Well, from Wikipedia, "Direct piezoelectricity of some substances like quartz, as mentioned above, can generate potential differences of thousands of volts."
I imagine it'd take hell of a field and alot of [horse]power to get "thousands of volts" (even if at low amperage.)
A sensor need not be on the network 24/7. When it's onboard memory has been filled to a certain capacity (say 80%) if fires up the transceiver and transmits to the network. You only need peak power on occasion. Give your windmill plenty of time to charge up a big capacator (or a small battery.)
Same here. My RV has been "up-armored" for my upcoming vacation in Iraq. The unfortunate side effect has been the blockage of wi-fi signals when war-driving. Ironicly getting a vehicle ready to war-drive in a war-zone has reduced my ability to war-drive.
The real question is who uses a pillow for 20 years. That fungus could be older than your kids.
Frack pillows. Stuffed animals are made of similar construction. How many of us have grandma's first stuffed animal in their child's crib. My mother-in law had this elephant. My wife had it as a child. Now our oldest child is the new keeper of the elephant. People throw pillows because they have little emotional investment in them. The same isn't true for our beloved animal shaped pillows/stuffed animals.
When the Aligator vs Python match is decided we'll segway to the Godzilla vs. Mothra match and find out which contestants will vie for the championship round!
Do you know how much work it takes to get a pilot's license? Or instrument rated? Time and $$$$. That is why it is a dumb idea.
Dude, it's cheaper than buying a smallbiz jet + small helicopter and paying for aircrews for them both. This thing claims to go quite a bit faster than the typical helo, and besides helicopters there aren't a whole lot of options for civilian VTOL. To get 300+ MPH flight and VTOL the price of training will be the least of your worries. Think about what you'll be saving when you don't have to maintain two diffrent types of aircraft, or their crews.
100 feet over the highway on your way to work going 300mph and you suddenly colide with a high-tension power-line because the FAA designates MAGL for powered flight to be 500 feet in almost all of the country (exceptions for takeoff/landing and some offshore corridors, and of course law enforcement.)
The total mass in a system must stay the same. That's my poor paraphrase of the law of conservation of mass.
So, you have to get the mass of incoming air and incoming fuel to come out of the engine. It will have the same mass as the sum of the mass of incoming air and fuel. If there's no emissions then diesel engines violate the law of conservation of mass.
Sorry.
Please see www.wikipedia.com and lookup "diesel engines" and "internal combustion engines" and "law of conservation of mass." then rejoin the discussion armed with alot of new knowledge.
I know..no link..some karmawhole will come after me and make them all links for you.
So, why don't we take $7500 per vehicle, and invest in other measures to get fuel effeciency at a lower cost. More composits to save weight. Active polution mitigation systems (carbon sinks.) R&D into h2/fuel cell vehicles.
There's better ways to spend $7500 pre vehicle if you want to make them more green.
Take that $7500 per vehicle and but a s**tload of trees and go replant deforested tracts that one always hears about.
I doubt that the process of taking power from your battery to crack H20 into h2 and o2 for injection into the engine would be more effecient than just putting a smallery battery/alternator into the car and enjoying increased fuel economy by having a lighter powerplant.
I mean, what will this contraption weigh. Haul more metal, burn more fuel. f=m*a
Add more m and you need more f to get the same a. Force comes from converting chemical energy in fuel into heat, and the heat in-turn is converted into mechanical force(f).
You know, this thing will increase the load on the engines electrical system, wich will put more load on the engine itself. I doubly think this is bad. Adds weight, adds additional loads to the car, and will thus decrease the lifespan of these components that see additional loading.
I know the rotation of the Earth and the orbit of the Moon don't quite work like that, but with modern technology that could be solved, either by altering the rotation of the Earth or the orbit of the Moon. Or a moving elevator that goes along on a track so it keeps in line with the Moon.
Wifi is a huge thing in pro level cameras because it means you can shoot effectively infinitely without having to stop to change out cards (including the down time of waiting to write to them before you can safely power off). Accepting being tethered by a power cable, your shoot can last as long as you want without needing to stop. When you're paying for model, make up artist and assistant time, that's huge.
True enough, but this camera is just a consumer level POS (point ond shoot) camera. You know, where gizmos and pixel count are more important than the ability of the camera to render colors realisticly(these cameras usualy give inaccurate color relative to cameras a pro would be interested in.) Pros like RAW files out of their cameras, with no software deciding how to render their image. No overly boosted color saturation and sharpening on every shot, only what the photographer wants and needs.
This camera is a consumer toy.
Wi-fi in a camera is a great tool for studio based pros. In this camera it's a gimick.
Great! Now instead of hauling out a 15 bag full of camera gear I now need to add a wifi enabled computer to my kit. Oh my poor back aches at the thought of it! I'll take a camera that just records to CF media thankyou much.
Yup, college wouldn't have been an institute of learning. It would have become a perpetual "I want to use a lifeline, let's poll the audience" event.
Why do I care what percentage of my classmates think is the right data set? I want to hear my professors tell me about the subjects at hand.
One just log onto slashdot if they want to hear stupid thoughts on various subjects.
Dude, you and the GrandParent Poster are spewing numbers out your asses with no citations. Neither one of you is giving us validated data.
May as well belive Grokster has caused the movie and record industries to suffer the greatest losses they've ever seen, or belive that year after year both industries are seeing record setting earnings.
Got 5 year extended warranty. Details: 4th service call for the same "problem" get the product replaced. Coverage for los contents of malfunctioning fridge (NOTE: RECIEPTS FOR CONTENTS REQUIRED!)
Fridge is in less than a week and it freezes the fridge side solid, we adjust dial down. Two days later fridge is at room temp. Everything in the fridge is rotten. Ice maker cycles post freeze, or in fridge water unit used, and we get a mystery puddle of water on the floor (and no ice or water in our glasses.)
Tech comes out "Oh yes, it's frosting up on the door that lets cold in from the freezer side, if it frosts up when open you get frozen everything. If it frosts up when closed eventualy the interior will hit room temp and the frost will slowly melt (slowly because the little trap door itself is nearly freezing cold.) The water leak is the water in the lines getting frozen and expanding, thus splitting the lines wide open.
Anyhow, we get 12 (YES 12) more tech visits, all for the freeze/thaw problem. Each time it's diagnosed as a diffrent problem (User error, bad logic board, interior light dosen't shut off and keeps temp sensor warm despite overall frozen conditions.) So, because we freeze/thaw a total of 13 times, but are not given on the workorders the same cause we don't qualify for replacement.
I take all 13 workorders, orig reciept, and copy of extended warranty to store. Speak with manager. Manager wants to give me credit for full price of fridge for use to get replacement. Unfortunatly he claims he can't do this without talking to corporate first (the ones that refused us in the first place.) He strives mightily to help us. Gets us the approval for a swap.
Get this, our fridge was on sale for a whopping $800, nothing in the store with the same size and features for less than $1200. Even the EXACT SAME MODEL is over $1300! We can't get a 1:1 replacement because we got ours durring a sale (I didn't even appreceate the savings we had when getting the fridge.)
In addition to being screwed into a fridge w/ 30% less interior volume (and NO filtered water input) we also have to pay for shipping FOR BOTH UNITS, the new one and the old one.
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Well, from Wikipedia, "Direct piezoelectricity of some substances like quartz, as mentioned above, can generate potential differences of thousands of volts." I imagine it'd take hell of a field and alot of [horse]power to get "thousands of volts" (even if at low amperage.)
A sensor need not be on the network 24/7. When it's onboard memory has been filled to a certain capacity (say 80%) if fires up the transceiver and transmits to the network. You only need peak power on occasion. Give your windmill plenty of time to charge up a big capacator (or a small battery.)
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Same here. My RV has been "up-armored" for my upcoming vacation in Iraq. The unfortunate side effect has been the blockage of wi-fi signals when war-driving. Ironicly getting a vehicle ready to war-drive in a war-zone has reduced my ability to war-drive.
They give you really good support and are really comfortable.
Yeah, we all know why you like Japanese pillows.
The real question is who uses a pillow for 20 years. That fungus could be older than your kids.
Frack pillows. Stuffed animals are made of similar construction. How many of us have grandma's first stuffed animal in their child's crib. My mother-in law had this elephant. My wife had it as a child. Now our oldest child is the new keeper of the elephant. People throw pillows because they have little emotional investment in them. The same isn't true for our beloved animal shaped pillows/stuffed animals.
How to treat this? With pencils of course.
It's about the movies man.
When the Aligator vs Python match is decided we'll segway to the Godzilla vs. Mothra match and find out which contestants will vie for the championship round!
Dude, I put in about 300 meters of cat5 in a newly renovated/remodeled office suite. There's lots of Cat-5 in DC.
Do you know how much work it takes to get a pilot's license? Or instrument rated? Time and $$$$. That is why it is a dumb idea. Dude, it's cheaper than buying a smallbiz jet + small helicopter and paying for aircrews for them both. This thing claims to go quite a bit faster than the typical helo, and besides helicopters there aren't a whole lot of options for civilian VTOL. To get 300+ MPH flight and VTOL the price of training will be the least of your worries. Think about what you'll be saving when you don't have to maintain two diffrent types of aircraft, or their crews.
100 feet over the highway on your way to work going 300mph and you suddenly colide with a high-tension power-line because the FAA designates MAGL for powered flight to be 500 feet in almost all of the country (exceptions for takeoff/landing and some offshore corridors, and of course law enforcement.)
When will the first PSP worm/virus be out in the wild?
Aren't diesel engines no-emission?
The total mass in a system must stay the same. That's my poor paraphrase of the law of conservation of mass.
So, you have to get the mass of incoming air and incoming fuel to come out of the engine. It will have the same mass as the sum of the mass of incoming air and fuel. If there's no emissions then diesel engines violate the law of conservation of mass.
Sorry.
Please see www.wikipedia.com and lookup "diesel engines" and "internal combustion engines" and "law of conservation of mass." then rejoin the discussion armed with alot of new knowledge.
I know..no link..some karmawhole will come after me and make them all links for you.
Lets see
"We're marketing a 20-pound unit for $7,500."
So, why don't we take $7500 per vehicle, and invest in other measures to get fuel effeciency at a lower cost. More composits to save weight. Active polution mitigation systems (carbon sinks.) R&D into h2/fuel cell vehicles.
There's better ways to spend $7500 pre vehicle if you want to make them more green.
Take that $7500 per vehicle and but a s**tload of trees and go replant deforested tracts that one always hears about.
Don't get me started.
I doubt that the process of taking power from your battery to crack H20 into h2 and o2 for injection into the engine would be more effecient than just putting a smallery battery/alternator into the car and enjoying increased fuel economy by having a lighter powerplant. I mean, what will this contraption weigh. Haul more metal, burn more fuel. f=m*a Add more m and you need more f to get the same a. Force comes from converting chemical energy in fuel into heat, and the heat in-turn is converted into mechanical force(f). You know, this thing will increase the load on the engines electrical system, wich will put more load on the engine itself. I doubly think this is bad. Adds weight, adds additional loads to the car, and will thus decrease the lifespan of these components that see additional loading.
Dude, you missed your time traveler convention.
The future wants you back.
True enough, but this camera is just a consumer level POS (point ond shoot) camera. You know, where gizmos and pixel count are more important than the ability of the camera to render colors realisticly(these cameras usualy give inaccurate color relative to cameras a pro would be interested in.) Pros like RAW files out of their cameras, with no software deciding how to render their image. No overly boosted color saturation and sharpening on every shot, only what the photographer wants and needs.
This camera is a consumer toy.
Wi-fi in a camera is a great tool for studio based pros. In this camera it's a gimick.
only when micro$oft dosen't get you modded down for flamebait.
Great! Now instead of hauling out a 15 bag full of camera gear I now need to add a wifi enabled computer to my kit. Oh my poor back aches at the thought of it! I'll take a camera that just records to CF media thankyou much.
Can't be any worse than 7 years for a Kraft sandwich.
Well, at least you'll be at home safe, not trying to figure out how to make your 7-year shelf life meal survive the 50k year round-trip.
Yup, college wouldn't have been an institute of learning. It would have become a perpetual "I want to use a lifeline, let's poll the audience" event. Why do I care what percentage of my classmates think is the right data set? I want to hear my professors tell me about the subjects at hand. One just log onto slashdot if they want to hear stupid thoughts on various subjects.
Dude, you and the GrandParent Poster are spewing numbers out your asses with no citations. Neither one of you is giving us validated data. May as well belive Grokster has caused the movie and record industries to suffer the greatest losses they've ever seen, or belive that year after year both industries are seeing record setting earnings.
Try this:
Got Fridge at Best Buy (BB).
Got 5 year extended warranty. Details: 4th service call for the same "problem" get the product replaced. Coverage for los contents of malfunctioning fridge (NOTE: RECIEPTS FOR CONTENTS REQUIRED!)
Fridge is in less than a week and it freezes the fridge side solid, we adjust dial down. Two days later fridge is at room temp. Everything in the fridge is rotten. Ice maker cycles post freeze, or in fridge water unit used, and we get a mystery puddle of water on the floor (and no ice or water in our glasses.)
Tech comes out "Oh yes, it's frosting up on the door that lets cold in from the freezer side, if it frosts up when open you get frozen everything. If it frosts up when closed eventualy the interior will hit room temp and the frost will slowly melt (slowly because the little trap door itself is nearly freezing cold.) The water leak is the water in the lines getting frozen and expanding, thus splitting the lines wide open.
Anyhow, we get 12 (YES 12) more tech visits, all for the freeze/thaw problem. Each time it's diagnosed as a diffrent problem (User error, bad logic board, interior light dosen't shut off and keeps temp sensor warm despite overall frozen conditions.) So, because we freeze/thaw a total of 13 times, but are not given on the workorders the same cause we don't qualify for replacement.
I take all 13 workorders, orig reciept, and copy of extended warranty to store. Speak with manager. Manager wants to give me credit for full price of fridge for use to get replacement. Unfortunatly he claims he can't do this without talking to corporate first (the ones that refused us in the first place.) He strives mightily to help us. Gets us the approval for a swap.
Get this, our fridge was on sale for a whopping $800, nothing in the store with the same size and features for less than $1200. Even the EXACT SAME MODEL is over $1300! We can't get a 1:1 replacement because we got ours durring a sale (I didn't even appreceate the savings we had when getting the fridge.)
In addition to being screwed into a fridge w/ 30% less interior volume (and NO filtered water input) we also have to pay for shipping FOR BOTH UNITS, the new one and the old one.
The only time you'll find me in Bust Buy is when I'm giving my favorite tool of destruction a work-out.