There are 8000 charging stations in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_station your document references 1659 CHAdeMO mostly in Japan). I would expect that most in the US are J1772. Almost all the EVs sold in the US support that standard, the Volt, the Leaf, Tesla S, the X with an adapter, etc. etc. Many manufacturers also seem committed to supporting the DC addition.
Seems to be more of a US vs. the rest of the world type of thing, which is not a tragedy given that both those markets are big enough to support one standard each and there really isn't much traffic between the two.
There's really not much to the J1772 beyond the format of the plug. There's a tiny amount of logic that says that says whether it's connected. I can't imagine that the CHAdeMO standard is much different and that dual-format charging stations, or adapters for the cars would be a big deal.
Cooling is a big issue. If a 15kW charger is 95% efficient, then you need to remove 750W.
High power, high voltage electronics is well understood, so it's a design project not a research project, but it definitely is a specialty that is different from, say, 5V mA type electronics. And all the components are much more expensive.
The summary (as usual) is a little misleading. The J1772 standard has been around for a while and is widely adopted. As I understand it, the "new" part to this is the addition of an optional, additional, connector that allows DC charging.
High power AC/DC converters are expensive and generate heat, so require costly in-vehicle infrastructure. If the conversion is moved the charging station the on-board electronics are simplified.
So you can have a relatively low-cost, slow charger at home. Charging stations can provide a fast DC charge. The initial cost of the charging station would increase, but the cost per vehicle would be much lower. So if 10 people per day spend 30 minutes charging you can amortize the higher cost of 10 vehicles.
If by "the people" you mean people in favor of slavery, then some Republicans have you covered:
State Rep. Loy Mauch (R-Bismarck)
In two letters, Mauch wrote about the Bible and slavery. The Arkansas Times quotes from a letter Mauch wrote in 2009:
"If slavery were so God-awful, why didn’t Jesus or Paul condemn it, why was it in the Constitution and why wasn’t there a war before 1861?"
State Rep. Jon Hubbard (R-Jonesboro)
“But I think the end result -- that they [African-Americans] did get to live in America, although the means for getting here were terrible -- I think the end result was better than it would have been if they had to live in Africa themselves.”
Well, no, that's not going to happen, if for no other reason than exactly the same economists who screwed up the first time are the same ones being asked how to fix the problem. Shame programming doesn't work that way: http://search.dilbert.com/comic/10%20Dollars%20Bug%20Fix
What? Did you expect Goldman Sachs to just go away after screwing the economy (housing bubble, oil futures, rigged bailout). This is their next chance to take the US tax payers for big buck (Cap-n-Trade is basically a way for Goldman to tax polluters with the money going to them instead of the public coffers).
All the profits go to Goldman, all the risk goes to the tax payers.
With little to go on, I would question whether you were/are good in software anyway.
There are a lot of cheap, young, up-to-date, mediocre, programmers. If you've hit 40 and can't identify an area where your experience puts you ahead of these people, and your only chance is to compete with them, I'd seriously be looking for a change where what experience you do have will help you.
This would be a fantasic app (without the rogue upload of course) if you could then ask it where items are. Arrive home without your credit card, lost your keys, need to find where you left a tool that you didn't put away 6 months ago?
There was an interesting shift in attitudes to alcohol as society shifted from an agrarian to an industrial economy. You can follow a horse pulling a plough while fairly drunk and the fluids are probably useful - beer was a common drink. As soon as wealthy industrialists needed sober workers to work in factories you see the rise of the anti-alcohol groups.
Depends what you're comparing with:
1995 Chevy Tracker...
Aston Martin Cygnet
32*9.2 = 294
I'm definitely not comparing a brand new, modern electric car with a near 20 year old beater. That would just be silly hyperbole, and I'll have no part of it.
The 20 year old beater represents MANY years of gasoline technology development. I would argue that very little has happened to gas cars since that car. Most cars still don't get better gas mileage. There have been improvements, but nothing revolutionary.
You're willing to compare a techology, the current generation of EVs, that has been available for, basically 5 years, and has a lot of maturing to do (and space to do it) with a mature technology that has really no hope of major innovation.
You're still talking about 3 hours or so of driving. It's not unreasonable after that time to take a break.
See, I make a number of these 3-4 hour trips every year to see family, and yea, it's a good idea to take a break about halfway through - break as in, stop somewhere, maybe grab a quick bite to eat (10-15 min), have a smoke (5 min), then back on the road. 20 minute stop, tops.
Takes half the time if you've only driven half as far, so a 20 minute break should be plenty.
The rest of the problems you raise basically relate to a lack of charging facilities - and no one is arguing that there are sufficient charge points.
If you turned the issue around and had 6-8 charging stations and one gas pump everywhere you currently have a gas station and gas cars were the new introduction, you'd be saying exactly the same things about the gas cars. (and the gas cars would have a sucky range because without the last 40 or so years of serious engine optimization the gas mileage would be terrible). And quite likely there would be no gas because the infrastructure to deliver to all these locations would be inefficient.
The other thing to bear in mind is that EVERYONE wants better batteries, cars, phones, computers, etc. etc. etc. 250 mile range was inconceivable even 10 years ago. In another 10 it's quite reasonable that the energy density of batteries will have increased another 5-10 times at the same pricepoint. It's quite hard to believe they will not be able to get 400+ miles in a Tesla-style high end car.
A Tesla is a status symbol. These are early adopters with money to spare and willing to make a change in their driving habits to accomdate the values, mainly lack of emissions, that they see in the car. The technology has to mature before the masses will buy an EV.
However, no vehicle can go cross country without infrastructure support. This is the first, very small step in that direction for electric vehicles. It took many years to get the infrastucture for gas cars that allowed cross country driving.
1995 Chevy Tracker, 2 door (11.1 gal tank about 24mpg) = 266 miles
You're still talking about 3 hours or so of driving. It's not unreasonable after that time to take a break.
If you consider, say, the Nissan Leaf with ~100mile range, you'd have to stop every hour or so to charge. While that's probably not really an inconvenience it does require a change in driving style and people are resistant to change.
At the same time, if you suggested here that people program 3 hours, or even 1.5 hours without a break you'd have lots of responses telling you how bad that is for you and you should get up and walk around at least every 45 minutes, etc. etc.
The only reason you can drive gasoline cars long distances is because "charging stations" (aka "Gas Stations") have been built on every corner. The Tesla has about the same range as a gas car, but the infrastructure has yet to catch up. These charging stations are the first steps in providing unlimited range for EVs in the same way as it is done for gas cars.
That they allow driving long distances with NO emissions - since the power is solar there is no "long tailpipe" - emphasizes the superiority of the technology and is a nice touch be Elon Musk.
The cost of charging stations, even the free solar stations, should be much less than gas stations. No buried tanks, frequent gas deliveries, leak checking, etc. etc. and the site cleanup if the station move is also lower.
It did not explain how the device came to be known as a Galileo Thermometer.
I'm sure that he was going to call it the "Probando e Reprobando Thermometer" but was prevented from doing so by a DCMA takedown from The Accademia del Cimento.
The problem is that you need more intelligence.
If you've dup'd a folder, what in your scheme ensure that one complete folder will be removed? You could end up with both folders with half he files in each - an organizational nightmare.
I bought a magic frog on eBay. I kissed it just before I went to bed and it turned into a beautiful, young princess.
Don't believe me? No, neither did my wife when she found us there!
Common folk are only here to support the rich and powerful by way of their taxes. Nothing else matters. You're either part of the good-old-boy network, or you're nobody. It's always been this way; for every country; for every regime; for every global power, since time began.
While this is true, it is not totally black and white. What you see currently in the US is a choice - a European style democracy where there's some basic human dignity, meaning healthcare, a social safety net and some basic human rights, or a third-world type of country where the rich and powerful live in guarded, gated communities and the masses get to scramble for the crumbs. (Think many South American and the poorer Asian Countries).
At the minute we're heading towards the latter, which also implies a breakdown of law and order - gang violence and organized crime as well as street crime from people who have nothing to lose and need to eat. It's not clear to me that even the ultra-rich would want this type of society, we're talking you can only leave your house under heavy guard and your family is always a kidnapping target, but they seem unable to stop themselves.
The purpose of news outlets is to sell advertising. The people who would be willing to absorb, understand and think about in-depth reporting are also the people who are likely to question the claims of the advertisers, do some independent research and decide whether they actually care to own a product before buying it - not a demographic you want to advertise to. The dumber the "news", the dumber the news audience, the better the advertising potential.
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There are 8000 charging stations in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_station your document references 1659 CHAdeMO mostly in Japan). I would expect that most in the US are J1772. Almost all the EVs sold in the US support that standard, the Volt, the Leaf, Tesla S, the X with an adapter, etc. etc. Many manufacturers also seem committed to supporting the DC addition.
Seems to be more of a US vs. the rest of the world type of thing, which is not a tragedy given that both those markets are big enough to support one standard each and there really isn't much traffic between the two.
There's really not much to the J1772 beyond the format of the plug. There's a tiny amount of logic that says that says whether it's connected. I can't imagine that the CHAdeMO standard is much different and that dual-format charging stations, or adapters for the cars would be a big deal.
Not really my area, but take a look at, for example, http://www.emotorwerks.com/cgi-bin/VMcharger_V9.pl
Cooling is a big issue. If a 15kW charger is 95% efficient, then you need to remove 750W.
High power, high voltage electronics is well understood, so it's a design project not a research project, but it definitely is a specialty that is different from, say, 5V mA type electronics. And all the components are much more expensive.
The summary (as usual) is a little misleading. The J1772 standard has been around for a while and is widely adopted. As I understand it, the "new" part to this is the addition of an optional, additional, connector that allows DC charging.
High power AC/DC converters are expensive and generate heat, so require costly in-vehicle infrastructure. If the conversion is moved the charging station the on-board electronics are simplified.
So you can have a relatively low-cost, slow charger at home. Charging stations can provide a fast DC charge. The initial cost of the charging station would increase, but the cost per vehicle would be much lower. So if 10 people per day spend 30 minutes charging you can amortize the higher cost of 10 vehicles.
If by "the people" you mean people in favor of slavery, then some Republicans have you covered:
State Rep. Loy Mauch (R-Bismarck)
In two letters, Mauch wrote about the Bible and slavery. The Arkansas Times quotes from a letter Mauch wrote in 2009:
"If slavery were so God-awful, why didn’t Jesus or Paul condemn it, why was it in the Constitution and why wasn’t there a war before 1861?"
State Rep. Jon Hubbard (R-Jonesboro)
“But I think the end result -- that they [African-Americans] did get to live in America, although the means for getting here were terrible -- I think the end result was better than it would have been if they had to live in Africa themselves.”
Tip of the hat to Keef of the K-Chronicles ( http://www.kchronicles.com/ ) for these and to the http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ for the quotations and background.
Well, no, that's not going to happen, if for no other reason than exactly the same economists who screwed up the first time are the same ones being asked how to fix the problem. Shame programming doesn't work that way: http://search.dilbert.com/comic/10%20Dollars%20Bug%20Fix
What? Did you expect Goldman Sachs to just go away after screwing the economy (housing bubble, oil futures, rigged bailout). This is their next chance to take the US tax payers for big buck (Cap-n-Trade is basically a way for Goldman to tax polluters with the money going to them instead of the public coffers).
All the profits go to Goldman, all the risk goes to the tax payers.
At least they don't have to pay Apple for rounding errors.
With little to go on, I would question whether you were/are good in software anyway.
There are a lot of cheap, young, up-to-date, mediocre, programmers. If you've hit 40 and can't identify an area where your experience puts you ahead of these people, and your only chance is to compete with them, I'd seriously be looking for a change where what experience you do have will help you.
This would be a fantasic app (without the rogue upload of course) if you could then ask it where items are. Arrive home without your credit card, lost your keys, need to find where you left a tool that you didn't put away 6 months ago?
I'm shocked, I tell you shocked!
Does anyone have an empty chair so I can sit down?
There was an interesting shift in attitudes to alcohol as society shifted from an agrarian to an industrial economy. You can follow a horse pulling a plough while fairly drunk and the fluids are probably useful - beer was a common drink. As soon as wealthy industrialists needed sober workers to work in factories you see the rise of the anti-alcohol groups.
Depends what you're comparing with: 1995 Chevy Tracker...
Aston Martin Cygnet 32*9.2 = 294
I'm definitely not comparing a brand new, modern electric car with a near 20 year old beater. That would just be silly hyperbole, and I'll have no part of it.
The 20 year old beater represents MANY years of gasoline technology development. I would argue that very little has happened to gas cars since that car. Most cars still don't get better gas mileage. There have been improvements, but nothing revolutionary.
You're willing to compare a techology, the current generation of EVs, that has been available for, basically 5 years, and has a lot of maturing to do (and space to do it) with a mature technology that has really no hope of major innovation.
You're still talking about 3 hours or so of driving. It's not unreasonable after that time to take a break.
See, I make a number of these 3-4 hour trips every year to see family, and yea, it's a good idea to take a break about halfway through - break as in, stop somewhere, maybe grab a quick bite to eat (10-15 min), have a smoke (5 min), then back on the road. 20 minute stop, tops.
Takes half the time if you've only driven half as far, so a 20 minute break should be plenty.
The rest of the problems you raise basically relate to a lack of charging facilities - and no one is arguing that there are sufficient charge points.
If you turned the issue around and had 6-8 charging stations and one gas pump everywhere you currently have a gas station and gas cars were the new introduction, you'd be saying exactly the same things about the gas cars. (and the gas cars would have a sucky range because without the last 40 or so years of serious engine optimization the gas mileage would be terrible). And quite likely there would be no gas because the infrastructure to deliver to all these locations would be inefficient.
The other thing to bear in mind is that EVERYONE wants better batteries, cars, phones, computers, etc. etc. etc. 250 mile range was inconceivable even 10 years ago. In another 10 it's quite reasonable that the energy density of batteries will have increased another 5-10 times at the same pricepoint. It's quite hard to believe they will not be able to get 400+ miles in a Tesla-style high end car.
A Tesla is a status symbol. These are early adopters with money to spare and willing to make a change in their driving habits to accomdate the values, mainly lack of emissions, that they see in the car. The technology has to mature before the masses will buy an EV. However, no vehicle can go cross country without infrastructure support. This is the first, very small step in that direction for electric vehicles. It took many years to get the infrastucture for gas cars that allowed cross country driving.
Depends what you're comparing with:
1995 Chevy Tracker, 2 door (11.1 gal tank about 24mpg) = 266 miles
You're still talking about 3 hours or so of driving. It's not unreasonable after that time to take a break.
If you consider, say, the Nissan Leaf with ~100mile range, you'd have to stop every hour or so to charge. While that's probably not really an inconvenience it does require a change in driving style and people are resistant to change.
At the same time, if you suggested here that people program 3 hours, or even 1.5 hours without a break you'd have lots of responses telling you how bad that is for you and you should get up and walk around at least every 45 minutes, etc. etc.
The only reason you can drive gasoline cars long distances is because "charging stations" (aka "Gas Stations") have been built on every corner. The Tesla has about the same range as a gas car, but the infrastructure has yet to catch up. These charging stations are the first steps in providing unlimited range for EVs in the same way as it is done for gas cars.
That they allow driving long distances with NO emissions - since the power is solar there is no "long tailpipe" - emphasizes the superiority of the technology and is a nice touch be Elon Musk.
The cost of charging stations, even the free solar stations, should be much less than gas stations. No buried tanks, frequent gas deliveries, leak checking, etc. etc. and the site cleanup if the station move is also lower.
The only reason Facebook would ask if someone were a terrorist is so that they can better direct advertising at them!
And, I assume (without RTFA) that it's the same suppliers and that these scanners will have flaws that cause them to be upgraded again in a few years.
It did not explain how the device came to be known as a Galileo Thermometer.
I'm sure that he was going to call it the "Probando e Reprobando Thermometer" but was prevented from doing so by a DCMA takedown from The Accademia del Cimento.
It's even stretching "resourceful" when you can google "diy stand up desk" and get pages of relevant results.
The problem is that you need more intelligence.
If you've dup'd a folder, what in your scheme ensure that one complete folder will be removed? You could end up with both folders with half he files in each - an organizational nightmare.
Or, it could just be that Samsung is, by itself, outselling Apple in the phone market and is moving up fast the tablet market.
I think that if you saw any of the other vendors you mention start to seriously threaten Apple's market share you would start to see litigation.
I bought a magic frog on eBay. I kissed it just before I went to bed and it turned into a beautiful, young princess.
Don't believe me? No, neither did my wife when she found us there!
You're impressed, that he's too lazy?
Common folk are only here to support the rich and powerful by way of their taxes. Nothing else matters. You're either part of the good-old-boy network, or you're nobody. It's always been this way; for every country; for every regime; for every global power, since time began.
While this is true, it is not totally black and white. What you see currently in the US is a choice - a European style democracy where there's some basic human dignity, meaning healthcare, a social safety net and some basic human rights, or a third-world type of country where the rich and powerful live in guarded, gated communities and the masses get to scramble for the crumbs. (Think many South American and the poorer Asian Countries).
At the minute we're heading towards the latter, which also implies a breakdown of law and order - gang violence and organized crime as well as street crime from people who have nothing to lose and need to eat. It's not clear to me that even the ultra-rich would want this type of society, we're talking you can only leave your house under heavy guard and your family is always a kidnapping target, but they seem unable to stop themselves.
Engineers have short memories and we are loosing important artifacts all the time...
I'm sure there's a comment about the primary use of the Internet lurking in there somewhere, but I can't remember what it is.
The purpose of news outlets is to sell advertising. The people who would be willing to absorb, understand and think about in-depth reporting are also the people who are likely to question the claims of the advertisers, do some independent research and decide whether they actually care to own a product before buying it - not a demographic you want to advertise to. The dumber the "news", the dumber the news audience, the better the advertising potential.