As has been pointed out already this is a stupid idea. It would make much more sense to put the turbine on the train so it's forward motion can generate electricity. That way the train is self powering. Much greener.
Everyone seems to get this ass backwards IMO. The whole debate is framed wrong; This shouldn't be about what men and women will and wont do, it's about a system that puts jobs, money numbers and stuff before actual real people. This system is so successful that it has most of you bitching at each other and not at what's broken. Conquer and divide.
If you go around accepting shitty conditions at work, you legitimize them. If lot's of you do this you make employment in whole sectors of the market a bag of pants. Obviously I'm a bit of a romantic and to get a system that values people before things would require a huge sea-change throughout different layers of society and that's not likely to happen soon, if at all.
All that is really just a preamble to me saying; Please stop your "if you can't or wont" sniping
and whining. I'm not asking you to become a humanitarian or even to smile around the office if you don't want. Just stop adding your own increment of shit on the pile that most of us have to wade through just to make a living.
David Banner is repeatedly hit in the face. Laughing, the biker drives home his attack, Banner is unable to defend himself effectively, he becomes enraged and metabolic changes begin. The structure and composition of his body begins to metamorphose, his muscles swell and his bone density increases. The shirt down his back splits and his toes pop open his sneakers. David's shouts of pain deepen, becoming bass growls. He is half animal now and half man. A vein in his skull bursts and he dies.
How about building in a dynamo as part of the wheel and pedal hubs? That should cut out lots of inefficiency caused by friction. The generation would be much smaller but you could use all three hubs. Or how about using wheel rims and forks as your induction coil? How about hubs and rims; five points of induction. Why wouldn't that work?
And there must be some way to capture the centrifugal forces produced by the wheels. IANACGE (Centrifugal Generator Engineer) so someone correct me if I am wrong.
Of course you could always attach a mini wind turbine to your bike helmet. Er....Handle bars might be better so that when you stop you can blow to keep the thing going.
Agreed. What need does a biller have in hooking up their IPOD to their work PC? Why would a clientservices-phone jockey need to hook up their USB memory stick? Why would a transcriptionist need access msn/hotmail/yahoomail? How about;
*To lighten the load a bit. What's wrong with a pic of your youngest child as wallpaper?
*Because work impinges more and more into our personal lives. How about a bit of reciprocation?
*To work around a stupid/incompetant/lazy IT dept/admin so I can get my work done productively
*Because I can/because it's there (Come on, a geek should understand this one.
6) The current British government has a track record of trying to solve social problems with technological solutions.
7) And always make a right bloody balls up of it too.
I have deleted the downloaded Britney off my hard drive.
I didn't upload it.
I didn't tell anyone on my blog
I didn't tell anyone in anyway
Britney was only ever on my hard drive as a proof of concept
Britney was only for testing purposes
Should I have decided to listen to it, I would have paid the ten pounds for the pysical media and would have authorized me to listen to it without DRM...no wait...
Let's just contextualise this out a bit more than M$/gpl....
This guy hasn't killed anyone, hasn't abused anyone, has been educating children. Frankly both M$ and the gpl can take a running jump. This is a human being doing good in the world. Punish him and the whole world is just that little bit worse.
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Er...this IS /. Using windows is much more annoying by default.
Ideal for conjoined twins.
As has been pointed out already this is a stupid idea. It would make much more sense to put the turbine on the train so it's forward motion can generate electricity. That way the train is self powering. Much greener.
Addressing a potential environmental disaster caused by humans before it happens? Ummm...how novel!
I got my 13 year old girl for 20$. Thankfully I was spared the embarrassment of taking a copy of Vista as part of the deal.
I suppose you'd prefer that all summarys end with a non-polarizing question.
Everyone seems to get this ass backwards IMO. The whole debate is framed wrong; This shouldn't be about what men and women will and wont do, it's about a system that puts jobs, money numbers and stuff before actual real people. This system is so successful that it has most of you bitching at each other and not at what's broken. Conquer and divide.
If you go around accepting shitty conditions at work, you legitimize them. If lot's of you do this you make employment in whole sectors of the market a bag of pants. Obviously I'm a bit of a romantic and to get a system that values people before things would require a huge sea-change throughout different layers of society and that's not likely to happen soon, if at all.
All that is really just a preamble to me saying; Please stop your "if you can't or wont" sniping and whining. I'm not asking you to become a humanitarian or even to smile around the office if you don't want. Just stop adding your own increment of shit on the pile that most of us have to wade through just to make a living.
Thank you.
Proof positive that it's the oldest profession?
...and yet more evidence that humans evolved from monkeys! As if GW wasn't enough.
...progressive and generally smart people may fuck as much (or more)... This IS Slashdot. Your assertion looks like pure wish fulfillment from here....with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
You've just described my sex life.
Slashdotted.....gotta torrent?
I think the word you may be looking for is "Craplets".
Tag this story "broken car analogy"
David Banner is repeatedly hit in the face. Laughing, the biker drives home his attack, Banner is unable to defend himself effectively, he becomes enraged and metabolic changes begin. The structure and composition of his body begins to metamorphose, his muscles swell and his bone density increases. The shirt down his back splits and his toes pop open his sneakers. David's shouts of pain deepen, becoming bass growls. He is half animal now and half man. A vein in his skull bursts and he dies.
How about building in a dynamo as part of the wheel and pedal hubs? That should cut out lots of inefficiency caused by friction. The generation would be much smaller but you could use all three hubs. Or how about using wheel rims and forks as your induction coil? How about hubs and rims; five points of induction. Why wouldn't that work?
And there must be some way to capture the centrifugal forces produced by the wheels. IANACGE (Centrifugal Generator Engineer) so someone correct me if I am wrong.
Of course you could always attach a mini wind turbine to your bike helmet. Er....Handle bars might be better so that when you stop you can blow to keep the thing going.
How about;
*To lighten the load a bit. What's wrong with a pic of your youngest child as wallpaper?
*Because work impinges more and more into our personal lives. How about a bit of reciprocation?
*To work around a stupid/incompetant/lazy IT dept/admin so I can get my work done productively
*Because I can/because it's there (Come on, a geek should understand this one.
Someone please mod the parent down. He is making intelligent and insightful comment and agreeing with group think. Insensitive clod.
6) The current British government has a track record of trying to solve social problems with technological solutions.
7) And always make a right bloody balls up of it too.
Mmmmmmmm.....cheeeeese!
This guy hasn't killed anyone, hasn't abused anyone, has been educating children. Frankly both M$ and the gpl can take a running jump. This is a human being doing good in the world. Punish him and the whole world is just that little bit worse.
Get it to imagine a beowulf cluster.