By the way, if you do go to the above mentioned site (http://www.theaircar.com/howitworks.html), disable javascript beforehand, otherwise it redirects you to an alternate site at which you cannot get the technical information.
What you are missing though is that the air is not only compressed by a facility, it can be compressed by the car itself. As the car drives using fossil fuel (speeds over 60km/h or 35mph) it is refilling the compressed air tank. For most of your city driving (under 60km/h or 35mph), you'll be using compressed air. You'll get your biggest MPG efficiency on city driving, not highway, so don't expect to take a 1000-mile trip out of town on one 8-gallon tank of fuel. These cars are not meant for highway travel, they are meant for city travel. And this makes sense too, as the time you are burning the most fuel is accelerating from stopped. Instead of burning excess amounts of fuel during acceleration, you'll be using compressed air.
So the cost of the compressed air for the most likely intended use of this car (city driving), both $ and energy, is already included in the 8 gallons of fossil fuel (gasoline?). And to prevent yourself from having to hit an air station, just jump on a highway for a few miles.
Also, saying it gets 100mpg is very misleading since that doesn't account for the energy that must go into compressing the air. Sure the car can go up to 1000 miles on 8 gallons of gas (if they are even close in their estimates), but that gas isn't providing all the energy necessary to propel the car.
Oh, so the MPG that my regular gasoline vehicle is rated at accounts for the energy expended processing, transporting, and pumping the gasoline I put in my vehicle as well? This is not about reducing the cost to provide/obtain the fuel, it is about reducing the consumer's usage of the fuel. Besides, surely it takes significantly less energy to compress a tank of air, which can be done on-site, than it costs to process, transport, and pump the additional 5-18 gallons of gasoline that typical cars require.
"I want to stress that these are estimates, and that we'll know soon more precisely from our engineers," ZPM spokesman Kevin Haydon told PM, "but a vehicle with one tank of air and, say, 8 gal. of either conventional petrol, ethanol or biofuel could hit between 800 and 1000 miles."
I'm trying to think of the applications for this, since line of sight will be critical and there are few things I can think of that would require 5Gbps and still be line of sight.
Home theater maybe? All of your equipment can be in a location other than the front of the room, leaving just the display and speakers in the general viewing area (as in seen from guests viewing positions), and the chip(s) could be used to transmit wireless HD audio and video to the display and speakers.
Realistically, it does make sense. Since even the average WoW player doesn't play 720-748 hours every month, and most don't play even half that,.06/hr would be a much more cost-effective payment method - pay for only actual playtime, not hours or even days that you don't log on.
The RIAA is acting on behalf of its customers to sue its customers' customers. You can try to nit-pick with technicalities all you want, but the plain and simple fact of the matter is that big recording labels (via their PAID representatives, the RIAA) are suing their own customers.
Did you accidentally forget the [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags or are you genuinely brainwashed? Last time I checked, downloading the latest Linux distro via P2P did not "hurt people" and certainly did no harm to any such "artists" (if you can even call them that anymore).
Geez you guys are morons. I AM THE ORIGINAL AC (20329975/20330347).
Original comment (by Rob_Ogilvie): If a car thief has access to your keys for an hour, aren't you going to lose your car anyway? My reply (AC 20329975): Valet, car wash, there are many places that you may leave your keys unattended for enough time for this to occur. And after you've been to the same valet or car wash a few times, it's not hard for an employee/thief to figure out where you live (and where your car sits overnight).
What I meant by that are there are plenty of times that your keyfob is not in your posession, so anybody who happens to have posession of your keyfob (valet, car wash attendant, etc...) can make a copy of it for later use. And, including in-car nav-system, there are plenty of ways for that valet or car wash attendant to find your address, where your car sits peacefully and unattended all night long, and come steal your car with their copy of your keyfob.
You're all dumbasses, except for AC 20330603, who seems to be the only on this thread one who can read and comprehend a damn comment. Sheesh!
I'll bet that his user agreement with that free host also clearly states that circumventing their added content in the manner that your script does is prohibited. If they discover your script, they'll likely disable his account.
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By the way, if you do go to the above mentioned site (http://www.theaircar.com/howitworks.html), disable javascript beforehand, otherwise it redirects you to an alternate site at which you cannot get the technical information.
What you are missing though is that the air is not only compressed by a facility, it can be compressed by the car itself. As the car drives using fossil fuel (speeds over 60km/h or 35mph) it is refilling the compressed air tank. For most of your city driving (under 60km/h or 35mph), you'll be using compressed air. You'll get your biggest MPG efficiency on city driving, not highway, so don't expect to take a 1000-mile trip out of town on one 8-gallon tank of fuel. These cars are not meant for highway travel, they are meant for city travel. And this makes sense too, as the time you are burning the most fuel is accelerating from stopped. Instead of burning excess amounts of fuel during acceleration, you'll be using compressed air.
So the cost of the compressed air for the most likely intended use of this car (city driving), both $ and energy, is already included in the 8 gallons of fossil fuel (gasoline?). And to prevent yourself from having to hit an air station, just jump on a highway for a few miles.
See http://www.theaircar.com/howitworks.html
Oh, so the MPG that my regular gasoline vehicle is rated at accounts for the energy expended processing, transporting, and pumping the gasoline I put in my vehicle as well? This is not about reducing the cost to provide/obtain the fuel, it is about reducing the consumer's usage of the fuel. Besides, surely it takes significantly less energy to compress a tank of air, which can be done on-site, than it costs to process, transport, and pump the additional 5-18 gallons of gasoline that typical cars require.
"I want to stress that these are estimates, and that we'll know soon more precisely from our engineers," ZPM spokesman Kevin Haydon told PM, "but a vehicle with one tank of air and, say, 8 gal. of either conventional petrol, ethanol or biofuel could hit between 800 and 1000 miles."
Home theater maybe? All of your equipment can be in a location other than the front of the room, leaving just the display and speakers in the general viewing area (as in seen from guests viewing positions), and the chip(s) could be used to transmit wireless HD audio and video to the display and speakers.
I thought that was a prerequisite...
Realistically, it does make sense. Since even the average WoW player doesn't play 720-748 hours every month, and most don't play even half that, .06/hr would be a much more cost-effective payment method - pay for only actual playtime, not hours or even days that you don't log on.
The RIAA is acting on behalf of its customers to sue its customers' customers. You can try to nit-pick with technicalities all you want, but the plain and simple fact of the matter is that big recording labels (via their PAID representatives, the RIAA) are suing their own customers.
In the words of the great Ron White,"You can't fix stupid."
Just as I thought, genuinely brainwashed.
Did you accidentally forget the [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags or are you genuinely brainwashed? Last time I checked, downloading the latest Linux distro via P2P did not "hurt people" and certainly did no harm to any such "artists" (if you can even call them that anymore).
I am beginning to wonder if government fears it's own people.
If it did, we would not be in our current situation.
The problem is that our government NO LONGER fears it's own people. A fearful government works for the people. A fearless government works for itself.
Oh yeah, that's good advice. You're telling him to violate his probation. Good job.
Geez you guys are morons. I AM THE ORIGINAL AC (20329975/20330347).
Original comment (by Rob_Ogilvie): If a car thief has access to your keys for an hour, aren't you going to lose your car anyway?
My reply (AC 20329975): Valet, car wash, there are many places that you may leave your keys unattended for enough time for this to occur. And after you've been to the same valet or car wash a few times, it's not hard for an employee/thief to figure out where you live (and where your car sits overnight).
What I meant by that are there are plenty of times that your keyfob is not in your posession, so anybody who happens to have posession of your keyfob (valet, car wash attendant, etc...) can make a copy of it for later use. And, including in-car nav-system, there are plenty of ways for that valet or car wash attendant to find your address, where your car sits peacefully and unattended all night long, and come steal your car with their copy of your keyfob.
You're all dumbasses, except for AC 20330603, who seems to be the only on this thread one who can read and comprehend a damn comment. Sheesh!
So what you're saying is if society as a whole broke the speed limits, then laws against speeding would be unjust?
Eh, then they already know that he/she gave money to them as well...
Well of course they are assuming that those who would by the system either already have or can afford to buy a TV.
That would be the goofiest looking semi ever...
I'll bet that his user agreement with that free host also clearly states that circumventing their added content in the manner that your script does is prohibited. If they discover your script, they'll likely disable his account.
3. What kind of moron continues to use Microsoft products?
4. What kind of moron continues to use AOL?
5. What kind of moron uses Alexa?
If you can answer 3-5, then you already know the answers to your own questions.
Indeed. mhall doesn't deserve to be insulted in that manner.
Well she's already asking for $416,000 - what's $10,000 more...
Good job Zonk. Way to go botching the guys name throughout the entire last half of your review.
Actually VOIP works relatively well over 3G, but since the iPhone is only GSM/EDGE, there goes that possibility.