In the case of biodiesel, it actually produces more NOx than diesel. While other pollutants are often reduced, this is the major one that forms that orange cloud over heavily polluted cities. NOx is a major pollutant of diesel engines due to the high compression ratios and still has not been effectively solved. While particulate matter is less than diesel, it is still significant, far more than gasoline. While technologies exist to reduce NOx, they are sensitive to sulfur, and while sulfur is virtually eliminated from biodiesel, it would mean that an engine designed to run on it could not use regular diesel without destroying the NOx smog equipment.
So you mean we would need regular diesel with less sulfer in it for biodiesel to work?
You basicly said exactly what is happening to US diesel fuel right now. Its transitioning from "Low sulfer diesel" at 500 PPM sulfer content to "Ultra low sulfur diesel" with 15 PPM sulfur content. If you look at diesel pumps right now they all have signs on them saying that the fuel is not to be used in model year 2007 vehicles because those vehicles require the Ultra Low sulfur diesel. Ultra Low sulfur will be available in something like 80% of retail outlets come September.
Good point on the fact that most of the E85 vehicles are "gas" guzzlers. You ever wonder why? The vehicles are awared a 2 mpg credit towards their CAFE rating by being "flex fueled vehicles". So that 14 MPG suv is now considered a 16 MPG suv in the eyes of CAFE since its flex fueled which helps significantly for the manufactueres overall fleet mileage rating.
The issue with brazil and ethanol is that we missed the boat. Some 10-20 years ago when we could have gotten all the ethanol from them we wanted, but we chose not to. Since then Brazil has been building up their own ethanol economy. Most cars in brazil can be run on ethanol, some as high as 100% by utilizing dual tank systems so they can be started on regular gas and switched to ethanol when the motor is hot enough to run on it properly. They have truely taken advantage of a flex fueled economy and because of this their countrys internal demand for ethanol has gone up greatly and thus reduced their surplus available for export. This will make it much harder for us (the US) to make them a very feasible source of ethanol for our own vehicles.
Hmmmm, crap eh? I drive a VW Jetta TDI (Turbo Direct Injection = diesel) and it runs quite happy on 100% US grown and processed biodiesel.
45 mpg and runs on a renable fuel. Damn that german crap. Oh wait, mercedes has diesels in the US too? Maybe those germans know something about making cars.
>>First of all academia is about teaching students.
Right... I am an undergrad student going into my senior year at a technology institute heavily focused on research. Maybe its supposed to be about teaching students, but its not. The majority of professors are only there to do their own research.
It feels like the only reason my college even has undergrads is because without us they wouldnt really be a college.
There is no way the MPAA will let this go to trial since he is trying to take the offencive on this.
What can really come though from him keeping them in court after they drop it? I can see if they bring him to trial they could be asked to show their methods of identifying him. But after they drop it how can this information be requested?
I am a legal newb.
Ok, so for 40 grand I could get a camera that picks up license plates numbers.
For 40 grand I could pay a lot of teenagers to type in all the license plate numbers of cars that drive past them? Or I could set up a camera and stream video to some foreign country where I pay even less to have them just sit there and type in the license plate numbers. This is just a camera with some software. Its nothing magical that divulges all your super secret information. You drive around all day with your license plate numbers just hanging there.
This is worth no more to a normal person than someone sitting there doing it by hand. It doesnt matter which way you get the plate numbers, you still need to look them up somehow to get more info. For police doing this lookup is easy, for the rest of us, not so much.
I am guessing the data they record with these cameras won't be made readily available to the general public. The police arnt going to be release what cars drive by them every day.
On the plus side, the idea of this keeping the number of uninsured vehicles off the road is a good idea. Maybe I am just missing the overly scary big brother aspect of this. If it allows police cars to do a plate lookup on everything they drive past, I dont see why I should really care.
I seem to remember some outcry in the past about RFID chipped license plates, atleast now you dont need to worry about that any more
Their whole selling point though is that their system is simple and cheap! Didnt you read to the end of their presentation where they said it would cost $9600 for photovoltaic soler cells(and batteries) to power your laptop? Thats why there system is such a better option.
A nice touch for this would be to have the USB drives autorun launch a scrip that would identify if its plugged into its "home" computer and would then sync up its boormarks with the computer.
If I were still in High School I think i would be scared of this. RFID technology seems great for tracking shippments and such, but to track students like this seem pretty insane.
I drive a 2000 Jetta TDI, and I am no light foot with it. The EPA rating for the car is 42/48 and my personal lifetime average for the car is currently at 47.1 MPG. On longer trips of predominately highway i have had mileage about around 52-53 miles per gallon, this is with cruising at 70 mph. Got to love driving a diesel car:)
watching the video i just found it rather ironic that a person writing software under the GNU General Public License would be the type of person to use AIM instead of an opensource alternative like GAIM.
if you really want to learn about time management go to a hard college(how does engineering sound for ya, you wanted a new job anyways). at college you have so many great oppotunitues to do everything, you are bound to find things to keep you busy 24 hours a day. slightly off topic, mabey, but you he wants ways that he can make himself more productive... its very simple... just SLEEP LESS im a college student and i live on less than 5 hours of sleep a night
24 hrs - 5 hrs = 19 WAKING Hours
you know how much stuff you can do in 19 hours?
say 5 hours of sleep aint enough for ya? mabey the first awake hour will be kinda rough, but after some caffeine you will be all set. example...
2 days a week, i get up at 6am, play some CS till 7, then grab breakfast and head to class for 8. Im wide awake by that point, its great. (added benefit is the network is much less congested at 6 in the mornin:-)... oooh the ping times)
Newer is not ALWAYS better!! Just look at winamp? I have no plans on giving up my winamp 2.90.
Windows 98? Yeah, i agree, it sucked. I dumped that OS as soon as i got the thing. NT Pro treated me so well for so many years...
I love DOS, i have versions of it that are much older than I am(great to be a teen). So where can i get linux that boots off a 5 and a quarter and will run on my 8088?
There was always the great... DOSSHELL graphic user interface
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Good point on the fact that most of the E85 vehicles are "gas" guzzlers. You ever wonder why? The vehicles are awared a 2 mpg credit towards their CAFE rating by being "flex fueled vehicles". So that 14 MPG suv is now considered a 16 MPG suv in the eyes of CAFE since its flex fueled which helps significantly for the manufactueres overall fleet mileage rating.
The issue with brazil and ethanol is that we missed the boat. Some 10-20 years ago when we could have gotten all the ethanol from them we wanted, but we chose not to. Since then Brazil has been building up their own ethanol economy. Most cars in brazil can be run on ethanol, some as high as 100% by utilizing dual tank systems so they can be started on regular gas and switched to ethanol when the motor is hot enough to run on it properly. They have truely taken advantage of a flex fueled economy and because of this their countrys internal demand for ethanol has gone up greatly and thus reduced their surplus available for export. This will make it much harder for us (the US) to make them a very feasible source of ethanol for our own vehicles.
Hmmmm, crap eh? I drive a VW Jetta TDI (Turbo Direct Injection = diesel) and it runs quite happy on 100% US grown and processed biodiesel. 45 mpg and runs on a renable fuel. Damn that german crap. Oh wait, mercedes has diesels in the US too? Maybe those germans know something about making cars.
>>First of all academia is about teaching students. Right... I am an undergrad student going into my senior year at a technology institute heavily focused on research. Maybe its supposed to be about teaching students, but its not. The majority of professors are only there to do their own research. It feels like the only reason my college even has undergrads is because without us they wouldnt really be a college.
There is no way the MPAA will let this go to trial since he is trying to take the offencive on this. What can really come though from him keeping them in court after they drop it? I can see if they bring him to trial they could be asked to show their methods of identifying him. But after they drop it how can this information be requested? I am a legal newb.
Ok, so for 40 grand I could get a camera that picks up license plates numbers. For 40 grand I could pay a lot of teenagers to type in all the license plate numbers of cars that drive past them? Or I could set up a camera and stream video to some foreign country where I pay even less to have them just sit there and type in the license plate numbers. This is just a camera with some software. Its nothing magical that divulges all your super secret information. You drive around all day with your license plate numbers just hanging there. This is worth no more to a normal person than someone sitting there doing it by hand. It doesnt matter which way you get the plate numbers, you still need to look them up somehow to get more info. For police doing this lookup is easy, for the rest of us, not so much.
I am guessing the data they record with these cameras won't be made readily available to the general public. The police arnt going to be release what cars drive by them every day.
On the plus side, the idea of this keeping the number of uninsured vehicles off the road is a good idea. Maybe I am just missing the overly scary big brother aspect of this. If it allows police cars to do a plate lookup on everything they drive past, I dont see why I should really care. I seem to remember some outcry in the past about RFID chipped license plates, atleast now you dont need to worry about that any more
Correcting myself: They say it would cost them $9760 for a photovoltaic system to power their $800 laptop 24/7.
Their whole selling point though is that their system is simple and cheap! Didnt you read to the end of their presentation where they said it would cost $9600 for photovoltaic soler cells(and batteries) to power your laptop? Thats why there system is such a better option.
Im serious, thats what it says! Read to the end
A nice touch for this would be to have the USB drives autorun launch a scrip that would identify if its plugged into its "home" computer and would then sync up its boormarks with the computer.
This sucks, now I need to get a new trippy screen saver.
I downloaded the installer on 11/26 when the first /. article came out and the MD5 sum of that file was: 237ee99dc7f35d2e2c0a8640086167bf
If I were still in High School I think i would be scared of this. RFID technology seems great for tracking shippments and such, but to track students like this seem pretty insane.
I drive a 2000 Jetta TDI, and I am no light foot with it. The EPA rating for the car is 42/48 and my personal lifetime average for the car is currently at 47.1 MPG. On longer trips of predominately highway i have had mileage about around 52-53 miles per gallon, this is with cruising at 70 mph. Got to love driving a diesel car :)
watching the video i just found it rather ironic that a person writing software under the GNU General Public License would be the type of person to use AIM instead of an opensource alternative like GAIM.
Just in case anyone wants to check it out, this is his website. http://www.l-ware.com/
if you really want to learn about time management go to a hard college(how does engineering sound for ya, you wanted a new job anyways). at college you have so many great oppotunitues to do everything, you are bound to find things to keep you busy 24 hours a day. slightly off topic, mabey, but you he wants ways that he can make himself more productive... its very simple... just SLEEP LESS im a college student and i live on less than 5 hours of sleep a night 24 hrs - 5 hrs = 19 WAKING Hours you know how much stuff you can do in 19 hours? say 5 hours of sleep aint enough for ya? mabey the first awake hour will be kinda rough, but after some caffeine you will be all set. example... 2 days a week, i get up at 6am, play some CS till 7, then grab breakfast and head to class for 8. Im wide awake by that point, its great. (added benefit is the network is much less congested at 6 in the mornin :-)... oooh the ping times)
On the positive note i will atleast be able to visit all those places i never had the time(or $$$) to visit before.
someone should have just loaded up a nice copy of PCanywhere on the thing before it left.
Newer is not ALWAYS better!! Just look at winamp? I have no plans on giving up my winamp 2.90. Windows 98? Yeah, i agree, it sucked. I dumped that OS as soon as i got the thing. NT Pro treated me so well for so many years...
I love DOS, i have versions of it that are much older than I am(great to be a teen). So where can i get linux that boots off a 5 and a quarter and will run on my 8088? There was always the great... DOSSHELL graphic user interface