The entitled are desperate to keep people from thinking about not having a garage.
Battery electrics basic assumption is that of entitlement... Everyone owns their dwelling and has access to a charger dedicate for their individual use. Just another way of saying "I got mine, so screw you"
Silicon valley is already seeing "charger rage" incidents where access to shared chargers just isn't working.
For at least the last 10 years, that student yoke (sorry... loan) was a bad financial deal. That and every other lottery ticket we're being sold today is going largely unexamined critically.
The "kids" have become lemmings. Not their fault really. It's what they were trained to be.
that's 13Kwh to process 40Kwh. If the 13KWh comes from PV, if you discount the initial costs of the PV system, it is free. When you amortize the the costs and any maintenance of the PV system, less free... But still cheap.
This is a very rough based on a newer english hydrogen fuel cell car. I'm too lazy right now to find the exact car, but it's been talked about here on slash. It uses a fuel cell from hydrogenics (a canadian company, go google it) that generates 8Kw on a 1.1kilo "charge" of hydrogen and does that for 300 miles. Assuming that 300 miles is at 65 miles per hour, about 5 hours. So 1.1 kilos of hydrogen fuel is 40Kw hours (8Kw x 5 hours). There ARE smaller fuel cell units available from the supplier. The fuel cell form factor is a bit bigger (maybe double) than an 80's VCR. My house draws at peak 1.5KWhr... I'm a VERY heavy electric user. The fuel tank (from what I can determine looking at pictures) is larger than the tank for a propane torch but much smaller the the propane tank you hook up to you BBQ.
Now, extrapolate how long you can run you home on a bank of 10 tanks the size of BBQ tanks? How about a tank the size commonly used in rural america for propane? Now, add an energenics PV to hydrogen solution? Guess what? I can fill a tank very quickly and take it where I need to fuel a fuel cell and it's not all heavy like batteries.
Big Oil hates this. So does big battery. Of course the co-founder Tesla is bad mouthing the tech. There is no subscription business model to be taken advantage of.
absolutely nothing stops home scale hydrogen production. There is a Canadian company called hydrogenics that makes and sells pre-packaged installations at gas station scale.
While homeowners get "free" charging, others do not... So people living in high density situations are still dependent on gas station-style charging along with long battery charge times. Long battery charge time means charging stations have to be larger (space for cars to sit and charge). Battery electrics are at best elitist, expensive and heavy.
I do it... have local storage for remote imap accounts. Nothing stays in the cloud. I also run my own mail server.
"the younger crowd" seem to have taken the advice of "use someone else's..." to heart, just as a Harvard MBA will tell you to only focus on your own core competencies... taken to it's logical conclusion, it almost always leads to loss of core control and the wail of "But I followed best practices!!! what happened?!" is heard.
Good engineering is all about cost effective solutions, not whiz bang technologies.
Translation: Just because it's "cool" (read that as PC, opensource etc) doesn't make it good engineering. If it's bad engineering (not cost effective), there is no place for it. period. If your price is higher because you think it's cool, go work for apple.
40 is not a dinosaur. I'm 57 and have NO difficulty locating work. Fortunately (for me, not so much for employers). Employers have discovered that experience DOES count (and least those with more brains than a raven, those who don't... I don't want to work for anyway).
I also don't insist that I *deserve* every perc on the planet and that my work always be interesting.
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That is called a hybrid.
The entitled are desperate to keep people from thinking about not having a garage.
Battery electrics basic assumption is that of entitlement... Everyone owns their dwelling and has access to a charger dedicate for their individual use. Just another way of saying "I got mine, so screw you"
Silicon valley is already seeing "charger rage" incidents where access to shared chargers just isn't working.
For at least the last 10 years, that student yoke (sorry... loan) was a bad financial deal. That and every other lottery ticket we're being sold today is going largely unexamined critically.
The "kids" have become lemmings. Not their fault really. It's what they were trained to be.
Rather than buy... Use Darik's Boot and Nuke.
ou still have to cope with Blancco's ads, but it does do the job
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caremonkey seems to be a start up. look at medicalert. I think I'd trust them more
that's 13Kwh to process 40Kwh. If the 13KWh comes from PV, if you discount the initial costs of the PV system, it is free. When you amortize the the costs and any maintenance of the PV system, less free... But still cheap.
Riversimple in the UK. The car is called the Rasa. Spec sheet:
http://arstechnica.com/cars/20...
Hydrogenics spec sheet for the fue cell (I hate PDFs):
http://hydrogenics.com/docs/de...
Based on the car spec sheet, fuel cell appears to be either the HD8-200 or the HD8-500
Consider a bit of engineering.
This is a very rough based on a newer english hydrogen fuel cell car. I'm too lazy right now to find the exact car, but it's been talked about here on slash. It uses a fuel cell from hydrogenics (a canadian company, go google it) that generates 8Kw on a 1.1kilo "charge" of hydrogen and does that for 300 miles. Assuming that 300 miles is at 65 miles per hour, about 5 hours. So 1.1 kilos of hydrogen fuel is 40Kw hours (8Kw x 5 hours). There ARE smaller fuel cell units available from the supplier. The fuel cell form factor is a bit bigger (maybe double) than an 80's VCR. My house draws at peak 1.5KWhr... I'm a VERY heavy electric user. The fuel tank (from what I can determine looking at pictures) is larger than the tank for a propane torch but much smaller the the propane tank you hook up to you BBQ.
Now, extrapolate how long you can run you home on a bank of 10 tanks the size of BBQ tanks? How about a tank the size commonly used in rural america for propane? Now, add an energenics PV to hydrogen solution? Guess what? I can fill a tank very quickly and take it where I need to fuel a fuel cell and it's not all heavy like batteries.
Big Oil hates this. So does big battery. Of course the co-founder Tesla is bad mouthing the tech. There is no subscription business model to be taken advantage of.
absolutely nothing stops home scale hydrogen production. There is a Canadian company called hydrogenics that makes and sells pre-packaged installations at gas station scale.
While homeowners get "free" charging, others do not... So people living in high density situations are still dependent on gas station-style charging along with long battery charge times. Long battery charge time means charging stations have to be larger (space for cars to sit and charge). Battery electrics are at best elitist, expensive and heavy.
Streisand effect? I knew ya could
They don't want another nazi-bot
Hmmm... greed... some would call it "optimizing or maximizing their income".
Mostly their business managers
Challenger
it's motors and cams?
I do it... have local storage for remote imap accounts. Nothing stays in the cloud. I also run my own mail server.
"the younger crowd" seem to have taken the advice of "use someone else's..." to heart, just as a Harvard MBA will tell you to only focus on your own core competencies... taken to it's logical conclusion, it almost always leads to loss of core control and the wail of "But I followed best practices!!! what happened?!" is heard.
Quinns is still around as is Weird Stuff Warehouse. I go to each often
like seniors apartments. Different amenities, but those can change as the overgrown children age
I'm old school the way you are...
Site logs are a terrific means of communicating and they've saved my butt many times. I've used elog very, very successfully:
https://midas.psi.ch/elog/
Good engineering is all about cost effective solutions, not whiz bang technologies.
Translation:
Just because it's "cool" (read that as PC, opensource etc) doesn't make it good engineering. If it's bad engineering (not cost effective), there is no place for it. period. If your price is higher because you think it's cool, go work for apple.
exactly!
uh... No, the rule for the road is and always has been slower stuff stays to the right and get the hell out of the traffic
Yes! Letters of Marque and privateers again.
Got to love it
40 is not a dinosaur. I'm 57 and have NO difficulty locating work. Fortunately (for me, not so much for employers). Employers have discovered that experience DOES count (and least those with more brains than a raven, those who don't... I don't want to work for anyway).
I also don't insist that I *deserve* every perc on the planet and that my work always be interesting.
Keep in mind, it's your work, not your life.
The deathstar exploded