"Suggesting we use the same amount of energy that's already being spent to generate electricity instead of potholes seems like a good idea to me, and one that violates no laws of nature."
The only people trying to violate the laws of physics are all the people trying to insist that somehow these plates will magically be worse than if they weren't there.
No, sorry, it's not. No extra energy is being expended by the car that would not ordinarily have been expended, all that's happening is that some of what was originally wasted energy is being harvested by the building.
The plate is the same level as the road jim, and the customers would be driving over that space whether or not the plate was there. I think you need to think about this some more.
The way a lot of the righteously indignant people here are posting apparently they think that these plates are magically collecting energy by forcing the car to magically consume an extra gallon or two of gas just by driving over a flat plate set into the road.
Fraudulent scheme? Tokerat said it better than I did:
"If you drove a car towards these plates, put the car in neutral while moving, and turned the engine off before rolling over the plates, would they generate any less energy than driving over them at the same speed with the engine running?"
The numbers are bullshit, but so are all these suggestions that the plates are magically causing MORE gas/battery power to be wasted than would happen otherwise.
Are those plates causing more oil to be consumed than would happen otherwise? Then it is not being magically wasted, but just a reasonable way of getting more energy out of the same use of oil.
Calling it "green" is wrong, true, but I fail to see why attempting to do some good with traffic that would still be going through there anyway is such a waste.
They aren't getting people to waste gas driving over these plates, people would be driving through that space ANYWAY, all they're doing is trying to harvest some energy from that traffic's passing. Its almost as ridiculous as all these people talking about "stealing" and "leeching" energy from petrol that would still be consumed ANYWAY. All that's happening is some of the waste energy is being captured.
That sucks, the ones down here are actually very nice to drive on because it's basically just a different background road noise with the occasion "thwipthwip" as you pass over a spacer.
As has already been pointed out Gandhi was a setup, everything he said and did was carefully calculated to make any opposition to him and his movement look inherently evil. When it comes down to it the colonial british were effectively the only people that kind of nonviolent resistence would ever really work on, just embarass them so much they have to give in.
Iran on the other hand... there is a genuine belief that slaughtering anyone who opposes you is the divinely justified path among the islamic extremists like khamenei. Going gandhi against them will just get you killed with no effect.
Sorry, not buying that. You can tell when someone's bullshitting you with numbers with highschool algebra just fine, you don't need higher math for that.
We've got some serious heavy duty concrete roads here in florida too. Just giant slabs of the stuff seperated by flexible spacers every so often. They're amazingly smooth rides, almost never seem to get potholes, and whenever FDOT decides to play musical chairs with the roads they can just pick them up and slap them back down again.
Problem is they're also apparently expensive as fuck to put down to begin with.
Sometimes in some situations the only real answer is unyielding violence. Sure you can hedge on the bet that eventually enough old people will die off that Iran could become a free country but at the rate they can find new help... sometimes a peaceful revolution just isn't a realistic expectation.
Do you mean Gecko, or "Gecko". One is the cute little guy that eats bugs and provides an easy thing to rescue girls from, the other is a 5 foot meat eating monitor lizard that tends to try and eat people trying to rescue girls from them.
Or to summarize, the non-PC crowd has finally discovered what the PC crowd has been calling "modding" and working on in a large organized manner since about doom.
No, people frown upon gestapo style security theater bullshit like the liquids ban and telling people that it is illegal for them to know what is and is not illegal.
Real security isn't nearly so annoying despite being far more thorough. It's also easily twice as fast as the security theater we have now.
This. I'm studying law, not fucking engineering. I don't need or want to know calculus, and the USA will not fall if the millions of people NOT going into a math-centric field don't know anything above highschool algebra and geometry. If anything we'd be in the far better position of having people studying much harder in the fields they're interested in and not having the budget drain of all the people taking these classes just to fill some random requirement.
Furthermore if, in reality, I find a faster and more efficient way of completing my work I don't get fired for "cheating". I get a raise and possibly a promotion if I keep improving things.
My marine science textbook had one of those "by the way..." sections dedicated to pointing out why the giant squid, as in those things we now classify as larger than normal squid but smaller than colossal squid, was a myth and could not possibly exist.
Discounting age problems, consider weight. Not everyone has a locker, not everyone has enough time to get to their locker, and not everyone can safely use a locker (one razorblade from a pencil sharpener tossed through the vent and you're zero tolerance food).
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Except for harvesting some energy that would still have been expended anyway rather than just letting it be wasted into the ground.
"Suggesting we use the same amount of energy that's already being spent to generate electricity instead of potholes seems like a good idea to me, and one that violates no laws of nature."
The only people trying to violate the laws of physics are all the people trying to insist that somehow these plates will magically be worse than if they weren't there.
No, sorry, it's not. No extra energy is being expended by the car that would not ordinarily have been expended, all that's happening is that some of what was originally wasted energy is being harvested by the building.
The plate is the same level as the road jim, and the customers would be driving over that space whether or not the plate was there. I think you need to think about this some more.
The way a lot of the righteously indignant people here are posting apparently they think that these plates are magically collecting energy by forcing the car to magically consume an extra gallon or two of gas just by driving over a flat plate set into the road.
Fraudulent scheme? Tokerat said it better than I did:
"If you drove a car towards these plates, put the car in neutral while moving, and turned the engine off before rolling over the plates, would they generate any less energy than driving over them at the same speed with the engine running?"
The picture shows those plates as being... flat plates.
The numbers are bullshit, but so are all these suggestions that the plates are magically causing MORE gas/battery power to be wasted than would happen otherwise.
Are those plates causing more oil to be consumed than would happen otherwise? Then it is not being magically wasted, but just a reasonable way of getting more energy out of the same use of oil.
Calling it "green" is wrong, true, but I fail to see why attempting to do some good with traffic that would still be going through there anyway is such a waste.
They aren't getting people to waste gas driving over these plates, people would be driving through that space ANYWAY, all they're doing is trying to harvest some energy from that traffic's passing. Its almost as ridiculous as all these people talking about "stealing" and "leeching" energy from petrol that would still be consumed ANYWAY. All that's happening is some of the waste energy is being captured.
That sucks, the ones down here are actually very nice to drive on because it's basically just a different background road noise with the occasion "thwipthwip" as you pass over a spacer.
As has already been pointed out Gandhi was a setup, everything he said and did was carefully calculated to make any opposition to him and his movement look inherently evil. When it comes down to it the colonial british were effectively the only people that kind of nonviolent resistence would ever really work on, just embarass them so much they have to give in.
Iran on the other hand... there is a genuine belief that slaughtering anyone who opposes you is the divinely justified path among the islamic extremists like khamenei. Going gandhi against them will just get you killed with no effect.
Horrifyingly yes. A lot of the ones down here like climbing up trees.
Sorry, not buying that. You can tell when someone's bullshitting you with numbers with highschool algebra just fine, you don't need higher math for that.
You can set your formatting style to plain text and just hit enter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkj-vd-q5A8
And you're suprised by CNN's conduct?
We've got some serious heavy duty concrete roads here in florida too. Just giant slabs of the stuff seperated by flexible spacers every so often. They're amazingly smooth rides, almost never seem to get potholes, and whenever FDOT decides to play musical chairs with the roads they can just pick them up and slap them back down again.
Problem is they're also apparently expensive as fuck to put down to begin with.
Sometimes in some situations the only real answer is unyielding violence. Sure you can hedge on the bet that eventually enough old people will die off that Iran could become a free country but at the rate they can find new help... sometimes a peaceful revolution just isn't a realistic expectation.
Do you mean Gecko, or "Gecko". One is the cute little guy that eats bugs and provides an easy thing to rescue girls from, the other is a 5 foot meat eating monitor lizard that tends to try and eat people trying to rescue girls from them.
Or to summarize, the non-PC crowd has finally discovered what the PC crowd has been calling "modding" and working on in a large organized manner since about doom.
No, people frown upon gestapo style security theater bullshit like the liquids ban and telling people that it is illegal for them to know what is and is not illegal.
Real security isn't nearly so annoying despite being far more thorough. It's also easily twice as fast as the security theater we have now.
This. I'm studying law, not fucking engineering. I don't need or want to know calculus, and the USA will not fall if the millions of people NOT going into a math-centric field don't know anything above highschool algebra and geometry. If anything we'd be in the far better position of having people studying much harder in the fields they're interested in and not having the budget drain of all the people taking these classes just to fill some random requirement.
Furthermore if, in reality, I find a faster and more efficient way of completing my work I don't get fired for "cheating". I get a raise and possibly a promotion if I keep improving things.
DN3d has one of those "You're not supposed to be here..." eggs too.
If we're still talking about why most of africa is a wartorn shithole I think we're overthinking this and only need to look back about 80 years or so.
My marine science textbook had one of those "by the way..." sections dedicated to pointing out why the giant squid, as in those things we now classify as larger than normal squid but smaller than colossal squid, was a myth and could not possibly exist.
Discounting age problems, consider weight. Not everyone has a locker, not everyone has enough time to get to their locker, and not everyone can safely use a locker (one razorblade from a pencil sharpener tossed through the vent and you're zero tolerance food).