Hint: It has 4. Zeros are significant. If they aren't, you're not supposed to write them. [..] If you wanted to claim "2000 MPH" really meant "between 2000 and 3000 MPH" then it should have been written as "2x10^3 MPH or 2 kMPH
Your proposed nomenclature is practically not in use. Very few people would understand it.
2000MPH has one significant digit unless you can deduce from context that it was measured more precisely.
Gasoline engines have lousy part-load efficiency. Hence it is great to pair them them with an electric motor so they can run full-load whenever they are running.
Diesel engines do not really have that problem. Hybrid diesels only have the benefit of regenerative braking, and that is not enough for a reasonable payback on investment.
Modern vehicle do NOT need to belch smoke. Only museum vehicles and egotist owners do that.
I do not believe that Denmark or the UK (the only countries I have extensive experience in) have a single modern diesel vehicle which does not belch smoke.
Almost all of them burn nice and clean when they are on the motorway, with warm engines and exhaust, but once they get into the cities the smoke starts again. Unfortunately people tend to live in the city, not on the motorway.
Median energy density in waves is too low in most places. You need way too large machines to extract useful amounts of power. The few times you get sufficiently powerful waves they tend to rip your equipment to bits.
Wave energy is one of those ideas which seem really obvious from a distance, so the fact that project after project fails does not seem to dissuade anyone. They were obviously just doing it wrong.
I really hope that I am wrong and this turns out to be a great success, but I am not holding my breath.
Reid technique has ensured that less than 20% of people questioned get counsel. Generally people who are innocent will not ask for counsel; they just want to cooperate so the police can see that they are innocent, and asking for counsel is something they think only criminals do.
None of them have AFAIK disintegrated completely, like Rosetta/Philae would have done during a failed gravity boost. A crash during liftoff is not comparable to a high-speed impact.
There are no realistic alternatives. Opportunistic IPSEC never got started, and I am not aware of any other attempts which might actually work. You can replace the CA system with DNSSEC, but that does not solve the entire problem.
If you follow 1-3) with US police, they will use the Reid Technique to abuse your compliance and extract a false statement. Then you better have the resources of a (no-longer) well-off family and the help of the foreign office of a small nation in order to eventually get freed, like Malthe Thomsen. (I hate linking to the Daily Mail, but the case has not been well-covered internationally.)
Yes, it is really strange that they do not do that. You have to wonder why they did not just do that with the Shuttle, just a parachute instead of those ceramic tiles. What could possibly be the problem with a parachute going MACH 20? Or more likely MACH 100+, in the case of an incoming asteroid?
Rosetta/Philae returned to Earth three times for gravity boosts. Each time it was going at speeds which would guarantee its destruction if it hit the deeper parts of the atmosphere. Had this happened and Philae had carried an RTG, it would have been the end of ESA due to the public outcry, and NASA would likely be in public relations trouble too.
There are places for RTGs, but Rosetta was not it. Philae may have died prematurely, but ESA is alive to try again.
Still, when the NSA wanted access to Google's information, they went for tapping fiber optic cables instead of hitting them with National Security Letters.
The solution is encryption of course, but IPSEC is a royal pain and MACSEC is too limited.
Indeed. There was protests about that, and that was just a single pass IIRC. It is just not worth the bother unless it is the only way to accomplish the mission.
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Hint: It has 4. Zeros are significant. If they aren't, you're not supposed to write them. [..] If you wanted to claim "2000 MPH" really meant "between 2000 and 3000 MPH" then it should have been written as "2x10^3 MPH or 2 kMPH
Your proposed nomenclature is practically not in use. Very few people would understand it.
2000MPH has one significant digit unless you can deduce from context that it was measured more precisely.
Gasoline engines have lousy part-load efficiency. Hence it is great to pair them them with an electric motor so they can run full-load whenever they are running.
Diesel engines do not really have that problem. Hybrid diesels only have the benefit of regenerative braking, and that is not enough for a reasonable payback on investment.
Modern vehicle do NOT need to belch smoke. Only museum vehicles and egotist owners do that.
I do not believe that Denmark or the UK (the only countries I have extensive experience in) have a single modern diesel vehicle which does not belch smoke.
Almost all of them burn nice and clean when they are on the motorway, with warm engines and exhaust, but once they get into the cities the smoke starts again. Unfortunately people tend to live in the city, not on the motorway.
Median energy density in waves is too low in most places. You need way too large machines to extract useful amounts of power. The few times you get sufficiently powerful waves they tend to rip your equipment to bits.
Wave energy is one of those ideas which seem really obvious from a distance, so the fact that project after project fails does not seem to dissuade anyone. They were obviously just doing it wrong.
I really hope that I am wrong and this turns out to be a great success, but I am not holding my breath.
Reid technique has ensured that less than 20% of people questioned get counsel. Generally people who are innocent will not ask for counsel; they just want to cooperate so the police can see that they are innocent, and asking for counsel is something they think only criminals do.
Ahh no it could have easily survive
You will need to back up that claim. The speeds involved are rather extreme.
RTGs have been used by other probes that used gravity earth boost...
Cassini had a fairly major public outcry against it, for just a single gravity boost, and that did not even fail.
None of them have AFAIK disintegrated completely, like Rosetta/Philae would have done during a failed gravity boost. A crash during liftoff is not comparable to a high-speed impact.
There are no realistic alternatives. Opportunistic IPSEC never got started, and I am not aware of any other attempts which might actually work. You can replace the CA system with DNSSEC, but that does not solve the entire problem.
As a logical positivist, I'm ready to reject all questions about consciousness, including claims that humans do or don't have it.
Are you ready to reject claims that you have consciousness?
They cheated. They did nothing of the sort, unfortunately.
Individual neurons can make quite complex calculations. Their I/O just sucks.
I am not so sure. Sometimes I even get lens-flare!
You can trivially make large events depend on nuclear decay, thereby breaking macro world determinism.
If you follow 1-3) with US police, they will use the Reid Technique to abuse your compliance and extract a false statement. Then you better have the resources of a (no-longer) well-off family and the help of the foreign office of a small nation in order to eventually get freed, like Malthe Thomsen. (I hate linking to the Daily Mail, but the case has not been well-covered internationally.)
The newspaper Politiken has in-depth coverage of the case in Danish.
Yes, it is really strange that they do not do that. You have to wonder why they did not just do that with the Shuttle, just a parachute instead of those ceramic tiles. What could possibly be the problem with a parachute going MACH 20? Or more likely MACH 100+, in the case of an incoming asteroid?
Rosetta/Philae returned to Earth three times for gravity boosts. Each time it was going at speeds which would guarantee its destruction if it hit the deeper parts of the atmosphere. Had this happened and Philae had carried an RTG, it would have been the end of ESA due to the public outcry, and NASA would likely be in public relations trouble too.
There are places for RTGs, but Rosetta was not it. Philae may have died prematurely, but ESA is alive to try again.
Fuel cell basically is a sponge of certain minerals which chemically absorbs hydrogen so that it is not that volatile.
No. A fuel cell is a device which turns chemical energy into electrical energy without having to turn it into heat first.
Still, when the NSA wanted access to Google's information, they went for tapping fiber optic cables instead of hitting them with National Security Letters.
The solution is encryption of course, but IPSEC is a royal pain and MACSEC is too limited.
Line of sight. Sorry, it's a pet peeve.
Fiber optic is trivial to tap. Almost as easy as analog phone lines.
Zimbabwes loans are primarily in foreign currencies. Never do that.
why in the world do people assume lower gas prices mean higher consumption?
That is called elastic demand. Almost everything has elastic demand. Assuming the opposite would be very silly indeed.
You cannot be forced to go bankrupt as long as your loans are in a currency you can print more of.
I was being facetious, I thought that both ideas were so ridiculous that it would be obvious to everyone why no one does that.
Obviously I was wrong about Stirling engines. Perhaps I will end up wrong about steam turbines too one day.
Indeed. There was protests about that, and that was just a single pass IIRC. It is just not worth the bother unless it is the only way to accomplish the mission.