A plant in Troutdale Or. I had done work for in 2001 was leveled.
I have more information on that.
The plant operated with reduced energy costs. They bought excess BPA power wholsale, not retail. This included shutting down operation when surplus power (spring runoff from hydro power, low residentual heating demand, not yet heavy AC season in LA) was in short supply. Even with cheap energy costs, the cost of operation finaly failed to make economic sense.
Sounds like a great way to save energy, reduce alumina to aluminum and then reduce aluminum to alumina.
If anyone thinks aluminum and other metal prices are not related to the rising price of energy, they have not been paying attention.
When gas prices then electric prices go up, so does smeltering costs.. This is not a breakthrough in high fuel prices.
.other than the fact that the fuel coil will be 3 TIMES THE WEIGHT OF A CONVENTIONAL PETROL TANK.
Anybody want to venture the supply problems of supplying about 100 Lbs of magnesium wire per commuter per week. The article seems to claim it won't cost more than petrol. Petrol is delivered by pipeline or tanker. Pumps and hoses won't deliver the wire. In reality, is there enough of this metal to support a fuel infrastructure?
There is a Second copy clause in the MS Office and MS Project Eulas, however in the default MS Windows XP Eula, there is No such provision.
Just for comparison, has anyone checked the new release of Open Office EULA. I don't think there is a restriction on only letting the primary user use the laptop.
I like the EULA on my old copy of Star Office. I want to compare it to the new version of Open Office when I get a chance. I think it's time to upgrade now it supports the Open Document specification.
What measures are in place to ensure the safe environmentally clean disposal of the tens of millions of soon to be useless analog TV's in your country?
Just because the deadline hits, does not mean the country will ditch working analog TV's.
Since the new big set is expensive, most homes will only get one. This is the same thing that happened with the transition to color in the 1960's. The new set arrived. The old set wound up in a bedroom or den. We were no longer a one TV home. Now the kids could watch cartoons while dad could watch the Saturday game. The only thing different is the analog sets will be used to use with the DVD and game console instead of local TV. The loser is the local TV studio. There are fewer eyeballs for the local furniture store and auto dealer commercials.
"All you need is to scan anything that they have printed and copy the hidden code on the page and then use image software to overlay that code onto your own page image and print it using a printer that doesn't embed its own code"
Create multiple layers in photoshop, each with its own secret code. Be sure to title each layer with a name so you don't send Nancy down when it was Joe who looked at you funny that morning last week.
It's even easier to create your own code using the information in the article. A scanned copy of the code may have some position errors and distortion that may give it away that it's a copy. If the printer has sharp print, but the dots are larger (from spread) and fuzzy, it's going to give it away. It's best to create an original and print it. Then it won't have the 2nd generation look from the scanner.
The ad that got me to finaly rip out flash was believe it or not, Flash banner ads. One was on the top and one was on the right. Mousing over would pop up 2 new windows. I would close the windows and head back to the scroll bar to read the rest of the article, crossing the banner, poping up new windows. Trying to go to the URL bar crossed the other ad with the same results. Close window, head for URL bar, close window, head for URL bar. It took me a few minuts to figure out it was a mouse action that launched new windows, not just a timed delivery. That was the straw that ended Macromedia on my machine.
Ads that opened new windows simply by crossing them on the way to the scroll bar or URL bar are just plain nasty.
The crucial difference is that you paid for the magazine. (We need micropayments!)
Not always. Here in the Northwest, on of the better computer magazines is a free advertiser supported magazine. The content is very good so they can have good distribution. The good distribution attracts well paying advertisers.
The magazine has a subscription price only if you want it delivered. It is free at any local computer shop.
Micropayments provide it's own set of problems. Part of them involve browsing and keeping your privacy. Why do you think so many people are adverse to free subscription websites. I only have accounts on sites I post on such as slashdot. I can still view the content if I want without logging in if I want. Micropayments breaks all that.
Advertisement supported content is good. When content is missing and it's just an advertisement site, then you don't get many repeat visitors. A site with good up to date content gets lots of visitors. Many users visit Yahoo for the chat, e-mail, news, stocks, and such. Without content and just a search engine, they would vanish to Google.
How would you get micropayments to work. Do you have unique content? Can the content be located elsewhere for free? Can you fix my fears I may be spoofed and end up paying for someone else's porn surfing? I often Google search for the content mentioned in the headline on Slashdot for some NYT subscription article. Often I find in on BBC, Yahoo, Google, API, or other no subscription required outlet. Don't expect to retain your readership numbers when you start micropayments. They are not the fix-all answer. I like many think we spend plenty of web access and are offended by requests for more and more nickel and dime you to death extra charges. We paid our ISP. End of story.
If I don't have a micropayments account, I don't have to worry about fighting false fraud charges to it. This is a big block to micropayments and other online finance activities. There are may who don't have e-bay accounts because they refuse to risk Paypal.
I'd like to get it fixed/certified NOW so I don't unexpectedly find it exhibiting these defective behaviors when I'm trying to tape something important like my son's first steps or his first Christmas.
I have the same problem. I can and I am taking steps to prevent a failure.
When I was stationed in the tropics, rusty tools was an issue. Contact corrosion was an issue on test equipment. While I was there I keept most of my tools, envelopes, postage stamps, and test equipment in ammo boxes with large packages of silica gel and a humidity indicator. I would nuke the silica gel when the humidity started to creep up. Now that I know the camera can be affected, it is now stored in an ammo box. Corrosion creep should not be an issue when it's stored at 20% or less humidity.
Especialy those that glue themselves right over the text you are trying to read. I have yet to buy a magazine where an ad was pasted over the article and took 10 seconds to peel up to read the text underneath.
I started blocking pop-ups when X10 made themselves a pain in the butt. I removed macromedia when Yahoo loaded up in interstitials that covered the content. From there I was on a roll and obtained hosts files. It started when ads got big time IN YOUR FACE
I'd tend to agree. Not only that, I can't imagine that it would be remotely possible to use regular acoustics to accomplish the effect, as you'd have to get the entire area loud enough to detonate the torpedo. Just wouldn't have the energy density.
Please read the article. A large apature speaker (focused array) can make a small apature spike of pressure. It's much like using a magnifying glass, but for sound in the water. Near the glass (ship array) the pressure spike is not very high, but out at the focus point it packs a punch. Ants in the sunlight do fine on the sidewalk, but using a magnifying glass...
Same principle but instead of concentrating existing waves, it generates it's own and using flat panel phased array, it focuses the same as it's glass counterpart except it is fully adjustable.
I just got back from Hawaii. I had 160 photos printed. It was very convienent not having to wait hours for the job and having to run out for several more ink cartridges. It was cheaper and faster to take in a camera memory card than to pick up a bunch of ink and paper. Double prints are only slightly more than single prints at Costco. The prints were ready when I finished my other shopping, so it was still a single trip.
Convience is letting the printing get done while you are shopping instead of baby sitting a printer, clearing paper jams and watching for streaks in prints.
Re:IP will give these no advantage at all.
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fiber optic digital audio paths. end of story
So, just what difference does fiber have over digital on coax or UTP or shielded twisted pair? Digital is digital with all else being equal, fiber doesn't gain much for short runs except some common mode noise reduction. An opto isolator can do the same without the handeling, cost and interface problems of fiber.
It is much cheaper to run the fiber signal over copper on short runs.
Disneyland Japan has had audio over ethernet for years as well; the setup there is huge, with hundreds of speakers over a large area.
Phase accuracy in a large outdoor setting is not as critical as in a studio environment. Outdoors long distances can introduce long delays. Don't expect to seperate the keyboard, vocals, and lead guitar outdoors like you can in a studio or with headphones. In an outdoor theme park, small time delays are no longer critical to the sound.
Who cares if they sound better with gold CAT5 cable. I care that it does not give any specifications other than some in wall mounting information and the grill is paintable.
A real audiophile is interested in sweep tests, crossover distortion, dispersion pattern, resonances, and other sound coloration problems. I just don't see some in wall speakers having as good of a sound as a good pair of studio monitors.
One provides dispersion plots and frequency response graphs. The other won't even spec the frequency response.
If you have a test that is 99.9% specific, it will still fail in practical use in an airport, as that means that 1/1000 people will come up positive.
Some of the false positives may be true, but not a threat.
I went to a wedding. Someone used a party popper. I'm now a positive. I shook hands with my neighbor. He just came home from the skeet field.We shook hands.. I picked my kids up from track. They used a starter pistol... I just walked in the park. They used weed and feed on the lawn....
The background noise from many sources can snarl traffic for a long time. There are many reasons for a false positive.
Freezing rain (Ice storm) has water falling. News flash, if the water was colder than 32, then it would be snow, hail, frost, or something besids rain. Freezing rain happens when a cold front goes under a warm front. The ground is below freezing and the rain falling on it is above or at freezing. This seldom happens when the ground is way below freezing. It often happens when the ground is slightly below freezing. Most of the time it is too warm to keep meat or ice cream frozen.
Would it be possible to mod it so that you could take out the power directly from the alternator? If you take the power via the DC circuit you're losing power through the battery and the inverter.
It is possible. However my appliances won't like it. The Motor/generators are 3 phase perm magnet. Voltage and frequency is directly related to RPM. In normal operation the car is shut off and runs off the battery with a blast once in a while to top off the battery. It makes much more sense to run off the 300 volt traction pack. Then I run into the same problem. Most of my appliances don't like 300 volts DC. The car has a very nice DC-DC converter to make 12 volts from the 300. Finding a 1KW inverter that runs on 12 volts is easy. Finding one that runs on 300 volts is another matter.
I went the path of low cost instalation using off the shelf parts.
Which raises the question... why did you bother running your freezer during an ice storm?
An ice storm is caused by freezing rain. Meat will thaw sitting on ice at 32 degrees. Ice cream will melt. You can preserve ice cubes but not much else. I also didn't want to pack the full freezer outside and down the stairs. It was much easier to let it run when I hit the transfer switch on the generator panel.
Try it sometime. Pack a carton of ice cream in an ice chest full of ice. Check it 12 hours later.
Pure water freezes at 32 degrees F. Water with stuff in it such as meat and ice cream freeze and thaw at considerably lower tempratures.
That is why I ran the freezer in an ice storm. It was too warm
Kevin Drum recently quoted a study which re-iterated that there's no "real" advantage to buying a hybrid. It's only just as convenient - so if you're driving a hybrid, you're doing it for some other reason than financial incentive.
My reasons were financial. The reasons against a hybrid are all related to short commutes and freeway speeds.
I have a long commute. Part of it is in the stuck in traffic creep and crawl driving. There are no EPA listing for cars on gallons/per hour they burn creeping while driving with the brake pedal.
I found a few nice things about my hybrid. I used to drive older cars to the point where alternators, starters, hoses, brakes and such became regular breakdown items.
The Prius is easy on the brakes, has no hydraulic power steering, no belt driven alternator, no brushes in the alternator, no torque converter, no bands or friction parts in the transmission... In short many high failure items are simply not on a Prius. I expect to replace the radiator hose and the AC belt like I would on a regular car and in addition the electric water pump, but oil changes and brake service are at much longer intervals.
If I didn't have a long commute and often in real slow traffic, it wouldn't make sense.
Leaving Houston in front of the storm, Hybrids went much much longer before running out of gas. In any major traffic jam, there is some idiot with only a quarter tank of gas that runs out in the back-up adding to the problem. The Prius is very rarely the one because they quit burning gas at a high rate in the slow traffic unlike regular cars.
Does anybody know of a Prius that that ran out of gas in a traffic back-up?
Obviously running the engine a lot in stop and go traffic affects the gas mileage a bit in that car, but the lowest my weekly average has ever been is 45mpg (combined city/highway, my drive to work is about 50% of each). That's still better than the best my old Contour ever got under the best circumstances (37mpg).
The worst I got in my Prius was 28MPG. That tank included a 12 hour shift being used as an emergency generator for the house during an Ice storm. It ran lights, a fridge, a freezer, the fireplace fan, and the TV.
If I just drove places, I would have gotten better mileage. The best mod for a Prius is an inverter.
To get that mileage, I turned off the heater because there was no need to defrost the windows or heat the car. Why burn the gas? In that generator mode, it would start up every 20 minutes for so and run for 3 or 4 minutes and shut down again.
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A plant in Troutdale Or. I had done work for in 2001 was leveled.
I have more information on that.
The plant operated with reduced energy costs. They bought excess BPA power wholsale, not retail. This included shutting down operation when surplus power (spring runoff from hydro power, low residentual heating demand, not yet heavy AC season in LA) was in short supply. Even with cheap energy costs, the cost of operation finaly failed to make economic sense.
Sounds like a great way to save energy, reduce alumina to aluminum and then reduce aluminum to alumina.
If anyone thinks aluminum and other metal prices are not related to the rising price of energy, they have not been paying attention.
When gas prices then electric prices go up, so does smeltering costs.. This is not a breakthrough in high fuel prices.
.other than the fact that the fuel coil will be 3 TIMES THE WEIGHT OF A CONVENTIONAL PETROL TANK.
Anybody want to venture the supply problems of supplying about 100 Lbs of magnesium wire per commuter per week. The article seems to claim it won't cost more than petrol. Petrol is delivered by pipeline or tanker. Pumps and hoses won't deliver the wire. In reality, is there enough of this metal to support a fuel infrastructure?
Mushrooms maybe?
;-)
Solar heat. They don't grow in permafrost.
If all does prove to be well, this rollover savings might fuel the movement for a solar-powered farm (ha). Shh..don't tell the tree huggers just yet.
;-)
Shh... Don't tell the geeks, but all the farms here depend on solar power. There is not much that grows in the dark.
There is a Second copy clause in the MS Office and MS Project Eulas, however in the default MS Windows XP Eula, there is No such provision.
Just for comparison, has anyone checked the new release of Open Office EULA. I don't think there is a restriction on only letting the primary user use the laptop.
I like the EULA on my old copy of Star Office. I want to compare it to the new version of Open Office when I get a chance. I think it's time to upgrade now it supports the Open Document specification.
What measures are in place to ensure the safe environmentally clean disposal of the tens of millions of soon to be useless analog TV's in your country?
Just because the deadline hits, does not mean the country will ditch working analog TV's.
Since the new big set is expensive, most homes will only get one. This is the same thing that happened with the transition to color in the 1960's. The new set arrived. The old set wound up in a bedroom or den. We were no longer a one TV home. Now the kids could watch cartoons while dad could watch the Saturday game. The only thing different is the analog sets will be used to use with the DVD and game console instead of local TV. The loser is the local TV studio. There are fewer eyeballs for the local furniture store and auto dealer commercials.
My Xerox phaser 7750 (great printer, btw) tries to send an email every month to Xerox. They're blocked now.
;-)
Care to post the address? It would make a great box for those sites that request addresses!
"All you need is to scan anything that they have printed and copy the hidden code on the page and then use image software to overlay that code onto your own page image and print it using a printer that doesn't embed its own code"
Create multiple layers in photoshop, each with its own secret code. Be sure to title each layer with a name so you don't send Nancy down when it was Joe who looked at you funny that morning last week.
It's even easier to create your own code using the information in the article. A scanned copy of the code may have some position errors and distortion that may give it away that it's a copy. If the printer has sharp print, but the dots are larger (from spread) and fuzzy, it's going to give it away. It's best to create an original and print it. Then it won't have the 2nd generation look from the scanner.
I purchuse surplus equipment from the police department.
;-)
So if I print something bad do they get the blame?
Only if their records of the sale to you are lost.. Good point!
Try this for an annoying ad
The ad that got me to finaly rip out flash was believe it or not, Flash banner ads. One was on the top and one was on the right. Mousing over would pop up 2 new windows. I would close the windows and head back to the scroll bar to read the rest of the article, crossing the banner, poping up new windows. Trying to go to the URL bar crossed the other ad with the same results. Close window, head for URL bar, close window, head for URL bar. It took me a few minuts to figure out it was a mouse action that launched new windows, not just a timed delivery. That was the straw that ended Macromedia on my machine.
Ads that opened new windows simply by crossing them on the way to the scroll bar or URL bar are just plain nasty.
The crucial difference is that you paid for the magazine. (We need micropayments!)
Not always. Here in the Northwest, on of the better computer magazines is a free advertiser supported magazine. The content is very good so they can have good distribution. The good distribution attracts well paying advertisers.
The magazine has a subscription price only if you want it delivered. It is free at any local computer shop.
Micropayments provide it's own set of problems. Part of them involve browsing and keeping your privacy. Why do you think so many people are adverse to free subscription websites. I only have accounts on sites I post on such as slashdot. I can still view the content if I want without logging in if I want. Micropayments breaks all that.
Advertisement supported content is good. When content is missing and it's just an advertisement site, then you don't get many repeat visitors. A site with good up to date content gets lots of visitors. Many users visit Yahoo for the chat, e-mail, news, stocks, and such. Without content and just a search engine, they would vanish to Google.
How would you get micropayments to work. Do you have unique content? Can the content be located elsewhere for free? Can you fix my fears I may be spoofed and end up paying for someone else's porn surfing? I often Google search for the content mentioned in the headline on Slashdot for some NYT subscription article. Often I find in on BBC, Yahoo, Google, API, or other no subscription required outlet. Don't expect to retain your readership numbers when you start micropayments. They are not the fix-all answer. I like many think we spend plenty of web access and are offended by requests for more and more nickel and dime you to death extra charges. We paid our ISP. End of story.
If I don't have a micropayments account, I don't have to worry about fighting false fraud charges to it. This is a big block to micropayments and other online finance activities. There are may who don't have e-bay accounts because they refuse to risk Paypal.
I'd like to get it fixed/certified NOW so I don't unexpectedly find it exhibiting these defective behaviors when I'm trying to tape something important like my son's first steps or his first Christmas.
I have the same problem. I can and I am taking steps to prevent a failure.
When I was stationed in the tropics, rusty tools was an issue. Contact corrosion was an issue on test equipment. While I was there I keept most of my tools, envelopes, postage stamps, and test equipment in ammo boxes with large packages of silica gel and a humidity indicator. I would nuke the silica gel when the humidity started to creep up. Now that I know the camera can be affected, it is now stored in an ammo box. Corrosion creep should not be an issue when it's stored at 20% or less humidity.
6. Most ads are just plain annoying.
Especialy those that glue themselves right over the text you are trying to read. I have yet to buy a magazine where an ad was pasted over the article and took 10 seconds to peel up to read the text underneath.
I started blocking pop-ups when X10 made themselves a pain in the butt. I removed macromedia when Yahoo loaded up in interstitials that covered the content. From there I was on a roll and obtained hosts files. It started when ads got big time IN YOUR FACE
I'd tend to agree. Not only that, I can't imagine that it would be remotely possible to use regular acoustics to accomplish the effect, as you'd have to get the entire area loud enough to detonate the torpedo. Just wouldn't have the energy density.
Please read the article. A large apature speaker (focused array) can make a small apature spike of pressure. It's much like using a magnifying glass, but for sound in the water. Near the glass (ship array) the pressure spike is not very high, but out at the focus point it packs a punch. Ants in the sunlight do fine on the sidewalk, but using a magnifying glass...
Same principle but instead of concentrating existing waves, it generates it's own and using flat panel phased array, it focuses the same as it's glass counterpart except it is fully adjustable.
Scratch that, you're also paying for convienence
I just got back from Hawaii. I had 160 photos printed. It was very convienent not having to wait hours for the job and having to run out for several more ink cartridges. It was cheaper and faster to take in a camera memory card than to pick up a bunch of ink and paper. Double prints are only slightly more than single prints at Costco. The prints were ready when I finished my other shopping, so it was still a single trip.
Convience is letting the printing get done while you are shopping instead of baby sitting a printer, clearing paper jams and watching for streaks in prints.
fiber optic digital audio paths. end of story
So, just what difference does fiber have over digital on coax or UTP or shielded twisted pair? Digital is digital with all else being equal, fiber doesn't gain much for short runs except some common mode noise reduction. An opto isolator can do the same without the handeling, cost and interface problems of fiber.
It is much cheaper to run the fiber signal over copper on short runs.
Disneyland Japan has had audio over ethernet for years as well; the setup there is huge, with hundreds of speakers over a large area.
Phase accuracy in a large outdoor setting is not as critical as in a studio environment. Outdoors long distances can introduce long delays. Don't expect to seperate the keyboard, vocals, and lead guitar outdoors like you can in a studio or with headphones. In an outdoor theme park, small time delays are no longer critical to the sound.
Who cares if they sound better with gold CAT5 cable. I care that it does not give any specifications other than some in wall mounting information and the grill is paintable.
A real audiophile is interested in sweep tests, crossover distortion, dispersion pattern, resonances, and other sound coloration problems. I just don't see some in wall speakers having as good of a sound as a good pair of studio monitors.
One provides dispersion plots and frequency response graphs. The other won't even spec the frequency response.
Yet the feds only provide a penny per passenger for security on buses or trains... compared to seven or eight bucks for each plane passenger."
Nobody has yet diverted a subway full of fuel and crashed it into tall buildings or government buildings such as the Penatgon or Whitehouse.
The threat posed by an airline is different than just the passanger list.
If you have a test that is 99.9% specific, it will still fail in practical use in an airport, as that means that 1/1000 people will come up positive.
Some of the false positives may be true, but not a threat.
I went to a wedding. Someone used a party popper. I'm now a positive. I shook hands with my neighbor. He just came home from the skeet field.We shook hands.. I picked my kids up from track. They used a starter pistol...
I just walked in the park. They used weed and feed on the lawn....
The background noise from many sources can snarl traffic for a long time.
There are many reasons for a false positive.
News flash dude. Ice can get *colder* than 32F
Freezing rain (Ice storm) has water falling. News flash, if the water was colder than 32, then it would be snow, hail, frost, or something besids rain. Freezing rain happens when a cold front goes under a warm front. The ground is below freezing and the rain falling on it is above or at freezing. This seldom happens when the ground is way below freezing. It often happens when the ground is slightly below freezing. Most of the time it is too warm to keep meat or ice cream frozen.
Would it be possible to mod it so that you could take out the power directly from the alternator? If you take the power via the DC circuit you're losing power through the battery and the inverter.
It is possible. However my appliances won't like it. The Motor/generators are 3 phase perm magnet. Voltage and frequency is directly related to RPM. In normal operation the car is shut off and runs off the battery with a blast once in a while to top off the battery. It makes much more sense to run off the 300 volt traction pack. Then I run into the same problem. Most of my appliances don't like 300 volts DC. The car has a very nice DC-DC converter to make 12 volts from the 300. Finding a 1KW inverter that runs on 12 volts is easy. Finding one that runs on 300 volts is another matter.
I went the path of low cost instalation using off the shelf parts.
Which raises the question... why did you bother running your freezer during an ice storm?
An ice storm is caused by freezing rain. Meat will thaw sitting on ice at 32 degrees. Ice cream will melt. You can preserve ice cubes but not much else. I also didn't want to pack the full freezer outside and down the stairs. It was much easier to let it run when I hit the transfer switch on the generator panel.
Try it sometime. Pack a carton of ice cream in an ice chest full of ice. Check it 12 hours later.
Pure water freezes at 32 degrees F. Water with stuff in it such as meat and ice cream freeze and thaw at considerably lower tempratures.
That is why I ran the freezer in an ice storm. It was too warm
Kevin Drum recently quoted a study which re-iterated that there's no "real" advantage to buying a hybrid. It's only just as convenient - so if you're driving a hybrid, you're doing it for some other reason than financial incentive.
My reasons were financial. The reasons against a hybrid are all related to short commutes and freeway speeds.
I have a long commute. Part of it is in the stuck in traffic creep and crawl driving. There are no EPA listing for cars on gallons/per hour they burn creeping while driving with the brake pedal.
I found a few nice things about my hybrid. I used to drive older cars to the point where alternators, starters, hoses, brakes and such became regular breakdown items.
The Prius is easy on the brakes, has no hydraulic power steering, no belt driven alternator, no brushes in the alternator, no torque converter, no bands or friction parts in the transmission... In short many high failure items are simply not on a Prius. I expect to replace the radiator hose and the AC belt like I would on a regular car and in addition the electric water pump, but oil changes and brake service are at much longer intervals.
If I didn't have a long commute and often in real slow traffic, it wouldn't make sense.
Leaving Houston in front of the storm, Hybrids went much much longer before running out of gas. In any major traffic jam, there is some idiot with only a quarter tank of gas that runs out in the back-up adding to the problem. The Prius is very rarely the one because they quit burning gas at a high rate in the slow traffic unlike regular cars.
Does anybody know of a Prius that that ran out of gas in a traffic back-up?
Obviously running the engine a lot in stop and go traffic affects the gas mileage a bit in that car, but the lowest my weekly average has ever been is 45mpg (combined city/highway, my drive to work is about 50% of each). That's still better than the best my old Contour ever got under the best circumstances (37mpg).
The worst I got in my Prius was 28MPG. That tank included a 12 hour shift being used as an emergency generator for the house during an Ice storm. It ran lights, a fridge, a freezer, the fireplace fan, and the TV.
If I just drove places, I would have gotten better mileage. The best mod for a Prius is an inverter.
To get that mileage, I turned off the heater because there was no need to defrost the windows or heat the car. Why burn the gas? In that generator mode, it would start up every 20 minutes for so and run for 3 or 4 minutes and shut down again.