The new replacement for the Compute Stick could have been an attractive idea for a 'modular' form factor, if they would make it run on very low power. Just have your screen, basic controls, cellular radio, and a battery, and then slap the new Compute Card over it. Instead of having to buy a whole new phone, you just drop in an upgraded Compute Card.
Oh well. Someone might take this idea and run with it.
" It's pretty dang impressive being able to make a car with that much mass of lithium ion batteries with decade-scale lifespans operating in outdoor conditions and has an order of magnitude lower rate of fires per mile traveled than gasoline vehicles."
You're comparing not even a decade of Tesla versus over a hundred years of gasoline-powered cars. This comparison is wholly disingenuous.
"contrast with a laptop battery with 18650 cells just in series"
They were only made like this in 3 and 4-cell packs for tiny laptops. I've got battery packs from loads of laptops. They almost all run series-parallel bank config (usually 2 parallel banks of 3-in-series li-ion cells.) Most flat-packs are the exact same - series-parallel config. Without this, you simply couldn't give a laptop the power draw it needed (just a few years ago you needed ~90w average for a laptop, at lithium-ion's nominal 3.7V that's almost 30 amps of current. Non-parallel Li-ion packs can't handle that kind of load. 1C is the best you can really hope for safety in li-ion, which means a 2400 mAh li-ion cell can only be ideally charged and discharged at 2.4A.
Even if BitCON hit $100,000 it'd still be worth less than even my most modest garnet mine.
I can trade my mine for a house, and the person getting the mine can immediately be fruitful and productive. Trade bitcoin for a house, we gotta wait for transaction, the network to keep up, and then, bitcoin isn't immediately useful.
Any removal of extra links in the chain is always the best option economically. But you probably failed economics and don't understand the bare basics of a trade and barter economy.
4 tons of lead is relatively cheap if you buy it as scrap. $1,280 at $0.16 per pound current scrap spot price.
"Not to mention all of the racking and support structure you're going to need to build to properly house that much battery capacity in an easily maintainable fashion?"
You don't need much at all. Your typical multi-shelf wire rack will work just fine (and provide extra ground planes) and provide the air circulation space for battery venting (even sealed batteries release hydrogen, FYI. Nothing holds hydrogen back except a direct molecular bond.)
We do but the update time is on the order of a decade. You think 10 year old information is really accurate? It's usually not, unless you're rich and don't move around.
"This isn't about taxes, it's about hiring quotas and affirmative-action compliance"
Taxes get involved, too. You would know this if you ever ran a business for yourself. You can have DoL and IRS in the same building for otensibly the same purpose, and I've had it happen.
"Remember all the lamenting, just yesterday, about how the price breakthrough in photovoltaic solar would be useless because of the cost of storage (for night and dark weather periods) and voltage conversion?"
That's because most of the people that post on/. now are utterly brainless. I've been building solar systems for housing quads, powering four houses on pure solar and battery for under $10,000. Been using lead-acid this entire time. Tesla's "Power" stuff simply can't handle the loads lead-acid can.
"_You_ (GPP) try wiring up a shitload of flashlight batteries in a tub and safely drawing as much power out of them as fast as a Telsa does under high acceleration."
Anyone with a basic understanding of circuitry can make a series-parallel array of cells for whatever current draw and voltage requirements you can imagine. Keeping it cool is simple, airflow and aluminum battery casings are the answer.
Gee, that wasn't hard to think of, at all. Might be for your ill-educated self.
They merely discovered that it was fully connected instead of segmented.
Anyone that's read the older First Responder coursebooks from 20+ years ago knows this thing exists in humans. WONDERFUL pictures of shattered bowels and mesentery all throughout the book.
"So, what are your scales and what data from Landsat are you plotting there"
Those are iron/mineral signal readings and denote the type of iron or other mineral. Green = areas of exposed clay, basalt, marble, mica. Sand Brown areas = minor ferric iron (usually rust streaks.) Pink = Major Ferric Iron (almost always black magnetite sand.)
The entire crater is exposed clay and basalt with no iron reading. This tells me the meteorite impacted and went through the crust to some degree. Iron doesn't simply obliterate itself - it's one of the hardest things to get a fission or fusion reaction from (as in essentially impossible,) so even impacting the earth it should have still left an iron signal at the point of impact unless it went through the crust and sunk into magma.
"Grain size and degree of fusion are things I would expect to have an effect on IR reflection spectra, which is why I'm postulating the pink-flagged unit as being the ejecta."
Zooming out, the pink area only shows to the east. If you go west, you get into signals of green - exposed basalt, marble, mica, etc, which matches up with the mountain area.
"You do Landsat interpretation as a lucrative hobby? How do you make money out of that?"
People pay good money to know where to find minerals, and I make money either selling them information on where to find minerals or finding the minerals they want myself and selling it to them. I've got tourmaline, aquamarine, lapis, jade, star sapphires (from California, no less) all sorts of cryptocrystalline quartz, etc. I also use this information to plan Southern California's oldest mineralogical society's field trips (I'm their shop, trip, and events coordinator/manager.)
"Checking bullshit company reports so you can filter them out of people's portfolios (for a consultancy fee)?"
When I do that, I'm always checking the site in-person against their reports. Most of the times, they MISS things in their reports (most recent: company had me look at a location in Jurupa two days ago for double-checking the accuracy of a minerals survey report; surveyor missed listing Axinite, Fluorite, Schorl Tourmaline, and Lepidolite in their noted minerals listing - they only had rose quartz, calcite, and garnet-bearing schist listed.) The satellite readings give me an idea of what COULD be found in a location, I always personally visit the site for any intense survey work.
"So bitcoin is a healthy reminder that we don't have to hold on to dollars or renminbi, which is subject to capital controls and loss of purchasing power."
As if bitcoin isn't subject to a loss of purchasing power? As if that wasn't why the prices fluctuate so wildly?
Holy shit, the people getting into bitcoin are getting scammed harder than I thought if they're buying this economically-unsound statement.
Nope, your dumb ass is owned, thanks to/. handing out IP addresses of posts when prompted to by a court. See? You're so stupid that you can't even be bothered to identify yourself, but I already know who you are, and so do my friends.
Perhaps you should, oh, I dunno, own one, get Linux, and get the kX driver set. And them maybe you'll understand that all of the effects it does are processed in parallel, real-time.
I don't know who Sonos is, primarily because now that I see what they build and due to the fact I'm a huge fucking electronics geek, I see I've already got a solution I built myself and don't need their crap, thus I've never had a need to look up a company providing such a product.
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Use them to leach lithium from raw ores that aren't brine-based and get yourself lithium chloride.
The new replacement for the Compute Stick could have been an attractive idea for a 'modular' form factor, if they would make it run on very low power. Just have your screen, basic controls, cellular radio, and a battery, and then slap the new Compute Card over it. Instead of having to buy a whole new phone, you just drop in an upgraded Compute Card.
Oh well. Someone might take this idea and run with it.
" It's pretty dang impressive being able to make a car with that much mass of lithium ion batteries with decade-scale lifespans operating in outdoor conditions and has an order of magnitude lower rate of fires per mile traveled than gasoline vehicles."
You're comparing not even a decade of Tesla versus over a hundred years of gasoline-powered cars. This comparison is wholly disingenuous.
"contrast with a laptop battery with 18650 cells just in series"
They were only made like this in 3 and 4-cell packs for tiny laptops. I've got battery packs from loads of laptops. They almost all run series-parallel bank config (usually 2 parallel banks of 3-in-series li-ion cells.) Most flat-packs are the exact same - series-parallel config. Without this, you simply couldn't give a laptop the power draw it needed (just a few years ago you needed ~90w average for a laptop, at lithium-ion's nominal 3.7V that's almost 30 amps of current. Non-parallel Li-ion packs can't handle that kind of load. 1C is the best you can really hope for safety in li-ion, which means a 2400 mAh li-ion cell can only be ideally charged and discharged at 2.4A.
Even if BitCON hit $100,000 it'd still be worth less than even my most modest garnet mine.
I can trade my mine for a house, and the person getting the mine can immediately be fruitful and productive. Trade bitcoin for a house, we gotta wait for transaction, the network to keep up, and then, bitcoin isn't immediately useful.
Any removal of extra links in the chain is always the best option economically. But you probably failed economics and don't understand the bare basics of a trade and barter economy.
4 tons of lead is relatively cheap if you buy it as scrap. $1,280 at $0.16 per pound current scrap spot price.
"Not to mention all of the racking and support structure you're going to need to build to properly house that much battery capacity in an easily maintainable fashion?"
You don't need much at all. Your typical multi-shelf wire rack will work just fine (and provide extra ground planes) and provide the air circulation space for battery venting (even sealed batteries release hydrogen, FYI. Nothing holds hydrogen back except a direct molecular bond.)
You fail at reading. I said nothing about power density. I said current handling (as indicated by the word 'load.')
Lead-acid stomps Li-ion in current delivery capability.
We do but the update time is on the order of a decade. You think 10 year old information is really accurate? It's usually not, unless you're rich and don't move around.
"This isn't about taxes, it's about hiring quotas and affirmative-action compliance"
Taxes get involved, too. You would know this if you ever ran a business for yourself. You can have DoL and IRS in the same building for otensibly the same purpose, and I've had it happen.
The DoL works with the IRS. I've had BOTH in my business at the same time for the same purpose.
Try running a business and maybe you'd actually know these things.
"Remember all the lamenting, just yesterday, about how the price breakthrough in photovoltaic solar would be useless because of the cost of storage (for night and dark weather periods) and voltage conversion?"
That's because most of the people that post on /. now are utterly brainless. I've been building solar systems for housing quads, powering four houses on pure solar and battery for under $10,000. Been using lead-acid this entire time. Tesla's "Power" stuff simply can't handle the loads lead-acid can.
"_You_ (GPP) try wiring up a shitload of flashlight batteries in a tub and safely drawing as much power out of them as fast as a Telsa does under high acceleration."
Anyone with a basic understanding of circuitry can make a series-parallel array of cells for whatever current draw and voltage requirements you can imagine. Keeping it cool is simple, airflow and aluminum battery casings are the answer.
Gee, that wasn't hard to think of, at all. Might be for your ill-educated self.
Giga comes from the Greeks, meaning GIANT. By square footage, this factory is the largest on the fucking planet. THAT is where its name comes from.
" These requests include thousands of employees’ private contact information which we safeguard rigorously"
Doesn't fucking matter. For tax purposes, these things MUST be known. ZERO EXCUSE.
"everyone else migrated to fark"
But then Drew hired that shitwhore Genevieve Marie SJW cunt and chased off those people.
Amazon shipped 50% more counterfeit goods this year compared to last year.
They merely discovered that it was fully connected instead of segmented.
Anyone that's read the older First Responder coursebooks from 20+ years ago knows this thing exists in humans. WONDERFUL pictures of shattered bowels and mesentery all throughout the book.
Constantly changing because you're a coward. You wouldn't last five seconds face-to-face against me, oh fat keyboard warrior.
"So, what are your scales and what data from Landsat are you plotting there"
Those are iron/mineral signal readings and denote the type of iron or other mineral. Green = areas of exposed clay, basalt, marble, mica. Sand Brown areas = minor ferric iron (usually rust streaks.) Pink = Major Ferric Iron (almost always black magnetite sand.)
The entire crater is exposed clay and basalt with no iron reading. This tells me the meteorite impacted and went through the crust to some degree. Iron doesn't simply obliterate itself - it's one of the hardest things to get a fission or fusion reaction from (as in essentially impossible,) so even impacting the earth it should have still left an iron signal at the point of impact unless it went through the crust and sunk into magma.
"Grain size and degree of fusion are things I would expect to have an effect on IR reflection spectra, which is why I'm postulating the pink-flagged unit as being the ejecta."
Zooming out, the pink area only shows to the east. If you go west, you get into signals of green - exposed basalt, marble, mica, etc, which matches up with the mountain area.
"You do Landsat interpretation as a lucrative hobby? How do you make money out of that?"
People pay good money to know where to find minerals, and I make money either selling them information on where to find minerals or finding the minerals they want myself and selling it to them. I've got tourmaline, aquamarine, lapis, jade, star sapphires (from California, no less) all sorts of cryptocrystalline quartz, etc. I also use this information to plan Southern California's oldest mineralogical society's field trips (I'm their shop, trip, and events coordinator/manager.)
"Checking bullshit company reports so you can filter them out of people's portfolios (for a consultancy fee)?"
When I do that, I'm always checking the site in-person against their reports. Most of the times, they MISS things in their reports (most recent: company had me look at a location in Jurupa two days ago for double-checking the accuracy of a minerals survey report; surveyor missed listing Axinite, Fluorite, Schorl Tourmaline, and Lepidolite in their noted minerals listing - they only had rose quartz, calcite, and garnet-bearing schist listed.) The satellite readings give me an idea of what COULD be found in a location, I always personally visit the site for any intense survey work.
Because patenting something and then not using said patent simply reeks of patent troll.
If you patent something, you should be required to produce it immediately in order to keep your patent protections.
"So bitcoin is a healthy reminder that we don't have to hold on to dollars or renminbi, which is subject to capital controls and loss of purchasing power."
As if bitcoin isn't subject to a loss of purchasing power? As if that wasn't why the prices fluctuate so wildly?
Holy shit, the people getting into bitcoin are getting scammed harder than I thought if they're buying this economically-unsound statement.
Nope, your dumb ass is owned, thanks to /. handing out IP addresses of posts when prompted to by a court. See? You're so stupid that you can't even be bothered to identify yourself, but I already know who you are, and so do my friends.
Perhaps you should, oh, I dunno, own one, get Linux, and get the kX driver set. And them maybe you'll understand that all of the effects it does are processed in parallel, real-time.
"And nothing left on the ground from the impactor. Not even any reported isotropic traces (correct me if I'm wrong. Please. With references.). "
Direct satellite reference - it's not on the ground, it's BELOW the ground, according to the reading I'm getting.
I do this all day long as a lucrative hobby.
SoylentNews proved it was shit by chasing away its more ardent beginning supporters. I was one of them.
I don't know who Sonos is, primarily because now that I see what they build and due to the fact I'm a huge fucking electronics geek, I see I've already got a solution I built myself and don't need their crap, thus I've never had a need to look up a company providing such a product.