I'm own the much maligned 2013 Fusion Hybrid, and my current tank is averaging about 44 mpg. My work route currently averages between 43 and 50 mpg.
My driving conditions are a mix of heavy suburban traffic and stretch of 25-55 mph interstate, with speeds averaging 15-20 mph during rush our. The terrain is rolling hills, with a delta of about 200 feet.
On a warm (T >70 degree), dry day with no wind and little traffic, the car will easily get the 47 mpg.
Temperature has a large impact on the mpg. The same example above in 25 degree weather will net about 36-38 mpg, consistent with the reporting done over the winter. Obviously, cold starts and running the defroster has a big effect, and the electric traction motor eats away at the battery much quicker at lower temps.
Rain will cut the mpg on my work route to about 43 mpg, and the extra drag is very noticeable. A headwind has the same effect. Tailwinds are fun though, and it kinda feels like sailing when the ICE is off.
Cruising at 55-60 mph on the highway, in no traffic on a warm, dry, and windless day, I can get the 47 mpg.
A quick temperature and mpg plot (assuming dry, windless conditions) looks like:
There is some roll-off at the higher temps because you have the A/C running.
Driver style has a huge impact on observed mileage, and this cannot be stated enough. My wife is your typical, jackrabbit starting, bumper riding, race-to-red driver. Her mpg is far worse than mine. I doubt she's ever seen 40 mpg. A trip that I can do at 45 mpg, she'll get 36 mpg. I've tried to coach her on the basics of hybrid driving, but she just doesn't get it. I imagine a lot of people are the same way. You either "get" how to drive a hybrid, or you don't.
I've been using Clear Sky Clocks for years. Find a clock near you and then click on "Light pollution map." From there, click on link road map and you can find where good and bad skies are. Have fun.
I used to live in Colorado and spent quite a bit of time on the slopes so I feel qualified to comment on your analogy.
In just about every situation, it doesn't matter whether you ride or ski, you will have fun on any type of terrain given you are good enough to be on it. There's not much a skier can do that a boarder can't and vice versa. There are certain situations where a board is better and some where skis are better, but only slightly.
Boards typically do better in the park and deep powder while skis excel in raw speed and mogul type runs to include glades. Skis are also easier on the T-bar, but that's only because a T-bar was not designed for boards. Boards suck on slow flat spots and there's the whole strap/click-in at the top of the lift. But, when I am going "sky-ground-tree, sky-ground-tree, tree getting closer", I would rather be on a board than having all my shit fly off rocketing down the mountain at Mach 5. And no, those little ski brakes do not work on the steep stuff.
So really, for just about every task, there isn't much difference between any kind of Linux or Mac, just as there is little difference between boarding and skiing.
"The greatest irony of Humvees and other SUVs is that people generally buy them because they have the perception of safety."
Well maybe that's what the industry wants *you* to think. But if you actually look at what people are doing with SUVs and full-size pickups, it's not to "feel safe", but to check the box on the "need" or "potential need" to haul stuff around.
If you throw out all the people driving around in SUVs that are clearly using them for status vehicles and throw out others who are using them for their business, you are left with families who have a couple of kids, maybe a dog, and possibly a boat.
A mid-sized sedan (like my Accord) barely fits two kids (especially if they are both in car seats) and two adults for a road trip to grandma's house. There is not much room left for cargo and things like strollers. However, many of my wife's friends have minivans and/or SUVs so they can haul the kids around and maybe the groceries too. Safety is nowhere near the top of their list of why they purchased a vehicle. Gas prices are killing their budgets, but they can't give up the space.
Creation without true understanding is not geeky. Amateur astronomy is a perfect example of this. Lots of folks buy kilobuck telescopes that require very little in the way of astronomical knowledge to operate them. They hook up kilobuck CCD cameras, take pretty pictures, and then post them in forums thinking they are astrogeeks. Not so!
I spent the better part of an hour trying to explain to a guy why his telescope wouldn't slew to Jupiter. He was mad because "all you had to do was push this button here..." Nevermind the fact that Jupiter wouldn't rise for several hours.
Does the fact that I grind my own mirrors and build my own telescopes make me a geek? Not really. Crafty maybe. But the fact that I can find Jupiter on any given day and then get into a debate about the MTF of a telescope probably does.
Officially, no. It probably depends on who your commander is and whether or not he gives a hoot. I wouldn't let my troops drink in a combat zone. Ever try to shoot accurately after a few beers?
You sir, need to report immediately to the State Consumer Bureau for reeducation. Blatantly using logic in your purchases and thwarting the efforts of advertisers is a felony. You are not worthy of U.S. citizenship.
While your logic makes sense to all of us at/., the music industry simply wants to extract maximum cash from its listeners. Most of these listeners are teenagers with (if my memory serves me) the largest disposable income of any age group and who have the highest propensity to impulse buy.
Using your model, the music industry would forfeit large sums of money because the crap teens download would quickly become dirt cheap. Using their model they would have impulsive teens buying $3.00 songs within 24 hrs of a release as people scramble to buy in at the lowest price. The kids don't care, and the record industry sits back and laughs.
Which apps on OSX steal focus? I don't think I've ever seen that. Usually the icon in the dock jumps up and down to tell you there is another app that wants some user input.
Do you lefties ever stop and take stock of how many "hard" scientists and engineers are among your rank? You know, the people that design and build shit instead of just talking about it? It's no wonder why we are losing this race. Too many of you are working to discover "cures" and not thinking about more practical things.
Second, you all have likely seen the commercial from Some Big Drug Company(TM), where some suit gets up there and says making grannies cheap drugs is more important than rocket science? That's what we are up against.
The fewer components you have, the less likely you are to encounter a failure.
True hardware box failures are taken care of by redundancies,not by limiting parts.
I remember reading something about most space missions are pre-determined and very straight forward
Actually, the military likes to get the most mileage out of their assets and you would not believe some of the reprogramming that goes on to reconfigure the software to extend and/or modify a mission.
but these problems have to be analysed and decision made by people on earth.
Yes, but response time for anomaly teams is usually an hour at best. Many satellites have built-in error checking and will take care of themselves given the chance, including putting themselves into "safemode."
Unless I'm totally wrong, most of the weather data the commercial companies use is derived from public owned--and taxpayer funded-- assets like GOES and the myriad NEXRAD sites around the country.
IMO, the NWS is one of the few examples of a sucessful government entity. I think this is one of those examples, like the military, that a public agency is far superior than a for-profit corporation.
1) Wavelengths are too big: 1 micron is now a large number, and optics doesn't work much smaller than this.
Please clarify what you mean here. 1 micron is in the IR, and optical laws work just fine down to fractions of an Angstrom as in Bragg diffraction and scattering of solids.
but it kinda seems like cheatin' with the external camera. I wonder why they couldn't incorporate the simple optical train into the eye directly? The benefit is that you could see in UV, IR, etc. with a camera and software swap.
My wife telecommutes from OH to CA. We lived in CO for half the year, and she pays state tax in all three. Yeah, her company isn't too happy about it either. States are like sharks these days with your paycheck...but that is for another topic!
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I'm own the much maligned 2013 Fusion Hybrid, and my current tank is averaging about 44 mpg. My work route currently averages between 43 and 50 mpg.
My driving conditions are a mix of heavy suburban traffic and stretch of 25-55 mph interstate, with speeds averaging 15-20 mph during rush our. The terrain is rolling hills, with a delta of about 200 feet.
On a warm (T >70 degree), dry day with no wind and little traffic, the car will easily get the 47 mpg.
Temperature has a large impact on the mpg. The same example above in 25 degree weather will net about 36-38 mpg, consistent with the reporting done over the winter. Obviously, cold starts and running the defroster has a big effect, and the electric traction motor eats away at the battery much quicker at lower temps.
Rain will cut the mpg on my work route to about 43 mpg, and the extra drag is very noticeable. A headwind has the same effect. Tailwinds are fun though, and it kinda feels like sailing when the ICE is off.
Cruising at 55-60 mph on the highway, in no traffic on a warm, dry, and windless day, I can get the 47 mpg.
A quick temperature and mpg plot (assuming dry, windless conditions) looks like:
(T deg F, mpg): (25, 36), (30, 38), (40, 40), (50, 43), (60, 45+), (70, 47+), (80, 45).
There is some roll-off at the higher temps because you have the A/C running.
Driver style has a huge impact on observed mileage, and this cannot be stated enough. My wife is your typical, jackrabbit starting, bumper riding, race-to-red driver. Her mpg is far worse than mine. I doubt she's ever seen 40 mpg. A trip that I can do at 45 mpg, she'll get 36 mpg. I've tried to coach her on the basics of hybrid driving, but she just doesn't get it. I imagine a lot of people are the same way. You either "get" how to drive a hybrid, or you don't.
I've been using Clear Sky Clocks for years. Find a clock near you and then click on "Light pollution map." From there, click on link road map and you can find where good and bad skies are. Have fun.
I used to live in Colorado and spent quite a bit of time on the slopes so I feel qualified to comment on your analogy.
In just about every situation, it doesn't matter whether you ride or ski, you will have fun on any type of terrain given you are good enough to be on it. There's not much a skier can do that a boarder can't and vice versa. There are certain situations where a board is better and some where skis are better, but only slightly.
Boards typically do better in the park and deep powder while skis excel in raw speed and mogul type runs to include glades. Skis are also easier on the T-bar, but that's only because a T-bar was not designed for boards. Boards suck on slow flat spots and there's the whole strap/click-in at the top of the lift. But, when I am going "sky-ground-tree, sky-ground-tree, tree getting closer", I would rather be on a board than having all my shit fly off rocketing down the mountain at Mach 5. And no, those little ski brakes do not work on the steep stuff.
So really, for just about every task, there isn't much difference between any kind of Linux or Mac, just as there is little difference between boarding and skiing.
Hard to believe they still don't have a Mac version. Check out the graphics on their site. The "PC" they use kinda looks like a Mac to me.
"The greatest irony of Humvees and other SUVs is that people generally buy them because they have the perception of safety."
Well maybe that's what the industry wants *you* to think. But if you actually look at what people are doing with SUVs and full-size pickups, it's not to "feel safe", but to check the box on the "need" or "potential need" to haul stuff around.
If you throw out all the people driving around in SUVs that are clearly using them for status vehicles and throw out others who are using them for their business, you are left with families who have a couple of kids, maybe a dog, and possibly a boat.
A mid-sized sedan (like my Accord) barely fits two kids (especially if they are both in car seats) and two adults for a road trip to grandma's house. There is not much room left for cargo and things like strollers. However, many of my wife's friends have minivans and/or SUVs so they can haul the kids around and maybe the groceries too. Safety is nowhere near the top of their list of why they purchased a vehicle. Gas prices are killing their budgets, but they can't give up the space.
0+7334H0! (excellent) "aht-leech-na"
Creation without true understanding is not geeky. Amateur astronomy is a perfect example of this. Lots of folks buy kilobuck telescopes that require very little in the way of astronomical knowledge to operate them. They hook up kilobuck CCD cameras, take pretty pictures, and then post them in forums thinking they are astrogeeks. Not so!
I spent the better part of an hour trying to explain to a guy why his telescope wouldn't slew to Jupiter. He was mad because "all you had to do was push this button here..." Nevermind the fact that Jupiter wouldn't rise for several hours.
Does the fact that I grind my own mirrors and build my own telescopes make me a geek? Not really. Crafty maybe. But the fact that I can find Jupiter on any given day and then get into a debate about the MTF of a telescope probably does.
doubleplus ungood, comrade!
Officially, no. It probably depends on who your commander is and whether or not he gives a hoot. I wouldn't let my troops drink in a combat zone. Ever try to shoot accurately after a few beers?
With Oprah on your side, it's only a matter of time before GoDaddy folds under the male bashing onslaught.
You sir, need to report immediately to the State Consumer Bureau for reeducation. Blatantly using logic in your purchases and thwarting the efforts of advertisers is a felony. You are not worthy of U.S. citizenship.
While your logic makes sense to all of us at /., the music industry simply wants to extract maximum cash from its listeners. Most of these listeners are teenagers with (if my memory serves me) the largest disposable income of any age group and who have the highest propensity to impulse buy.
Using your model, the music industry would forfeit large sums of money because the crap teens download would quickly become dirt cheap. Using their model they would have impulsive teens buying $3.00 songs within 24 hrs of a release as people scramble to buy in at the lowest price. The kids don't care, and the record industry sits back and laughs.
Which apps on OSX steal focus? I don't think I've ever seen that. Usually the icon in the dock jumps up and down to tell you there is another app that wants some user input.
Oops, guess it was the NSA
I remember they did a write up last year about securing OS X Panther.
Ok, I get the "uber geeks" marketing speak, but what the hell is a "Silver Web Surfer?" Maybe grannie would like one of these 1337 keyboards?
Probably to artificially increase search hits to web sites.
Bullshit!
Do you lefties ever stop and take stock of how many "hard" scientists and engineers are among your rank? You know, the people that design and build shit instead of just talking about it? It's no wonder why we are losing this race. Too many of you are working to discover "cures" and not thinking about more practical things.
Second, you all have likely seen the commercial from Some Big Drug Company(TM), where some suit gets up there and says making grannies cheap drugs is more important than rocket science? That's what we are up against.
They look like toys for an 8-year-old.
equals probable fusion failure.
The fewer components you have, the less likely you are to encounter a failure.
True hardware box failures are taken care of by redundancies,not by limiting parts.
I remember reading something about most space missions are pre-determined and very straight forward
Actually, the military likes to get the most mileage out of their assets and you would not believe some of the reprogramming that goes on to reconfigure the software to extend and/or modify a mission.
but these problems have to be analysed and decision made by people on earth.
Yes, but response time for anomaly teams is usually an hour at best. Many satellites have built-in error checking and will take care of themselves given the chance, including putting themselves into "safemode."
Unless I'm totally wrong, most of the weather data the commercial companies use is derived from public owned--and taxpayer funded-- assets like GOES and the myriad NEXRAD sites around the country.
IMO, the NWS is one of the few examples of a sucessful government entity. I think this is one of those examples, like the military, that a public agency is far superior than a for-profit corporation.
1) Wavelengths are too big: 1 micron is now a large number, and optics doesn't work much smaller than this.
Please clarify what you mean here. 1 micron is in the IR, and optical laws work just fine down to fractions of an Angstrom as in Bragg diffraction and scattering of solids.
but it kinda seems like cheatin' with the external camera. I wonder why they couldn't incorporate the simple optical train into the eye directly? The benefit is that you could see in UV, IR, etc. with a camera and software swap.
My wife telecommutes from OH to CA. We lived in CO for half the year, and she pays state tax in all three. Yeah, her company isn't too happy about it either. States are like sharks these days with your paycheck...but that is for another topic!