Where do people think the electricity to charge their electric cars come from? The electric fairy? Most electricity today is provided by coal, oil, and natural gas. All fossil fuels. Keep buying those electric cars and telling yourself you're doing your part. You're just putting your part off on someone else (the utility company)
I think, in places like Oklahoma, it's mostly coal and NG, and you'd only need a car that got 40mpg to have comparable fossil fuel usage and emissions. I think, where I live, in Arizona, it's a blind of coal, NG, hydro, solar and nuclear, and I'd need a car that got 50mpg to have comparable fossil fuel usage and emissions. I think, in California and the Pacific Northwest, it's a good blend of solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, plus some coal and gas, and I'd need a 65+mpg car to compare.
This NYT article doesn't take into account battery production overhead, and a few other factors that hit a few places (like Arizona, where new solar has gone online), but does provide a simple map that easily illustrates the difference location makes.
I'm going to do thesameguy and you a favor and back up these posts.
We've got a Leaf now, and for those time when we want to drive out of town, we rent a car. For anywhere else, we've got over 500 chargers here in Phoenix, and I've only once been more than 5 miles from a charger ever*.
Renting cars cost less than the gas we didn't spend the week before, especially in the size class of a Leaf.
Also, there's a great misconception about driving electric now. You leave the house everyday with a mostly full charge. When you go about your normal day-to-day life you sometimes get to pick up a free charge at the places you're already going to. In any city with a sufficient number of electric vehicles, there's chargers at every other grocery store, most every mall, half the theater chains, you name it.
[*This weekend we drove from Ahwatukee (a neighborhood in Phoenix) to Maricopa (a city roughly 20 miles SW of Phoenix) - about a 70 mile roundtrip from the parts of the city we ventured to and from. While in Maricopa, we were 20 miles away from a public charger -- the farthest we've ever been, four times as far as we've ever been, in fact.]
Part of Google's response (or lack of one) includes that this isn't so much a bug as a feature, and the feature is being misused.
If you authorize your microphone for evil.site, and evil.site opens another window, your microphone is still authorized for it -- because you (a) permanently authorized evil.site microphone access and (b) because you clicked on the microphone this session.
Google will likely have to reduce the functionality of the microphone.
Ideally they'll also use this as an opportunity to give more control of popup/popunder....
But as we understand it, water vapor plumes likely mean bodies of water; and so far, in nearly all cases, bodies of water do equal life. [Sadly, our experience with water is limited to this rock...]
This, of course, doesn't make it so - but it makes it incredibly interesting.
Presumably it'll add hidden fields as well - who knows.
This will, of course, break your favorite form-filling auto-complete software.
If I'm the logon page for my bank or mortgage company, I have no REAL issue with them sending me a "more secure" logon page, and I can live with not having my browser pre-populate my logon name or email address.
I heard a fairly interesting argument that execution also denies some prisoners to ever reach peace with their maker....for whatever that's worth.
There's a point somewhere along the appeals process where mistakes are more likely to be introduced than fewer. I understand that DNA evidence not available 20 years ago has freed criminals today, but as years go on, eye witnesses cease to remember details, even change their stories.
I have in my head what I call early memories -- but they're not. I honestly believe I only remember having remembered them. I can say with some certainty that I no longer remember an amusing day from my childhood in the early 70's....but I can with great clarity recant the story of me telling the story. I remember remembering it.
Some number of innocents will always suffer. It's the nature of the beast.
Next time reading Slashdot, you'll see a post right between mine and the Anonmous Coward above me that looks like user generated content, but is an auto-inserted ad, inline, served from the same place that served up my and AC's post.
You see this all the time on message forums, where every nth post is an ad.
It's possible to filter them out now, but they're getting smarter.
My concern in this particular line of thought isn't about the right or wrong of the situation. Once we decide to execute people, and we know it's expensive, and we do them infrequently and all over the damned place, then we should employ some sort of economy of scale in doing so.
We need and have the drugs we use in surgery. But if we use them for executions, the european companies that make these drugs we depend on for surgery will take them away. That's the whole point of this.
We're not out of pentobarbital. We have an unlimited supply (at market price) for surgery.
We need and have the drugs we use in surgery. But if we use them for executions, the european companies that make these drugs we depend on for surgery will take them away. That's the whole point of this.
We're not out of pentobarbital. We have an unlimited supply (at market price) for surgery.
I'm all for putting violent animals out of our misery...
...but if anyone thinks the Industrial Prison Complex(tm) is a money-making operation now, just think how adding organ harvesting to it will go down.
An unfortunate reality. In terms Slashdot understands, it's why you don't let your PC technicians take home bad hardware -- suddenly you'd have a lot more "bad" hardware cropping up.
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Where do people think the electricity to charge their electric cars come from? The electric fairy? Most electricity today is provided by coal, oil, and natural gas. All fossil fuels. Keep buying those electric cars and telling yourself you're doing your part. You're just putting your part off on someone else (the utility company)
I think, in places like Oklahoma, it's mostly coal and NG, and you'd only need a car that got 40mpg to have comparable fossil fuel usage and emissions.
I think, where I live, in Arizona, it's a blind of coal, NG, hydro, solar and nuclear, and I'd need a car that got 50mpg to have comparable fossil fuel usage and emissions.
I think, in California and the Pacific Northwest, it's a good blend of solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, plus some coal and gas, and I'd need a 65+mpg car to compare.
This NYT article doesn't take into account battery production overhead, and a few other factors that hit a few places (like Arizona, where new solar has gone online), but does provide a simple map that easily illustrates the difference location makes.
http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
So, take the numbers on the map with a grain of salt, but the point stands: Some grid electricity is WAY, WAY better for you than burning gasoline.
Protip: Always rent a car for long trips.
It's almost always cheaper than the wear and tear on your own car.
I'm going to do thesameguy and you a favor and back up these posts.
We've got a Leaf now, and for those time when we want to drive out of town, we rent a car. For anywhere else, we've got over 500 chargers here in Phoenix, and I've only once been more than 5 miles from a charger ever*.
Renting cars cost less than the gas we didn't spend the week before, especially in the size class of a Leaf.
Also, there's a great misconception about driving electric now. You leave the house everyday with a mostly full charge. When you go about your normal day-to-day life you sometimes get to pick up a free charge at the places you're already going to. In any city with a sufficient number of electric vehicles, there's chargers at every other grocery store, most every mall, half the theater chains, you name it.
[*This weekend we drove from Ahwatukee (a neighborhood in Phoenix) to Maricopa (a city roughly 20 miles SW of Phoenix) - about a 70 mile roundtrip from the parts of the city we ventured to and from. While in Maricopa, we were 20 miles away from a public charger -- the farthest we've ever been, four times as far as we've ever been, in fact.]
Part of Google's response (or lack of one) includes that this isn't so much a bug as a feature, and the feature is being misused.
If you authorize your microphone for evil.site, and evil.site opens another window, your microphone is still authorized for it -- because you (a) permanently authorized evil.site microphone access and (b) because you clicked on the microphone this session.
Google will likely have to reduce the functionality of the microphone.
Ideally they'll also use this as an opportunity to give more control of popup/popunder....
Those night and weekend buses must really mess up traffic.
*sigh*
I want to know who's using telnet for web-pages filled with javascript forms.
Bruce Schneier. And he uses port 443.
I'm now in favor of this... ...and any technology that keeps Bruce off the web.
Well, it was interesting.
Harrumph.
Interesting, and bummer.
Still interesting to know there's ice (solid water) on Ceres. Makes you wonder from where it came.
Obviously galaxies tend to be a little further away, but it's definitely a relative use of the term 'nearby'.
Conceptually?
I might be bad at math, but 12 million years plus two weeks is still exactly 12 million years.
When will then be now?
Soon.
But as we understand it, water vapor plumes likely mean bodies of water; and so far, in nearly all cases, bodies of water do equal life. [Sadly, our experience with water is limited to this rock...]
This, of course, doesn't make it so - but it makes it incredibly interesting.
I want to know who's using telnet for web-pages filled with javascript forms.
Presumably it'll add hidden fields as well - who knows.
This will, of course, break your favorite form-filling auto-complete software.
If I'm the logon page for my bank or mortgage company, I have no REAL issue with them sending me a "more secure" logon page, and I can live with not having my browser pre-populate my logon name or email address.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched.
But if we use them for executions, the european companies that make these drugs we depend on for surgery will take them away
And that will stop immediately when you use it for killing people. You are really badly informed about what is going on here.
Uh?
I heard a fairly interesting argument that execution also denies some prisoners to ever reach peace with their maker. ...for whatever that's worth.
There's a point somewhere along the appeals process where mistakes are more likely to be introduced than fewer. I understand that DNA evidence not available 20 years ago has freed criminals today, but as years go on, eye witnesses cease to remember details, even change their stories.
I have in my head what I call early memories -- but they're not. I honestly believe I only remember having remembered them. I can say with some certainty that I no longer remember an amusing day from my childhood in the early 70's. ...but I can with great clarity recant the story of me telling the story. I remember remembering it.
Some number of innocents will always suffer. It's the nature of the beast.
Your Nazi rhetoric sure is dramatic, but I won't repeat myself beyond this.
Dear government: Be it tax filing, bridge construction or prisoner execution, please do so efficiently.
Sure, but they're not.
Next time reading Slashdot, you'll see a post right between mine and the Anonmous Coward above me that looks like user generated content, but is an auto-inserted ad, inline, served from the same place that served up my and AC's post.
You see this all the time on message forums, where every nth post is an ad.
It's possible to filter them out now, but they're getting smarter.
Thank you! A million internets to you.
And you're an animal for saying so, and should also die.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
In my eyes, the thing that would rape and murder a pregnant woman is an animal.
In your eyes, a person who holds my belief is.
Opinions. We've all got 'em.
I'll bet you drive a big truck too.
A Nissan Leaf.
I'm a full of delicious contradictions.
My concern in this particular line of thought isn't about the right or wrong of the situation. Once we decide to execute people, and we know it's expensive, and we do them infrequently and all over the damned place, then we should employ some sort of economy of scale in doing so.
Posted this twice, but...
We need and have the drugs we use in surgery. But if we use them for executions, the european companies that make these drugs we depend on for surgery will take them away. That's the whole point of this.
We're not out of pentobarbital. We have an unlimited supply (at market price) for surgery.
You're missing the point.
We need and have the drugs we use in surgery. But if we use them for executions, the european companies that make these drugs we depend on for surgery will take them away. That's the whole point of this.
We're not out of pentobarbital. We have an unlimited supply (at market price) for surgery.
I'm all for putting violent animals out of our misery...
An unfortunate reality. In terms Slashdot understands, it's why you don't let your PC technicians take home bad hardware -- suddenly you'd have a lot more "bad" hardware cropping up.