So what. Not everyone pays for it such as a bum on the street and poor people don't pay as much in income tax. They get the same treatment as everyone else unless you're rich and go to a private hospital.
The beauty of folding space time is the end points can be anywhere. Assuming the Delorian folds space time, the two end points of space are folded to the same place. The Delorian moves a relatively short distance through physical space which can turn out to actually be a huge distance after the unfolding.
The easiest way of explaining it is to think of the universe as a flat piece of paper. When you want to go from one end to the other, if you fold the two ends together and punch a hole through both sides, you went a huge distance.
Modern ground source heat pumps can get 3KW of energy from the ground for every 1KW of electricity used. This is much more green than every other heating source except for hot spring geothermal and passive solar.
If you got a quote for $10K it is purely based on an open loop. Drilling holes in the ground usually costs $10K or more by itself because the drillers charge around $10-$12/foot. This went up a lot due to the higher fuel costs and still hasn't come down much like everything else.
The geothermal heat pump itself usually will not cost much more than a high efficiency top end gas furnace. The extra cost is the drilling/digging, labour and duct work changes required. Geothermal requires moving more air over the coils which usually means you need to upgrade your ductwork trunks to larger sizes.
DX has problems in colder weather due to the refrigerant pooling in the U joint at the bottom of the hole. It is more efficient but it's also a lot easier to screw up as well. Since most installers don't have a lot of experience it's a lot easier to go with a regular plastic loop or open/well loops.
I think it's highly doubtful that the electricity grid would need to be upgraded. Think of the demand in the summer due to A/C. It might be different in the UK but in North America there's a huge electricity draw due to A/C in the summer. Geothermal heat pumps are more efficient at cooling than an air to air(i.e. central air, or external air to air heat exchanger) A/C unit. Thus the demand for electricity in the summer would be lower than A/C if everyone was using geothermal exchange.
Yes that's called a pond loop in geothermal land. It works extremely well. The best part is looking out to the frozen pond and knowing you are heating your house with it.
I completely agree that this tech. is NOT a "little known" thing. This has been around for over 30 years. I do disagree that this is unsuitable for northern areas because geothermal heat pumps are used all throughout northern Canada where it gets to -40C(-40F) in Alberta and Saskatchewan for example.
In almost every instance a heat pump will save you money on the month to month heating and cooling(it will reverse directions and air condition in the summer). The initial expense is usually around $20,000 CAD to $30,000 CAD which if you are getting a mortgage is easier to absorb most of the time than after you've already built the house.
I wonder how long until someone demands the source code for the cop's radar detector. There's gotta be at least a little bit of assembly code in those.
You see here Judge, that the company is using the improper register d0 when they should have pushed d9 onto the stack and did a bshd9 2 (bitshift register d9) to multiply the input radar signal level by 2.
Amen. Any job where I have to consistently work 9 days straight I'd be quitting within a few weeks. I already have enough to do in the evenings after work and the company isn't going to take that away from me. Even 3 day weekends aren't worth it.
Must have mixed it up with another flying car or maybe a previous design of this one. The one I thought they were talking about used to have manually extended wings, not electrically.
I don't know of anywhere that is that cheap but if you can find it then good for you I guess. Is that in a light sport aircraft? The 152 I rent for training is $107 CAD per hour plus instructor is $65 per hour. Works out to around $180/hr CAD during training which I agree is ridiculously expensive. That's all there is close to me though.
This plane from the article uses the little Rotax engine that's popular in a lot of kit planes and LSA. I believe those can run on car gas but they run a lot better on proper high octane avgas.
It's an airplane so you land at a designated airport just like every other airplane in existence. It must not be that obvious if you can't figure that out. The FARs(US Federal Air Regulations) and the CAR(Canadian Air Regulations) clearly state any aircraft is not to attempt take off or landing on any surface unless that surface is a designated airport or aerodrome.
That is unless it's an emergency then you can land wherever the pilot deems safe. You must report so called "off field landings" to the regulating body of your country(at least that I know of in Canada and the US).
Since this drivable airplane requires a minimum of a sport pilot license, the person driving this would know the rules.
I agree, the sport pilots license is not that much less work than the private once you're done it. The minimum hours are less but in actuality most people take about 1.5 to 2.0 times the minimum hours to get their certificate/license. I'm actually doing my private right now and most people will solo around 20 hrs or so as well. All that really involves is flying a few touch and goes, nothing big, so that's no harder than what the pilot has been doing before the solo.
The Lycoming engines in the Cessna 152s and 172s I fly are shut off by pulling the mixture to idle cut off. I don't think this is a big deal for the engine since it's the recommended procedure by the Pilot's Operating Handbook for these planes. When starting it you usually prime 3 times which sprays fuel in the carburetor.
Maybe not but people don't seem to be stealing private aircraft very often. Maybe if this one was in your drive way it'd be more tempting to steal but it still looks like in order to fly it you have to unfold the wings by hand. It's not like James Bond where the wings fold out electrically and you fly away from the bad guys chasing you.
In the air they have to obey the same rules as other planes. On the ground they have to obey the same rules as other cars. Simple as that. Also to fly one of these things you need a private pilot's license so it's not like any yuppie with 200K is going to be able to fly it.
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So what. Not everyone pays for it such as a bum on the street and poor people don't pay as much in income tax. They get the same treatment as everyone else unless you're rich and go to a private hospital.
Only after applying a recursive algorithm.
I don't know why they're even a victim if they willingly did it.
The beauty of folding space time is the end points can be anywhere. Assuming the Delorian folds space time, the two end points of space are folded to the same place. The Delorian moves a relatively short distance through physical space which can turn out to actually be a huge distance after the unfolding.
The easiest way of explaining it is to think of the universe as a flat piece of paper. When you want to go from one end to the other, if you fold the two ends together and punch a hole through both sides, you went a huge distance.
bollocks
Modern ground source heat pumps can get 3KW of energy from the ground for every 1KW of electricity used. This is much more green than every other heating source except for hot spring geothermal and passive solar.
If you got a quote for $10K it is purely based on an open loop. Drilling holes in the ground usually costs $10K or more by itself because the drillers charge around $10-$12/foot. This went up a lot due to the higher fuel costs and still hasn't come down much like everything else.
The geothermal heat pump itself usually will not cost much more than a high efficiency top end gas furnace. The extra cost is the drilling/digging, labour and duct work changes required. Geothermal requires moving more air over the coils which usually means you need to upgrade your ductwork trunks to larger sizes.
DX has problems in colder weather due to the refrigerant pooling in the U joint at the bottom of the hole. It is more efficient but it's also a lot easier to screw up as well. Since most installers don't have a lot of experience it's a lot easier to go with a regular plastic loop or open/well loops.
You don't use PVC pipe. PVC is brittle. Closed loops use high density polyethylene pipe which is softer and more rugged.
I think it's highly doubtful that the electricity grid would need to be upgraded. Think of the demand in the summer due to A/C. It might be different in the UK but in North America there's a huge electricity draw due to A/C in the summer. Geothermal heat pumps are more efficient at cooling than an air to air(i.e. central air, or external air to air heat exchanger) A/C unit. Thus the demand for electricity in the summer would be lower than A/C if everyone was using geothermal exchange.
Yes that's called a pond loop in geothermal land. It works extremely well. The best part is looking out to the frozen pond and knowing you are heating your house with it.
I completely agree that this tech. is NOT a "little known" thing. This has been around for over 30 years. I do disagree that this is unsuitable for northern areas because geothermal heat pumps are used all throughout northern Canada where it gets to -40C(-40F) in Alberta and Saskatchewan for example.
In almost every instance a heat pump will save you money on the month to month heating and cooling(it will reverse directions and air condition in the summer). The initial expense is usually around $20,000 CAD to $30,000 CAD which if you are getting a mortgage is easier to absorb most of the time than after you've already built the house.
I wonder how long until someone demands the source code for the cop's radar detector. There's gotta be at least a little bit of assembly code in those.
You see here Judge, that the company is using the improper register d0 when they should have pushed d9 onto the stack and did a bshd9 2 (bitshift register d9) to multiply the input radar signal level by 2.
Amen. Any job where I have to consistently work 9 days straight I'd be quitting within a few weeks. I already have enough to do in the evenings after work and the company isn't going to take that away from me. Even 3 day weekends aren't worth it.
I work 37.5/wk and make about $50K Canadian per year sitting at a desk all day.
That should have been "within a built up area". CARs 602.13, not sure what the FAR is.
Must have mixed it up with another flying car or maybe a previous design of this one. The one I thought they were talking about used to have manually extended wings, not electrically.
IFR is reportedly the hardest rating to get, even harder than commercial or CFI. It's extremely useful but takes a lot of hard work.
I don't know of anywhere that is that cheap but if you can find it then good for you I guess. Is that in a light sport aircraft? The 152 I rent for training is $107 CAD per hour plus instructor is $65 per hour. Works out to around $180/hr CAD during training which I agree is ridiculously expensive. That's all there is close to me though.
This plane from the article uses the little Rotax engine that's popular in a lot of kit planes and LSA. I believe those can run on car gas but they run a lot better on proper high octane avgas.
It's an airplane so you land at a designated airport just like every other airplane in existence. It must not be that obvious if you can't figure that out. The FARs(US Federal Air Regulations) and the CAR(Canadian Air Regulations) clearly state any aircraft is not to attempt take off or landing on any surface unless that surface is a designated airport or aerodrome.
That is unless it's an emergency then you can land wherever the pilot deems safe. You must report so called "off field landings" to the regulating body of your country(at least that I know of in Canada and the US).
Since this drivable airplane requires a minimum of a sport pilot license, the person driving this would know the rules.
I agree, the sport pilots license is not that much less work than the private once you're done it. The minimum hours are less but in actuality most people take about 1.5 to 2.0 times the minimum hours to get their certificate/license. I'm actually doing my private right now and most people will solo around 20 hrs or so as well. All that really involves is flying a few touch and goes, nothing big, so that's no harder than what the pilot has been doing before the solo.
The Lycoming engines in the Cessna 152s and 172s I fly are shut off by pulling the mixture to idle cut off. I don't think this is a big deal for the engine since it's the recommended procedure by the Pilot's Operating Handbook for these planes. When starting it you usually prime 3 times which sprays fuel in the carburetor.
Maybe not but people don't seem to be stealing private aircraft very often. Maybe if this one was in your drive way it'd be more tempting to steal but it still looks like in order to fly it you have to unfold the wings by hand. It's not like James Bond where the wings fold out electrically and you fly away from the bad guys chasing you.
I guess you haven't seen the 3 sea shells on the ledge beside the toilet?
In the air they have to obey the same rules as other planes. On the ground they have to obey the same rules as other cars. Simple as that. Also to fly one of these things you need a private pilot's license so it's not like any yuppie with 200K is going to be able to fly it.