I wasn't disagreeing, just adding another point. In a lot of cases, it's easier to divide up batteries in safe chunks than something like a refinery, which needs a lot of interconnected structures with plenty of energy flowing in between them.
You don't need to use the exact same packs for cars and fixed storage. I'm sure that a bunch of smart engineers can come up with a solution that shares a lot of the key technology, especially in the production of individual cells and small packs, but find two different ways of putting the different parts together to get optimized solutions for the two different applications.
Also, compactness and weight are still useful properties for a fixed installation.
Durability gets in the way of incremental improvement, though. Given that the technology keeps improving fairly rapidly, it's probably worth the effort to strip the lithium from the batteries in a few years time, and build better ones.
Nyquist is a MINIMUM. The only thing Nyquist GUARANTEES is that a 44.1khz sample rate is INADEQUATE for reproducing frequencies above 22.05khz. It makes no claim that it's actually good enough for flawless reproduction.
Wrong. According to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem, a 44.1 kHz sample rate can perfectly reproduce analog signals that are bandwidth limited to a range between 0 and 22.05 kHz.
Ask yourself. If an analog LP can hold 20 minutes of music played at 33 1/3 RPM without losing *any* information, why don't we simply reduce the speed to 10 RPM, and put an hour of music on each side ?
When I was a kid, I had two tape recorders. One day I was bored and curious, so I recorded a song from one tape recorder to the other, I then recorded that copy back on the first tape. I repeated the process 10-20 times, at which point the recording sounded like total crap.
It was a very educational process. I assume you've never tried something like that yourself ? You really should.
If you make the entire mix chain analog, you'll only introduce more errors along the way. At least with digital, you can mix the data without further loss of quality.
True and those sources also contain fiber, which slows the digestion/metabolism of the sugar.
Not much. White bread has a glycemic index of 75. Whole wheat bread has a glycemic index of 74. Both higher than table sugar at 65. You can also test this yourself. Each a few slices of bread, wait an hour, and measure blood glucose. It will be up sharply, meaning that the glucose is already entering the bloodstream while the fibers are still in your gut.
Because hunter-gatherer societies were the pinnacle of human evolution. The ones that had a child mortality rate around 50% and lived to, maybe, their mid thirties.
That's because we have better medical care, antibiotics especially.
freezing the diet at the early Paleolithic stage makes absolutely no sense
Makes more sense than eating a bunch of hyper processed food not found in nature.
Berries are actually quite low in sugars, just a few percent. And in old times, fruit was much smaller than today. Apples were the size of cherries, for instance, and corn cobs only the size of your thumb. On top of that, fruit and berries are seasonal. Root vegetables were probably a bigger source of edible starches, but also not available year round and not in the size and composition that we consider normal now.
Most hunter gatherers didn't eat nearly as much starches and sugars as we do.
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An essential element of any poker game is reading your opponent and making them misread you or not read you at all.
Apparently not, because the computer won without that element. Or are these alternative facts ?
In what way is a moon base going to slow down this process ?
Early lunar habitats will be built of cinderbrick and mortar made from regolith
No, there won't be any lunar habitats because they are hugely expensive, and rather pointless.
I wasn't disagreeing, just adding another point. In a lot of cases, it's easier to divide up batteries in safe chunks than something like a refinery, which needs a lot of interconnected structures with plenty of energy flowing in between them.
Neither the vendor nor the customer wants to get burned on the coffee, but people do want to exploit the power they have to enrich themselves.
You don't need to use the exact same packs for cars and fixed storage. I'm sure that a bunch of smart engineers can come up with a solution that shares a lot of the key technology, especially in the production of individual cells and small packs, but find two different ways of putting the different parts together to get optimized solutions for the two different applications. Also, compactness and weight are still useful properties for a fixed installation.
Batteries can be divided into sections with firewalls in between.
Durability gets in the way of incremental improvement, though. Given that the technology keeps improving fairly rapidly, it's probably worth the effort to strip the lithium from the batteries in a few years time, and build better ones.
It shouldn't really be up to Trump to make ethical decisions. They should be forced upon him. Why isn't this happening ?
Vinyl wasn't a fad for the first 60 years, only the last 20.
Nyquist is a MINIMUM. The only thing Nyquist GUARANTEES is that a 44.1khz sample rate is INADEQUATE for reproducing frequencies above 22.05khz. It makes no claim that it's actually good enough for flawless reproduction.
Wrong. According to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem, a 44.1 kHz sample rate can perfectly reproduce analog signals that are bandwidth limited to a range between 0 and 22.05 kHz.
it doesn't really make sense even though we know what you mean by it.
The purpose of language is to let someone else know what you mean, so it makes perfect sense.
You forgot: 15. Create huge panic and looting.
I always thought a DVD was a legal way to watch FBI warnings and previews for other movies.
Ask yourself. If an analog LP can hold 20 minutes of music played at 33 1/3 RPM without losing *any* information, why don't we simply reduce the speed to 10 RPM, and put an hour of music on each side ?
Ok. I looked it up. Digital is more accurate than analog.
When I was a kid, I had two tape recorders. One day I was bored and curious, so I recorded a song from one tape recorder to the other, I then recorded that copy back on the first tape. I repeated the process 10-20 times, at which point the recording sounded like total crap. It was a very educational process. I assume you've never tried something like that yourself ? You really should.
Except to hear the hearing-range ( The point of high sampling frequencies is that you can then filter out any unwanted distortions in an easy way.
If you make the entire mix chain analog, you'll only introduce more errors along the way. At least with digital, you can mix the data without further loss of quality.
The digital medium is good but it is still a coding of an analog signal where you have no way to avoid loss of information
In an analog medium you have no way to avoid loss of information either. And that loss is even bigger, even on brand new media.
Right. It doesn't make sense to create an LP, except that they can be sold for more profit.
True and those sources also contain fiber, which slows the digestion/metabolism of the sugar.
Not much. White bread has a glycemic index of 75. Whole wheat bread has a glycemic index of 74. Both higher than table sugar at 65. You can also test this yourself. Each a few slices of bread, wait an hour, and measure blood glucose. It will be up sharply, meaning that the glucose is already entering the bloodstream while the fibers are still in your gut.
Because hunter-gatherer societies were the pinnacle of human evolution. The ones that had a child mortality rate around 50% and lived to, maybe, their mid thirties.
That's because we have better medical care, antibiotics especially.
freezing the diet at the early Paleolithic stage makes absolutely no sense
Makes more sense than eating a bunch of hyper processed food not found in nature.
Berries are actually quite low in sugars, just a few percent. And in old times, fruit was much smaller than today. Apples were the size of cherries, for instance, and corn cobs only the size of your thumb. On top of that, fruit and berries are seasonal. Root vegetables were probably a bigger source of edible starches, but also not available year round and not in the size and composition that we consider normal now. Most hunter gatherers didn't eat nearly as much starches and sugars as we do.
Ah, denial. A predictable reaction to news that doesn't match your preferred world view.