How about 6 hours worth of cell phone bills to BellSouth just to acknowledge THEY have a problem on their end of the line. Is my bill enough documentation they are screwing me? I found a better way of getting relief...
I didn't mind BellSouth's tactics after that. I talked to a few people who had to deal with BellSouth for years and found out how to really cost them for wasting my time. We learned how to escalate the problem to the highest levels and complain to the right people. Enough of the runaround. Their customer service people are scripted into a land of chronic dysfunction. They spent a week running new underground cable just after I cancelled my service. They will likely never recover those costs, but that's the price they pay for organizing their monster of a company to be so unfriendly.
A motor that can fit inside a coffee mug that can put out 20 horsepower.
You know, I've beent trying to wind a motor that can put out that kind of power. What happens when you start getting over a few horsepower in that size is the copper windings fly apart from heat and magnetism. That kind of power is going to require a large shaft at high rpms. Good luck coupling the shaft to the energy producing part. It sounds a magnitude too good to be true.
Sounds more exciting than perpetual motion machines.
I was reading the rate chart of Missouri's commercial pricing for electricity: 2 to 3 cents per kilowatt hour. Not a bad deal, but you have to use a lot.
My last company made copper wire and had a "surplus energy" deal, where they paid a fixed rate of $10,000 a month for unlimited useage. The only catch was we had to fire up the peaking generator when the city ran out of power or we would face big fines.
[warning... rant follows]...was the last magazine I ever subscribed to. Why? Because the very first issue that came in the mail several years ago, they had switched their entire publishing system to Apple computers. I think that's great, because they are using a more efficient and wonderful system. But this magazine that covered cool science articles through the years, suddenly took a 180 degree turn and spent this entire article dedicated to being Apple's fanboy. Talking about how great Apples were, ad nauseam. I paid for this? The other magazine I subscribed to before turning into a coorporate shrill was Popular Electronics. The first issue they announced they were changing their name to Computers and Electronics and there went all the cool projects and the art of analog was lost.
Media journalists nowdays just want new toys. They get them not by spending their paychecks, but from hyping and begging through their print. Good riddance!
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Terrorism is good for business. The military has always been the largest government payroll and contracting business. If the fundraising activities for my party wasn't making my promised quota, I'd be saying everyone was a terrorist too. If things aren't working, start blaming people. This is a formula that has always worked for any leader.
Isn't stop-n-go better for hybrids because the battery charges off the waste energy from braking?
Regenerative braking is fairly insignificant as the numbers are shown on the operator console, but its nicer than wasting energy with brake rotors. Your fuel savings gain is from the lack of fuel heating the cylinder walls during all that time electric power is used. If the engine is only used sparingly and the car is driven slow enough to minimize effects of wind friction, mileage reaches incredible highs.
40,000 would be painful, but not something you would remember THAT long.
You won't feel the voltage, but the current. The voltage is what makes it happen. You won't get an amp of current flowing through your skin at 10 volts, but you will if 10,000 volts is sustained. Once the voltage is applied, current will have to wait a fraction of a second to overcome inductance, then it would have an open highway. Once the path of current has been established, its likely the source of energy has been dishcarged and dropping the voltage down to an insignificant amount. Its the milliamps that will kill or start a fire.
Unless of course you are discharging an infinite energy source such as a 14,440 volt power main off the neighborhood telephone pole, which the constant voltage source will supply the steady current needed to form conductive carbon trails that will burn themselves through the body, superheat tissues, and cause limbs and organs to explode like sticks of dynamite.
I'm on the DNCL, but that didn't seem to help. Several times a day they would call and they would be quite rude when I asked them their information. Rude, and seemed like they were working in a prison release program, but they were fun!
Interestingly when we switched from SBC to Vonage, all telemarketing instantly stopped. I believe the local telephone company was hiring these pests.
That guy has a lead foot to get 50mpg out of a Prius. I average 62mpg to work and back. The best mileage is in the city, where I attempt to run on batteries most of the time. The killer is the highway speeds where it takes over 10 horsepower to overcome wind friction. The electric can get the car to cruise around 35-40mph until the battery gets hot and tired and the engine kicks on (to heat it some more!)
The natural gas turbines are used to peak the coal powered generators when peak demand quickly accelerates. Much of the natural gas is tapped from fields here in Kansas. Coal is cheap, natural gas is just a backup.
Sure, you can always reach 911, but if it works is another question. Here in Kansas City even with the tax increase for fire and police, 911 is still worthless. You will still reach 911 with Vonage, only to hear "your call is important, do not hang up!" for half an hour before you reach a human. Give another few hours for police to show up if they deem its REALLY an emergency. We approved concealed carry, because 911 is NOT working.
Librarians better watch for people entering the building with magazines or other reading adult material. Someone could be reading something relating to procreation or even pictures of it on government property if they aren't careful.
This command line interface compiles and works like a dream under linux. Downloads the videos fast and this camera is amazingly light and has much utility.
CVS still had a bunch of these cameras today and picked up a few more for the kids. This is the best hack I've seen yet.
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I've seen 1/1000th of this current used on a daily basis through 14 guage wire as part of the wire making process. When I worked on wire drawing and annealing machines, I measured a constant 1900 amps on the wire at about 2000 feet per second. The voltage drop was about 30 volts for about 15 feet. The magnetic field was pretty strong and the wire got hot enough to soften it. If the wire were stationary, it would take about a second or two to melt it. If I were to take 10,000 strands of that 14 guage copper wire (which is much more conductive than aluminum) we'd have about 19 million amps, but I'm sure the magnetic field would have presented interesting challenges.
Here in Kansas City, you'd be lucky to get anything other than a recording on 911, "please do not hang up..."
We had tax increases for more police, but talking to a live person on 911 anytime doesn't work. Get in an accident? Better call the lawyer instead and hope the traffic unit writing speeding tickets calls it in.
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How about 6 hours worth of cell phone bills to BellSouth just to acknowledge THEY have a problem on their end of the line. Is my bill enough documentation they are screwing me? I found a better way of getting relief...
I didn't mind BellSouth's tactics after that. I talked to a few people who had to deal with BellSouth for years and found out how to really cost them for wasting my time. We learned how to escalate the problem to the highest levels and complain to the right people. Enough of the runaround. Their customer service people are scripted into a land of chronic dysfunction. They spent a week running new underground cable just after I cancelled my service. They will likely never recover those costs, but that's the price they pay for organizing their monster of a company to be so unfriendly.
Its called "moving and shaking." Its how you get the senior employees nervous and take pay cuts and severances.
We have a large freezer at work with 40' tall ceilings. When one of the doors are opened during the summer, clouds can form and it can snow inside.
A motor that can fit inside a coffee mug that can put out 20 horsepower.
You know, I've beent trying to wind a motor that can put out that kind of power. What happens when you start getting over a few horsepower in that size is the copper windings fly apart from heat and magnetism. That kind of power is going to require a large shaft at high rpms. Good luck coupling the shaft to the energy producing part. It sounds a magnitude too good to be true.
Sounds more exciting than perpetual motion machines.
How does a person get past the "please do not hang up" recording on 911? Calling over and over doesn't work.
Unfortunately, it takes a supercomputer to calculate that answer.
I was reading the rate chart of Missouri's commercial pricing for electricity: 2 to 3 cents per kilowatt hour. Not a bad deal, but you have to use a lot.
My last company made copper wire and had a "surplus energy" deal, where they paid a fixed rate of $10,000 a month for unlimited useage. The only catch was we had to fire up the peaking generator when the city ran out of power or we would face big fines.
Don't stop there. Let's hold CEO's accountable for all the jobs lost due to layoffs and relations overseas.
Our telephone company does this already! Even if you are on the DNCL, you will get telemarketing calls from their "partners."
We had our number ported to Vonage and solicitations stopped immediately.
Wasn't the whole point of the show to make fun of ourselves? Take out the offensive stuff and what's left?
[warning... rant follows] ...was the last magazine I ever subscribed to. Why? Because the very first issue that came in the mail several years ago, they had switched their entire publishing system to Apple computers. I think that's great, because they are using a more efficient and wonderful system. But this magazine that covered cool science articles through the years, suddenly took a 180 degree turn and spent this entire article dedicated to being Apple's fanboy. Talking about how great Apples were, ad nauseam. I paid for this? The other magazine I subscribed to before turning into a coorporate shrill was Popular Electronics. The first issue they announced they were changing their name to Computers and Electronics and there went all the cool projects and the art of analog was lost.
Media journalists nowdays just want new toys. They get them not by spending their paychecks, but from hyping and begging through their print. Good riddance!
Terrorism is good for business. The military has always been the largest government payroll and contracting business. If the fundraising activities for my party wasn't making my promised quota, I'd be saying everyone was a terrorist too. If things aren't working, start blaming people. This is a formula that has always worked for any leader.
Isn't stop-n-go better for hybrids because the battery charges off the waste energy from braking?
Regenerative braking is fairly insignificant as the numbers are shown on the operator console, but its nicer than wasting energy with brake rotors. Your fuel savings gain is from the lack of fuel heating the cylinder walls during all that time electric power is used. If the engine is only used sparingly and the car is driven slow enough to minimize effects of wind friction, mileage reaches incredible highs.
40,000 would be painful, but not something you would remember THAT long.
You won't feel the voltage, but the current. The voltage is what makes it happen. You won't get an amp of current flowing through your skin at 10 volts, but you will if 10,000 volts is sustained. Once the voltage is applied, current will have to wait a fraction of a second to overcome inductance, then it would have an open highway. Once the path of current has been established, its likely the source of energy has been dishcarged and dropping the voltage down to an insignificant amount. Its the milliamps that will kill or start a fire.
Unless of course you are discharging an infinite energy source such as a 14,440 volt power main off the neighborhood telephone pole, which the constant voltage source will supply the steady current needed to form conductive carbon trails that will burn themselves through the body, superheat tissues, and cause limbs and organs to explode like sticks of dynamite.
I'm on the DNCL, but that didn't seem to help. Several times a day they would call and they would be quite rude when I asked them their information. Rude, and seemed like they were working in a prison release program, but they were fun!
Interestingly when we switched from SBC to Vonage, all telemarketing instantly stopped. I believe the local telephone company was hiring these pests.
That guy has a lead foot to get 50mpg out of a Prius. I average 62mpg to work and back. The best mileage is in the city, where I attempt to run on batteries most of the time. The killer is the highway speeds where it takes over 10 horsepower to overcome wind friction. The electric can get the car to cruise around 35-40mph until the battery gets hot and tired and the engine kicks on (to heat it some more!)
The natural gas turbines are used to peak the coal powered generators when peak demand quickly accelerates. Much of the natural gas is tapped from fields here in Kansas. Coal is cheap, natural gas is just a backup.
Sure, you can always reach 911, but if it works is another question. Here in Kansas City even with the tax increase for fire and police, 911 is still worthless. You will still reach 911 with Vonage, only to hear "your call is important, do not hang up!" for half an hour before you reach a human. Give another few hours for police to show up if they deem its REALLY an emergency. We approved concealed carry, because 911 is NOT working.
Librarians better watch for people entering the building with magazines or other reading adult material. Someone could be reading something relating to procreation or even pictures of it on government property if they aren't careful.
Basically, the patent is for software that can detect all manners of numbers
so . . . they have patented synaesthesia?
To give you an idea of the video quality, here is a short video from work last night:
http://www.newsguy.com/~dattaway/Movie_005.avi
This has got to be the easiest to use camcorder ever. The binary utility to download the video is only 13KB too!
This command line interface compiles and works like a dream under linux. Downloads the videos fast and this camera is amazingly light and has much utility.
CVS still had a bunch of these cameras today and picked up a few more for the kids. This is the best hack I've seen yet.
I've seen 1/1000th of this current used on a daily basis through 14 guage wire as part of the wire making process. When I worked on wire drawing and annealing machines, I measured a constant 1900 amps on the wire at about 2000 feet per second. The voltage drop was about 30 volts for about 15 feet. The magnetic field was pretty strong and the wire got hot enough to soften it. If the wire were stationary, it would take about a second or two to melt it. If I were to take 10,000 strands of that 14 guage copper wire (which is much more conductive than aluminum) we'd have about 19 million amps, but I'm sure the magnetic field would have presented interesting challenges.
Here in Kansas City, you'd be lucky to get anything other than a recording on 911, "please do not hang up..."
We had tax increases for more police, but talking to a live person on 911 anytime doesn't work. Get in an accident? Better call the lawyer instead and hope the traffic unit writing speeding tickets calls it in.
911 is a joke.
I had to check my calendar to make sure April 1st is over.