I always have to laugh at crap like yours. EU has a massively Unionized system. In fact, Germany, who is out-competing America, requires that ALL EMPLOYEES be part of a union. Likewise, EU works far far less than does Americans. Few Americans really work 40 hours/week. In fact, the average for Americans is ~52 hours. We work more than many Asians do. And as to the legal issues, well, I note that Japanese AND South Korean companies are coming here with plenty of plants and doing great. In fact, so are the auto designers. ABout the ONLY place that we fail is due to HORRIBLE management.
Actually, small deliveries is EXACTLY what I would target. The reason is that it would be very easy/cheap to have swappable battery packs. Much lighter weight. Smaller, cheaper. greater ability to carry more items.
Say, you make these delivery vehicles have a 20-50 KM range. The batteries are going to be fairly light. Then a simple device for exchanging them becomes doable and easy. That means affordable by the businesses directly. That also means not selling one or two vehicles at a time, but a whole sale switch.
However, you are missing the fact that the new bikes are much cleaner than the old ones. The old ones put a LOT of pollution into the air, where as the newer ones put up less pollution (cleaner burn), but with more CO2 due to the higher power.
What really needs to happen is more on the electric motorcycles. They are coming, but still pretty pricey. The funny thing is, that motorcycles would be a GREAT place to do battery swaps at stations. The reason is that designs COULD be standardized and then used. I do have to say that the idea of doing a battery swap on a car makes zero sense due to weights and large design differences. Each car model will need to be radically different.
In the 70's, a number of ppl still had party lines. Basically, could not use it. Those that did not have party lines had very dirty lines. My modem ran normally at ~75 baud, though it was rated at 150. The reason was simply due to the lines. If you ran at 150, the chars would get bad. And while there was a parity bit, it really did not do the job. So, you ran slower and slower speeds.
Also, it was possible (in fact, probable) to have your connnection cut. This was all in Northern Ill (the largest close town was a whopping 15K ppl; McHenry, Ill).
Once I moved to Ft. Collins (ft. fun), Colorado, the lines improved in the town. We ran 150 and some places could run 300 baud. Outside, of the town, it was still party lines.
The most frustrating thing about that, is that he is working on the solar side of this. In my mind that is just foolish to focus his efforts there. Instead, he should be making that work with Natural Gas, Gas, or Diesel. The reason is that if takes that, combines it with a battery that will drive a vehicle say 5 miles, and obviously an electric drive system, he will FAR FAR outstrip the ICE. The motor operates at 95+% and the battery at least as high as 90%. If his JTEC will do just 50%, then his total is around 40% efficiency, which is MUCH higher than ICE's total efficincy of under 25%. I suspect that his unit would also be much cleaner to burning. In time, batteries/Ultracaps would get cheaper and replace the JTEC. But by then, he would have it tuned for SOlar, geo-thermal, and maybe nukes.
Now, sell the rights to an American company and require that the work be done in America. It is frustrating that America does all this RD, and then sends it to places that will not even respect the patents.
Over 12 years ago, I was part of a company that was going to do this concept for Buses in the Denver basin (RTD). The idea was to have one hotspot on the bus, and another doing the link. Then then we were to be given access to the Public Service lights to rig up more hotspots. Sadly, we turned it down.
Lets break them up. The last thing that we need is have companies that are 'too big to fail'. We need more competition. If these companies that 'required' and accepted help, then we should break them up into at least 3 companies so that if any are ran into the ground again, we let them die.
Look, a single large asteroid has a HIGH VOLUME to surface area. OTH, if you break it up into small asteroids, you will burn up a great deal of it in the atmosphere. Likewise, lets assume that you have a 50 mile asteroid that is broken into 10 pieces. The single one would have done the nasty to us, and the 10 MAY OR MAY NOT. IOW, break it apart.
We have a VERY easy solution to this issue, that will likely win out: China is desperate that no taxes be done on CO2 emissions, esp. against theirs. But the solution, one that will pass WTO, is a tax by all nations on ALL goods (as in local and domestic) based on the CO2 from where the item and the primary sub-component come from. Ideally, it would have distance as well. That simple solution will force all nations and businesses to lower the CO2 without any chance of cheating.
The problem that we have here, is that every nation is trying to go along with the no tax issue, but that alone is causing the problems. So basically, our issue is that the format is wrong. The real problem here, is that nations and ppl have locked themselves mentally into this idea that we need to regulate this AND that Govs. will do this on their own nation. The simple fact is, that leads to cheating. EU started us down the wrong solution, but I think that a number of nations will head towards the slowly increasing tax approach.
So, does that translate to the issues that you speak of? Nope. The reason is that a large minority still question whether Global Warming is happening. They hear it in the papers, but the simple fact is, that scientists and ppl, in general, do not know exactly WHAT will happen. OTH, if they know that an asteroid is eminent, THEN they will mostly cooperate. I am sure that if the asteroid were headed towards the middle of America, countries like NK, Iran, and possibly China would object to any chance to deflect it. But the majority would be ok with sending it to the middle of the Pacific, or even to the poles, etc. We MIGHT get by with deflecting it to Canada, Sberia, or even Australia, all due to population density and possibility of gettin everybody out. But that is not likely.
Colorado strikes that. You are not allowed to take THEIR property with you, but no company can contractually stop you from working for another firm. I believe that all of the right to work states will shoot that down very quickly.
I would like to see the military AND the feds restrict its purchases of critical sub-systems like this to equipment made only in trusted countries and from trust suppliers.
Negotiating with Russia on this, would be like America doing a treaty with UK to limit nukes; It is useless Without including China, Iran, Burma, and North Korea, then we will be missing a large part of this equation. China, Iran, and North Korea are in very active development of attack systems (as well as real systems such as new missiles, warheads, nuke subs, etc). Heck, a big part of that Chinese firewall, is not just to control their citizens, but it is also to control the outside world coming in.
Put the towers IN THE GROUND. Even here in Colorado that is around 55-60F. The nice thing is that it is easier to protect down there. Heck, the old missile silos around US, Canada, Russia, etc. are IDEAL for this.
I did not say that the air force was having issues with getting numbers. They never have. BUT, I would like to think that they have the BEST quality fliers at the stick as well as at the button. Basically, a good America's Air force, ideally tied into America's Army would open up doors.
Now, as somebody who has done work for various 3 letters, and spent part of my childhood in the shadows of the B-47, I can tell you that they need the best that they can get. All of the forces do. Many of their projects are humdrum, but others are true cutting edge. Taking a simulator and improving it allows for an increase in a number of talents. The least of which is understanding the physics that applies to flight and warfare. By learning it, it is possible to turn it from an art to more of a science.
It probably is not high. It is on multiple platforms, networked and multiple versions. Considering all the stuff that went into this, I think that 3 million a year for this is nothing.
In fact, it has probably helped the army not only recruit, but also avoid having to do loads of expensive training.
If I were the Air force, I would grab one of the OSS forms of a sim (flight gear comes to mind), and then enhance the daylight out of it, so that it can do dogfights. Finally, include both regular aircrafts AND the new drones on these.
MS collects the same info via bing, msn, and even from Windows. To say that Google is worse is like saying that W was worse than Hitler or Stalin. He had actions SIMILAR to them, but nothing was over what any of them did. Likewise, Google has not been shown to have done anything worse. Yet.
However, I DO now think that with that statement, that Google SHOULD be looked at a big closer.
Not even close. MS has a LOT MORE going on that the average person has absolutely no clue about. Just ONE area that the press ignored was the relationship between Eddie Davidson and Microsoft.
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I always have to laugh at crap like yours. EU has a massively Unionized system. In fact, Germany, who is out-competing America, requires that ALL EMPLOYEES be part of a union. Likewise, EU works far far less than does Americans. Few Americans really work 40 hours/week. In fact, the average for Americans is ~52 hours. We work more than many Asians do. And as to the legal issues, well, I note that Japanese AND South Korean companies are coming here with plenty of plants and doing great. In fact, so are the auto designers. ABout the ONLY place that we fail is due to HORRIBLE management.
Actually, small deliveries is EXACTLY what I would target. The reason is that it would be very easy/cheap to have swappable battery packs. Much lighter weight. Smaller, cheaper. greater ability to carry more items.
Say, you make these delivery vehicles have a 20-50 KM range. The batteries are going to be fairly light. Then a simple device for exchanging them becomes doable and easy. That means affordable by the businesses directly. That also means not selling one or two vehicles at a time, but a whole sale switch.
However, you are missing the fact that the new bikes are much cleaner than the old ones. The old ones put a LOT of pollution into the air, where as the newer ones put up less pollution (cleaner burn), but with more CO2 due to the higher power.
What really needs to happen is more on the electric motorcycles. They are coming, but still pretty pricey. The funny thing is, that motorcycles would be a GREAT place to do battery swaps at stations. The reason is that designs COULD be standardized and then used. I do have to say that the idea of doing a battery swap on a car makes zero sense due to weights and large design differences. Each car model will need to be radically different.
Most of your deliveries are fairly close. As such, a pure electric, perhaps, lower costs, with say 50 km range would probably serve better.
They would have been far better off with building a better pure electric motorcycle.
In the 70's, a number of ppl still had party lines. Basically, could not use it. Those that did not have party lines had very dirty lines. My modem ran normally at ~75 baud, though it was rated at 150. The reason was simply due to the lines. If you ran at 150, the chars would get bad. And while there was a parity bit, it really did not do the job. So, you ran slower and slower speeds. Also, it was possible (in fact, probable) to have your connnection cut. This was all in Northern Ill (the largest close town was a whopping 15K ppl; McHenry, Ill). Once I moved to Ft. Collins (ft. fun), Colorado, the lines improved in the town. We ran 150 and some places could run 300 baud. Outside, of the town, it was still party lines.
The most frustrating thing about that, is that he is working on the solar side of this. In my mind that is just foolish to focus his efforts there. Instead, he should be making that work with Natural Gas, Gas, or Diesel. The reason is that if takes that, combines it with a battery that will drive a vehicle say 5 miles, and obviously an electric drive system, he will FAR FAR outstrip the ICE. The motor operates at 95+% and the battery at least as high as 90%. If his JTEC will do just 50%, then his total is around 40% efficiency, which is MUCH higher than ICE's total efficincy of under 25%. I suspect that his unit would also be much cleaner to burning. In time, batteries/Ultracaps would get cheaper and replace the JTEC. But by then, he would have it tuned for SOlar, geo-thermal, and maybe nukes.
Now, sell the rights to an American company and require that the work be done in America. It is frustrating that America does all this RD, and then sends it to places that will not even respect the patents.
Over 12 years ago, I was part of a company that was going to do this concept for Buses in the Denver basin (RTD). The idea was to have one hotspot on the bus, and another doing the link. Then then we were to be given access to the Public Service lights to rig up more hotspots. Sadly, we turned it down.
Lets break them up. The last thing that we need is have companies that are 'too big to fail'. We need more competition. If these companies that 'required' and accepted help, then we should break them up into at least 3 companies so that if any are ran into the ground again, we let them die.
Look, a single large asteroid has a HIGH VOLUME to surface area. OTH, if you break it up into small asteroids, you will burn up a great deal of it in the atmosphere. Likewise, lets assume that you have a 50 mile asteroid that is broken into 10 pieces. The single one would have done the nasty to us, and the 10 MAY OR MAY NOT. IOW, break it apart.
And yea, you are dead on with the radiation.
We have a VERY easy solution to this issue, that will likely win out: China is desperate that no taxes be done on CO2 emissions, esp. against theirs. But the solution, one that will pass WTO, is a tax by all nations on ALL goods (as in local and domestic) based on the CO2 from where the item and the primary sub-component come from. Ideally, it would have distance as well. That simple solution will force all nations and businesses to lower the CO2 without any chance of cheating.
The problem that we have here, is that every nation is trying to go along with the no tax issue, but that alone is causing the problems. So basically, our issue is that the format is wrong. The real problem here, is that nations and ppl have locked themselves mentally into this idea that we need to regulate this AND that Govs. will do this on their own nation. The simple fact is, that leads to cheating. EU started us down the wrong solution, but I think that a number of nations will head towards the slowly increasing tax approach.
So, does that translate to the issues that you speak of? Nope. The reason is that a large minority still question whether Global Warming is happening. They hear it in the papers, but the simple fact is, that scientists and ppl, in general, do not know exactly WHAT will happen. OTH, if they know that an asteroid is eminent, THEN they will mostly cooperate. I am sure that if the asteroid were headed towards the middle of America, countries like NK, Iran, and possibly China would object to any chance to deflect it. But the majority would be ok with sending it to the middle of the Pacific, or even to the poles, etc. We MIGHT get by with deflecting it to Canada, Sberia, or even Australia, all due to population density and possibility of gettin everybody out. But that is not likely.
Colorado strikes that. You are not allowed to take THEIR property with you, but no company can contractually stop you from working for another firm. I believe that all of the right to work states will shoot that down very quickly.
And in most states, that last part is unenforceable. In addition, I think that MOST countries do not support that kind of BS.
Cybercrime has nothing to do with the military doing attacks. Totally different issues.
I would like to see the military AND the feds restrict its purchases of critical sub-systems like this to equipment made only in trusted countries and from trust suppliers.
Negotiating with Russia on this, would be like America doing a treaty with UK to limit nukes; It is useless Without including China, Iran, Burma, and North Korea, then we will be missing a large part of this equation. China, Iran, and North Korea are in very active development of attack systems (as well as real systems such as new missiles, warheads, nuke subs, etc). Heck, a big part of that Chinese firewall, is not just to control their citizens, but it is also to control the outside world coming in.
It will become MSNOME and then will die as it is embraced, extended, and extinguished.
Put the towers IN THE GROUND. Even here in Colorado that is around 55-60F. The nice thing is that it is easier to protect down there. Heck, the old missile silos around US, Canada, Russia, etc. are IDEAL for this.
I did not say that the air force was having issues with getting numbers. They never have. BUT, I would like to think that they have the BEST quality fliers at the stick as well as at the button. Basically, a good America's Air force, ideally tied into America's Army would open up doors.
Now, as somebody who has done work for various 3 letters, and spent part of my childhood in the shadows of the B-47, I can tell you that they need the best that they can get. All of the forces do. Many of their projects are humdrum, but others are true cutting edge. Taking a simulator and improving it allows for an increase in a number of talents. The least of which is understanding the physics that applies to flight and warfare. By learning it, it is possible to turn it from an art to more of a science.
It probably is not high. It is on multiple platforms, networked and multiple versions. Considering all the stuff that went into this, I think that 3 million a year for this is nothing. In fact, it has probably helped the army not only recruit, but also avoid having to do loads of expensive training.
If I were the Air force, I would grab one of the OSS forms of a sim (flight gear comes to mind), and then enhance the daylight out of it, so that it can do dogfights. Finally, include both regular aircrafts AND the new drones on these.
MS collects the same info via bing, msn, and even from Windows. To say that Google is worse is like saying that W was worse than Hitler or Stalin. He had actions SIMILAR to them, but nothing was over what any of them did. Likewise, Google has not been shown to have done anything worse. Yet.
However, I DO now think that with that statement, that Google SHOULD be looked at a big closer.
Not even close. MS has a LOT MORE going on that the average person has absolutely no clue about. Just ONE area that the press ignored was the relationship between Eddie Davidson and Microsoft.
For the first time, I think that they have taken a step towards being like MS.
Hmmm. Maybe it is time to take a little closer look at Google.