And if you think the plug has nothing to do with engine efficiency, then (a) you didn't read their explanation in TFA and (b) you don't know much about the internal combustion part of internal combustion engines.
The idea of being able to time the ignition more accurately, and to shape its inception, definitely is a key to improving efficiency of the process of turning fuel vapor into exhaust gas and transforming the released energy into motion.
But I doubt they've cracked it. The cockey of their bull is much deeper than you looked.
The shape of the flame makes a difference in how well the fuel burns, and in how efficiently the piston transduces the pressure curve into mechanical motion. Same reason for differing piston and head shapes.
You don't really want fuel to explode, you want it to burn quickly and in the right shape. Apparently, starting the flamefront from a single point is not super-efficient even if you have control of the shape of the cylinder.
That's a good question. Since the scheme seems to involve using more than one low-power laser focussed on a point in space to create one high-power hotspot, AND to pulse it multiple times to build up the heat at that spot, each pulse of of one laser beams doesn't anywhere near the ability to ignite the fuel. So if something does crust over the laser's output hole, it's possible it will never burn off.
Unless using these things somehow results in random chemicals (gasoline of varying grade and quality; oil; STP; etc.) burning without any carbon soot being produced, or in the flame front auto-cleaning the lasers, it's going to crust over.
the number that absolutely must be fixed for people to go about their business
It should be at least a 1:1 correlation of person to address. More, considering a person may want to use more than one network (one secure, one open, one secret, one sandboxed...) Fixing network addresses is a good thing. Having the same box come up with a different one all the time due to DHCP is a pain in the rest of the world's ass.
You can convince someone who doesn't already rent your productivity that it's worth 10-20% more. You may be able to convince someone who does already own your time that it's worth 1-2% more, in the current market. And you can grow old and die waiting for the time-serving droid in the boss' seat to grow old and die.
Both I and the OP were marked -1 Troll. I'm betting someone from datacenterknowledge.com had mod points when they logged into/. to figure out why/. domains were DoS'ing datacenterknowledge.com.
If the plants have a broad spectrum of light to draw from, they can draw from any portion of the spectrum and survive.
But plants on Earth aren't green because of the spectrum they have to draw from, which anyone with a prism can show is the full spectrum of colors we can see.
They are green because that's what color leaves full of chlorophyll are, and chlorophyll is photosynthetic, and not much else is.
They didn't do that until the copyrights were up, long after the author died.
And then they slapped an effectively eternal copyright on the results (just wait until Mickey comes up for renewal and the money pours out of Glendale and into Washington; it'll be life^2...).
But feel free to steal the same fairy tales and make your own masterpieces.
I have similar problems, in the other direction. Most places I can turn my Android off and on without losing a connection. But at home, if the screen so much as blanks, I have to disable and re-enable wi-fi to get the link back. Something about Android and my Belkin router don't get along.
1. All advertising is manipulative. Think about it. How many commercials do you watch with at least cursory interest, but not realize you would never buy the product or its competitors? I've been keeping a rough count and it's got to be over 95% for me. You're sucked in by the ad itself. If you are also in the market for the product, the entrainment remains until you are in the store, and tends to make you evaluate the product according to your agreement with the ad, which, of course, is designed to incite agreement, whether logical or emotional or subconscious through semiotics and suggestive imagery.
I never got any result. It will still route you through an underpass that was never built (it's just an old road dead-ending into the berm they built for the interstate) and through a locked gate to private land that's shown as a through-road. Not a good deal, since in both cases you have to backtrack significantly (7 miles in the latter case) to get to a usable route.
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If they work, you may never have to replace them.
And if you think the plug has nothing to do with engine efficiency, then (a) you didn't read their explanation in TFA and (b) you don't know much about the internal combustion part of internal combustion engines.
The idea of being able to time the ignition more accurately, and to shape its inception, definitely is a key to improving efficiency of the process of turning fuel vapor into exhaust gas and transforming the released energy into motion.
But I doubt they've cracked it. The cockey of their bull is much deeper than you looked.
At least in part at "Japan’s National Institutes of Natural Sciences," according to a string of letters and spaces in TFA.
TFA talks about that.
The shape of the flame makes a difference in how well the fuel burns, and in how efficiently the piston transduces the pressure curve into mechanical motion. Same reason for differing piston and head shapes.
You don't really want fuel to explode, you want it to burn quickly and in the right shape. Apparently, starting the flamefront from a single point is not super-efficient even if you have control of the shape of the cylinder.
That's a good question. Since the scheme seems to involve using more than one low-power laser focussed on a point in space to create one high-power hotspot, AND to pulse it multiple times to build up the heat at that spot, each pulse of of one laser beams doesn't anywhere near the ability to ignite the fuel. So if something does crust over the laser's output hole, it's possible it will never burn off.
Unless using these things somehow results in random chemicals (gasoline of varying grade and quality; oil; STP; etc.) burning without any carbon soot being produced, or in the flame front auto-cleaning the lasers, it's going to crust over.
Okay. This is really cool. But, how are they going to get the fricken' shark in there?
If you don't have Edge, 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi, I'm not buying your tablet.
None of them has full coverage everywhere, and I want the fastest one that is covering where I am.
There's no excuse for something that's essentially the same computational system as my phone but is 5X as heavy to have less hardware in it.
the number that absolutely must be fixed for people to go about their business
It should be at least a 1:1 correlation of person to address. More, considering a person may want to use more than one network (one secure, one open, one secret, one sandboxed...) Fixing network addresses is a good thing. Having the same box come up with a different one all the time due to DHCP is a pain in the rest of the world's ass.
You can convince someone who doesn't already rent your productivity that it's worth 10-20% more. You may be able to convince someone who does already own your time that it's worth 1-2% more, in the current market. And you can grow old and die waiting for the time-serving droid in the boss' seat to grow old and die.
You've had a driver's license and Apple's location tracking for some time now.
What has happened to you that the rest of us should fear?
Wait. That wouldn't work. /. isn't a proxy. They must've been logged in to check on their spam.
No idea why you were marked troll.
Both I and the OP were marked -1 Troll. I'm betting someone from datacenterknowledge.com had mod points when they logged into /. to figure out why /. domains were DoS'ing datacenterknowledge.com.
Yyyyyyyup.
Got to love when a site called "datacenterknowledge.com" can be slashdotted at dinnertime...
Lister: Where is everybody, Hol?
Holly: They're dead, Dave.
Lister: Who is?
Holly: Everybody, Dave.
Lister: What, Captain Hollister?
Holly: Everybody's dead, Dave.
Lister: What, Todhunter?
Holly: Everybody's dead, Dave.
Lister: What, Selby?
Holly: They're all dead. Everybody's dead, Dave.
Lister: Petersen isn't, is he?
Holly: Everybody is dead, Dave.
Lister: Not Chen?
Holly: Gordon Bennett! Yes! Chen, everybody. Everybody's dead, Dave.
Lister: Rimmer?
Holly: He's dead, Dave. Everybody's dead. Everybody is dead, Dave!
Lister: Wait. Are you trying to tell me everybody's dead?
That there's money in desktop, and nerds in those other things.
I thought they were part of the custom I/O library.
If the plants have a broad spectrum of light to draw from, they can draw from any portion of the spectrum and survive.
But plants on Earth aren't green because of the spectrum they have to draw from, which anyone with a prism can show is the full spectrum of colors we can see.
They are green because that's what color leaves full of chlorophyll are, and chlorophyll is photosynthetic, and not much else is.
If chlorophyll was magenta, guess what.
They didn't do that until the copyrights were up, long after the author died.
And then they slapped an effectively eternal copyright on the results (just wait until Mickey comes up for renewal and the money pours out of Glendale and into Washington; it'll be life^2...).
But feel free to steal the same fairy tales and make your own masterpieces.
That's what copyright is for.
But I wanted my hand blender to work only when upside-down.
Seriously, you guys need to think about writing a requirement down. Just once.
I have similar problems, in the other direction. Most places I can turn my Android off and on without losing a connection. But at home, if the screen so much as blanks, I have to disable and re-enable wi-fi to get the link back. Something about Android and my Belkin router don't get along.
1. All advertising is manipulative. Think about it. How many commercials do you watch with at least cursory interest, but not realize you would never buy the product or its competitors? I've been keeping a rough count and it's got to be over 95% for me. You're sucked in by the ad itself. If you are also in the market for the product, the entrainment remains until you are in the store, and tends to make you evaluate the product according to your agreement with the ad, which, of course, is designed to incite agreement, whether logical or emotional or subconscious through semiotics and suggestive imagery.
2. Doesn't this thing come with a "skip" button?
A Cats revival on Broadway could make half a billion dollars right now.
Toss in some Cirque du Soleil type production numbers, you could charge $300 a ticket and run it for years.
Can't imagine anyone would complain, and then not go see it anyway.
So here's your chance to fix them yourself.
So should they rename it GoatsePerfect, GoatseStar, or Goatse 1-2-3?
Schedule slip.
You expect anything else from a software project?
I never got any result. It will still route you through an underpass that was never built (it's just an old road dead-ending into the berm they built for the interstate) and through a locked gate to private land that's shown as a through-road. Not a good deal, since in both cases you have to backtrack significantly (7 miles in the latter case) to get to a usable route.