Some of the push button systems are truly horrible. The BMW 328i has two buttons, one labled 'off' and the other labled 'start/stop engine' As a bonus, the engine stops running (sometimes) when you push the brake and the car comes to a complete stop. Want to guess how to turn the car off? Shift to park, take your foot off the brake and push engine start/stop...
Another fun fact. Guess what happens if you get into a Prius with the right key plus another Prius key? The wireless push button system does not work. You have to use it in 'manual mode'. Pro-tip: make sure the instruction manual is in the glove box.
I would be very happy with a two position switch to turn the car off and on and a push button starter. All the single button systems have design issues.
If you are not expecting to update the firmware on your TV, you have not purchased a web-enabled TV. Mine updates its firmware all the time. Same with your car.
And what does the manner in which the child was conceived, the relationship between the biological parents, the fact that the mother is gay have to do with anything?
If you want a system where the biological father can simply sign a document that says he want nothing to do with the child, fine, lets implement such a system. But that is not how the current system works.
1) You still have to build roads. Roads are largely paid for by a tax on fuel, but electric cars do not have to pay that tax, yet. Make no mistake, they eventually will be taxed. There will be no 'free' travel.
2) Solar availability. Even if you have enough storage capacity to get you through the night, there will likely be time where you go several days without a lot of sunlight. What do you do? Grid power? You are going to find that utilities simply cannot afford to maintain an infrastructure for people to uses every now and then. The first thing that will happen is that they will stop buying your excess power at full retail rates. That step alone will increase the cost of solar power, because you will have to use or store every Watt you are generating in order pay back the cost of the installation. The second thing that will happen is that utilities will slap you with a very significant 'availability charge' just to be connected for those few days a month you need grid power.
Solar power _will_ have an impact on how utilities work, but there is no way it alone will make grid power obselete. With transportation, don't bet against fluid hydrocarbons.
You can extend the argument. If they pay their employees with money, and the money can be used to purchase contraception, then they risk Hell. Therefore they should not pay their employees with money.
I cannot see the difference between purchasing an insurance plan for employees that covered contraception and paying them with money that can be used to purchased contraception.
Heat pumps have one serious problem. When it gets cold, your house needs more heat and the amount of heat that a heat pump can deliver goes down. Almost every heat pump installation uses resistive auxiallary heat to make up the diffrerence. You are usually better off using a little extra heat from either a small electric space heater or light bulbs in the rooms you occupy to bring them to a comfortable temperature than using the heat pump to heat the entire house to a constant temperuture.
A weedwacker burns less than half a gallon of gas in an hour. A Hummer burns about 5 gallons. I run a weed wacker about 10 hours a year. I spend about 500 hours a year driving.
My car navigation system and "infotainment" system locks out certain seemingly random features while the car is in motion. For example, you can change Bluetooth devices while the car is in motion but you cannot sync a new device to the system. I did not know this. I found it incredibly distracting to try to figure out what the hell was wrong with the system while driving, and I wasn't even the one trying to use the system.
Most likely they are refusing to buy excess solar-generated power at retail rates. They also may charge more for a grid tie-in if the load is very light some days and very heavy other days. This HAS to happen eventually, the utilities cannot buy power at retail rates and maintain their infrastructure.
There are so few CEO's that they can't be the main problem. If you confiscate all the wealth of all the billionaires, in total, you get 2 months of government spending.
There is around $50T in total household wealth in the US. The upper 1% controls about 30% of that, call it $15T. Government spends maybe $5T a year total....
The fact that the internal resistance of a battery changes as a function of charge is not the reason that the potential of a battery changes as a function of charge. You didn't say that it did, but you implied it.
There is nothing 'roughly proportional' about the relationship between the potential on a capacitor and the voltage on a capacitor. They are proportional. If they are not proportional then you do not have a capacitor. Real world, non-ideal, capacitors do have some non-linearities, some types more than others, but they are generally quite small.
I am 6' 7". I don't worry about the person in front of me leaning their seat back because it is physically impossible to do so since my knees are jammed hard against the back of their seat. I do not believe that it would be physically possible from me to fit into a seat on a 31" pitch. I would be more comfortable standing, only I cannot stand up right on most planes.
I would gladly pay more for exit row seating but it is not always available.
I was seriously dissapointed in the raspberry pi. The price is good, but that is about it. It order to get it running, I had to purchase the folowing: HDMI capable monitor ($120, I have plenty of old monitors that take VGA, but none that take DVI/HDMI), usb mouse and usb keyboard ($40, same issue, all my old mice and keyboards are PS2), power supply, case, and memory card. That actual cost of that little $35 board was was well over $200. True, this board will require much of the same hardware, and will cost well over $400 to actually get it up and running. So in reality, it is about twice as expesive as the pi.
Once I got the pi up and going, I realized that much of the marketing hype about being an 'open' development platform for learning about computers was total garbage. You cannot get a schematic of the board, you cannot get the complete spec. sheet for the processor nor can you get much of the source code. It was not the product that I had hoped it was.
There will always be something left. There are a few isotopes of caesium, iodine and a few other elements that have a medium half life (10-100 years), that are biologically active, and have a TINY neutron cross section. The medium half life means they will be around a long time (thousands of years) and will be quite dangerous for that time. Biologically active means that your body will absorb them and concentrate them. The small neutron cross section means that you CANNOT burn them up in a reactor. Long term storage is the only (safe) option for getting rid of materials. Every nuclear fuel cycle produces these, even the much-hyped liquid salt reactors.
Safe long-term storage of waste is not technically difficult. It is politically difficult and distracts from the real danger of nuclear power. The real danger of nuclear power is the almost unfathomable cost of a reactor accident. Not in terms of lives lost, but in terms of property damage. Imagine for a minute the implications of a Fukishima type accident at a US site on a major river. Every city downstream of the accident would have to be evacuated.
I cannot count the number of times that I have been filling out a form on a web page and hit the backspace to edit only to discover that I had lost focus on the form and had the tab slammed shut and all information on the form lost. This is a problem on EVERY version on EVERY browser that I have ever used. Unfortunately this little shortcut does not fix that issue. I don't find backspace to be a useful navigation tool. I want to be able to turn it off or at least have a way to recover the information.
You are defining an alcoholic as someone that can only stop drinking if they use the 12 step program. Someone who is able to stop for any other reason is not a true alcoholic.Therefore, Only the 12 step program can keep a true alcoholic sober. And the views of anyone who was not a true alcoholic and was able to stop drinking without using the 12 step program views are irrelevant. I think data obtained with these criteria will be somewhat biased.
Surprisingly little God in them? Have you actually read them? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program) The OP is essentially correct in his summery.
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Here is a nice believeable breakdown for home energy use:
http://energy.gov/energysaver/...
Space heating is the biggest use of home energy, followed by water heating and AC. Most of the rest of the stuff is pretty trivial.
Also remember that if you need space heating anyway, the excess heat produced by appliances in living spaces is not going to waste.
Some of the push button systems are truly horrible. The BMW 328i has two buttons, one labled 'off' and the other labled 'start/stop engine' As a bonus, the engine stops running (sometimes) when you push the brake and the car comes to a complete stop.
Want to guess how to turn the car off? Shift to park, take your foot off the brake and push engine start/stop...
Another fun fact. Guess what happens if you get into a Prius with the right key plus another Prius key? The wireless push button system does not work. You have to use it in 'manual mode'. Pro-tip: make sure the instruction manual is in the glove box.
I would be very happy with a two position switch to turn the car off and on and a push button starter. All the single button systems have design issues.
Try LEGO model railroading. Yes, it is a real hobby.
If you are not expecting to update the firmware on your TV, you have not purchased a web-enabled TV. Mine updates its firmware all the time. Same with your car.
Sure, but why should the tax payers pay for it?
And what does the manner in which the child was conceived, the relationship between the biological parents, the fact that the mother is gay have to do with anything?
If you want a system where the biological father can simply sign a document that says he want nothing to do with the child, fine, lets implement such a system. But that is not how the current system works.
The court is not wrong here.
Two things will drive the cost back up.
1) You still have to build roads. Roads are largely paid for by a tax on fuel, but electric cars do not have to pay that tax, yet. Make no mistake, they eventually will be taxed. There will be no 'free' travel.
2) Solar availability. Even if you have enough storage capacity to get you through the night, there will likely be time where you go several days without a lot of sunlight. What do you do? Grid power? You are going to find that utilities simply cannot afford to maintain an infrastructure for people to uses every now and then. The first thing that will happen is that they will stop buying your excess power at full retail rates. That step alone will increase the cost of solar power, because you will have to use or store every Watt you are generating in order pay back the cost of the installation. The second thing that will happen is that utilities will slap you with a very significant 'availability charge' just to be connected for those few days a month you need grid power.
Solar power _will_ have an impact on how utilities work, but there is no way it alone will make grid power obselete. With transportation, don't bet against fluid hydrocarbons.
You can extend the argument. If they pay their employees with money, and the money can be used to purchase contraception, then they risk Hell. Therefore they should not pay their employees with money.
I cannot see the difference between purchasing an insurance plan for employees that covered contraception and paying them with money that can be used to purchased contraception.
Heat pumps have one serious problem. When it gets cold, your house needs more heat and the amount of heat that a heat pump can deliver goes down. Almost every heat pump installation uses resistive auxiallary heat to make up the diffrerence. You are usually better off using a little extra heat from either a small electric space heater or light bulbs in the rooms you occupy to bring them to a comfortable temperature than using the heat pump to heat the entire house to a constant temperuture.
Unfortunately, Halogens will not make the 2020 cut.
Define 'pollution'.
A weedwacker burns less than half a gallon of gas in an hour.
A Hummer burns about 5 gallons.
I run a weed wacker about 10 hours a year.
I spend about 500 hours a year driving.
Lets see...
There was the 100MPG carburetor,
the water-powered dune buggy,
the overunity generator,
cold fusion,
and at least 6 of Tesla's inventions.
My car navigation system and "infotainment" system locks out certain seemingly random features while the car is in motion. For example, you can change Bluetooth devices while the car is in motion but you cannot sync a new device to the system. I did not know this. I found it incredibly distracting to try to figure out what the hell was wrong with the system while driving, and I wasn't even the one trying to use the system.
That seems to the be the real problem here. Why can any flight-by-night company kill your credit rating like this?
Most likely they are refusing to buy excess solar-generated power at retail rates. They also may charge more for a grid tie-in if the load is very light some days and very heavy other days. This HAS to happen eventually, the utilities cannot buy power at retail rates and maintain their infrastructure.
There are so few CEO's that they can't be the main problem. If you confiscate all the wealth of all the billionaires, in total, you get 2 months of government spending.
There is around $50T in total household wealth in the US. The upper 1% controls about 30% of that, call it $15T. Government spends maybe $5T a year total....
How many years old were you from the time you were born until your first birthday?
The fact that the internal resistance of a battery changes as a function of charge is not the reason that the potential of a battery changes as a function of charge. You didn't say that it did, but you implied it.
There is nothing 'roughly proportional' about the relationship between the potential on a capacitor and the voltage on a capacitor. They are proportional. If they are not proportional then you do not have a capacitor. Real world, non-ideal, capacitors do have some non-linearities, some types more than others, but they are generally quite small.
I am 6' 7". I don't worry about the person in front of me leaning their seat back because it is physically impossible to do so since my knees are jammed hard against the back of their seat. I do not believe that it would be physically possible from me to fit into a seat on a 31" pitch. I would be more comfortable standing, only I cannot stand up right on most planes.
I would gladly pay more for exit row seating but it is not always available.
It is $50K for the entire house, not for the improvements to build a tornado-proof core.
I was seriously dissapointed in the raspberry pi. The price is good, but that is about it. It order to get it running, I had to purchase the folowing: HDMI capable monitor ($120, I have plenty of old monitors that take VGA, but none that take DVI/HDMI), usb mouse and usb keyboard ($40, same issue, all my old mice and keyboards are PS2), power supply, case, and memory card. That actual cost of that little $35 board was was well over $200. True, this board will require much of the same hardware, and will cost well over $400 to actually get it up and running. So in reality, it is about twice as expesive as the pi.
Once I got the pi up and going, I realized that much of the marketing hype about being an 'open' development platform for learning about computers was total garbage. You cannot get a schematic of the board, you cannot get the complete spec. sheet for the processor nor can you get much of the source code. It was not the product that I had hoped it was.
There will always be something left. There are a few isotopes of caesium, iodine and a few other elements that have a medium half life (10-100 years), that are biologically active, and have a TINY neutron cross section. The medium half life means they will be around a long time (thousands of years) and will be quite dangerous for that time. Biologically active means that your body will absorb them and concentrate them. The small neutron cross section means that you CANNOT burn them up in a reactor. Long term storage is the only (safe) option for getting rid of materials. Every nuclear fuel cycle produces these, even the much-hyped liquid salt reactors.
Safe long-term storage of waste is not technically difficult. It is politically difficult and distracts from the real danger of nuclear power. The real danger of nuclear power is the almost unfathomable cost of a reactor accident. Not in terms of lives lost, but in terms of property damage. Imagine for a minute the implications of a Fukishima type accident at a US site on a major river. Every city downstream of the accident would have to be evacuated.
I cannot count the number of times that I have been filling out a form on a web page and hit the backspace to edit only to discover that I had lost focus on the form and had the tab slammed shut and all information on the form lost. This is a problem on EVERY version on EVERY browser that I have ever used. Unfortunately this little shortcut does not fix that issue. I don't find backspace to be a useful navigation tool. I want to be able to turn it off or at least have a way to recover the information.
Your brain uses about 1/5 your resting metabolic rate according to this:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=thinking-hard-calories
You are defining an alcoholic as someone that can only stop drinking if they use the 12 step program. Someone who is able to stop for any other reason is not a true alcoholic.Therefore, Only the 12 step program can keep a true alcoholic sober. And the views of anyone who was not a true alcoholic and was able to stop drinking without using the 12 step program views are irrelevant. I think data obtained with these criteria will be somewhat biased.
Surprisingly little God in them? Have you actually read them? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program) The OP is essentially correct in his summery.
Oh wait.