Before even SP2 you get the BITS and HTTP 5.1 update the first time you login to Windows Update V5. The problem is it made the downloads faster, but the installs painfully slow.
I decided to give it a try on a work computer where I usually run iTunes. Installed it and tried to play back an old playlist where the mp3 files no longer existed (it's been a while since I've used MP). The player freaked out and told me that the CD was scratched and I should check the CD. The file wasn't even a CD. I had a good chuckle and went back to iTunes. At least it knows what type of media it's playing.
I wish Honda would make a hatch back (not like the old Civic hatches) hybrid like the Prius. I'm a Honda guy and I'm looking to give up my Integra in 3-4 years. I absolutely love having a hatch back. You have the small car size, but the big cargo room of a larger vehicle. I've taken out the back seats (5 minutes) and put plywood in the thing and it's 2 door. While a lot of people think the Prius is weird looking in it's latest incarnation (the 1st gen was really strange) I think the hatch design is really functional to allow such a small car to carry a large amount of cargo.
Seriously though: Where do you live? I have never seen a gas station that sells CNG. Our town has a special station for the city vehicles, but that's it.
The GM was sold as a fleet vehicle aimed at construction companies. It featured standard power plugs in the bed of the truck for tools that would run off the hybrid batteries. That was more of the sales pitch than the actual "green" factor.
Except if you're considering the environment, a move to a diesel vehicle in the US is worse than driving a Hummer. Current US formulated diesel (changes in '07) has a very high particulate matter content and is a major contributor to asthma. The high particulate matter keeps manufacturers from using catalytic converters which would be clogged by the high PM levels. You might feel good about the high MPG, but your producing a much higher pollution level than a traditional gasoline vehicle. That and most diesel models are not sold in California because they don't meet emissions standards here.
Uh...Where? CNG cars have the badge on the back and I have never seen a Crown Vic with that badging in the CA Bay Area. If anywhere CNG vehicles would be used around this area. There are plenty of CNG vehicles in my town, but most of them are city owned Rav 4s.
You're getting Greenpeace and ELF mixed up. Greenpeace goes around in the Rainbow Warrior and does fancy PR stunts and research type work. ELF blows up hummers and spikes trees. Having met quite a few Greenpeace, EarthFirst, and ELF members, the ELF people are the insane ones of the bunch.
Actually the whole truck exemption from the gas guzzler tax goes away under the Tier II requirements. Unfortunately it'll be a while before the last parts of Tier II take effect and stick it to the HUGE SUVs. Say goodbye to the H2.
It's been said since them by the FBI that they got a quick once over interview. Pretty said still. I've been questioned repeatedly by local police for just knowing people. They weren't close friends or even family members and it certainly wasn't 9/11. I'd expect a bit more when you're family members kills thousands and puts an entire country into panic.
Seeing as how there's just a standard headphone jack it looks pretty obvious that this is just stereo sound which is fine for 99% of the people out there. If you want something more
A while back Environmental Defense and FedEx teamed up to start making hybrid FedEx trucks. It was a really great idea. DIdn't get as much press as it should have though.
Press Release
According to the Department of Energy the efficiency gain on hydrogen fuel cells is 2X to 2.5X. Pretty huge gain even if everyone just drove HFC vehicles and we generated the hydrogen from oil. I really hope that's not the way it goes, but the hydrogen is very promising.
Is it a bid for PR? Totally. Cisco has to constantly let everyone know that they are staying on the top. Every company does this. Did it work? Certainly. Every Slashdot nerd knows about it (not a real shocker), it make the SF Chronicle and all the nightly news. A bigger measure is that last night my dad came up to me and asked me if I'd heard of the new super fast Cisco router. This is the same guy who tries to tell me (continually) that the Internet at his work is different then the Internet at home. Why so? Well because apparently our internet is "from google" and his internet is "from Yahoo". So if this guy is paying attention to this stuff (granted he owns 100 shares) then I think their PR stunt paid off.
Increased auto emissions start this year and take effect for all vehicles including SUVS for the first time by 2007 (2009 for the HUGE SUVS). There are going to be a lot of SUVs that are going to be hard pressed to meet these new regulations. This is one of the biggest clean air regulations to ever be put into place. About an 85% reduction in non-CO2 emissions. It's equivalent to around 150 million cars being removed from the road once these new cars get out there. It's especially great for everyone in CA since it means that everyone will use the same clean gas as us, lowering our price since cheap gas from OR will become a possibility driving down in state production. Best of all is the reclassification of really big SUVs are consumer vehicles (the H2 isn't right now). This means they'll get the gas guzzler take and their poor MPG will count against their parent companies.
Tell me where you're finding this 20%. I have a Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality transcript for the 2001 Energy Policy (specifically our policy on oil) that says that the transportation sector accounts for 69% of total oil consumption.
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It's 250 years according to the Energy and Air Quality subcommittee. A damn lot, but who wants to breath in coal. Look at how bad LA is right now and that's with CA using natural gas for power. Imagine coal.
A relatively small amount of electricity is generated from petroleum though. Most electricity from fossil fuels is from coal of natural gas. Coal is readily available, while there is a serious shortage of natural gas at the moment.
If you check out recent (last 2 years) Energy and Air Quality subcommittee hearings you will see that the major oil companies are attempting to get out of the oil business. They are looking towards hydrogen as a more profitable market. A high ranking official at Shell even said that they have no interest in building new refineries due to the relatively low level of profit based on the large investment. Also the different fuel requirements across the country will for the most part be coming to an end due to the EPA's Tier II fuel requirement. Everyone will have clean fuel.
You obviously didn't read the article. IIRC from the original Autoweek article they couldn't follow the standard Department of Transportation (DOT) requirements since the car was limited production (around 250). Again if you read the article you would have noticed that the author of this letter credits Gates for being responsible for S&D (Show and Display) which allows for the import of vehicles for (you guessed it) show and display. Find the original Autoweek article. Porsche Magazine had a better one though. Very cool stuff. They did quite the nice upgrade on the car to make it meet emissions.
The EU has jumped on the diesel car bandwagon mostly because of their cleaner diesel blends that allow emissions technologies to function correctly. The US has a much dirtier blend of diesel (until 2007 when the blend has to get cleaner) according to the DOE's documents. Right now the major car companies are afraid of bringing in diesel cars since they won't be able to meet the emissions requirements for the required 100,000 miles. Ford was looking at bringing the Focus diesel in and they're really afraid that if it can't meet the requirements for 100,000 they'll have to pay to fix all of them.
The soot is due to PM from the specific refining process. There are several areas with clean diesel right now (low sulfur and low PM), but it won't be standard nationwide until 2007. Until then a Turbo diesel produces a much higher level of secondary emissions (non-COX) than a standard gasoline vehicle as though vehicles must meet much more stringent standards.
Biodiesel is a very interesting technology (it's so simple I feel like I'm over complicating it by calling it that), but there are several drawbacks. The first is that all current diesel cars and trucks lack a catalytic converter. This is due to the high level of sulfer in standard gasoline that literally kills catalytic converters. While biodiesel lacks the sulfer of conventional diesel, allowing it to function with a cat, the automobile it would be run in would lack one. This results in MUCH higher level of secondary (no COX) emissions than standard clean burn gasoline. It's true that by 2007 all diesel in the US will be low sulfer under the new Tier II guidelines and at that time diesel vehicles will be equiped with cats and better emissions systems, but that is 2007 and this is now.
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Before even SP2 you get the BITS and HTTP 5.1 update the first time you login to Windows Update V5. The problem is it made the downloads faster, but the installs painfully slow.
I decided to give it a try on a work computer where I usually run iTunes. Installed it and tried to play back an old playlist where the mp3 files no longer existed (it's been a while since I've used MP). The player freaked out and told me that the CD was scratched and I should check the CD. The file wasn't even a CD. I had a good chuckle and went back to iTunes. At least it knows what type of media it's playing.
I wish Honda would make a hatch back (not like the old Civic hatches) hybrid like the Prius. I'm a Honda guy and I'm looking to give up my Integra in 3-4 years. I absolutely love having a hatch back. You have the small car size, but the big cargo room of a larger vehicle. I've taken out the back seats (5 minutes) and put plywood in the thing and it's 2 door. While a lot of people think the Prius is weird looking in it's latest incarnation (the 1st gen was really strange) I think the hatch design is really functional to allow such a small car to carry a large amount of cargo.
Seriously though: Where do you live? I have never seen a gas station that sells CNG. Our town has a special station for the city vehicles, but that's it.
The GM was sold as a fleet vehicle aimed at construction companies. It featured standard power plugs in the bed of the truck for tools that would run off the hybrid batteries. That was more of the sales pitch than the actual "green" factor.
Except if you're considering the environment, a move to a diesel vehicle in the US is worse than driving a Hummer. Current US formulated diesel (changes in '07) has a very high particulate matter content and is a major contributor to asthma. The high particulate matter keeps manufacturers from using catalytic converters which would be clogged by the high PM levels. You might feel good about the high MPG, but your producing a much higher pollution level than a traditional gasoline vehicle. That and most diesel models are not sold in California because they don't meet emissions standards here.
Uh...Where? CNG cars have the badge on the back and I have never seen a Crown Vic with that badging in the CA Bay Area. If anywhere CNG vehicles would be used around this area. There are plenty of CNG vehicles in my town, but most of them are city owned Rav 4s.
I watched that one right after I saw this free iPod thing mentioned on Mac Rumors. Very interesting speech.
You're getting Greenpeace and ELF mixed up. Greenpeace goes around in the Rainbow Warrior and does fancy PR stunts and research type work. ELF blows up hummers and spikes trees. Having met quite a few Greenpeace, EarthFirst, and ELF members, the ELF people are the insane ones of the bunch.
Actually the whole truck exemption from the gas guzzler tax goes away under the Tier II requirements. Unfortunately it'll be a while before the last parts of Tier II take effect and stick it to the HUGE SUVs. Say goodbye to the H2.
It's been said since them by the FBI that they got a quick once over interview. Pretty said still. I've been questioned repeatedly by local police for just knowing people. They weren't close friends or even family members and it certainly wasn't 9/11. I'd expect a bit more when you're family members kills thousands and puts an entire country into panic.
Seeing as how there's just a standard headphone jack it looks pretty obvious that this is just stereo sound which is fine for 99% of the people out there. If you want something more
A) Don't buy from Apple
B) be prepared to spend a bit more
A while back Environmental Defense and FedEx teamed up to start making hybrid FedEx trucks. It was a really great idea. DIdn't get as much press as it should have though. Press Release
According to the Department of Energy the efficiency gain on hydrogen fuel cells is 2X to 2.5X. Pretty huge gain even if everyone just drove HFC vehicles and we generated the hydrogen from oil. I really hope that's not the way it goes, but the hydrogen is very promising.
Is it a bid for PR? Totally. Cisco has to constantly let everyone know that they are staying on the top. Every company does this. Did it work? Certainly. Every Slashdot nerd knows about it (not a real shocker), it make the SF Chronicle and all the nightly news. A bigger measure is that last night my dad came up to me and asked me if I'd heard of the new super fast Cisco router. This is the same guy who tries to tell me (continually) that the Internet at his work is different then the Internet at home. Why so? Well because apparently our internet is "from google" and his internet is "from Yahoo". So if this guy is paying attention to this stuff (granted he owns 100 shares) then I think their PR stunt paid off.
Increased auto emissions start this year and take effect for all vehicles including SUVS for the first time by 2007 (2009 for the HUGE SUVS). There are going to be a lot of SUVs that are going to be hard pressed to meet these new regulations. This is one of the biggest clean air regulations to ever be put into place. About an 85% reduction in non-CO2 emissions. It's equivalent to around 150 million cars being removed from the road once these new cars get out there. It's especially great for everyone in CA since it means that everyone will use the same clean gas as us, lowering our price since cheap gas from OR will become a possibility driving down in state production. Best of all is the reclassification of really big SUVs are consumer vehicles (the H2 isn't right now). This means they'll get the gas guzzler take and their poor MPG will count against their parent companies.
Tell me where you're finding this 20%. I have a Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality transcript for the 2001 Energy Policy (specifically our policy on oil) that says that the transportation sector accounts for 69% of total oil consumption.
It's 250 years according to the Energy and Air Quality subcommittee. A damn lot, but who wants to breath in coal. Look at how bad LA is right now and that's with CA using natural gas for power. Imagine coal.
A relatively small amount of electricity is generated from petroleum though. Most electricity from fossil fuels is from coal of natural gas. Coal is readily available, while there is a serious shortage of natural gas at the moment.
If you check out recent (last 2 years) Energy and Air Quality subcommittee hearings you will see that the major oil companies are attempting to get out of the oil business. They are looking towards hydrogen as a more profitable market. A high ranking official at Shell even said that they have no interest in building new refineries due to the relatively low level of profit based on the large investment. Also the different fuel requirements across the country will for the most part be coming to an end due to the EPA's Tier II fuel requirement. Everyone will have clean fuel.
You obviously didn't read the article. IIRC from the original Autoweek article they couldn't follow the standard Department of Transportation (DOT) requirements since the car was limited production (around 250). Again if you read the article you would have noticed that the author of this letter credits Gates for being responsible for S&D (Show and Display) which allows for the import of vehicles for (you guessed it) show and display. Find the original Autoweek article. Porsche Magazine had a better one though. Very cool stuff. They did quite the nice upgrade on the car to make it meet emissions.
The EU has jumped on the diesel car bandwagon mostly because of their cleaner diesel blends that allow emissions technologies to function correctly. The US has a much dirtier blend of diesel (until 2007 when the blend has to get cleaner) according to the DOE's documents. Right now the major car companies are afraid of bringing in diesel cars since they won't be able to meet the emissions requirements for the required 100,000 miles. Ford was looking at bringing the Focus diesel in and they're really afraid that if it can't meet the requirements for 100,000 they'll have to pay to fix all of them.
The soot is due to PM from the specific refining process. There are several areas with clean diesel right now (low sulfur and low PM), but it won't be standard nationwide until 2007. Until then a Turbo diesel produces a much higher level of secondary emissions (non-COX) than a standard gasoline vehicle as though vehicles must meet much more stringent standards.
Biodiesel is a very interesting technology (it's so simple I feel like I'm over complicating it by calling it that), but there are several drawbacks. The first is that all current diesel cars and trucks lack a catalytic converter. This is due to the high level of sulfer in standard gasoline that literally kills catalytic converters. While biodiesel lacks the sulfer of conventional diesel, allowing it to function with a cat, the automobile it would be run in would lack one. This results in MUCH higher level of secondary (no COX) emissions than standard clean burn gasoline. It's true that by 2007 all diesel in the US will be low sulfer under the new Tier II guidelines and at that time diesel vehicles will be equiped with cats and better emissions systems, but that is 2007 and this is now.
Let me guess $1500 too right? Damn those old burners burned more than just coasters. They burned a sweet hole in your wallet.