Amazon developers have a strategy called "ignoring the HiPPO". You ignore the highest paid person(s) in the office and focus on what the customer wants. Just because something's hard doesn't mean you scrap a feature customers have come to expect to do it the easy way.
Get the Roku box that lets you watch Online Viewing on your TV. It's fantastic. I was using a desktop hooked up to my 52" Samsung LCD to watch Dexter and Law and Order via DVI. With two Roku boxes (one in the bedroom, one in the living room), I rarely watch cable anymore. Netflix: $15/month, Comcast: $65/month. The choice isn't that difficult. Supposedly, Roku will be partnering with Hulu as well to get additional content to the boxes.
I almost forgot to mention. Chevy volt? Engine for extended range. Not yet in production. Tesla White Star Sedan? Engine for extended range. Not yet in production. Toyota Prius with PHEV extender pack? Engine for extended range. 1.5 million sold.
The only maintenance you'd have on a Prius is to rotate the tires every 5K miles, as well as an oil change every 5K miles. My wife and I purchased a Camry Hybrid before I ordered my Tesla, and we just rolled over 20K miles with only oil changes and tire rotations done by me. An interview with a Prius engineer once said you'll use the brakes so little because of regenerative breaking, the original pads/rotors will last the lifetime of the car. I'm not exactly sure what little maintenance you need, but you're gonna spend quite a bit of extra fuel waiting for a pure EV car you can afford instead of taking the best available solution now.
It takes a long time to charge an electric car due to the limitations of electrical circuits. A Tesla Roadster can charge in a little under 4 hours from a 220V 90amp circuit. People are going to have to shift from a gas station philosophy to a charge at home over a couple hours philosophy, or be stuck with expensive gasoline
First, let's be honest. The Tesla? It's not overpriced. That's like people whining that $brand-spanking-new-tech is overpriced. It's just those who complain it's overpriced can't afford to be a first adopter. That's a big difference between being overpriced. (Sports cars with similar performance are going for $500K up to well passed a cool Million)
Second, if you want as close as you can get to an electric car for under $100K, you buy a Prius. You get all the benefits of an electric drivetrain with the benefit of extended range due to the Hybrid Synergy Drive. You than purchase a battery pack from Hymotion/A123Systems for around $10K that extends your electric only range to roughly 40-45 miles. Now, for under $36K ($26K for the Prius and $10K for the battery pack), I've outlined how you can have a mostly electric car, and run it primarily off of cheap electricity. That's cheaper than the Chevy Volt is supposed to be (now up to $40K for production models) and just the same electric range.
Why would I pay $4.60/gallon for a manufactured fuel wasting electricity in the process, when I could use an electric car that can get 135mpg on electricity alone?
Even if we were to cover the entire US with wind towers, we would not be able to slow "the wind" down a substantial amount.
Also, studies have shown that house cats kill more birds per year than wind towers (newer versions that sweep slower over a greater area). Please read before spreading da' FUD.
There was a study by the Department of Energy that stated that 77% of cars in the US could be switched over to electric with current US generating capacity.
At night, when everyone sleeps, there is a huge amount of generating capacity that sits unused. This is our advantage. Some of it is coal, but lots of it is not.
My Tesla Roadster will be delivered shortly. It cost me around $100K. Too expensive for almost everyone, but first adopters are what help bring the cost down for others. The battery pack is the majority of that cost, but the cost of that will drop as well. The range? Around 235 miles per charge. How many people are willing to pay $6-8/gallon for gas for the ability to drive 400 miles on a tank of gas?
I pay 7 cents a kWh for electricty in Northern Illinois (ComEd, an Exelon company), and my power is nuclear, not coal. Also, if I switch to time of day metering, I can get power at night between midnight and 6am for 2 cents a kWh, which is what I intend to do when my Tesla Roadster comes in.
You're correct. I do the math quite a bit for people contemplating solar installations (non-profit work) and in California your payback period is close to immediate due to the cost per kWh from the utility. In other areas of the country where nuclear and coal are dominant, and the cost per kWh is pretty cheap, payback is around 8-10 years, with the system lasting another 15-25 years after that.
These payback periods take into account both federal and state incentives (pay X percent of system for you) as well as loan incentives (0% interest or low interest loans on the amount of the system you finance).
Bender -- "What word sets the nuclear weapon off? Come on, I won't say it. Is it antiquing?"
I love that episode. Classic.
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Holy shiat! Makes my 0.07/kWhr in Chicago suburbs super cheap (nor do I feel bad paying said rate anymore). Although, on the downside, I don't live in Hawaii =)
Salary isn't everything to someone who can afford the pay cut. If you're a college grad who is fresh out of school, you can easily live dirt poor to work at Google (living with others to ease the rent burden). If you have a family, or perhaps parents to care for, free massages and vacations at Google aren't going to be your cup of tea. Getting paid a fair salary is.
I hope you can cite these laws you speak of. In Illinois, if you're in the left lane and people are behind you because you won't move over, it's a $150 ticket, speed limit be damned.
At a previous gig, we had cage space at a certain datacenter at 350 E Cermak in Chicago that now takes up two floors. Because of their original assumptions regarding cooling and power, we could only use one IBM chassis per cabinet (each chassis required 4 20amp/220V circuits, 2 primary, 2 redundant). Each chassis held 14 blades running dual Xeon processors with redundant drives and redundant network switches. I'd never use blade servers again after that experience (both the with datacenter and the blade product).
Delta IV vehicles can launch payloads weighing from 4,300 kg (9,480 lb) to 12,980 kg (28,620 lb) to GTO, and can lift over 23,000 kg (50,000 lbs.) to LEO.
I have not doubt a Delta IV Heavy Lifter can get your Civic to the ISS =)
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Netflix, 2008 -- "One profile should be enough for anyone"
Perhaps someone needs to higher engineers who manage the code base a bit better.
Amazon developers have a strategy called "ignoring the HiPPO". You ignore the highest paid person(s) in the office and focus on what the customer wants. Just because something's hard doesn't mean you scrap a feature customers have come to expect to do it the easy way.
Get the Roku box that lets you watch Online Viewing on your TV. It's fantastic. I was using a desktop hooked up to my 52" Samsung LCD to watch Dexter and Law and Order via DVI. With two Roku boxes (one in the bedroom, one in the living room), I rarely watch cable anymore. Netflix: $15/month, Comcast: $65/month. The choice isn't that difficult. Supposedly, Roku will be partnering with Hulu as well to get additional content to the boxes.
I almost forgot to mention. Chevy volt? Engine for extended range. Not yet in production. Tesla White Star Sedan? Engine for extended range. Not yet in production. Toyota Prius with PHEV extender pack? Engine for extended range. 1.5 million sold.
The only maintenance you'd have on a Prius is to rotate the tires every 5K miles, as well as an oil change every 5K miles. My wife and I purchased a Camry Hybrid before I ordered my Tesla, and we just rolled over 20K miles with only oil changes and tire rotations done by me. An interview with a Prius engineer once said you'll use the brakes so little because of regenerative breaking, the original pads/rotors will last the lifetime of the car. I'm not exactly sure what little maintenance you need, but you're gonna spend quite a bit of extra fuel waiting for a pure EV car you can afford instead of taking the best available solution now.
It takes a long time to charge an electric car due to the limitations of electrical circuits. A Tesla Roadster can charge in a little under 4 hours from a 220V 90amp circuit. People are going to have to shift from a gas station philosophy to a charge at home over a couple hours philosophy, or be stuck with expensive gasoline
Second, if you want as close as you can get to an electric car for under $100K, you buy a Prius. You get all the benefits of an electric drivetrain with the benefit of extended range due to the Hybrid Synergy Drive. You than purchase a battery pack from Hymotion/A123Systems for around $10K that extends your electric only range to roughly 40-45 miles. Now, for under $36K ($26K for the Prius and $10K for the battery pack), I've outlined how you can have a mostly electric car, and run it primarily off of cheap electricity. That's cheaper than the Chevy Volt is supposed to be (now up to $40K for production models) and just the same electric range.
Why would I pay $4.60/gallon for a manufactured fuel wasting electricity in the process, when I could use an electric car that can get 135mpg on electricity alone?
Also, studies have shown that house cats kill more birds per year than wind towers (newer versions that sweep slower over a greater area). Please read before spreading da' FUD.
At night, when everyone sleeps, there is a huge amount of generating capacity that sits unused. This is our advantage. Some of it is coal, but lots of it is not.
As someone once posted on Slashdot, "Electricity is the ultimate flex fuel."
My Tesla Roadster will be delivered shortly. It cost me around $100K. Too expensive for almost everyone, but first adopters are what help bring the cost down for others. The battery pack is the majority of that cost, but the cost of that will drop as well. The range? Around 235 miles per charge. How many people are willing to pay $6-8/gallon for gas for the ability to drive 400 miles on a tank of gas?
As the youngin's say, cheap power for the win!
These payback periods take into account both federal and state incentives (pay X percent of system for you) as well as loan incentives (0% interest or low interest loans on the amount of the system you finance).
How many library of congress' of porn is that per second?
I love that episode. Classic.
Holy shiat! Makes my 0.07/kWhr in Chicago suburbs super cheap (nor do I feel bad paying said rate anymore). Although, on the downside, I don't live in Hawaii =)
(see bouncy ball world war, featuring head of Nixon, Zap Brannigan, and Henry Kissinger)
Salary isn't everything to someone who can afford the pay cut. If you're a college grad who is fresh out of school, you can easily live dirt poor to work at Google (living with others to ease the rent burden). If you have a family, or perhaps parents to care for, free massages and vacations at Google aren't going to be your cup of tea. Getting paid a fair salary is.
I hope you can cite these laws you speak of. In Illinois, if you're in the left lane and people are behind you because you won't move over, it's a $150 ticket, speed limit be damned.
At a previous gig, we had cage space at a certain datacenter at 350 E Cermak in Chicago that now takes up two floors. Because of their original assumptions regarding cooling and power, we could only use one IBM chassis per cabinet (each chassis required 4 20amp/220V circuits, 2 primary, 2 redundant). Each chassis held 14 blades running dual Xeon processors with redundant drives and redundant network switches. I'd never use blade servers again after that experience (both the with datacenter and the blade product).
Cows =! ham. s/cows/pigs, and you're all set
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/delta4/delta4.htm
Delta IV vehicles can launch payloads weighing from 4,300 kg (9,480 lb) to 12,980 kg (28,620 lb) to GTO, and can lift over 23,000 kg (50,000 lbs.) to LEO.I have not doubt a Delta IV Heavy Lifter can get your Civic to the ISS =)