Where is the "unfocused energy"? The only energy going into your rubber tube comes from the kinetic energy of the car. So the car slows down as it goes over the bump. So it has to burn more gas to speed back up again.
I'm not saying that the rubber tube is the only place energy is being expended, I'm saying that its an additional expense.
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3. Run rubber tubing accross a semi-busy road, and have the pressure fill a tank (this is probably illegal without a permit, mind you). There are plenty of appliances that run on air pressure, and you could run a turbine to get electricity.
Now, I'm assuming that by green technology you mean that the end result of this should not be reduction in the usable energy for the same input in fossil fuels. Right?
So, you're contending that the gasoline usage from the car running over your rubber tube (and there will be extra gas burned, assuming the driver wants to keep a constant speed) is less than the gasoline you would burn to run a simple pump to pressurise your tank.
If this were the case then you should probably patent a design where the car engine runs a wheel over a rubber tube to pump air into a tank which is then used to turn the wheels of the car. It'd certainly use a lot less gas than the existing system. Watch out for those oil company hit men.
I'm unwilling to believe that you can be as stupid as this implies:
And while we're on the unrelated topic of perpetual motion, just because they don't work doesn't mean they can't work.
And, refering to your "extract energy by putting a rubber pipe across the road" scheme:
And energy transferred by the weight of a car obliquely would not transfer the energy from the forward momentum of the car as much as it would the pressure from gravity.
it seems as if you are a believer in Inteligent Falling.
The air in the pipe is pushed by the car. Do you think you can extract energy from a stationary car on the tube? No? So the energy has to come from the KE of the car, right? So the car slows down (or loses mass, but I assume you don't think the car is losing mass, right?). Now the engine has to work harder to speed it up again. So all you've got is an extremely inefficient transfer of energy from the IC engine in the car to your pressurised tank.
What is your lower acceptable limit for ridiculable sentences?
You don't seem to be able to work out that the energy collected from the cars/trucks bumping over your rubber tube must be greater than the extra energy required to drive the cars over your rubber tube rather than the flat road.
Many patent requests are for perpetual motion machines. This does not mean that perpetual motion machines work.
Another illustrative idea is a bunch of small piezoelectric generators floorplate in a busy doorway. For example. You know when we walk, we transfer 2 or 3 times our body weight down each leg?
And what, in the absence of your piezoelectric generators, happens to this force? Please compare the effort required walking on a rubber gym mat with the effort expended walking on a hard surface. Suprise! If you extract energy from the walker it is harder to walk.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. (Assuming you're not a journalist of course).
3. Run rubber tubing accross a semi-busy road, and have the pressure fill a tank (this is probably illegal without a permit, mind you). There are plenty of appliances that run on air pressure, and you could run a turbine to get electricity.
I'm hoping that your post is a joke, but just in case it isn't, where do you think the energy comes from? Right, from the passing cars.
This is just the most inefficient gasoline powered generator yet invented by man.
Ok, so the German laws seem rather stricter than the French (what a supprise) and somewhat over the top (seperate licenses for ownership, transportation and firing guns) but we're still not talking about a UK style ban.
Does anyone have any idea how easy/hard it is to get these licenses?
Oh come on. You haven't realised that "Able Danger" == "Total Information Awareness". This is a just a scam to get you sat in your little panopticon cell without noticing.
Yup, Poindexter knew what those nasty Al-Queda boys were up to but the horrid liberals wouldn't let him save America.
2.5 terabyes of data. Not information. Your Walmart sales slip.
In which country can you buy guns in a supermarket?
Where were you looking? In rural areas of France large supermarkets (e.g. E. Leclerc) sell hunting guns.
Perhaps some countries in the Europe allow it , but i know for a fact that a great many have strict gun control and not a relaxed attitude to them .
So, you know that a great many of European countries have strict gun control. Do you have a cite for the laws? Which countries? What does "strict gun control" mean?
For information here is the law in France.
Some detail:
Armes en vente libre sans déclaration: (Arms free for sale without even a declaration:)
Armes de 5e catégorie (armes de chasse):
fusils, carabines et canardières à canon lisse, tirant un coup par canon
(non repeating shotguns, single or multiple barrel)
Armes soumises à déclaration (arms that have to be declared to the police, but you don't need to ask for a license):
Please don't confuse the English with Europeans. It's your "allies" who have the little problem with guns. Here on the continent you buy 'em in supermarkets and you don't need even have to declare ownership of a double barreled shotgun.
Brits = raving gun phobiacs. Yanks = raving gun fetishists. Euros = hey, it's just a tool.
And once I compare the behavior of post-Katrina Black Americans to post-Kobe Japanese [...]
Ah yes, those naughty blacks, looting while the nice white people "found" food in shops, staying in the superdome while the nice white people were "smuggled" out by the NG, even trying to save their lives by walking into nice white Gretna county until the brave sherrifs department fired over their heads, forcing them back into the flooded city.
Hint: maybe people in Kobe behaved better because their government and fellow citizens tried to help them, rather than treating them as "insurgents".
This is such bollocks. I'm much too lazy to write scripts to replace repetetive tasks. Why, I haven't even got around to writing a script to post ridiculous nonsense to Slashdot yet.
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Where is the "unfocused energy"? The only energy going into your rubber tube comes from the kinetic energy of the car. So the car slows down as it goes over the bump. So it has to burn more gas to speed back up again.
I'm not saying that the rubber tube is the only place energy is being expended, I'm saying that its an additional expense.
Now, I'm assuming that by green technology you mean that the end result of this should not be reduction in the usable energy for the same input in fossil fuels. Right?
So, you're contending that the gasoline usage from the car running over your rubber tube (and there will be extra gas burned, assuming the driver wants to keep a constant speed) is less than the gasoline you would burn to run a simple pump to pressurise your tank.
If this were the case then you should probably patent a design where the car engine runs a wheel over a rubber tube to pump air into a tank which is then used to turn the wheels of the car. It'd certainly use a lot less gas than the existing system. Watch out for those oil company hit men.
And, refering to your "extract energy by putting a rubber pipe across the road" scheme:
it seems as if you are a believer in Inteligent Falling.
The air in the pipe is pushed by the car. Do you think you can extract energy from a stationary car on the tube? No? So the energy has to come from the KE of the car, right? So the car slows down (or loses mass, but I assume you don't think the car is losing mass, right?). Now the engine has to work harder to speed it up again. So all you've got is an extremely inefficient transfer of energy from the IC engine in the car to your pressurised tank.
You don't seem to be able to work out that the energy collected from the cars/trucks bumping over your rubber tube must be greater than the extra energy required to drive the cars over your rubber tube rather than the flat road.
Many patent requests are for perpetual motion machines. This does not mean that perpetual motion machines work.
And what, in the absence of your piezoelectric generators, happens to this force? Please compare the effort required walking on a rubber gym mat with the effort expended walking on a hard surface. Suprise! If you extract energy from the walker it is harder to walk.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. (Assuming you're not a journalist of course).
I'm hoping that your post is a joke, but just in case it isn't, where do you think the energy comes from? Right, from the passing cars.
This is just the most inefficient gasoline powered generator yet invented by man.
Are => you <- sure?
Ok, so the German laws seem rather stricter than the French (what a supprise) and somewhat over the top (seperate licenses for ownership, transportation and firing guns) but we're still not talking about a UK style ban.
Does anyone have any idea how easy/hard it is to get these licenses?
Ok, so those are the exceptions for waving your gun around.
Now what are the laws about owning a gun, which was the subject of conversation up to now.
My point was that most Americans seem to think ('cos the obsessive brits tell 'em) that guns are VERBOTEN in Yurp.
Oh come on. You haven't realised that "Able Danger" == "Total Information Awareness". This is a just a scam to get you sat in your little panopticon cell without noticing.
Yup, Poindexter knew what those nasty Al-Queda boys were up to but the horrid liberals wouldn't let him save America.
2.5 terabyes of data. Not information. Your Walmart sales slip.
Whoops, forgot to mention that you also need a license for 2nd category weapons:
... grenades / torpilles / missiles - engins nucléaires ...
Tanks, warships, fighter aircraft & c
And that it can be difficult to get a license for some 1st category weapons:
For information here is the law in France. Some detail:
- Armes en vente libre sans déclaration: (Arms free for sale without even a declaration:)
-
Armes soumises à déclaration (arms that have to be declared to the police, but you don't need to ask for a license):
-
Arms that need a license:
Not exactly draconian. (see previous reply for experience of a Brit in France).Armes de 5e catégorie (armes de chasse):
fusils, carabines et canardières à canon lisse, tirant un coup par canon (non repeating shotguns, single or multiple barrel)
Hunting rifles, repeating shotguns, target pistols &c
1st category: military pistols & rifles.
4th category: pistols for personal defence &c, short barrelled shotguns, rifles with more than 10 rounds in the magazine.
Please don't confuse the English with Europeans. It's your "allies" who have the little problem with guns. Here on the continent you buy 'em in supermarkets and you don't need even have to declare ownership of a double barreled shotgun.
Brits = raving gun phobiacs.
Yanks = raving gun fetishists.
Euros = hey, it's just a tool.
Any number?
Are you sure?
What seemed to happen after the Tsunami was that at least 2 civil wars were put on hold in order to help the victims. (Sri Lanka, Aceh).
Hint: maybe people in Kobe behaved better because their government and fellow citizens tried to help them, rather than treating them as "insurgents".
Minor nit, but it's polyvinyl chloride.
That's what the huge table is for.
And shouldn't Hours, Base and Profit (Result) be level 77? Or am I out of date?
Well, except for GWB, who vacations like the useless Frog he is.
(Of course Chirac is a crazy Stankovite (sp?) compared to GWB).
Your girlfriend sends you to massage parlors?
This is such bollocks. I'm much too lazy to write scripts to replace repetetive tasks. Why, I haven't even got around to writing a script to post ridiculous nonsense to Slashdot yet.
Could you please translate this into standard terminology?
What's a "loop"?
(Gotta give the Randians credit for being crazier though).
At cost? Why? Why would you ever sell at cost?
I guess you don't own your own business.
Why do you say "besides OpenGL"? OpenGL works great with the Xorg driver for Radeons 9600. (I have a 9200).