Er, they DO exist. LG Chem and A123 have been developing them for GM and Chrysler. Lithium batteries capable of sourcing hundreds of amps per cell have been developed for the military as well.
Oh, because the batteries used in electric vehicles are quite a bit different than the ones used in laptops and cell phones? Laptops and Cell phones draw a small amount of current compared to the ones needed for electric vehicles. Also, the cell size and capacity are difference. Portable devices need light weight, SMALL battery cells. Battery cells for electric cars need a high power density and high current output, volume and weight are much less of an object. Among other things, the multiple order of magnitude difference in current draw makes the two types significantly different. Then there is the battery life. Your portable battery may a few years before becoming mostly useless. Car batteries need to last 10 years.
I'm going to 2nd this one, except I'm not going to buy it for the first time unless they put the PS2 functionality back in. If I'm going to get a PS3, I want to replace my PS2 with it. I don't want to have to keep both around.
I was and still am surprised that neither the US nor UK citizenry turned out in force to egg their parliament buildings after the humongous bailouts in those countries.
Well, that might be because it would be quite difficult for those of us in the US to 'egg our parliament building'. You see, we don't have a 'parliament building', much less a parliament.
The electric company isn't going to pay them per watt/hour of electricity what they are charging for the same... Not even close. THAT is their profit.
Actually, they are using the old dumb meters where, for each kwh they put into the grid, their meter runs backwards 1kwh. So lets say I produce 10 kwh during the day, and use 5kwh. Then, at night, I use 5 kwh. My meter will be in the same spot at the end of the day. This means the electric company currently is paying them the same as they are charging them for electricity.
. Their "fee" is just a means of trying to recoup that potential lost profit by getting people used to paying extra just for the privilege of having solar panels on their roofs.
Currently, they are charged only on the net usage of electricity. The cost of the infrastructure is built is currently built into that cost. However, this breaks when your net energy usage is different from your consumption from the grid. These people are still using the infrastructure at night. They are also connected to the grid for redundancy for when the panels do not generate enough electricity. If they want the redundancy, they should pay for it. If they don't, then they can disconnect entirely. This is akin to your phone bill. You pay a connection maintenance fee every month, then you pay for usage. What the electric company should do for this, is itemize the charges so that the infrastructure maintenance is not built into the per kwh fee.
Further, the capacity of a HV cable increases when you use DC instead of AC. The limiting capacity for the HV lines is the max voltage they can be today. This is by peak voltage, not RMS or average. By going to DC, you get almost a 50% boost in total power capacity because of this.
But YOU are still power from the grid at night. Even if you equally generate the amount of power you use, you are still using the grid as a battery for the excess power you generate during the day. Because of that, you are using the infrastructure of the grid, which require maintenance. The solution is to monitor how much you generate, and credit your account at the wholesale price of electricity for the excess you generate during the day, then bill you for what you use at night.
I'm wondering what happens if they have a net of too many generators versus consumers. Ie more power generated than is demanded.
The frequency and voltage of the electric grid increases. If the voltage and frequency increase too much, this leads to instability and a grid crash. Literally, that is what happens if the balance gets off by more than a percent or two. Part of the solution to this would be to change the high voltage lines to DC and convert to AC for the last run to the house.
Okay, I know that the gubment isn't IT savy, but did they not stop to think that running an OS that any script kiddie can break with something they can double click off the net was a bad idea?
I think they're thinking. Hey, the submarine is 1,000 feet below the surface of the water. We have no internet and no network on board. How the F**** is any script kiddie going to access this from the internet?
Interesting how you state two things here with no proof. Nor are either of these in any of the articles and the only one who has said it was "unofficially supported by the US" has been Hugo Chavez. Further, US President Obama has condemned the coup. Oh, and it didn't say that they were voting machines, either.
Frankly, I'm surprised that this research hadn't already been started
This research has been going on for years. This isn't the announcement of a new program, this is the announcement of it reaching a milestone. Here's a link from over two years ago.
Ships have 30+MW diesel generators on board. The savings will come from the increased efficiency of performing Diesel->Electric>Propulsion over Diesel->Propulsion as the Diesel generators will be running at the optimum RPM. This is the same way that diesel trains work. Battery storage would be unnecessary and I'm not sure regenerative braking is possible for a ship.
Or big muscled. According to this site, Hulk Hogan has a BMI of 31.9 The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) has a BMI of 34.3 Both of them fall under the BMI obese category. Seriously, The Rock is not fat.
I hope anti-government deregulation fanatics read articles like this to understand the benefits of proper government regulation.
Unfortunately, I suspect they'll find a way to misinterpret it, as all party zealots do.
You mean like, oh, the research was already under way prior to the regulations being passed? Nah, couldn't be that, given that GE announced two years ago.
That's why I said we'd have to look at the contract to be sure. Whenever you have two parties disagreeing on who owns what, go look at the contract. At this point, I don't trust Muni to say "we screwed up" and I don't trust NBIS to say "no, we really don't own alternative distribution methods".
Here's the NBIS quote, also from the article:
Our Franchisee rights cover commercial use of the data, as well as exclusive rights to distribute the NextBus data to mobile phones.
Simply put, show me the contract and we'll see which of the two is lying.
Sorry, don't know FOIA. The following is a guess on it.
I'd say it would depend on the information and the data agreements. For example, you aren't going to get the source code to a program a government is using. There wouldn't be any reason and in the No Data Rights and Limited Data Rights circumstances the government would have to break the contract if it released it under FOIA. Kind of like having a subpoena trying to trump doctor patient confidentiality.
As to this case in particular, a FOIA can only be for information a government already has. This data has to be accessed in real time for it to be of any use. So, one way or another it wouldn't help.
Finally, the information is open to the public, it's just a matter of how it is getting to the public that is being contested here. I don't believe the FOIA would apply to that.
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Er, they DO exist. LG Chem and A123 have been developing them for GM and Chrysler. Lithium batteries capable of sourcing hundreds of amps per cell have been developed for the military as well.
Oh? Name one right a corporate entity has that is superior to that of a citizen?
Oh, because the batteries used in electric vehicles are quite a bit different than the ones used in laptops and cell phones? Laptops and Cell phones draw a small amount of current compared to the ones needed for electric vehicles. Also, the cell size and capacity are difference. Portable devices need light weight, SMALL battery cells. Battery cells for electric cars need a high power density and high current output, volume and weight are much less of an object. Among other things, the multiple order of magnitude difference in current draw makes the two types significantly different. Then there is the battery life. Your portable battery may a few years before becoming mostly useless. Car batteries need to last 10 years.
I'm going to 2nd this one, except I'm not going to buy it for the first time unless they put the PS2 functionality back in. If I'm going to get a PS3, I want to replace my PS2 with it. I don't want to have to keep both around.
Well, not so much for wind, but Unreal adjusts for elevation in most of the weapons.
To add, Also look at Super Solvers, Number Muncher, Operation Neptune, others. Hell, just go see this company.
I was and still am surprised that neither the US nor UK citizenry turned out in force to egg their parliament buildings after the humongous bailouts in those countries.
Well, that might be because it would be quite difficult for those of us in the US to 'egg our parliament building'. You see, we don't have a 'parliament building', much less a parliament.
The electric company isn't going to pay them per watt/hour of electricity what they are charging for the same... Not even close. THAT is their profit.
Actually, they are using the old dumb meters where, for each kwh they put into the grid, their meter runs backwards 1kwh. So lets say I produce 10 kwh during the day, and use 5kwh. Then, at night, I use 5 kwh. My meter will be in the same spot at the end of the day. This means the electric company currently is paying them the same as they are charging them for electricity.
. Their "fee" is just a means of trying to recoup that potential lost profit by getting people used to paying extra just for the privilege of having solar panels on their roofs.
Currently, they are charged only on the net usage of electricity. The cost of the infrastructure is built is currently built into that cost. However, this breaks when your net energy usage is different from your consumption from the grid. These people are still using the infrastructure at night. They are also connected to the grid for redundancy for when the panels do not generate enough electricity. If they want the redundancy, they should pay for it. If they don't, then they can disconnect entirely. This is akin to your phone bill. You pay a connection maintenance fee every month, then you pay for usage. What the electric company should do for this, is itemize the charges so that the infrastructure maintenance is not built into the per kwh fee.
Further, the capacity of a HV cable increases when you use DC instead of AC. The limiting capacity for the HV lines is the max voltage they can be today. This is by peak voltage, not RMS or average. By going to DC, you get almost a 50% boost in total power capacity because of this.
But YOU are still power from the grid at night. Even if you equally generate the amount of power you use, you are still using the grid as a battery for the excess power you generate during the day. Because of that, you are using the infrastructure of the grid, which require maintenance. The solution is to monitor how much you generate, and credit your account at the wholesale price of electricity for the excess you generate during the day, then bill you for what you use at night.
I'm wondering what happens if they have a net of too many generators versus consumers. Ie more power generated than is demanded.
The frequency and voltage of the electric grid increases. If the voltage and frequency increase too much, this leads to instability and a grid crash. Literally, that is what happens if the balance gets off by more than a percent or two. Part of the solution to this would be to change the high voltage lines to DC and convert to AC for the last run to the house.
Okay, I know that the gubment isn't IT savy, but did they not stop to think that running an OS that any script kiddie can break with something they can double click off the net was a bad idea?
I think they're thinking. Hey, the submarine is 1,000 feet below the surface of the water. We have no internet and no network on board. How the F**** is any script kiddie going to access this from the internet?
a military coup unofficially supported by the US,
US manufactured, voting machines
Interesting how you state two things here with no proof. Nor are either of these in any of the articles and the only one who has said it was "unofficially supported by the US" has been Hugo Chavez. Further, US President Obama has condemned the coup. Oh, and it didn't say that they were voting machines, either.
Frankly, I'm surprised that this research hadn't already been started
This research has been going on for years. This isn't the announcement of a new program, this is the announcement of it reaching a milestone. Here's a link from over two years ago.
Not all the Carbon is released as CO2 through burning or decomposition. A lot of it becomes soil and fertilizer.
Ships have 30+MW diesel generators on board. The savings will come from the increased efficiency of performing Diesel->Electric>Propulsion over Diesel->Propulsion as the Diesel generators will be running at the optimum RPM. This is the same way that diesel trains work. Battery storage would be unnecessary and I'm not sure regenerative braking is possible for a ship.
Or big muscled. According to this site, Hulk Hogan has a BMI of 31.9 The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) has a BMI of 34.3 Both of them fall under the BMI obese category. Seriously, The Rock is not fat.
The problem with your point of view is that it does not take into account the political strategy called "Incrementalism".
I believe this is also known as "the slippery slope".
I hope anti-government deregulation fanatics read articles like this to understand the benefits of proper government regulation. Unfortunately, I suspect they'll find a way to misinterpret it, as all party zealots do.
You mean like, oh, the research was already under way prior to the regulations being passed? Nah, couldn't be that, given that GE announced two years ago.
What crops do I plant that take in CO2 and output gasoline?
see here
Tad excessive? You've never heard of the Rosenbergs, I take it. What country are you from?
*I know, not any more they aren't...
Nah, they still are. The copper you see around them is a thin layer only. The core is till lead.
why can't you Americans just do it as well, instead of whining?
You don't know much about the US, do you.
Here's the NBIS quote, also from the article:
Our Franchisee rights cover commercial use of the data, as well as exclusive rights to distribute the NextBus data to mobile phones.
Simply put, show me the contract and we'll see which of the two is lying.
Sorry, don't know FOIA. The following is a guess on it.
I'd say it would depend on the information and the data agreements. For example, you aren't going to get the source code to a program a government is using. There wouldn't be any reason and in the No Data Rights and Limited Data Rights circumstances the government would have to break the contract if it released it under FOIA. Kind of like having a subpoena trying to trump doctor patient confidentiality.
As to this case in particular, a FOIA can only be for information a government already has. This data has to be accessed in real time for it to be of any use. So, one way or another it wouldn't help.
Finally, the information is open to the public, it's just a matter of how it is getting to the public that is being contested here. I don't believe the FOIA would apply to that.