The "far more capacity" you cite is roughly double, which is pretty close to the difference in deep discharge capability between lead-acid and Li-ion (50% and 90% respectively).
Sure, but the cells Tesla uses are the same ones Panasonic sells to anyone else. Panasonic may have some special sauce electrolyte that makes them better than Energizer, but that still doesn't make Tesla's anything special compared to anything else that uses Panasonic sells.
Actually, they are about the same type. Tesla's packs use a modified (PTC fuse and CID removed) version of the bog standard 18650 Li-ion cell, which is commonly used in laptop batteries.
It's the battery management system and the cooling system that would make the difference in longevity.
You will probably not be struck by lightning, but I can't guarantee that it won't happen.
Actually, when talking about airliners, getting struck by lighting is a fairly common occurrence. A typical airliner experiences a lightning strike about once a year.
Of course the big question is how efficient is the process? Is it more efficient than just using the electricity to charge up batteries in an electric car for example?
TFA says 70%, then you get about 30% out of the engine, so the answer is no, but it trades that off against faster refuelling, longer range, and ability to use existing infrastructure rather than starting from scratch.
Which leads to an obvious question: Isn't the U.S. capable of producing its own anesthetics? At least the ones used for executions which should no longer be covered by patents?
Sure they could, but there's basically no market for it.
The established European companies have the legitimate-medical-uses market sown up, so that just leaves the killing-people market, which is really damn small, so they'd never even make back their investment, much less make a profit on it.
It would be possible to whomp up a government-owned corporation or government division to do it and not care about the cost, but the free market mania that the Republicans running the states that still do executions subscribe to probably wouldn't allow that or even have it occur to them.
How come proven liars such as Pelosi and Feinstein keep on getting re-elected despite all the goddamn things that they have done?
Because the alternatives presented by the other party are even worse, and due to the way the system was set up, both originally and by the changes made via the 17th amendment (which made senators elected, rather than appointed by the state legislatures), it's all but impossible for anyone not of the current major parties to get in (it's difficult enough for them to even get on the ballot).
Voluntary birth control is only a temporary fix. I still see plenty of big families.
All those big families don't make up for the childless and one-child families. It's simply statistical reality.
Even with those large families, the USA is slightly below the replacement rate. According to the CIA World Factbook, The USA is sitting at about 2.01 births per woman. You need about 2.1 to keep the population constant. The only thing that is keeping population growth going is immigration.
And the almost all (France is an exception at 2.08) rest of the developed world is way the hell below that. Canada is sitting at 1.59 and the EU collectively is at 1.55. China is also sitting at 1.55, and Russia is at 1.61.
Innocent people are inconvenienced and harassed all the time by unreliable evidence and eye witness testimony. Some are even convicted. The false positive rate for familial DNA is way down in the noise level. Why not point your outrage at the harassment of blacks on the streets of every major city.
Because unlike you, we have sufficient neural capacity to walk and chew gum at the same time and thus are also able to criticize police for multiple lousy practises at once.
It took 6 months and 8000 MIPS-years to factor RSA-155 back in 1999.
According to Dhrystone, the CPU in the computer I'm typing this post on could do those 8000 MIPS-years in roughly 3 weeks and you could probably knock that down to less than a day if you brought the GPU into the matter, let alone something with some real oomph.
We had one of those up here. They were a somewhat popular protest vote in the 90s. They got 0.63% of the national vote in 1993, which is better than the Libertarians or Communists have ever managed.
Now it's just a matter of getting the majority of Canadians to go "No I don't want this idiot again."
No, it's a matter of getting decidedly more than a majority to go like that. Harper got here with 39% of the vote, thanks to dirty tricks and this idiotic system of voting we're stuck with.
For that matter, the HPV shot is not recommended for adults, since most of us have probably already been exposed (unless, again, you're a nun.) It's only recommended for pre-adolescents, under the likely true assumption that the majority of them will NOT be celibate.
It's recommended and highly desirable to administer it pre-teen, so as to get maximum protection, but even for sexually active persons, it will still give at least partial benefit, as even if you have had an HPV infection, it's damn unlikely you'll have contracted all four strains the vaccine protects against.
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The "far more capacity" you cite is roughly double, which is pretty close to the difference in deep discharge capability between lead-acid and Li-ion (50% and 90% respectively).
In doing that, he will be able to bring li-ion chem prices down below lead-acid batteries.
That won't take much. If you look at usable capacity (remember, deep discharging lead-acid is a no no), they're pretty much already there.
Sure, but the cells Tesla uses are the same ones Panasonic sells to anyone else. Panasonic may have some special sauce electrolyte that makes them better than Energizer, but that still doesn't make Tesla's anything special compared to anything else that uses Panasonic sells.
Actually, they are about the same type. Tesla's packs use a modified (PTC fuse and CID removed) version of the bog standard 18650 Li-ion cell, which is commonly used in laptop batteries.
It's the battery management system and the cooling system that would make the difference in longevity.
You will probably not be struck by lightning, but I can't guarantee that it won't happen.
Actually, when talking about airliners, getting struck by lighting is a fairly common occurrence. A typical airliner experiences a lightning strike about once a year.
Of course the big question is how efficient is the process? Is it more efficient than just using the electricity to charge up batteries in an electric car for example?
TFA says 70%, then you get about 30% out of the engine, so the answer is no, but it trades that off against faster refuelling, longer range, and ability to use existing infrastructure rather than starting from scratch.
Even for blind users?
They do provide audio captchas, though javascript needs to be enabled to use them.
Which leads to an obvious question: Isn't the U.S. capable of producing its own anesthetics? At least the ones used for executions which should no longer be covered by patents?
Sure they could, but there's basically no market for it.
The established European companies have the legitimate-medical-uses market sown up, so that just leaves the killing-people market, which is really damn small, so they'd never even make back their investment, much less make a profit on it.
It would be possible to whomp up a government-owned corporation or government division to do it and not care about the cost, but the free market mania that the Republicans running the states that still do executions subscribe to probably wouldn't allow that or even have it occur to them.
Weather doesn't want to cooperate. Anvil clouds within 10 miles of launch site.
Tune in tomorrow for next attempt.
No, Elizabeth Emken was Feinstein's opponent last time.
Fiorina ran against (and was defeated soundly by) Barbara Boxer, California's other senator, in 2010.
How come proven liars such as Pelosi and Feinstein keep on getting re-elected despite all the goddamn things that they have done?
Because the alternatives presented by the other party are even worse, and due to the way the system was set up, both originally and by the changes made via the 17th amendment (which made senators elected, rather than appointed by the state legislatures), it's all but impossible for anyone not of the current major parties to get in (it's difficult enough for them to even get on the ballot).
Here's something for Germany
Looks like it was roughly an hour from the drop to things being back to normal, with a downswing of about 8GW and an upswing of about 13GW.
False. Bird deaths due to wind turbines are a rounding error.
http://www.stateofthebirds.org...
Voluntary birth control is only a temporary fix. I still see plenty of big families.
All those big families don't make up for the childless and one-child families. It's simply statistical reality.
Even with those large families, the USA is slightly below the replacement rate. According to the CIA World Factbook, The USA is sitting at about 2.01 births per woman. You need about 2.1 to keep the population constant. The only thing that is keeping population growth going is immigration.
And the almost all (France is an exception at 2.08) rest of the developed world is way the hell below that. Canada is sitting at 1.59 and the EU collectively is at 1.55. China is also sitting at 1.55, and Russia is at 1.61.
Innocent people are inconvenienced and harassed all the time by unreliable evidence and eye witness testimony. Some are even convicted. The false positive rate for familial DNA is way down in the noise level. Why not point your outrage at the harassment of blacks on the streets of every major city.
Because unlike you, we have sufficient neural capacity to walk and chew gum at the same time and thus are also able to criticize police for multiple lousy practises at once.
The post is at -1 because the user's karma is severely negative.
512 bits isn't a very high a bar anymore.
It took 6 months and 8000 MIPS-years to factor RSA-155 back in 1999.
According to Dhrystone, the CPU in the computer I'm typing this post on could do those 8000 MIPS-years in roughly 3 weeks and you could probably knock that down to less than a day if you brought the GPU into the matter, let alone something with some real oomph.
Pros3cut0rz need to periodically run for reelection.
Not in this case. Crown Attorneys in Canada are civil employees, not elected positions.
We had one of those up here. They were a somewhat popular protest vote in the 90s. They got 0.63% of the national vote in 1993, which is better than the Libertarians or Communists have ever managed.
What happened?
An idiotic voting system, gerrymandered ridings, Republicans giving the Conservatives dirty tricks lessons, and 39% of the population being idiots.
Now it's just a matter of getting the majority of Canadians to go "No I don't want this idiot again."
No, it's a matter of getting decidedly more than a majority to go like that. Harper got here with 39% of the vote, thanks to dirty tricks and this idiotic system of voting we're stuck with.
You'll need a large supermajority to get rid of him. The most recent projection shows he's still likely to form government with 32.9% of the vote.
I doubt it'll fly in Canada. For that matter, I wonder if they'll even try.
Interac has almost universal availability and their NFC version ("Interac Flash") is already available to certain Android smartphone users.
It's the government approving them and the government(s) mandating them, so it's the government paying for it if something goes wrong.
2008. The retraction of Wakefield's fraudulent study and him being stripped of his medical license didn't happen until 2010.
For that matter, the HPV shot is not recommended for adults, since most of us have probably already been exposed (unless, again, you're a nun.) It's only recommended for pre-adolescents, under the likely true assumption that the majority of them will NOT be celibate.
Actually, it is recommended for adults, at least up here in Canada. It's currently approved for men up to age 26 and women up to age 45.
It's recommended and highly desirable to administer it pre-teen, so as to get maximum protection, but even for sexually active persons, it will still give at least partial benefit, as even if you have had an HPV infection, it's damn unlikely you'll have contracted all four strains the vaccine protects against.