Particularly perl, even with coding standards, reasonable indentation, comments etc.
I stopped writing the stuff years ago because I realised that I was only making things worse. Perl encourages big ball of mud development. It's specifically designed as a "glue" language which lets you stick things together, in fact it's a sticking plaster language which allows you to paper over cracks which would be far better filled in another way.
Now if I see myself or others considering Perl to accomplish something, I'm pretty sure there's a problem with the entire approach.
You've got 35% efficiency right there. Burn them in a CHP plant and you have 80%+ efficiency right there.
Because it is "replacing the oil industry"... expect to hear a tremendous amount of artificially-generated corporate-origin naysaying over this topic.
The oil industry got where it is today because oil is a superb fuel. You drill a hole in the ground and energy comes pouring out. You don't have to do bugger all to it. Hydrogen on the other hand... Well first you've got to make the stuff...
That Javascript as a development platform, as it seems to have become, is evil. It's just horrible from an efficiency, performance, security and architectural point of view.
Unless you're talking about using the waste heat to heat homes and businesses, as some places in the north do, but that doesn't exactly apply everywhere.
"Um uh, 33% x 90% is But as an electrical engineer I can tell you a large power plant is way more efficient than 33%, probably better than 90%"
Most power plants operate at about 35%-40% efficiency on their primary turbines. If they have secondary steam turbines, they add another 15%-20% giving an overall about 60% efficiency at converting heat into electricity. The only way to get above that is to sell the "waste" heat to someone who needs it.
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Particularly perl, even with coding standards, reasonable indentation, comments etc.
I stopped writing the stuff years ago because I realised that I was only making things worse. Perl encourages big ball of mud development. It's specifically designed as a "glue" language which lets you stick things together, in fact it's a sticking plaster language which allows you to paper over cracks which would be far better filled in another way.
Now if I see myself or others considering Perl to accomplish something, I'm pretty sure there's a problem with the entire approach.
Nah, they just have a quick thinking sysadmin who reads Slashdot.
Just gets better and better.
Still, you get the government you deserve.
You've got 35% efficiency right there. Burn them in a CHP plant and you have 80%+ efficiency right there.
Because it is "replacing the oil industry" ... expect to hear a tremendous amount of artificially-generated corporate-origin naysaying over this topic.
The oil industry got where it is today because oil is a superb fuel. You drill a hole in the ground and energy comes pouring out. You don't have to do bugger all to it. Hydrogen on the other hand... Well first you've got to make the stuff...
It is energy storage.
I'd translate "wasn't possible" to "couldn't be bothered".
I'd translate it as uneconomic.
Perhaps you'd like to read my post again.
That Javascript as a development platform, as it seems to have become, is evil. It's just horrible from an efficiency, performance, security and architectural point of view.
It seems to be the future.
Unless you're talking about using the waste heat to heat homes and businesses, as some places in the north do, but that doesn't exactly apply everywhere.
e.g.
http://www.helsinginenergia.fi/en/tuotanto/chp.html
You might want to look up "District Heating" and "District Cooling", possibly adsorption chillers.
"Um uh, 33% x 90% is But as an electrical engineer I can tell you a large power plant is way more efficient than 33%, probably better than 90%"
Most power plants operate at about 35%-40% efficiency on their primary turbines. If they have secondary steam turbines, they add another 15%-20% giving an overall about 60% efficiency at converting heat into electricity. The only way to get above that is to sell the "waste" heat to someone who needs it.
So under ideal test conditions. Toss it in Michigan in the winter, that'll drop to 100.
My TDI has up to an 800 mile range depending on how much I baby it.
Modern Li-ion batteries would pretty much double the range of the Sunrise and enable it to operate in -20C.
On Ni-MH batteries in 1996.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solectria_Sunrise
That's close to twice the range of my petrol car.
If it has Angelina Jolie in it scantily clad, it'll be a huge success no matter how crap the movie is.
It's the concept of "waste" heat you see.
Will we ever see a storage medium that can move data that fast?
Simply fill a container ship with a million LTO tapes and there you go, truly, unimaginably vast bandwidth.
The stock market is a mechanism by which monetary inflation is captured and transferred to the wealthy.
HTH
As far as I know the iPhone pretty much beats all other 3G phones on battery life
There you go, you solved it. They're skimping on the juice.
I guess some of us will never learn.
Not your fault, it's genetic.
Watch what happens in September.
You also noticed the oil price falling too. Watch what happens to that after the olympics.
They've been doing this here in the UK for several years. The NHS doesn't function so people go abroad for treatment.
The WoW ones cost 6 euros a piece.
The Wow ones are subsidised. securID tokens are typically around $50/50 each when purchased in bulk.
Something like special hardware tokens are much better, but there's no infrastructure for their distribution.
They're also not cheap.
Why don't we capture all that heat energy and put it back into the system
Nope. It costs less to burn more fuel than it does to improve the process...
HTH.
Same reason people believe in god.