The US only act in countries where the dictator is not willing to cooperate and sell its oil.
> Tell that to Noreiga and Milosovic
You're right. In their case, it was related to another precious substance, dope. Kosovo is now the entry door for heroine in Europe. I imagine Noriega drug dealing with the CIA went wrong somewhere in the 80's.
In fact, industrial application of Fuel cell technology will be done before consumer application. In an industrial setting, refueling Hydrogen is less of a problem than in a car for example.
Ontario mine tests fuel cell locomotive
using fossilized hydrocarbon is certainly not the only way to create plastic. Here are some examples:
The Rwanda tragedy was in great part caused by "developed" countries interventions (mostly from France and Belgium) during the colonial era and more recent events. Rare are the undeveloped countries were a foreign colonial power doesn't have any interest.
The US only act in countries where the dictator is not willing to cooperate and sell its oil.
Bin Laden's biggest motivator was that the dirty white American christians were in his precious holy land. They're intolerant, racist, anti-semitic bastards.
Do you think americans would tolerate having 100,000 soldiers from Saudi Arabia in lets says, Texas ?
The Saudi Royal Family (and the Ben Laden family) have been good business partners of the Bush family for a long time. Saudi Arabia sell the oil, the US supplies the weapons and technology to maintain one of the most brutal dictatorship in the world (Saddam being out of that game).
first, I must say your work on RoboBricks is very very impressive. have you done this alone ?
I agree your communication protocol is very simple and using a serial bus eliminates a lot of wiring. but you need software to send a command to a robobrix, instead of just plugging together eBlocks. Your concept is more like the Mindstorm concept, with a central microcontroler. Am I right ?
Do you think that the understanding of the TCP/IP protocol makes you a better web designer ? Or that by understanding how a microprocessor works you will code better in PHP ? all peripheral knowledge can help, but sometimes, at different scales, your knowledge and mental model that comes with the "lower" layer might even block you from thinking "out of the box".
You don't need to learn Assembly Language to learn how to write good software in Java. Moving bits in a memory register doesn't help you understand the concept of object-oriented programming. The eBlocks, Logiblocs and all these other systems are comparable to a higher level programming languages.
What about making the black box design open source ? So everybody know what's inside the box and can improve its design over time. Only the interface needs to be the same.
The problem with those 150-in-1 and 200-in-1 are that you can't create anything permanent with it. Everything you do with them is stuck in that big box. And the wiring would get so complex and abstract for the most advance circuits, that I would end up following the plan without really understanding what I was doing.
I just wonder, do you also tell people to program software the old fashioned way by using first generation language ? I think the goal with these modular hardware concepts is to get rid of the discrete component (resistance, transistor, IC, etc.) by encapsulating them in a black box with a simple interface. I compare it to creating a programming language of higher generation for hardware.
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> Tell that to Noreiga and Milosovic
You're right. In their case, it was related to another precious substance, dope. Kosovo is now the entry door for heroine in Europe. I imagine Noriega drug dealing with the CIA went wrong somewhere in the 80's.
Ontario mine tests fuel cell locomotive
using fossilized hydrocarbon is certainly not the only way to create plastic. Here are some examples:
Plantic Technologies will roll out a cornstarch-based bioplastic wired article
Bioplastic Fantastic
Toyota sees green in 'bioplastics' for cars
Many of the African civil wars were and are still caused by the artificial boundaries created by colonial powers splitting Africa among themselves.
It's the same kind of arrogance that might eventually push Iraq in a civil war.
Fuel cell technologies are currently being developped for trains, industrial vehicule and other industrial applications.
Plastic and other petrochemicals can be produced from alternate material, like hemp, vegetable oil, corn starch, etc.
The US only act in countries where the dictator is not willing to cooperate and sell its oil.
Do you think americans would tolerate having 100,000 soldiers from Saudi Arabia in lets says, Texas ?
The Saudi Royal Family (and the Ben Laden family) have been good business partners of the Bush family for a long time. Saudi Arabia sell the oil, the US supplies the weapons and technology to maintain one of the most brutal dictatorship in the world (Saddam being out of that game).I agree your communication protocol is very simple and using a serial bus eliminates a lot of wiring. but you need software to send a command to a robobrix, instead of just plugging together eBlocks. Your concept is more like the Mindstorm concept, with a central microcontroler. Am I right ?
The knowledge of a field of expertise is not the problem, it's the mindset that come with the field of expertise that can be problematic.
Do you think that the understanding of the TCP/IP protocol makes you a better web designer ? Or that by understanding how a microprocessor works you will code better in PHP ? all peripheral knowledge can help, but sometimes, at different scales, your knowledge and mental model that comes with the "lower" layer might even block you from thinking "out of the box".
Wow, this is an interesting advanced concept. The interface between modules seems to be complex though.
You don't need to learn Assembly Language to learn how to write good software in Java. Moving bits in a memory register doesn't help you understand the concept of object-oriented programming. The eBlocks, Logiblocs and all these other systems are comparable to a higher level programming languages.
What about making the black box design open source ? So everybody know what's inside the box and can improve its design over time. Only the interface needs to be the same.
The problem with those 150-in-1 and 200-in-1 are that you can't create anything permanent with it. Everything you do with them is stuck in that big box. And the wiring would get so complex and abstract for the most advance circuits, that I would end up following the plan without really understanding what I was doing.
I just wonder, do you also tell people to program software the old fashioned way by using first generation language ? I think the goal with these modular hardware concepts is to get rid of the discrete component (resistance, transistor, IC, etc.) by encapsulating them in a black box with a simple interface. I compare it to creating a programming language of higher generation for hardware.
But what about using it for prototyping ? Fischertechnik from germany is also selling its block for industrial prototyping.
However, I have a problem seing how their concept is more advance than logiblocs.
The concept I'm working on will be based on open source hardware. any input on this ?
We even saw a demonstration on tv with the minister of energy trying a car retrofit with 4 motor wheel.
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The invention was almost forgoten because the main inventor left the lab over a dispute with Hydro and his team disolved.
But it's now commercialized by a division of Hydro Quebec called tm4. You can see it here: http://www.tech-m4.com/eng/tm4transport/moto_whee