"The company did not elaborate on how the hydrogen fuel is supplied, and it did not respond to requests for comment."
So they may be using dirty hydrogen from fossil fuels. I have toured a German solar-powered electrolysis hydrogen production plant; one big enough to support a train would be a very substantial investment in size and money.
Not to mention the maintenance on fuel cells. PEMs are usually for small to medium installations, but there are issues with longevity of the expensive membranes. SOFCs are solid for applications that run continuously.
Doesn't Tesla guarantee a certain amount of storage for so many years? If you deep cycle your batteries, I believe you will reduce their lifetime / capacity. If you reduce their lifetime, you increase the probability that Tesla will have to replace them under warranty. If they have to replace their batteries, it increases the cost to Tesla cost. They pass that cost (or savings) on to you.
That being said, riding in a P100D with ludacris PLUS in launch mode is a life altering experience.
The small amount of plasma is confined using magnetic forces.
If they lose containment, the pressure and temperature on the plasma reduce significantly and the reaction no longer takes place. There is no runaway scenario AFAIK.
I have been down the hall from a tokamak when it is firing. I have also walked next to a tokamak when it is off. I have crawled through stellarator rings. These things are not scary, they are impressive.
I, for one, welcome our new zombie rat-stingray overlords.
Seriously, add some fiber optics, LEDs, and a Raspberry Pi and we have some awesome robots. Think BigDog / PetMan but organically actuated. Encapsulate the fibers in the special fluid that keeps them alive and we have a cool metal-free actuator (that currently only lives a week). Still very cool.
All the other Smart stuff is pretty worthless IMHO.
When are we going to get a decent UI that lets me watch whatever I have access to in a single UIX? Let me put Netflix, Amazon, Hulu credentials in and have a common interface. I know Amazon opened up some, but a wider standard would be idealtastic.
Reading and commenting in Slashdot has always been a frivolous use of my time, but it was frivilous enjoyment. Now it's a frivolous waste. I don't want to be here anymore.
They are all basically a piece of glass. The iPhone 6 came out with aluminum case like the HTC One and in the same size as the One but months later. Those were the distinguishing features in phones at the time.
Most phones these days are all the same. Widescreen display, touch interface. This makes sense.
I hope we get to a point where you could have a keyboard, a giant battery, different aspect ratio. Every phone now looks like a iPhone (which copied my HTC One m7).
And BTW, this may be my last comment on/. since they got rid of the comments text under the summary, cut polls from the sidebar, and forced Video Bytes into the feed. These changes should never have been forced onto the community. Some could have been made user options. Very sad day for me thinking about saying goodbye for reals after almost 20 years.:-(
Is there any way you could break into Dice servers and move the/. polls back to the sidebar and maybe turn off the Video Bytes (or make it a slashbox?) Alternatively, could you suggest a black or white hat to do this for us?
Slashdot Mirror
After all that Google has abandoned over the years, why would anyone trust them for anything?
The big ones I think of are:
Reader
Wave
Picasa
Google+
I love google docs, android, and gmail but I would not be surprised to see them get dropped as well.
"The company did not elaborate on how the hydrogen fuel is supplied, and it did not respond to requests for comment."
So they may be using dirty hydrogen from fossil fuels. I have toured a German solar-powered electrolysis hydrogen production plant; one big enough to support a train would be a very substantial investment in size and money.
Not to mention the maintenance on fuel cells. PEMs are usually for small to medium installations, but there are issues with longevity of the expensive membranes. SOFCs are solid for applications that run continuously.
Me too. Best phone I have ever had. Keyboard to scroll is awesome. Big screen, great resolution, wonderful phone.
I was going to post a suggestion for goatse.
It is the obvious choice for humanity. It could keep some aliens away, but maybe also attract others...
Goatse, tubgirl, lemon party. We need to perfect selective mind erasing technology.
I want a second screen to be touchscreen e ink so I can see it outdoors...
Hey, I resemble that comment!
Yeah, without CmdrTaco the site is pretty lame. No real soul anymore...
Orville was odd. Bad acting, plus is it comedy or is it parody or is it real?
Not sure what it is, but I will watch it just to support hard scifi on TV. Heck, I watch Lexx and it was awful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx
This.
Doesn't Tesla guarantee a certain amount of storage for so many years? If you deep cycle your batteries, I believe you will reduce their lifetime / capacity. If you reduce their lifetime, you increase the probability that Tesla will have to replace them under warranty. If they have to replace their batteries, it increases the cost to Tesla cost. They pass that cost (or savings) on to you.
That being said, riding in a P100D with ludacris PLUS in launch mode is a life altering experience.
I used Netscape Communicator 4.7 way longer than I should have. Keep the installer bundle and run until she dies or you find a replacement.
Or find a fork.
BlackBerry Priv is the best phone I have ever owned. Hardware keyboard on a high end Android phone is a dream.
The other cool feature is the extended keyboard acts as a touch sensitive scroll control and a cursor.
And the screen is the same size as a iPhone 6+ but the priv is smaller due to a smaller bezel.
Great phone!
We had a 1200 baud and a 300 baud smartmodem. The aluminum case was snazzy.
My Blackberry Priv is the best phone I will probably ever own.
The small amount of plasma is confined using magnetic forces.
If they lose containment, the pressure and temperature on the plasma reduce significantly and the reaction no longer takes place. There is no runaway scenario AFAIK.
I have been down the hall from a tokamak when it is firing. I have also walked next to a tokamak when it is off. I have crawled through stellarator rings. These things are not scary, they are impressive.
Fusion never!
Fusion funding plot:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/U.S._historical_fusion_budget_vs._1976_ERDA_plan.png
This has been out for a while. Dolby bought BrightSide which first pushed individual LED backlighting for HDR LCDs AFAIK.
Maybe they have now gone to individual pixels instead of white LED? Same idea, just higher res and probably lower cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrightSide_Technologies
2005 BrightSide Demos
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/10/04/brightside_hdr_edr/8
I, for one, welcome our new zombie rat-stingray overlords.
Seriously, add some fiber optics, LEDs, and a Raspberry Pi and we have some awesome robots. Think BigDog / PetMan but organically actuated. Encapsulate the fibers in the special fluid that keeps them alive and we have a cool metal-free actuator (that currently only lives a week). Still very cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why? No extra box, limited headache, decent UI.
All the other Smart stuff is pretty worthless IMHO.
When are we going to get a decent UI that lets me watch whatever I have access to in a single UIX? Let me put Netflix, Amazon, Hulu credentials in and have a common interface. I know Amazon opened up some, but a wider standard would be idealtastic.
I have not posted here for a while because of all the UI design changes. But now that they have made significant reversions, I am back!
That missing comments link is about the only think I still miss.
Nice work! Curated tech stories plus decent comments and discussion is why we came here all those years ago.
I thought they had deleted some comments that supposedly had copyrighted material.
Sometimes it is nice to edit a comment, but it can throw off a whole thread.
I had not really noticed the flagging thing. I wonder what they do with that?
Reading and commenting in Slashdot has always been a frivolous use of my time, but it was frivilous enjoyment. Now it's a frivolous waste. I don't want to be here anymore.
This.
Yeah, the comments there are weak.
Sad that Dice would throw away folks this way. For what? They get minimal benefit from screwing with the design and operation of the site.
They are all basically a piece of glass. The iPhone 6 came out with aluminum case like the HTC One and in the same size as the One but months later. Those were the distinguishing features in phones at the time.
http://prabhatrayal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/10629590_295762643944009_5922352925095007730_n.jpg
They all copy each other. Nobody really innovates. They follow the leader. Samsung had iPhone type designs before the iPhone came out.
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/samsung-pre-iphone-designs.png
Most phones these days are all the same. Widescreen display, touch interface. This makes sense.
I hope we get to a point where you could have a keyboard, a giant battery, different aspect ratio. Every phone now looks like a iPhone (which copied my HTC One m7).
And BTW, this may be my last comment on /. since they got rid of the comments text under the summary, cut polls from the sidebar, and forced Video Bytes into the feed. These changes should never have been forced onto the community. Some could have been made user options. Very sad day for me thinking about saying goodbye for reals after almost 20 years. :-(
Is there any way you could break into Dice servers and move the /. polls back to the sidebar and maybe turn off the Video Bytes (or make it a slashbox?) Alternatively, could you suggest a black or white hat to do this for us?
Seriously, how the heck do we get those stupid Video Bytes out of the feed? Do not want.
Moving the polls from the sidebar and sticking stupid video bytes in that I cannot get rid of are both "Bad Ideas."