Tesla could help design one, together with other electric car manufacturers. If you can use each other's charging stations, it would help solve the chicken/egg problem of electric cars, and benefit everybody involved.
The EV folks (in general) are already working on it. It takes time to create a world standard. You need to clarify the whole worldwide patent and licensing issue. Then there's consumer safety issues. Then there's the obvious problem of it takes a meeting of 5 groups 10 times longer to do what any individual could do.
G+ just opened up pages. I'd like a page for co-maintainership of some software. I could wait six months for the ideal standardized perfect solution, or I could just do my best attempt today.
Also its just a connector. Admittedly most of them are smart connectors. But still, fundamentally just a connector. Not hard to design for retrofitting with the new standard, or build and sell an adapter.
Install a tiny lightweight gen in a tiny little trailer.
Lets say it holds 90 KWh and goes 300 miles on a charge at 60 MPH. Simple math shows the average current drain cannot exceed 18 KW. So install a 30 HP snowblower engine in a trailer, plug it in, and as long as you keep the gas tank full, you can drive until you wear the tires out...
Whoops didn't see your post before posting my reply. The J1772 tops out around 20 KW, Tesla is installing 90 KW fast chargers. There exists a european connector that handles 40 KW but its condensation state (vapor or real?) is unknown to me personally.
1) Scientists/Engineers think it could be done in a press release. We're at 400 KW here. 2) A tested standard exists. The european 40 KW thing is at least here, maybe further 3) Product ships, but you need to know the secret handshake to buy components. The 20 KW J1772 is here, maybe the European thing is arriving 4) You can buy the connector at Mouser / JDR / Digikey / Electrician supply houses no problemo. Strange twist-lock three phase 440V things are here. "Ten horsepower" sounds like about the limit for those, and they're industrial not consumer-proof like a J1772 5) You can buy it at home depot, made in China, in a big box. Thats 15 amp heavy duty outdoor rated extension cords, good for about one and a half KW although occasionally they catch fire and sometimes leave the ground lead out, if they were made in China.
I've been theoretically thinking about turning an old car into an EV. Lead acid = 10 mile range, but I don't care, thats enough for most trips. So I've been researching connectors for a charger. Realistically most lead acid types put a forklift charger in the back seat, with a heavy duty extension cord coiled up to it, and call it good, but I was thinking of over engineering it, at least until I saw how much a J1772 costs in onsie-twosie qtys. Maybe they're cheaper now?
First of all there is no such thing as a standardized connector for more than fifty or so KW. Sorry.
There is a strange european undeployed connector, that looks vaguely like the cylinder of a barrett.50 cal revolver, both in size, and probably weight, that tops out around 40 or so KW.
There is a vaporware plan for a 400 KW connector in the works. Either due to insulation, or copper, that dude is going to resemble a firehose, probably in both size and weight.
Even industrially, I've worked in / visited many plants and once you get over a dozen or so KW, big machinery is hard wired in, no connectors. For example the 80 foot long metal lathe I had to walk around at the crane repair company was not exactly powered by a walmart extension cord... In more than a century of electrical service, a "consumer-proof" 100 KW connector has not been needed up to this point.
The 90 kilowatt units will be installed by Tesla
That power level would probably set a J1772 on fire, or at least reduce its service life to nil, if you violated the protocol and just shoved the current thru, mythbusters style.
I heard on IRC that they use pirated software to spam, although I have no first hand knowledge or documentation. Are there not paramilitary heavily armed SWAT team like organizations that break down doors, like we have in the land-of-the-unfree to your south?
Also CP is sold by spammers, and they are spammers, so they probably traffic in CP, correct? The legal system loves to bust CP distributors.
Every other day, for weeks, there's a/. story, complete with at least one mandatory "whats a raspberry pi?" post. That calls for a rickroll. Just check out goatse.ru for a photograph of the board...
Uh, yeah, I agree with you in general, that's why if you investigated my suggestions, you'd find they're some of the few non PR/sales/marketing department paid mouthpieces out there.
A dude whos a salesguy with an econ degree is a slimey salesguy first, and whatever degree he has is a distant second. The degree isn't whats gonna put bacon on the table...
Actually, the individual school district, at least around here. The geography of districts appears as gerrymandered as any other political boundary and has no relationship with local representative government boundaries. Its quite a headache for local election officials, and they Strongly encourage the boundaries to follow at least some known electoral boundary like aldermen or state reps or "something" to prevent it from being a complete nightmare.
The state makes laws e.g. against discrimination (by age, sex, gender, race, culture etc.). And then the state agrees to a "union contract" that does not allow them to hire teachers in the age of 22 to 40?
The union contract here works on a seniority basis and a bumping basis, too many licensed teachers vs too few job slots equals a union mandated bump of 18 years seniority in that district. Assuming you graduate with an ed degree at 22, that means no hiring from 22-40, although if I went back to school and got an ed degree I could not be hired for 18 more years. There are exceptions for educational requirements, special ed teachers need special ed classes and special license, and their bump date is something ridiculous like 23 years due to demand. Speech language pathologists pretty much write their own ticket too, or so I'm told.
During the housing crisis/bubble I could only hire young illegal aliens to install a new roof on my house. In comparison, last summer I had some outside siding repairs done and it was a team of gray haired finish carpenters willing to do anything to make a buck. Supply and Demand, thats all it is.
Somewhat seriously, find the top 10 political donors, they will be the ones who decide what happens anyway regardless of who wins, and ask them what they have decided for us?
Not all of them spam like that, especially small business owners.
I do see your point, that a heck of a lot of people follow Ms Limor Fried (misspelled?) and she posts a heck of a lot of good stuff on G+ but a lot more people would be able to find and follow a G+ ladyada.com page.
Ian Lesnet from Dangerous Prototypes always posts to his blog, which is perfectly OK, but I imagine a lot more people would follow +DP than +Ian.
Uncle Leo and TWIT probably don't qualify as merely being small businesses anymore, but I could see that none the less being easier to find. Hmm... +Triangulation is a lot easier than guessing if its +Leo and/or +Tom Meritt or Merrit or WTF.
My Debian Circle has 55 people in it, and my ham radio operators circle has 784 people. I'm thinking it would be a heck of a lot simpler to just circle +Debian or +ARRL.
I thinking of FB "Coca Cola" "monster energy drinks" and similar pages, which as I remember were pure spam.
many companies who had grown accustomed to interacting with customers on Facebook
I never saw much "interaction" unless you mean spamming with marketing messages, or simply ignoring them. Is/was there any other form of FB interaction?
WRT to my question about shop tools, it just goes to show that the only limit on what a guy can do in his shop is imagination. I hang out with homemade steam engine guys and he would fit right with the high end steam and internal combustion guys. He did some machining at work, if I read him correctly, but some of the steam engine guys, by retirement, accumulate a shop at home about as good as this guy has access to. That's pretty cool.
A question I wish I or someone else had asked, is has he given presentations to schools, does he have a whole routine and outline set up, speaker and travel fee, etc. His subject matter would be perfect for my local hackerspace to do a fundraiser to bring him here for a speech. Organizing this is not my area of expertise, but if "someone" would do it, that would be cool.
Claims 111 to 213 mg of Hg ions per Kg of soil, which seems a wee bit high. mg per Kg is basically a wordy version of PPM. I'm not sure if that scales, that would imply all of China's dirt added together would be some multiple of the total planetary store of Hg, wouldn't it?. Note this is the dirt that is washed off the mountains annually, so its probably the highest possible soil concentration.
Claims plain ole Canadian forest dirt has 200 ng/g aka PPB. That seems like a reasonable number. High enough to fit with historical coal burning, low enough not to instantly kill anything grown in it, etc. Note this is just "bulk dirt"
I suppose soil levels in China could very well be 1000 times higher than in a forest in rural Canada.
As for the thermometer, fever thermometers used to have somewhat less than a gram of metallic non-ionized mercury. I am no expert on rectal thermometers. But I'm willing guess "somewhere in the gram level" is about right. Think about it for a second, goatse aside, the orifice is usually smaller than the mouth the oral thermometers use.
So to make one thermometer, you need something like all the soil in an entire medium sized Canadian farm, or a couple shovel fulls of Chinese dirt.
The big problem is liquid thermometers were made with Hg decades ago, alcohol solutions a decade or two ago, and are electronic now. Somebody putting Hg in your rear in 2011 is making a weird internet video, not doing a legitimate medical procedure.
one tenth of China's 1.22 million square kilometers of farmland are polluted with heavy metals and other toxins
Ah, that explains why food has begun to appear at my local store from China. I knew it couldn't be any good, just wondered about the details.
Vermont Village Organic applesauce is "canned" (is fruitcupped a verb?) in Barre, Vermont, according to the label on my desk (guess what I'm eating for lunch today?). Not sure where they're grown, Vermont is so small it probably only has like two trees. The fact they don't say where they're grown is disturbing.
Generic/big corporate apple fruit cups are proudly labeled as made in China. Frozen fruit comes from China also. I have stopped buying that for health reasons. Read your labels, or suffer the consequences...
You would start walking at every red traffic light, and only stop when you see a really impressive deeper red light: ("that's deep, dude... whoa... I think I'll stop now").
Interaction with the "red light district" is going to be complicated.
What kind of TV do you watch? Perhaps you should try watching something other than the latest reality tv show if you want good commercials. Here's a hint: different channels target different audiences.
The test is during the early afternoon on a weekday. Other than "judge judy" wannabes, what else is on other than "reality" shows? The CNBC stock fluffer team? Fox news?
China attacks West coast. Inbound missiles observed. Evacuate all major cities.
I have a sort of the inside track on this from station engineer acquaintances / friends
They would never announce that for military reasons. Need the roads clear for the VIP evacs, troop carriers, tanks and artillery, etc. Panic in the streets is exactly the effect they are not looking for. Local nuke plant leak, chem plant leak, oh yes, lots of detail preparation and planning and procedures. Military / terror attack? No.
Coastal station engineers tell me tsunami warning delivery is considered kind of their shining goal as everything else (other than leaking plants mentioned above) is handled better using alternative methods. I guess theoretically a big tsunami could hit an entire coast.
Slashdot Mirror
When your internal training websites break on this crap,
Ahh theres the flaw in your logic. IF your internal training websites break because twitter is now a drop down search option, you've got big problems.
Tesla could help design one, together with other electric car manufacturers. If you can use each other's charging stations, it would help solve the chicken/egg problem of electric cars, and benefit everybody involved.
The EV folks (in general) are already working on it. It takes time to create a world standard. You need to clarify the whole worldwide patent and licensing issue. Then there's consumer safety issues. Then there's the obvious problem of it takes a meeting of 5 groups 10 times longer to do what any individual could do.
G+ just opened up pages. I'd like a page for co-maintainership of some software. I could wait six months for the ideal standardized perfect solution, or I could just do my best attempt today.
Also its just a connector. Admittedly most of them are smart connectors. But still, fundamentally just a connector. Not hard to design for retrofitting with the new standard, or build and sell an adapter.
Try harder. Its cheap and therefore more universal, that's what makes it fundamentally different.
Install a tiny lightweight gen in a tiny little trailer.
Lets say it holds 90 KWh and goes 300 miles on a charge at 60 MPH. Simple math shows the average current drain cannot exceed 18 KW. So install a 30 HP snowblower engine in a trailer, plug it in, and as long as you keep the gas tank full, you can drive until you wear the tires out...
Whoops didn't see your post before posting my reply. The J1772 tops out around 20 KW, Tesla is installing 90 KW fast chargers. There exists a european connector that handles 40 KW but its condensation state (vapor or real?) is unknown to me personally.
1) Scientists/Engineers think it could be done in a press release. We're at 400 KW here.
2) A tested standard exists. The european 40 KW thing is at least here, maybe further
3) Product ships, but you need to know the secret handshake to buy components. The 20 KW J1772 is here, maybe the European thing is arriving
4) You can buy the connector at Mouser / JDR / Digikey / Electrician supply houses no problemo. Strange twist-lock three phase 440V things are here. "Ten horsepower" sounds like about the limit for those, and they're industrial not consumer-proof like a J1772
5) You can buy it at home depot, made in China, in a big box. Thats 15 amp heavy duty outdoor rated extension cords, good for about one and a half KW although occasionally they catch fire and sometimes leave the ground lead out, if they were made in China.
I've been theoretically thinking about turning an old car into an EV. Lead acid = 10 mile range, but I don't care, thats enough for most trips. So I've been researching connectors for a charger. Realistically most lead acid types put a forklift charger in the back seat, with a heavy duty extension cord coiled up to it, and call it good, but I was thinking of over engineering it, at least until I saw how much a J1772 costs in onsie-twosie qtys. Maybe they're cheaper now?
First of all there is no such thing as a standardized connector for more than fifty or so KW. Sorry.
J1772 tops out around 19.2K. I remember when 19.2K was a baud rate not a charger...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_J1772
There is a strange european undeployed connector, that looks vaguely like the cylinder of a barrett .50 cal revolver, both in size, and probably weight, that tops out around 40 or so KW.
There is a vaporware plan for a 400 KW connector in the works. Either due to insulation, or copper, that dude is going to resemble a firehose, probably in both size and weight.
Even industrially, I've worked in / visited many plants and once you get over a dozen or so KW, big machinery is hard wired in, no connectors. For example the 80 foot long metal lathe I had to walk around at the crane repair company was not exactly powered by a walmart extension cord... In more than a century of electrical service, a "consumer-proof" 100 KW connector has not been needed up to this point.
The 90 kilowatt units will be installed by Tesla
That power level would probably set a J1772 on fire, or at least reduce its service life to nil, if you violated the protocol and just shoved the current thru, mythbusters style.
I heard on IRC that they use pirated software to spam, although I have no first hand knowledge or documentation. Are there not paramilitary heavily armed SWAT team like organizations that break down doors, like we have in the land-of-the-unfree to your south?
Also CP is sold by spammers, and they are spammers, so they probably traffic in CP, correct? The legal system loves to bust CP distributors.
Small claims courts are easier if you're a local. There's no way I could sue them, but you could.
This calls for an Arduin of Ivrea joke, but I just can't find one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduin_of_Ivrea
... is a Raspberry-Pi?
Every other day, for weeks, there's a /. story, complete with at least one mandatory "whats a raspberry pi?" post. That calls for a rickroll. Just check out goatse.ru for a photograph of the board...
Uh, yeah, I agree with you in general, that's why if you investigated my suggestions, you'd find they're some of the few non PR/sales/marketing department paid mouthpieces out there.
A dude whos a salesguy with an econ degree is a slimey salesguy first, and whatever degree he has is a distant second. The degree isn't whats gonna put bacon on the table...
Teachers are employed by the state.
Actually, the individual school district, at least around here. The geography of districts appears as gerrymandered as any other political boundary and has no relationship with local representative government boundaries. Its quite a headache for local election officials, and they Strongly encourage the boundaries to follow at least some known electoral boundary like aldermen or state reps or "something" to prevent it from being a complete nightmare.
The state makes laws e.g. against discrimination (by age, sex, gender, race, culture etc.). And then the state agrees to a "union contract" that does not allow them to hire teachers in the age of 22 to 40?
The union contract here works on a seniority basis and a bumping basis, too many licensed teachers vs too few job slots equals a union mandated bump of 18 years seniority in that district. Assuming you graduate with an ed degree at 22, that means no hiring from 22-40, although if I went back to school and got an ed degree I could not be hired for 18 more years. There are exceptions for educational requirements, special ed teachers need special ed classes and special license, and their bump date is something ridiculous like 23 years due to demand. Speech language pathologists pretty much write their own ticket too, or so I'm told.
During the housing crisis/bubble I could only hire young illegal aliens to install a new roof on my house. In comparison, last summer I had some outside siding repairs done and it was a team of gray haired finish carpenters willing to do anything to make a buck. Supply and Demand, thats all it is.
That would be 3-4 tedious hours of "legalize weed" "9-11 conspiracy" "can we pass an amendment to remove the separation of church and state"
Somewhat seriously, find the top 10 political donors, they will be the ones who decide what happens anyway regardless of who wins, and ask them what they have decided for us?
And ESR
And Penn Gillette (Jillete?) WTF it is spelled.
an economist
An economist you say?
How about Ben Jones
http://thehousingbubbleblog.com/
An how about Tyler Durden (A pseudonym, duh, but I think it would be hilarious to see the ZH response to our questions)
http://www.zerohedge.com/
Last but not least, George Ure, who is about 20% genius, 60% eh, and 20% nuts?
http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm
Your cats have, or are, businesses?
New to the internet? Let me introduce you to http://icanhascheezburger.com/
Not all of them spam like that, especially small business owners.
I do see your point, that a heck of a lot of people follow Ms Limor Fried (misspelled?) and she posts a heck of a lot of good stuff on G+ but a lot more people would be able to find and follow a G+ ladyada.com page.
Ian Lesnet from Dangerous Prototypes always posts to his blog, which is perfectly OK, but I imagine a lot more people would follow +DP than +Ian.
Uncle Leo and TWIT probably don't qualify as merely being small businesses anymore, but I could see that none the less being easier to find. Hmm... +Triangulation is a lot easier than guessing if its +Leo and/or +Tom Meritt or Merrit or WTF.
My Debian Circle has 55 people in it, and my ham radio operators circle has 784 people. I'm thinking it would be a heck of a lot simpler to just circle +Debian or +ARRL.
I thinking of FB "Coca Cola" "monster energy drinks" and similar pages, which as I remember were pure spam.
I deleted my FB account a year or two ago, but
many companies who had grown accustomed to interacting with customers on Facebook
I never saw much "interaction" unless you mean spamming with marketing messages, or simply ignoring them. Is/was there any other form of FB interaction?
WRT to my question about shop tools, it just goes to show that the only limit on what a guy can do in his shop is imagination. I hang out with homemade steam engine guys and he would fit right with the high end steam and internal combustion guys. He did some machining at work, if I read him correctly, but some of the steam engine guys, by retirement, accumulate a shop at home about as good as this guy has access to. That's pretty cool.
A question I wish I or someone else had asked, is has he given presentations to schools, does he have a whole routine and outline set up, speaker and travel fee, etc. His subject matter would be perfect for my local hackerspace to do a fundraiser to bring him here for a speech. Organizing this is not my area of expertise, but if "someone" would do it, that would be cool.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18396555
Claims 111 to 213 mg of Hg ions per Kg of soil, which seems a wee bit high. mg per Kg is basically a wordy version of PPM. I'm not sure if that scales, that would imply all of China's dirt added together would be some multiple of the total planetary store of Hg, wouldn't it?. Note this is the dirt that is washed off the mountains annually, so its probably the highest possible soil concentration.
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2005JG000061.shtml
Claims plain ole Canadian forest dirt has 200 ng/g aka PPB. That seems like a reasonable number. High enough to fit with historical coal burning, low enough not to instantly kill anything grown in it, etc. Note this is just "bulk dirt"
I suppose soil levels in China could very well be 1000 times higher than in a forest in rural Canada.
As for the thermometer, fever thermometers used to have somewhat less than a gram of metallic non-ionized mercury. I am no expert on rectal thermometers. But I'm willing guess "somewhere in the gram level" is about right. Think about it for a second, goatse aside, the orifice is usually smaller than the mouth the oral thermometers use.
So to make one thermometer, you need something like all the soil in an entire medium sized Canadian farm, or a couple shovel fulls of Chinese dirt.
The big problem is liquid thermometers were made with Hg decades ago, alcohol solutions a decade or two ago, and are electronic now. Somebody putting Hg in your rear in 2011 is making a weird internet video, not doing a legitimate medical procedure.
one tenth of China's 1.22 million square kilometers of farmland are polluted with heavy metals and other toxins
Ah, that explains why food has begun to appear at my local store from China. I knew it couldn't be any good, just wondered about the details.
Vermont Village Organic applesauce is "canned" (is fruitcupped a verb?) in Barre, Vermont, according to the label on my desk (guess what I'm eating for lunch today?). Not sure where they're grown, Vermont is so small it probably only has like two trees. The fact they don't say where they're grown is disturbing.
Generic/big corporate apple fruit cups are proudly labeled as made in China. Frozen fruit comes from China also. I have stopped buying that for health reasons. Read your labels, or suffer the consequences...
You would start walking at every red traffic light, and only stop when you see a really impressive deeper red light: ("that's deep, dude... whoa... I think I'll stop now").
Interaction with the "red light district" is going to be complicated.
What kind of TV do you watch? Perhaps you should try watching something other than the latest reality tv show if you want good commercials. Here's a hint: different channels target different audiences.
The test is during the early afternoon on a weekday. Other than "judge judy" wannabes, what else is on other than "reality" shows? The CNBC stock fluffer team? Fox news?
China attacks West coast. Inbound missiles observed. Evacuate all major cities.
I have a sort of the inside track on this from station engineer acquaintances / friends
They would never announce that for military reasons. Need the roads clear for the VIP evacs, troop carriers, tanks and artillery, etc. Panic in the streets is exactly the effect they are not looking for. Local nuke plant leak, chem plant leak, oh yes, lots of detail preparation and planning and procedures. Military / terror attack? No.
Coastal station engineers tell me tsunami warning delivery is considered kind of their shining goal as everything else (other than leaking plants mentioned above) is handled better using alternative methods. I guess theoretically a big tsunami could hit an entire coast.