For a traditionally-fueled vehicle, you need to consider exploration, extraction, refinery, transportation, and disaster mitigation.
My "traditionally-fueled vehicle" (well, one of them anyway) runs on modified vegetable oil, "extracted" from restaurant grease traps and "refined" by filtering, adding alcohol to cause transesterification, and washing to remove the soap.
Hydrogen is difficult and dangerous to store (both because of its flammability and the high pressure needed to store enough of it in a reasonably-small space). However, there is a solution: simply add a little bit of carbon to it and you end up with an energy-dense liquid fuel that's much easier to handle -- so easy, in fact, that we've already built the infrastructure to do it!
Gasoline engines do in fact put out a lot of particulates, and always have. It just doesn't seem that way because the size distribution is weighted more towards the smaller end of the spectrum than it is for Diesels, so the soot is less visible. Of course, since smaller particles are worse for people's health than larger ones, it could be argued that gasoline engines are actually worse than Diesels and that the regulations targeting Diesel emissions are actually based on bad science.
Hybrid vehicles (and EVs, probably) have smaller brake pads than similarly sized conventional vehicles (though the actual stopping power of the disc brakes in an emergency is just as good as regular cars).
No it's not. Stopping power in an emergency depends almost entirely on the tires, not the brakes -- assuming the brakes have the minimum level of capability necessary to lock up / engage the ABS -- and hybrids and EVs almost uniformly have incredibly terrible, skinny, low-rolling-resistance tires.
(Bigger brakes are only important in reducing fade caused by repeated braking.)
Most electric cars are of the small variety, weighing about a ton. Compare to 2.5 ton SUVs.
No, that would be stupid. Compare to actually-comparable conventional small cars, such as Civics and Corollas. (Or Fits and Yarises, depending on just how small the EV in question is.)
I definitely smell the brakes and tires of my '90 Miata occasionally (usually due to [legal] racing or enthusiastic driving), but never smell the exhaust.
Your post reminds me of a story in South Sea Tales by Jack London in which people ride out a hurricane on a low-lying island by tying themselves to the palm trees.
It's "bald-faced lie." (As in, a lie so brazen that you don't even use facial hair to hide your smirking expression.) If you're going to use the idiom, at least get it right!
I don't understand how there is not even more apprehension with Clinton.
Why would there be apprehension with Clinton? We know roughly what she would do in office, which is to continue the policies of the Obama administration. You might like that idea or hate it (I hate it, but for different reasons than the conservatives do), but it's not an unknown to be nervous about in the way a Trump presidency would be.
I can't see replacing the motherboard can save me more than pennies in electricity. I can buy something enormously more powerful but I cannot find (fanless) motherboards that sip power.
I've got a MSI AM1I and an AMD Sempron which, although it apparently has a 25W TDP, is running just fine with a fanless heatsink. (The power supply in that system has a fan, but that's because I threw in one I had lying around, not because I think it needs it.)
I'd be willing to bet that with some underclocking / undervolting it could get under 20W system TDP. For all I know, my build might be under 20W average power as-is.
My goal was a cheap build, not explicitly a low-power one -- the mobo+CPU+RAM+heatsink+case was well under $100 and I reused an old PSU and hard drive -- but I think it could suit your needs as well.
Being a grammar nazi is all well and good, but you fucked up your capitalization and missed a period in your ellipsis. You may want to step outside of your glass house first the next time you decide to start slinging stones.
Of course, it would be easy to "blame the victim" here and say that, since at least the more libertarian and/or corporatist conservatives see nothing wrong with unregulated near-monopolies then they deserve whatever suppression of their ideology they get....
If the goal is the FDA-recommended 2000 daily calorie intake*, and you eat three meals a day, then any meal with fewer than 2000/3 calories is reasonable to characterize as "light."
(* Whether the FDA recommendations are reasonable is a separate issue.)
I think the best thing that people could work towards is a slower, more relaxed pace of life. Everybody is so tense and constantly on edge. Every little problem that comes up is the zomg sky is falling end of the damned world. We seem so completely detached from the essence of living, at least in an agricultural sense: preparing for the growing season, working the earth when plants will grow, harvesting in fall (along with the requisite fall feast), and spending the time of year when little if anything grows with loved ones, safe and confident that enough wood has been gathered and chopped and enough food has been stored away to last until the cycle is complete when spring returns.
In a hunter-gatherer sense: the Earth provides. There will always be enough. Don't horde and don't be greedy. Don't take more than you need.
I feel we've created a culture where everybody is driven like they're being chased down by a lion day after day after day after day. It's not really about the act of eating--that's not what I mean by don't take more than you need--, but it's about the endless 24/7 life-and-death brink-of-the-edge reality that is life in the "developed" world.
Part of the problem there is job structure: most jobs are designed either to pay more than you need to live on for a minimum of 40 hours/week of work (often many more), or pay much less than you need to live on for a maximum of 35 hours/week (often less). Part-time jobs that pay well are extremely rare, making it hard to achieve the slower-paced "earn enough to live on in 20 hours/week" lifestyle you're advocating for.
The best I've been able to do to approximate such a thing is to work full-time now, but have a very large (>50%) savings rate so that I can retire extremely early.
If you just want 4k for desktop pixels (as opposed to high-end gaming) then even an AMD R7 260x will do that. Mine even gets me acceptable framerates at 4k in most of the games I play, which tend to be older (e.g. Skyrim, TF2, Kerbal Space Program, Star Trek Online, etc.).
Ever since AMD and ATI merged, I've been hoping for socketed GPUs that communicate over HyperTransport. But so far, at least, all we've gotten is APUs instead. : (
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I removed the spare tire from my car because it's 26 years old (which means I don't trust it) and similar-sized replacements are no longer made.
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My "traditionally-fueled vehicle" (well, one of them anyway) runs on modified vegetable oil, "extracted" from restaurant grease traps and "refined" by filtering, adding alcohol to cause transesterification, and washing to remove the soap.
Hydrogen is difficult and dangerous to store (both because of its flammability and the high pressure needed to store enough of it in a reasonably-small space). However, there is a solution: simply add a little bit of carbon to it and you end up with an energy-dense liquid fuel that's much easier to handle -- so easy, in fact, that we've already built the infrastructure to do it!
Gasoline engines do in fact put out a lot of particulates, and always have. It just doesn't seem that way because the size distribution is weighted more towards the smaller end of the spectrum than it is for Diesels, so the soot is less visible. Of course, since smaller particles are worse for people's health than larger ones, it could be argued that gasoline engines are actually worse than Diesels and that the regulations targeting Diesel emissions are actually based on bad science.
What part of "Prius c " did you not understand? The Prius and the Prius c are two completely fucking different cars! Wikipedia says:
If you're going to be an asshole and "correct" somebody, you'd better make sure you're not the one who's wrong first!
No it's not. Stopping power in an emergency depends almost entirely on the tires, not the brakes -- assuming the brakes have the minimum level of capability necessary to lock up / engage the ABS -- and hybrids and EVs almost uniformly have incredibly terrible, skinny, low-rolling-resistance tires.
(Bigger brakes are only important in reducing fade caused by repeated braking.)
No, that would be stupid. Compare to actually-comparable conventional small cars, such as Civics and Corollas. (Or Fits and Yarises, depending on just how small the EV in question is.)
I definitely smell the brakes and tires of my '90 Miata occasionally (usually due to [legal] racing or enthusiastic driving), but never smell the exhaust.
Your post reminds me of a story in South Sea Tales by Jack London in which people ride out a hurricane on a low-lying island by tying themselves to the palm trees.
It's "bald-faced lie." (As in, a lie so brazen that you don't even use facial hair to hide your smirking expression.) If you're going to use the idiom, at least get it right!
The :visited selector, I'd assume.
Distinguishing visited links has been built into browsers since the beginning of the Web, although styling it via CSS is newer.
It goes without saying that all links matter -- except for black links, where recent events prove that it needs to be said after all.
Nah, that makes them sound inaccurately good. (If Jesus were alive today, I'll bet he'd be a Bernie supporter.)
How about "the party of people almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Jesus?"
Why would there be apprehension with Clinton? We know roughly what she would do in office, which is to continue the policies of the Obama administration. You might like that idea or hate it (I hate it, but for different reasons than the conservatives do), but it's not an unknown to be nervous about in the way a Trump presidency would be.
I've got a MSI AM1I and an AMD Sempron which, although it apparently has a 25W TDP, is running just fine with a fanless heatsink. (The power supply in that system has a fan, but that's because I threw in one I had lying around, not because I think it needs it.)
I'd be willing to bet that with some underclocking / undervolting it could get under 20W system TDP. For all I know, my build might be under 20W average power as-is.
My goal was a cheap build, not explicitly a low-power one -- the mobo+CPU+RAM+heatsink+case was well under $100 and I reused an old PSU and hard drive -- but I think it could suit your needs as well.
What you do is cross-compile on your modern box.
Being a grammar nazi is all well and good, but you fucked up your capitalization and missed a period in your ellipsis. You may want to step outside of your glass house first the next time you decide to start slinging stones.
What's wrong with dumping it "like a _____"?
How does stevia fit into all that?
Of course, it would be easy to "blame the victim" here and say that, since at least the more libertarian and/or corporatist conservatives see nothing wrong with unregulated near-monopolies then they deserve whatever suppression of their ideology they get....
If the goal is the FDA-recommended 2000 daily calorie intake*, and you eat three meals a day, then any meal with fewer than 2000/3 calories is reasonable to characterize as "light."
(* Whether the FDA recommendations are reasonable is a separate issue.)
Part of the problem there is job structure: most jobs are designed either to pay more than you need to live on for a minimum of 40 hours/week of work (often many more), or pay much less than you need to live on for a maximum of 35 hours/week (often less). Part-time jobs that pay well are extremely rare, making it hard to achieve the slower-paced "earn enough to live on in 20 hours/week" lifestyle you're advocating for.
The best I've been able to do to approximate such a thing is to work full-time now, but have a very large (>50%) savings rate so that I can retire extremely early.
Well, sure, technically it's only half as fast, but 2000 times more parallel.
If you just want 4k for desktop pixels (as opposed to high-end gaming) then even an AMD R7 260x will do that. Mine even gets me acceptable framerates at 4k in most of the games I play, which tend to be older (e.g. Skyrim, TF2, Kerbal Space Program, Star Trek Online, etc.).
Ever since AMD and ATI merged, I've been hoping for socketed GPUs that communicate over HyperTransport. But so far, at least, all we've gotten is APUs instead. : (