Higher voltage batteries in IC cars have been under consideration for more than 25 years. It's advantageous because of the reduced weight of wiring. There are a few disadvantages. Higher voltages increase the possibility of electrocution. All existing ancillary electrical parts are currently 12 V, so changing to a new voltage means filling inventory in auto shops and dealers with an entirely new stock of electrics incompatible with the old stuff. Apparently, nobody wants to go first.
The demand for perfect information is standard leftist claptrap, designed to entice weak minds into accepting increasing amounts of hatred and opposition to freedom. There is no attempt at honesty there, it's simply "How call I fool you into giving me more power?"
You fail reading comprehension. Manufacturing costs are generally broken down into several categories, such as materials, production, and overhead. Cutting production costs in half will not cut the total cost of the batteries in half.
Amazing. Glossing over facts, ignoring the difference between disproven hypotheses and modern economic theory. Baldly dishonest claims about the effects of petroleum as a fuel.
Our economy was not based on slave labor. The North won the war largely because its non-slave economy was stronger. The South could have had an economy stronger than it was if it had just slowly transformed into a market economy (because free labor is more productive than slave.) (Historically not possible, due to culture and laws of slave states.)
Now our economy is based on generating poison gas from fossil fuels.
That is just plain dishonest. Our economy is enhanced by, not based on, energy production from fossil fuels. The primary byproducts are carbon dioxide and water, neither of which is a poison at the concentrations at which they are currently generated. You are a liar, and you know it.
Sir, your car was seen parked on 4th Avenue on May 2nd, within 70 yards of a whorehouse, a crack house, a child molester, an illegal arms dealer, and a chop shop. Confess now or it will go hard on you.
It's not a stupid argument, people do steal license plates to ease committing other crimes for personal gain. Smashing a window does not involve personal gain.
It's bad for the same reason that police access to library records is bad: it's too easy to turn innocent actions into apparent evildoing. The library example is easier to demonstrate:
Let's suppose you're an avid reader who likes mysteries, and in a year you've read 100 such books. One day you find yourself in court, and the prosecutor says to you: "Haven't you, in the last year, read 100 books detailing how an innocent person was murdered?"
Don't think something like this couldn't happen to you. There are very few actions that a sufficiently nasty government couldn't use to railroad you; making their job easier is a bad idea.
Mercury One http://www.mercuryone.org/ gives ALL donations to specified efforts, mostly disaster relief. Staff and other overhead are paid for by special events, not donations. Be aware that this is Glenn Beck's organization, so if that offends you, look elsewhere.
Very funny. Now, go look for photographs of downtown Manhattan pre-1900 What you'll see are horse-drawn vehicles in the streets, pedestrians on the sidewalk.
Here's a clue. One of the inventions necessary for automobile travel was also necessary for useable bicycles: pneumatic tires. Widespread bicycle use preceded widespread automobile use by less than 10 years.
Many, many species just plain don't matter. Some bacterium that only lives in one cave in Antarctica doesn't matter to the rest of the world. Some newly hybridized daylily, judged insufficiently interesting by its creator and destroyed, matters to nobody. Lowering species diversity by stamping out a fatal disease is a good thing.
The point is, this issue should be handled intelligently. Each species that is considered should be evaluated for its actual and potential worth to humanity and the costs involved in preserving it. Claiming that just because it exists now, it MUST be preserved, is nonsense.
The implied claim, that we will never be able to compute the desired structure of a new antibiotic in the absence of its existence in nature, is unjustified.
when growth stops we have depressions that kill people.
When an economy is such that large numbers of people are on the edge of starvation, sure, any change that causes increased unemployment is going to cause deaths of people unable to feed themselves. But many rich countries are awash in food, and it would take a complete economic collapse lasting more than a year for starvation to become significant.
therefore when or [???] growth globally stops (for whatever reason) we will lose a large chunk of the population
By what mechanism? Note, you wrote "growth globally stops", which means production doesn't increase, not "production collapses". If production remains roughly constant, consumption remains roughly constant, and production supports life.
This time, your spelling error still makes a proper sentence, but destroys the meaning of your post. Now consider the hilarity that ensues when "know" is understood in the Biblical sense.
Historically, body temperature was estimated at 37C, and exactly converted to 98.6F. Alas, that's a failed attempt at accuracy, as the typical human body temperature is a tad below 37C. And tad is an English measure.
1 troy ounce = 1.09714286 avoirdupois ounces. Apothecary ounce is same as troy ounce. A US pint of water weighs 1.04375 avoirdupois pounds. 0.04375 = 7/160.
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Higher voltage batteries in IC cars have been under consideration for more than 25 years. It's advantageous because of the reduced weight of wiring. There are a few disadvantages. Higher voltages increase the possibility of electrocution. All existing ancillary electrical parts are currently 12 V, so changing to a new voltage means filling inventory in auto shops and dealers with an entirely new stock of electrics incompatible with the old stuff. Apparently, nobody wants to go first.
The demand for perfect information is standard leftist claptrap, designed to entice weak minds into accepting increasing amounts of hatred and opposition to freedom. There is no attempt at honesty there, it's simply "How call I fool you into giving me more power?"
You fail reading comprehension. Manufacturing costs are generally broken down into several categories, such as materials, production, and overhead. Cutting production costs in half will not cut the total cost of the batteries in half.
Amazing. Glossing over facts, ignoring the difference between disproven hypotheses and modern economic theory. Baldly dishonest claims about the effects of petroleum as a fuel.
Our economy was not based on slave labor. The North won the war largely because its non-slave economy was stronger. The South could have had an economy stronger than it was if it had just slowly transformed into a market economy (because free labor is more productive than slave.) (Historically not possible, due to culture and laws of slave states.)
That is just plain dishonest. Our economy is enhanced by, not based on, energy production from fossil fuels. The primary byproducts are carbon dioxide and water, neither of which is a poison at the concentrations at which they are currently generated. You are a liar, and you know it.
What part of the concept "present tense" do you not understand?
Sir, your car was seen parked on 4th Avenue on May 2nd, within 70 yards of a whorehouse, a crack house, a child molester, an illegal arms dealer, and a chop shop. Confess now or it will go hard on you.
Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to immigrants from India. He is an American.
It's not a stupid argument, people do steal license plates to ease committing other crimes for personal gain. Smashing a window does not involve personal gain.
It's bad for the same reason that police access to library records is bad: it's too easy to turn innocent actions into apparent evildoing. The library example is easier to demonstrate:
Let's suppose you're an avid reader who likes mysteries, and in a year you've read 100 such books. One day you find yourself in court, and the prosecutor says to you: "Haven't you, in the last year, read 100 books detailing how an innocent person was murdered?"
Don't think something like this couldn't happen to you. There are very few actions that a sufficiently nasty government couldn't use to railroad you; making their job easier is a bad idea.
Mercury One http://www.mercuryone.org/ gives ALL donations to specified efforts, mostly disaster relief. Staff and other overhead are paid for by special events, not donations. Be aware that this is Glenn Beck's organization, so if that offends you, look elsewhere.
The days when the ACLU had any care about civil liberties are long gone.
Very funny. Now, go look for photographs of downtown Manhattan pre-1900 What you'll see are horse-drawn vehicles in the streets, pedestrians on the sidewalk.
Here's a clue. One of the inventions necessary for automobile travel was also necessary for useable bicycles: pneumatic tires. Widespread bicycle use preceded widespread automobile use by less than 10 years.
Don't confuse high quality paving with a road.
Very many New England towns have only one road through town. Eliminating motor vehicle traffic on that road is simply not an option.
Many, many species just plain don't matter. Some bacterium that only lives in one cave in Antarctica doesn't matter to the rest of the world. Some newly hybridized daylily, judged insufficiently interesting by its creator and destroyed, matters to nobody. Lowering species diversity by stamping out a fatal disease is a good thing.
The point is, this issue should be handled intelligently. Each species that is considered should be evaluated for its actual and potential worth to humanity and the costs involved in preserving it. Claiming that just because it exists now, it MUST be preserved, is nonsense.
The implied claim, that we will never be able to compute the desired structure of a new antibiotic in the absence of its existence in nature, is unjustified.
You are loony.
Prove it. In particular, note timescale.
When an economy is such that large numbers of people are on the edge of starvation, sure, any change that causes increased unemployment is going to cause deaths of people unable to feed themselves. But many rich countries are awash in food, and it would take a complete economic collapse lasting more than a year for starvation to become significant.
By what mechanism? Note, you wrote "growth globally stops", which means production doesn't increase, not "production collapses". If production remains roughly constant, consumption remains roughly constant, and production supports life.
Fuel costs have more than doubled in the last 20 years.
Airplane seating isn't like Greyhound bus seating. The bus seats are comfortable.
I still have to pay for the education of their spawn.
This time, your spelling error still makes a proper sentence, but destroys the meaning of your post. Now consider the hilarity that ensues when "know" is understood in the Biblical sense.
The insult here is that when I ask for a 2 x 4, I get a 1-1/2 x 3-1/2. Lumber dimensions are a nonlinear lie.
To make things convenient for photographers, we should all use the photographic-metric unit for temperature, the dekamired.
Historically, body temperature was estimated at 37C, and exactly converted to 98.6F. Alas, that's a failed attempt at accuracy, as the typical human body temperature is a tad below 37C. And tad is an English measure.
1 troy ounce = 1.09714286 avoirdupois ounces. Apothecary ounce is same as troy ounce. A US pint of water weighs 1.04375 avoirdupois pounds. 0.04375 = 7/160.
Oh, please learn to spell "assess". I didn't come here to read anal pornography.