BTW. Do you know who actually wrote the words for the Patriot act. That would be John Kerry.
And I'm not Pro-Bush. I'm anti-Kerry.
Anyone but Kerry in '04
I notice that when confronted with real facts, and not just fear mongering blather, you dropped the entire Draft discusion and went to the only reason people have to vote for Kerry "Bush sucks". Kerry Edwards should have a button like that made up.
To address that point (draft) again. Not only is there no evidence of a draft forthcoming. But even if we did draft 50,000 troops, sent them to the Middle-East, the CIC would say. Send them back, I don't need them. Not because he couldn't use more troops, but because there is no place for draftees in this kind of war. What is needed are specially trained troops in Police duties, anti-terrorisim duties, and Urban combat. Draftees are only good for handing a rifle, telling them to get in a foxhole and shoot anyone that comes from that direction. We have absolutely 0 need for those kinds of troops right now. Hence, no need for a draft.
And don't you think if we were going to draft a bunch of soldiers, we wouldn't be sending members of the 11th ACR of to Iraq. We would need them to train the incoming Draftees. So your BS evidence actually points to a draft NOT happening.
And if the Bush record spoke for itself, why do you have to create lies. Why not just point out truths. Is it because the evidence is so slim, you need to manufacture things to complain about?
_________________
"People are not only stupidier than you think, they are stupidier than you can imagine." - McFeelme Johnson
There are not 500,000 Regular army troops; it is closer to 750,000 down from a million.
There are not 500,000 Army troops stationed overseas, though there may well be 500,000 mixed forces troops overseas.
Yes, there have been many Reserve forces called up. That is exactly what they are there for; it is the entire reason for their existence. I know I was a corporal in the USMC Reserves.
The reason why PARTS of the 11th ACR have been sent on tour in Iraq, is that in order to train troops they need real world experience. The military is not a lesson in book tactics; people with experience train those without. The only way for he people to get the experience is to actually do it. The 11th ACR back home will then be supplemented with troops that fought in the early days of Gulf War II so that they can train those that were not there. There is nothing abnormal about this. To not send your training cadre to get real world experience would be abnormal.
Quick check of the 11th ACR's website, and the list of those stationed in theatre shows 18 troops stationed in Iraq. Only one of which is below the rank of 1st Sgt, and is probably a clerk for the officers. Not exactly a desperate measure to send 18 people out of hundreds. And if your in desperate need of manpower, you send the lower ranks, the fighters, not the officers and non-commissioned officers by themselves.
(Sarcasam)FLASH NEWS: War not going well, sending of SPC Angelic DeJager to Iraq definitive evidence that draft is coming.(/Sarcasam)
It has nothing to do with no troops left to assign. More troops were sent during Gulf War I, and even then, there were plenty of troops left behind in the states and Germany to continue normal duties.
In other words. You are completely wrong. You don't know what your talking about, and your fear mongering because you have an inexplicable and illogical fear of Bush, and rather than bring up the merits of your guy, which are lacking, you'd rather make up lies about the other guy.
The draft will not be instituted because we saw what happens with a draft during Vietnam. That is why we moved to a volunteer military, because we saw (In the form of the Marine Corps) that a volunteer force always does better than a drafted force.
As such, even the military DOES NOT WANT A DRAFT. They do not want people like you in the military because they know you will be less than useless. You will actually drag others down with you.
Now should the living Ent Kerry be elected we might need a draft. Because every tin-pot dictator and terrorist knows that, the worse response they can expect is that we will meet with the French. Therefore they will "test" us about every chance they get.
PS, Bush has stated un-equivocally many times, there are no plans for a draft. There have been two proposals before congress. Both bills proposed by Democrats. Sounds to me like the Democrats are the one who want the draft.
How s this any different than any other water sytem.
All water is recycled
Simplest system is what I have, well water with a septic system. Water is pumped up from underground, I use it, then it flows into a septic system, which leaches back into the ground water, filtered by soil and rock. Cycle complete.
Everything in all of these articles have been done many times before all over the world. At best they took 3 old technologies and put them in the same place. Aain, something I'm sure has been done before.
In fact, this sounds about exactly the same as the public water supply used to supplement people private water supplies in the Bahama during dry spells. I can't find any difference whatsoever in this BS NEWater system, and any other modern water treatment plant.
It's the equivalent of someone claiming they have a new pneumatically filled rubber system of rotary rolling transportation.
It's been done folks.
Reminds me of when Segway (Faggy Scooter TM) made a big deal about Helical gears and how it lowered noise, and reduced wear. Yeah, so? Car manufacturers have been doing that for over a century.
Complete BS in this article. It's just some guy trying to get venture capital.
I agree with both you and Wiak.
I ever find someonee using a cell phone jammer I'm going to follow them home and cut the phone wire to their house.
Because them spreading their ignorance bothers me.
AS to turning off TV's in public places. If theres no legal means to get at them, theres always clue-by-fours.
"I'm surprised you haven't noticed the stylistic and thematic cross-overs between it and the Baroque Cycle volumes"
Specially considering they are predescesors to Cryptonimicon (in story, ot in when written)
But listen to everyone else. Pick up anything but "the Baroque Cycle" or "The Big U" as your introduction to him.
The first book in the the Baroque Cycle is particularly difficult to read. The Big U could have been great, but he hadn't worked his style out yet.
Everything else is great.
No one has ever accused Neal of being to concise.:D
before anyone gets in a huff. that's what I like about his writing, Barouqe Cycle excluded of course.
In reagards to the whole discusion of locking down computers and whether users should have acces to the web, or to install programs or whatever.
The #1 arguement for locking down was. You have the apps to do your job, you don't need anything else.
BS
If those apps don't work you can't do your job, and often those apps don't work, and often those apps don't work because of IT.
I used to work at SUN (Where I had the most network/software issues of any company I've ever worked at). the main program for logging calls and so forth was RADIAINCE, which anyone who's worked at SUN in the past 5 years knows about. And what a total and complete piece of Shite it is. But I'm not here to talk about that.
One of the other major tools for working was a web browser, not for browsing the internut, but for browsing the intranet. that's where you did research on problems, research on part#'s and also ordered those parts. No webbie, no workie.
The biggest problem was not getting web access, but when the 6 different pages you needed to do your job blew up and went away. Sun uses Nyetscape, and it's up and down more than a $2 hooker. Never mind loosing your place, but having to re-open Nyetscape and navigate through the pages and logins to get back to where you were.
It was neccesarry for us to do our job to install 3rd party apps. When Opera for Solaris came out some of us were in tears of joy. Some installeed IE for Solaris, we even ried that stupid Java browser SUN has. that couldn't even access 1/2 the pages we needed to do our jobs. (was better that Radiance because when it didn't work on a page, that's it, it didn't work. Radiance was sneaky bastard, you never knew when it was going to crap out. And it was always slower than a 3 legged donkey)
Then there was proxies, anyone who used a US proxy was at a serious handicap. Most of us used Proxies that were 12 hours off from our time zone.
In all, the only software tools that we had that worked were unsupported, or 3rd party ones. The only way we could do our jobs was to have administrator access.
Then the network would go down.
At those times I'd always yell.
"THE NETWORK IS THE COMPUTER!"
Then what, may I ask, is the difference between a worm slowing down access and making things difficult.
And Net Admin Inc. pulling the plug, or slowing things down and making things difficult?
It's like that old argument, whats the difference between a M$ OS and a Virus, Nothing.
Similarly, there is no difference difference between spyware/adware/malware and an IT department that is too rigid/lazy/ignorant to do things as they should.
BTW, there is an older Derogatory terms for Segway that those new to taking the piss out of the HT should know about.
This one dates back to the reveal
FSTM which is of course short for Faggy Scooter (tm)
Though I must say, due to the sideline discussion of which is proper HT or IT possible we could also use the term
SHIT Standing for Segway and combinig HT and IT into one.
Segway can go up a curve (within reason) and while I would never do it it can go down stairs (seen it with my own eyes) and have heard of credible rumors of people going up stairs down at Segfest last weekend. All while riding.
But curbs aren't much of an issue, for drastic curbs you only need to put one foot down for a little assist, and Ive also seen people do drastic curves without using the foot, however there was a lot of air time, not something I would be comfortable doing.
But you puilled those numbers out of your nether region, I don't knwo what they are, but I suspect the disparity is higher than that.
Yeah, and do all that changing to the alternator, and do you know what it won't do anymore. Charge the batteries. See comment about motors.
"As for belt slippage, the big super-chargers on top-fuel, funny cars and some street rods are capable of transferring in excess of 1500 horse-power"
You are absolutely 100% Correct. However more usefull information might be that it also has about 500X the surface area as the teeny tiny one on that hokey hybrid setup, made of different materials and replaced after every 10 seconds of use (not incluiding idle). What you also don't factor in is that it is not used to brake the car. The HP potential of the brakes in your car far exceeds the horespower potential of the engine in our car, placing a large differential strain on a belt like that (Superchargers have a fairly flat resistance curve) will snap that puny belt faster than you can say "hybrid vehicles suck"
The difference in the mounting points of the crank are not what I was discussing here. The crank is not a shaft, it's a series of leverage arms, designed to have power applied to them, not from them. The crank isn't going to shear at the mounting point, either the crankshaft arms are going to snap, or you'll snap a connecting rod. That's if you can apply a signfigant enough load on the front end to draw some energy out, which you can't so it's irrelevant.
See my post on page one (which I made after this one). I go into more detail there. Suffice to say that loading the crank on that side is a very very bad thing to do.
My current car already has enough braking power via compression to lock up the back tires, what headroom does this device have for sucking more juice out.
Oh yeah, as far as fuel economy.
If the motor is spinning the motor, just increasing rpm's faster than normal, the pist-ons will move up and down faster, the intake valves will open more often and let more gas in, how does that improve economy?
"In regenerative braking, the motor becomes a generator providing mechanical resistance to slow the vehicle and the energy produced is fed to the energy storage device, either batteries or super capacitor where it can later be recovered and used over."
Actually no. in regenerative braking, the motor that is attached to the wheels no longer provides power, and reverse energizes the coils, the spinning wheels then have to overcome the engine, basically running in reverse, done right this creates a net gain after system loses (Engines work better as engines than generators, and generators work better as generators then engines. Try appling voltage to your alternator and see if it spins)
to do regenrative braking as you describe, with this system is impossible, and if it were possible would damage the engine.
to continue:
Take your foot off the gas, engine slows, slows tranny, slows car, output of alternator drops. Due to the fact that engine rpm is slowing. Engine compression is MUCH higher than the resistance of the generator/engine you got strapped on the front. Net gain would most likely be negative #s
Place load on engine at crank, slowing engine more. Lets forget for just a second that at best you are going to get only 1/2 to 1/4 of that power, since only one or two wheels are connected to the engine (forgetting AWD $WD for a moment, talking about most cars). In an automatic the clutch packs will intentionally slip (remember engine can run or stop and have minimal effect on wheels, as autos are designed to only engage at accelertion speeds, and at steady state, torque converters are one way) In a manual you will be creating undue strain on the clutch. Hello unintentional slippage, glazing, loss of clutch. Not to mention that the crank is not designed to have power applied in that way. Low engine RPM's compared to wheel speed leads to broken cranksafts. A very not fun way to drive down the road.
As to a slight boost of power at acceleration. You might as well just kick the starter in, theres only so much power in the battery, if it's driving a motor, why not one you already have, why add the weight of a second motor. Regardless, the power gains are minimal here.
Particularly since after your momentary burst of accelration there will be a higher load on the alternator, sucking engine power in an attempt to fill the battery up of all the juice it just lost.
Of course I hope you have a collection of flywheels, running the starter while the engine is running is never a good thing.
Any belt drive type system, which this appears to be, cannot hope to match the powers needed to put that kind of load on the motor. Damn belt would slip like mad. Well until it snapped anyways. And that's not even considering modern serpintine systems, No way you can transfer that much power.
Errrrr Ahhhhh
Read the Article.
It wasn't a batch. Every single coil pack (one for each cylinder) on every Audi and VW for about 3 years of production had to be replaced, due to a bad DESIGN, not a bad batch. The problem was so bad that the supplier could not supply enough of the new design. So people couldn't get all changed at once, only the bad one was changed. My buddy had to go to the dealer 5 times to get the 6 coil packs changed.
Problem further compounded because said Coil Pack was mounted on the cylinder head, which is very hot, and coils do not like heat.
During the same model years a variety of Trnasmisions had a software bug that translated into the transmision eating itself. Happened to my buddy's Audi A-6 at 3500 miles approx 4 months after he bought the car brand new. Talked to a VW dealer in Dallas. VW/Audi sent a team of technicians to every dealer in the US to upgrade the software on all the transmisions.
It was thought that the coil pack issue was so bad that it could have bankrupted VW. Luckily the transmision problem was caught early on, on an A-6 the $ amount billed to Audi for replacement was 25K+
Imagine that for the majority of cars sold by them in the last 3 years.
"we would just burn cleaner fuels like methanol or ethanol"
Ever seen how many BTU's of Petroleum products are created to meake a given amount of BTU's of methanol/ethanol.
Hint, it's not an equation that that comes out as a net gain, it's a net loss from the get-go.
And that's not even getting to how much land would be required to grow enough corn to supply all the cars with ethanol.
And if you think oil prices are bad in the winter now....
Number of elements (how many lenses)
Quality of materials
Quality of work (hand ground lenses work much better than injected plastic)
Quality of design
Legth (focal ability)
Diameter (Light gathering)
Coatings (glare reduction)
Speed
Field of view
etc etc etc etc etc
$1000 bucks aint nothing I've seen $1,000,000 ones, granted those had to endure harsh enviornments too (outer space)
Kyocera 7135
Got an Mp3 though no HD. Still I can cram an Mp3 or two onto my 256 SD card, and I'll probably get one of the Gig ones when they come out. Plus it runs Palm OS.
I did have to pay a few bucks ($299) no reason to get a bunch of other bits and bobs to go with it.
As soon as I get the cable, I'll get an FM transmitter and have Mp3 in the car.
Compared to some stories here I feel like a lightweight.
Had a 400Mhz or so Quantex Lappie that I loved. Bezel around the screen was all cracked (as my current lappie is), the rails for the CD-ROM were completely snapped. so the Drive itself flopped around, but it still worked fine.
Then one day I accidentally dumped an entire large Coffee (extra cream extra sugar) right onto the keyboard. Lappie pulled a "Bill the cat" then went completely dark.
GAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
I took out the battery, rinsed it down with water. Sprayed some PCB board cleaner in it. The next day it booted fine. Monday at work I took it apart and cleaned it. Ran for a good year after that, when I finally turned it in it looked like it had been carried by a war correspondent for two years, but still the best laptop I ever had.
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"inexplicable and illogical fear of Bush"
Nuff said.
BTW. Do you know who actually wrote the words for the Patriot act. That would be John Kerry.
And I'm not Pro-Bush. I'm anti-Kerry.
Anyone but Kerry in '04
I notice that when confronted with real facts, and not just fear mongering blather, you dropped the entire Draft discusion and went to the only reason people have to vote for Kerry "Bush sucks". Kerry Edwards should have a button like that made up.
To address that point (draft) again. Not only is there no evidence of a draft forthcoming. But even if we did draft 50,000 troops, sent them to the Middle-East, the CIC would say. Send them back, I don't need them. Not because he couldn't use more troops, but because there is no place for draftees in this kind of war. What is needed are specially trained troops in Police duties, anti-terrorisim duties, and Urban combat. Draftees are only good for handing a rifle, telling them to get in a foxhole and shoot anyone that comes from that direction. We have absolutely 0 need for those kinds of troops right now. Hence, no need for a draft.
And don't you think if we were going to draft a bunch of soldiers, we wouldn't be sending members of the 11th ACR of to Iraq. We would need them to train the incoming Draftees. So your BS evidence actually points to a draft NOT happening.
And if the Bush record spoke for itself, why do you have to create lies. Why not just point out truths. Is it because the evidence is so slim, you need to manufacture things to complain about?
_________________ "People are not only stupidier than you think, they are stupidier than you can imagine." - McFeelme Johnson
Except that you are quite wrong.
There are not 500,000 Regular army troops; it is closer to 750,000 down from a million.
There are not 500,000 Army troops stationed overseas, though there may well be 500,000 mixed forces troops overseas.
Yes, there have been many Reserve forces called up. That is exactly what they are there for; it is the entire reason for their existence. I know I was a corporal in the USMC Reserves.
The reason why PARTS of the 11th ACR have been sent on tour in Iraq, is that in order to train troops they need real world experience. The military is not a lesson in book tactics; people with experience train those without. The only way for he people to get the experience is to actually do it. The 11th ACR back home will then be supplemented with troops that fought in the early days of Gulf War II so that they can train those that were not there. There is nothing abnormal about this. To not send your training cadre to get real world experience would be abnormal.
Quick check of the 11th ACR's website, and the list of those stationed in theatre shows 18 troops stationed in Iraq. Only one of which is below the rank of 1st Sgt, and is probably a clerk for the officers. Not exactly a desperate measure to send 18 people out of hundreds. And if your in desperate need of manpower, you send the lower ranks, the fighters, not the officers and non-commissioned officers by themselves.
(Sarcasam)FLASH NEWS: War not going well, sending of SPC Angelic DeJager to Iraq definitive evidence that draft is coming.(/Sarcasam)
It has nothing to do with no troops left to assign. More troops were sent during Gulf War I, and even then, there were plenty of troops left behind in the states and Germany to continue normal duties.
In other words. You are completely wrong. You don't know what your talking about, and your fear mongering because you have an inexplicable and illogical fear of Bush, and rather than bring up the merits of your guy, which are lacking, you'd rather make up lies about the other guy.
Yeah but if Kerry is elected Plan on Government sponsored madatory cannabilisim. Fear mongering works both ways.
Dolt
The draft will not be instituted because we saw what happens with a draft during Vietnam. That is why we moved to a volunteer military, because we saw (In the form of the Marine Corps) that a volunteer force always does better than a drafted force.
As such, even the military DOES NOT WANT A DRAFT. They do not want people like you in the military because they know you will be less than useless. You will actually drag others down with you.
Now should the living Ent Kerry be elected we might need a draft. Because every tin-pot dictator and terrorist knows that, the worse response they can expect is that we will meet with the French. Therefore they will "test" us about every chance they get.
PS, Bush has stated un-equivocally many times, there are no plans for a draft. There have been two proposals before congress. Both bills proposed by Democrats. Sounds to me like the Democrats are the one who want the draft.
It's software controlled, and the user is handed the software.
Now maybe you could build a robot with hands to move a throtttle and turn a steering wheel.
But tha'ts what this dos. Take that out of the developments so that others can work on the more specefic stuff.
How s this any different than any other water sytem.
All water is recycled
Simplest system is what I have, well water with a septic system. Water is pumped up from underground, I use it, then it flows into a septic system, which leaches back into the ground water, filtered by soil and rock. Cycle complete.
Everything in all of these articles have been done many times before all over the world. At best they took 3 old technologies and put them in the same place. Aain, something I'm sure has been done before.
In fact, this sounds about exactly the same as the public water supply used to supplement people private water supplies in the Bahama during dry spells. I can't find any difference whatsoever in this BS NEWater system, and any other modern water treatment plant.
It's the equivalent of someone claiming they have a new pneumatically filled rubber system of rotary rolling transportation.
It's been done folks.
Reminds me of when Segway (Faggy Scooter TM) made a big deal about Helical gears and how it lowered noise, and reduced wear. Yeah, so? Car manufacturers have been doing that for over a century.
Complete BS in this article. It's just some guy trying to get venture capital.
I agree with both you and Wiak. I ever find someonee using a cell phone jammer I'm going to follow them home and cut the phone wire to their house. Because them spreading their ignorance bothers me. AS to turning off TV's in public places. If theres no legal means to get at them, theres always clue-by-fours.
"I'm surprised you haven't noticed the stylistic and thematic cross-overs between it and the Baroque Cycle volumes"
Specially considering they are predescesors to Cryptonimicon (in story, ot in when written) But listen to everyone else. Pick up anything but "the Baroque Cycle" or "The Big U" as your introduction to him. The first book in the the Baroque Cycle is particularly difficult to read. The Big U could have been great, but he hadn't worked his style out yet. Everything else is great.
No one has ever accused Neal of being to concise. :D
before anyone gets in a huff. that's what I like about his writing, Barouqe Cycle excluded of course.
In reagards to the whole discusion of locking down computers and whether users should have acces to the web, or to install programs or whatever.
The #1 arguement for locking down was. You have the apps to do your job, you don't need anything else.
BS
If those apps don't work you can't do your job, and often those apps don't work, and often those apps don't work because of IT.
I used to work at SUN (Where I had the most network/software issues of any company I've ever worked at). the main program for logging calls and so forth was RADIAINCE, which anyone who's worked at SUN in the past 5 years knows about. And what a total and complete piece of Shite it is. But I'm not here to talk about that.
One of the other major tools for working was a web browser, not for browsing the internut, but for browsing the intranet. that's where you did research on problems, research on part#'s and also ordered those parts. No webbie, no workie.
The biggest problem was not getting web access, but when the 6 different pages you needed to do your job blew up and went away. Sun uses Nyetscape, and it's up and down more than a $2 hooker. Never mind loosing your place, but having to re-open Nyetscape and navigate through the pages and logins to get back to where you were.
It was neccesarry for us to do our job to install 3rd party apps. When Opera for Solaris came out some of us were in tears of joy. Some installeed IE for Solaris, we even ried that stupid Java browser SUN has. that couldn't even access 1/2 the pages we needed to do our jobs. (was better that Radiance because when it didn't work on a page, that's it, it didn't work. Radiance was sneaky bastard, you never knew when it was going to crap out. And it was always slower than a 3 legged donkey)
Then there was proxies, anyone who used a US proxy was at a serious handicap. Most of us used Proxies that were 12 hours off from our time zone.
In all, the only software tools that we had that worked were unsupported, or 3rd party ones. The only way we could do our jobs was to have administrator access. Then the network would go down. At those times I'd always yell. "THE NETWORK IS THE COMPUTER!"
Then what, may I ask, is the difference between a worm slowing down access and making things difficult.
And Net Admin Inc. pulling the plug, or slowing things down and making things difficult?
It's like that old argument, whats the difference between a M$ OS and a Virus, Nothing.
Similarly, there is no difference difference between spyware/adware/malware and an IT department that is too rigid/lazy/ignorant to do things as they should.
BTW, there is an older Derogatory terms for Segway that those new to taking the piss out of the HT should know about.
This one dates back to the reveal FSTM which is of course short for Faggy Scooter (tm)
Though I must say, due to the sideline discussion of which is proper HT or IT possible we could also use the term
SHIT Standing for Segway and combinig HT and IT into one.
If there is anything Segway CAN'T make it's a kickstand.
The one on the Segway us a useless POS
Segway can go up a curve (within reason) and while I would never do it it can go down stairs (seen it with my own eyes) and have heard of credible rumors of people going up stairs down at Segfest last weekend. All while riding. But curbs aren't much of an issue, for drastic curbs you only need to put one foot down for a little assist, and Ive also seen people do drastic curves without using the foot, however there was a lot of air time, not something I would be comfortable doing.
But you puilled those numbers out of your nether region, I don't knwo what they are, but I suspect the disparity is higher than that.
Yeah, and do all that changing to the alternator, and do you know what it won't do anymore. Charge the batteries. See comment about motors.
"As for belt slippage, the big super-chargers on top-fuel, funny cars and some street rods are capable of transferring in excess of 1500 horse-power"
You are absolutely 100% Correct. However more usefull information might be that it also has about 500X the surface area as the teeny tiny one on that hokey hybrid setup, made of different materials and replaced after every 10 seconds of use (not incluiding idle). What you also don't factor in is that it is not used to brake the car. The HP potential of the brakes in your car far exceeds the horespower potential of the engine in our car, placing a large differential strain on a belt like that (Superchargers have a fairly flat resistance curve) will snap that puny belt faster than you can say "hybrid vehicles suck" The difference in the mounting points of the crank are not what I was discussing here. The crank is not a shaft, it's a series of leverage arms, designed to have power applied to them, not from them. The crank isn't going to shear at the mounting point, either the crankshaft arms are going to snap, or you'll snap a connecting rod. That's if you can apply a signfigant enough load on the front end to draw some energy out, which you can't so it's irrelevant.
See my post on page one (which I made after this one). I go into more detail there. Suffice to say that loading the crank on that side is a very very bad thing to do.
Do a search on $WD and you'll find it.
PS
My current car already has enough braking power via compression to lock up the back tires, what headroom does this device have for sucking more juice out.
Oh yeah, as far as fuel economy.
If the motor is spinning the motor, just increasing rpm's faster than normal, the pist-ons will move up and down faster, the intake valves will open more often and let more gas in, how does that improve economy?
"In regenerative braking, the motor becomes a generator providing mechanical resistance to slow the vehicle and the energy produced is fed to the energy storage device, either batteries or super capacitor where it can later be recovered and used over."
Actually no. in regenerative braking, the motor that is attached to the wheels no longer provides power, and reverse energizes the coils, the spinning wheels then have to overcome the engine, basically running in reverse, done right this creates a net gain after system loses (Engines work better as engines than generators, and generators work better as generators then engines. Try appling voltage to your alternator and see if it spins)
to do regenrative braking as you describe, with this system is impossible, and if it were possible would damage the engine.
to continue:
Take your foot off the gas, engine slows, slows tranny, slows car, output of alternator drops. Due to the fact that engine rpm is slowing. Engine compression is MUCH higher than the resistance of the generator/engine you got strapped on the front. Net gain would most likely be negative #s
Place load on engine at crank, slowing engine more. Lets forget for just a second that at best you are going to get only 1/2 to 1/4 of that power, since only one or two wheels are connected to the engine (forgetting AWD $WD for a moment, talking about most cars). In an automatic the clutch packs will intentionally slip (remember engine can run or stop and have minimal effect on wheels, as autos are designed to only engage at accelertion speeds, and at steady state, torque converters are one way) In a manual you will be creating undue strain on the clutch. Hello unintentional slippage, glazing, loss of clutch. Not to mention that the crank is not designed to have power applied in that way. Low engine RPM's compared to wheel speed leads to broken cranksafts. A very not fun way to drive down the road.
As to a slight boost of power at acceleration. You might as well just kick the starter in, theres only so much power in the battery, if it's driving a motor, why not one you already have, why add the weight of a second motor. Regardless, the power gains are minimal here.
Particularly since after your momentary burst of accelration there will be a higher load on the alternator, sucking engine power in an attempt to fill the battery up of all the juice it just lost.
Of course I hope you have a collection of flywheels, running the starter while the engine is running is never a good thing.
Any belt drive type system, which this appears to be, cannot hope to match the powers needed to put that kind of load on the motor. Damn belt would slip like mad. Well until it snapped anyways. And that's not even considering modern serpintine systems, No way you can transfer that much power.
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If it sounds to good to be true, guess what.
And for regenerative braking you need an actual motor attached to the wheels.
Errrrr Ahhhhh Read the Article. It wasn't a batch. Every single coil pack (one for each cylinder) on every Audi and VW for about 3 years of production had to be replaced, due to a bad DESIGN, not a bad batch. The problem was so bad that the supplier could not supply enough of the new design. So people couldn't get all changed at once, only the bad one was changed. My buddy had to go to the dealer 5 times to get the 6 coil packs changed. Problem further compounded because said Coil Pack was mounted on the cylinder head, which is very hot, and coils do not like heat. During the same model years a variety of Trnasmisions had a software bug that translated into the transmision eating itself. Happened to my buddy's Audi A-6 at 3500 miles approx 4 months after he bought the car brand new. Talked to a VW dealer in Dallas. VW/Audi sent a team of technicians to every dealer in the US to upgrade the software on all the transmisions. It was thought that the coil pack issue was so bad that it could have bankrupted VW. Luckily the transmision problem was caught early on, on an A-6 the $ amount billed to Audi for replacement was 25K+ Imagine that for the majority of cars sold by them in the last 3 years.
http://www.gti-vr6.net/library/engine/coil_pack_re call
"we would just burn cleaner fuels like methanol or ethanol"
Ever seen how many BTU's of Petroleum products are created to meake a given amount of BTU's of methanol/ethanol.
Hint, it's not an equation that that comes out as a net gain, it's a net loss from the get-go. And that's not even getting to how much land would be required to grow enough corn to supply all the cars with ethanol.
And if you think oil prices are bad in the winter now....
Number of elements (how many lenses) Quality of materials Quality of work (hand ground lenses work much better than injected plastic) Quality of design Legth (focal ability) Diameter (Light gathering) Coatings (glare reduction) Speed Field of view etc etc etc etc etc $1000 bucks aint nothing I've seen $1,000,000 ones, granted those had to endure harsh enviornments too (outer space)
Kyocera 7135 Got an Mp3 though no HD. Still I can cram an Mp3 or two onto my 256 SD card, and I'll probably get one of the Gig ones when they come out. Plus it runs Palm OS. I did have to pay a few bucks ($299) no reason to get a bunch of other bits and bobs to go with it. As soon as I get the cable, I'll get an FM transmitter and have Mp3 in the car.
Compared to some stories here I feel like a lightweight. Had a 400Mhz or so Quantex Lappie that I loved. Bezel around the screen was all cracked (as my current lappie is), the rails for the CD-ROM were completely snapped. so the Drive itself flopped around, but it still worked fine. Then one day I accidentally dumped an entire large Coffee (extra cream extra sugar) right onto the keyboard. Lappie pulled a "Bill the cat" then went completely dark. GAAAAHHHHHHHHHH I took out the battery, rinsed it down with water. Sprayed some PCB board cleaner in it. The next day it booted fine. Monday at work I took it apart and cleaned it. Ran for a good year after that, when I finally turned it in it looked like it had been carried by a war correspondent for two years, but still the best laptop I ever had.