Actually, the whole smoking out tailgaters thing runs counter to the high MPG thing, and would run counter to "as low as possible emissions" - except as long as I'm not a superpolluter like the H2 drivers, I'm OK with it.
Oh, and one of the huge things that I like about my car is that I bought it to run homebrew biodiesel in, and I'll be making it soon. It's a nice big "fsck you" to Big Oil and those that are in charge of having our soldiers get killed to get cheap oil.
Looks do matter to me - I don't want anything gaudy, yet I want it to look sharp. I don't want it to be rusted, so I'm going to get all of the rust taken care of.
The diesel-electric locomotives and buses are all serial hybrids. That works fine - best efficiency for the engine, while having something that is more efficient at varying speeds to the actual movement.
However, cars are parallel hybrids. This means that the gasoline engine handles a lot of the movement of the car directly.
BTW, I've only got 52 hp:P - 58 horsepower is for the newer ecodiesels, which are turbodiesels without a boost enrichment valve.
Also, where I live, the speed limit is only 65 MPH.
And, my car is fun. It's a different kind of fun, though - not "how fast can I go", or "how fast can I get my 0-60 or 1/4 mile times" - it's "what kind of MPG numbers can I get". Oh, and "how much smoke can I put in the windshield of the guy who's 1" away from my bumper, because I'm not going 20 over the speed limit:P
There's also our overly-strict nitrogen oxide regulations. We should be more strictly regulating greenhouse gases, which diesels don't have much of. Nitrogen oxide emissions from diesels... sure, they're worse when the car is new, but the gassers get MUCH worse after that. And, diesels emit mostly nitrogen monoxide, which can actually help NEUTRALIZE ozone, instead of create it.
Anyway, the diesels you're referring to were the Oldsmobile diesels. Sure, the Mercedes and VW diesels were smoky, too, but at least they would last forever (or at least much longer than gassers, in the case of the veedubs):P
And, there's nothing inherently wrong with a diesel design based on a gasser - the Lister CS, the VW 1.6 diesel, and the 1.9 TDI are all gasser-derived. There IS, however, a problem with badly converted designs, like the Oldsmobile design.
Oh, and note that VW is selling every TDI that they can sell over here...
I would *LOVE* that Lupo 3L TDI. And, some automakers *cough*GM*cough* actually call a system like *THAT* a hybrid.
I recently bought a 1985 Jetta diesel. It qualifies on your small displacement and light weight, but it's an old indirect injection, naturally aspirated diesel, so it's rather inefficient for it's displacement and HP output. And, it's not too aerodynamic - anything before an A4 Jetta is a frickin' BRICK.
The gasoline engine in the Prius has 78 horsepower at 5000 RPMs, and 82 ft lbs of torque @ 4200 RPMs. It weighs 2890 pounds, and (IIRC) has a drag coefficient of 0.19 (which is just amazing).
Now, we'll compare my car, which doesn't get run over. It's a 1985 Volkswagen Jetta diesel. 52 horsepower at 4800 RPMs, and 71.5 ft lbs of torque @ 2000 RPMs. Admittedly, it's a lighter car, probably around 2100 pounds. However, I don't even want to THINK about the drag coefficient.
Also, realize that the Prius with a normal car battery, and an alternator + starter instead of the generator, or a smaller generator, would weigh less. I think it's sufficient for the task.
Let's go with the 1.5L Atkinson cycle engine that the Prius already has for this. Actually, let's just take a Prius, rip out the electric motor, and downsize the generator and batteries. Watch it have pretty damn good economy.
Actually, it would get an economy DECREASE from a theoretical non-hybrid Prius. You're toting around all this hybrid equipment (= more weight), and converting gasoline to heat to motion to electricity to motion (= more energy, not less). The ONLY thing that a hybrid can do to improve economy is regenerative breaking.
Get Mini-Box's car PSU. That regulates input voltages, and has all sorts of neat crap that make it play nice with a car. But, not nearly as much power - like 90W, IIRC.
I went for the lower-tech solution. I bought one of the cheap appliance timers, and put my bedroom light on it, to turn on 15 minutes before my alarm went off.
For a fair comparison, compare an i945 desktop (similar chipset, same IGP) to an i915 desktop (same IGP, nearly identical chipset as the old Sonomas) and an i865 desktop (there WERE i865 LGA775 boards, and the i865, while very different from the i855 (the i855 is derived from the i845), it has the same IGP, unlike the i845.)
ThinkPad X60, around 3.5lbs? ThinkPad X60s, around 2.7lbs? (Yes, there should be a couple models. But, watch for heat. I suspect the "s" simply means "smaller heatsink". (actually, it means "slim", but...))
Interesting - resizing tabs is the default behavior, so that must have gotten changed. Right click on the tab bar, click Customize. Set Wrapping to No wrapping.
Better method: Set gmail.google.com, mail.google.com, and gmail.com to 1 in the ua.ini (on Windows, C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\ua.ini, on Linux ~/.opera/profile/ua.ini).
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Actually, the whole smoking out tailgaters thing runs counter to the high MPG thing, and would run counter to "as low as possible emissions" - except as long as I'm not a superpolluter like the H2 drivers, I'm OK with it.
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Oh, and one of the huge things that I like about my car is that I bought it to run homebrew biodiesel in, and I'll be making it soon. It's a nice big "fsck you" to Big Oil and those that are in charge of having our soldiers get killed to get cheap oil.
Looks do matter to me - I don't want anything gaudy, yet I want it to look sharp. I don't want it to be rusted, so I'm going to get all of the rust taken care of.
Here's pics of my car, FWIW: http://my.opera.com/bhtooefr/albums/show.dml?id=2
Now, this is what I'd want, if I could afford it: (pic one: http://fitzski.com/jetta/images/20051007-cleaned.
FWIW, I downloaded the native Windows client, thinking that maybe it would be faster than the flash client that performs badly on my system.
Nope, it made my system nearly unresponsive until I closed it, and framerates downright SUCKED.
Well...
The diesel-electric locomotives and buses are all serial hybrids. That works fine - best efficiency for the engine, while having something that is more efficient at varying speeds to the actual movement.
However, cars are parallel hybrids. This means that the gasoline engine handles a lot of the movement of the car directly.
Yes, I've passed through an intersection that moments before had gotten the overfueled Cummins treatment... it's insane...
Three words: low end torque.
:P - 58 horsepower is for the newer ecodiesels, which are turbodiesels without a boost enrichment valve.
:P
Note that my peak torque is at 2000 RPMs.
BTW, I've only got 52 hp
Also, where I live, the speed limit is only 65 MPH.
And, my car is fun. It's a different kind of fun, though - not "how fast can I go", or "how fast can I get my 0-60 or 1/4 mile times" - it's "what kind of MPG numbers can I get". Oh, and "how much smoke can I put in the windshield of the guy who's 1" away from my bumper, because I'm not going 20 over the speed limit
There's also our overly-strict nitrogen oxide regulations. We should be more strictly regulating greenhouse gases, which diesels don't have much of. Nitrogen oxide emissions from diesels... sure, they're worse when the car is new, but the gassers get MUCH worse after that. And, diesels emit mostly nitrogen monoxide, which can actually help NEUTRALIZE ozone, instead of create it.
:P
Anyway, the diesels you're referring to were the Oldsmobile diesels. Sure, the Mercedes and VW diesels were smoky, too, but at least they would last forever (or at least much longer than gassers, in the case of the veedubs)
And, there's nothing inherently wrong with a diesel design based on a gasser - the Lister CS, the VW 1.6 diesel, and the 1.9 TDI are all gasser-derived. There IS, however, a problem with badly converted designs, like the Oldsmobile design.
Oh, and note that VW is selling every TDI that they can sell over here...
I would *LOVE* that Lupo 3L TDI. And, some automakers *cough*GM*cough* actually call a system like *THAT* a hybrid.
I recently bought a 1985 Jetta diesel. It qualifies on your small displacement and light weight, but it's an old indirect injection, naturally aspirated diesel, so it's rather inefficient for it's displacement and HP output. And, it's not too aerodynamic - anything before an A4 Jetta is a frickin' BRICK.
The gasoline engine in the Prius has 78 horsepower at 5000 RPMs, and 82 ft lbs of torque @ 4200 RPMs. It weighs 2890 pounds, and (IIRC) has a drag coefficient of 0.19 (which is just amazing).
Now, we'll compare my car, which doesn't get run over. It's a 1985 Volkswagen Jetta diesel. 52 horsepower at 4800 RPMs, and 71.5 ft lbs of torque @ 2000 RPMs. Admittedly, it's a lighter car, probably around 2100 pounds. However, I don't even want to THINK about the drag coefficient.
Also, realize that the Prius with a normal car battery, and an alternator + starter instead of the generator, or a smaller generator, would weigh less. I think it's sufficient for the task.
You're dodging my point...
Let's go with the 1.5L Atkinson cycle engine that the Prius already has for this. Actually, let's just take a Prius, rip out the electric motor, and downsize the generator and batteries. Watch it have pretty damn good economy.
Actually, it would get an economy DECREASE from a theoretical non-hybrid Prius. You're toting around all this hybrid equipment (= more weight), and converting gasoline to heat to motion to electricity to motion (= more energy, not less). The ONLY thing that a hybrid can do to improve economy is regenerative breaking.
Get Mini-Box's car PSU. That regulates input voltages, and has all sorts of neat crap that make it play nice with a car. But, not nearly as much power - like 90W, IIRC.
I went for the lower-tech solution. I bought one of the cheap appliance timers, and put my bedroom light on it, to turn on 15 minutes before my alarm went off.
Umm... because nobody's hacked IBM's APS yet, IIRC?
:( (at least I don't THINK the R51e has it)
Once it gets hacked, trust me, there'll be ports.
Unfortunately, the laptop I'm getting won't have APS...
And you have to convert those to BBeB, just like on the Librie.
For a fair comparison, compare an i945 desktop (similar chipset, same IGP) to an i915 desktop (same IGP, nearly identical chipset as the old Sonomas) and an i865 desktop (there WERE i865 LGA775 boards, and the i865, while very different from the i855 (the i855 is derived from the i845), it has the same IGP, unlike the i845.)
ThinkPad X60, around 3.5lbs?
ThinkPad X60s, around 2.7lbs? (Yes, there should be a couple models. But, watch for heat. I suspect the "s" simply means "smaller heatsink". (actually, it means "slim", but...))
Seeing as SMP has been working with Linux for what, a decade, I think it'll work just fine ;)
;)
There's a reason why a bunch of Linux servers have more than one CPU
Well, if you twist it the right way, it's the only OEM clear cover hard drive. The 62PC is probably one of the few clear casing hard drives.
However, I'm still not going to buy a WD drive. I've had WAY too much bad luck with WD.
Here you go, a picture of four 62PCs sitting on shelves, hooked to an IBM System/34 (IIRC).
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http://www.science.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/s34_di
Note that two are facing the camera, and show the transparency. I can also try to get a few pics of the one @ my college.
It's called the IBM 62PC.
There's one sitting in a lab that I have class in, and it's totally transparent.
They did in the US, as well.
Damn, those commercials were annoying...
Interesting - resizing tabs is the default behavior, so that must have gotten changed. Right click on the tab bar, click Customize. Set Wrapping to No wrapping.
Seen them since the 7.5x days.
Win32.
And I run with plugins turned off, normally, so it's not Flash, either. I suspect that it IS flash detection routines, however.
Better method: Set gmail.google.com, mail.google.com, and gmail.com to 1 in the ua.ini (on Windows, C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\ua.ini, on Linux ~/.opera/profile/ua.ini).
BTW, you're using 802.3 for your wired connection ;)
802.11 and 802.16 are the wireless ones.