It's not the stigma, it's the envrionment. Even "clean" diesel engines rank horribly on particulate, NOx, and other nasty emissions.
I suggest you look into new diesel engines. They can be even cleaner than their non-diesel counterparts with recent innovations in diesel catalytic converters and filters.
Oh, and your precious diesel cars? They weigh more than their gasoline counterparts because diesel engines need stronger components (much higher compression).
A diesel engine may weigh slightly more than a regular gasoline engine (not if you use modern materials), but it certainly weighs less than a gasoline engine, an electric motor, and a pack of batteries. To get an engine to deal with much higher compression doesn't take that much strengthening; better rods, pistons, and crank.
The Prius hits 50mpg in real-world testing, too, with fuel that has 30% less energy than diesel.
Some recent numbers from Honda/Acura's new diesel engine in their... I think it's the new Accord, but they don't call it that: 76 MPG, 130 MPH stop speed, 8 second 0-60 acceleration. That's amazing numbers, and better than any hybrid system out there.
I'm not a diesel fanatic, infact it hurts me to say that something involving electricity is worse (I'm an Electrical Engineer), but the fact remains that hybrids just aren't all the automakers crack them up to be.
It was obviously an exaggeration, mister "I.M.Clueless". I meant twice the weight of the propulsion system. A regular gasoline engine might weigh 400 lbs, but a gasoline engine plus batteries and an electric motor and all the adaptors necessary is going to weigh 800 lbs, and then it's going to take up twice as much room to store all the stuff. Hybrids get so much criticism because they don't increase gas mileage by enough of an amount to offset the amount of work that went into them. It's not a sound technology, it's the hip new thing from automakers to appease the clueless tree-huggers who don't actually know about the environment.
Haha, actually I have driven a diesel rabbit:) I know what you're talking about though. The electric motor provides some low-end grunt, without sacrificing fuel.
I don't think that a hybrid system adds all that much to the vehicle... If you removed the batteries + electric motor from a Prius, you'd save a lot of weight, and I'd bet you'd probably get almost the same gas mileage as you did before, just using the 1.2 (or whatever it is) liter gas engine.
The gas mileage you can get with a hybrid is far less than what you can get with a good diesel engine. Hybrids are a bad idea, twice the weight (batteries, two motors), half the interior room. Diesel-engined cars have been getting 50+ MPG for years and years. Unfortunately the stigma in the US over "diesel" prevents them from being brought over here.
It's just bad grammar. They mean you won't have to put gasoline or other common fuels in it. It uses plants and animal digestion as a fuel. Shouldn't that be obvious?
NASA / ESA should send up some probes to land on this thing as it hurtles past us. On a rock that big, they could set up robo-camp, and find out a lot of information, like what it's made of etc.
Awesome. I have never used Solaris, but if it's a better product, I'll be switching to it. My loyalties lie with the better product, whichever it may be. Competition is good for everybody.
I hate the word "natural" when used describing what something is made of... What does it mean exactly? Especially hair products that are "all natural". Does that mean they didn't refine the crap they put in it at all? They just dumped leaves and shit into the shampoo? Or did they have to extract certain chemicals, like you do with just about everything else. Where is the line between "natural" and not, in both marketspeak and some sort of sane opinion?
A lightning bolt is natural, and is pretty damn dangerous, as is arsenic, and bears.
Companies lose up to _two weeks_ of time due to the holidays!? I'm lucky to get the day of the holiday off, or if it falls on a weekend, the friday before.
It is doubtful that video games cause kids to bring guns to school. Your "evidence" is merely a temporal coincidence. You might say the same thing about TV, or the internet, computers in general, or even the automobile; that all of those cause violence, because look where we are today. However, it seems obvious that the problems we have these days arise from lack of proper parenting. Yes, with the rise of television, and computers, it's much easier to have them do the babysitting and childrearing; and it ends up that a lot of parents take that route, whether on purpose, or through ignorance. But it's not the televisions or computers that are the problem. People like you were the ones saying that Rock-and-Roll is the devil, and look how silly that is/was. As with anything new to society, there needs to be an adjustment to accomodate the changes. I don't think society has changed enough to keep up with everything, due to old people being old and stodgy. I would tell you to use some facts, instead of coincidental stuff.
Does anybody else picture "Dr. Orpheus" from the Venture Bros. cartoon when you read about this guy? Complete with the methods of speaking and all? I sure do, and it's funny.
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What the hell do you use that can't play XVIDs? Perhaps you'd prefer real video, or WMVs?
-Jesse
Because people are so apathetic and/or stupid, it takes a big example to make a point.
-Jesse
You're right. Earthquakes didn't change the earth's orbit, they changed the earth's rate of rotation, which is a completely different animal.
-Jesse
It's not the stigma, it's the envrionment. Even "clean" diesel engines rank horribly on particulate, NOx, and other nasty emissions.
I suggest you look into new diesel engines. They can be even cleaner than their non-diesel counterparts with recent innovations in diesel catalytic converters and filters.
Oh, and your precious diesel cars? They weigh more than their gasoline counterparts because diesel engines need stronger components (much higher compression).
A diesel engine may weigh slightly more than a regular gasoline engine (not if you use modern materials), but it certainly weighs less than a gasoline engine, an electric motor, and a pack of batteries. To get an engine to deal with much higher compression doesn't take that much strengthening; better rods, pistons, and crank.
The Prius hits 50mpg in real-world testing, too, with fuel that has 30% less energy than diesel.
Some recent numbers from Honda/Acura's new diesel engine in their... I think it's the new Accord, but they don't call it that: 76 MPG, 130 MPH stop speed, 8 second 0-60 acceleration. That's amazing numbers, and better than any hybrid system out there.
I'm not a diesel fanatic, infact it hurts me to say that something involving electricity is worse (I'm an Electrical Engineer), but the fact remains that hybrids just aren't all the automakers crack them up to be.
-Jesse
It was obviously an exaggeration, mister "I.M.Clueless". I meant twice the weight of the propulsion system. A regular gasoline engine might weigh 400 lbs, but a gasoline engine plus batteries and an electric motor and all the adaptors necessary is going to weigh 800 lbs, and then it's going to take up twice as much room to store all the stuff. Hybrids get so much criticism because they don't increase gas mileage by enough of an amount to offset the amount of work that went into them. It's not a sound technology, it's the hip new thing from automakers to appease the clueless tree-huggers who don't actually know about the environment.
-Jesse
Haha, actually I have driven a diesel rabbit :) I know what you're talking about though. The electric motor provides some low-end grunt, without sacrificing fuel.
-Jesse
I don't think that a hybrid system adds all that much to the vehicle... If you removed the batteries + electric motor from a Prius, you'd save a lot of weight, and I'd bet you'd probably get almost the same gas mileage as you did before, just using the 1.2 (or whatever it is) liter gas engine.
-Jesse
The gas mileage you can get with a hybrid is far less than what you can get with a good diesel engine. Hybrids are a bad idea, twice the weight (batteries, two motors), half the interior room. Diesel-engined cars have been getting 50+ MPG for years and years. Unfortunately the stigma in the US over "diesel" prevents them from being brought over here.
-Jesse
You posted it yourself in the quoted article text. Eventually it will gather its own apples and dead flies to refuel itself; hence autonomous.
-Jesse
It's just bad grammar. They mean you won't have to put gasoline or other common fuels in it. It uses plants and animal digestion as a fuel. Shouldn't that be obvious?
-Jesse
NASA / ESA should send up some probes to land on this thing as it hurtles past us. On a rock that big, they could set up robo-camp, and find out a lot of information, like what it's made of etc.
-Jesse
Great book. I can't help but picture it myself as well :D
-Jesse
What you believe is up to you.
Good thing, if I had to believe your spew, I might as well start attending the local "conspiracy theorist" meetings, or pick up religion.
Jeez..
-Jesse
I concur :) My "very hot brick" phone is perfect.
-Jesse
That the video game industry is a big industry now, definitely a major player in the world of entertainment, for those who weren't aware (like me).
It's definitely ballpark to the movie industry, which blew me away, I had no idea.
-Jesse
but my attitude is the more the merrier
Awesome. I have never used Solaris, but if it's a better product, I'll be switching to it. My loyalties lie with the better product, whichever it may be. Competition is good for everybody.
-Jesse
I hate the word "natural" when used describing what something is made of... What does it mean exactly? Especially hair products that are "all natural". Does that mean they didn't refine the crap they put in it at all? They just dumped leaves and shit into the shampoo? Or did they have to extract certain chemicals, like you do with just about everything else. Where is the line between "natural" and not, in both marketspeak and some sort of sane opinion?
A lightning bolt is natural, and is pretty damn dangerous, as is arsenic, and bears.
-Jesse
So therefore:
exfoliation = get cancer?
-Jesse
Companies lose up to _two weeks_ of time due to the holidays!? I'm lucky to get the day of the holiday off, or if it falls on a weekend, the friday before.
-Jesse
I run knoppix occasionally on my Pentium 233 Laptop with 32 MB of ram. It's slow as poo, but definitely usable.
-Jesse
In that case, neither was stumbling upon the remains of some small people by accident :D
-Jesse
Hahaha, wow what a troll, but I'll bite:
It is doubtful that video games cause kids to bring guns to school. Your "evidence" is merely a temporal coincidence. You might say the same thing about TV, or the internet, computers in general, or even the automobile; that all of those cause violence, because look where we are today. However, it seems obvious that the problems we have these days arise from lack of proper parenting. Yes, with the rise of television, and computers, it's much easier to have them do the babysitting and childrearing; and it ends up that a lot of parents take that route, whether on purpose, or through ignorance. But it's not the televisions or computers that are the problem. People like you were the ones saying that Rock-and-Roll is the devil, and look how silly that is/was. As with anything new to society, there needs to be an adjustment to accomodate the changes. I don't think society has changed enough to keep up with everything, due to old people being old and stodgy. I would tell you to use some facts, instead of coincidental stuff.
-Jesse
Hahaha. Great :D I wish I had mod points.
-Jesse
They probably would say in court that their opt-out server just happened to be down due to misfortune. A broken link "proves" that you tried.
-Jesse
Does anybody else picture "Dr. Orpheus" from the Venture Bros. cartoon when you read about this guy? Complete with the methods of speaking and all? I sure do, and it's funny.
-Jesse