miller and the ITAA taken from his pitch to the voting machine manufacturers titled "Democracy for Sale, CHEAP!", August 22, 2003.
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Some excerpts..
"Harris Miller (ITAA) Gives the intro spiel about the company and how it can help the industry "stave off short-term attacks" from academics and "activists"."
"Harris:
And there can be two scenarios there: The companies may want to hide behind me, they dont want to say anything... frequently that happens in a trade association, you dont want to talk about the issues as individual companies. We have that issue right now with the Buy America Act, for example in congress. No company wants to act like its against Buy America -- even though theyre all against it so I take all the heat for them."
I think that self incriminating statement made by Mr. Miller sums up his scum bag ITAA lobbying group quite nicely.
Buy into ITAA and let Miller do the lying !