totally agree. I have 8 tires and 4 Al-Mg alloy rims in my living room. I'm probably going to burn them for heat this winter due to the favorable economics. end of story.
disagree. car speed is just one important variable that someone decided to regulate. It has little bearing on real accidents, but by suppressing the limit you can reduce damage. It's a band aid effort of the worst type and it encourages negligence.
The obvious problem is human behavior. Willful negligence, general ignorance, and a failure to appreciate that, energetically, driving a car is the same thing as waiving a half-stick of TNT around in a crowded room before wetting-out the fuse at the last minute.
That said, speeding below 50mph serves no obvious benefit except thrills. Driving slowly, however, gives you ample time to recognize the clear and present danger brought to you by the average clown with a drivers license.
On the other hand imposing a speed limit over a 3 mile suspended freeway with unlimited visibility and no traffic also serves no obvious benefit unless we pretend fuel conservation is some type of priority.
Battery technology is not the most effective way to power cars.
True!
Avoiding energy density for a second, it has been about -20 to -10C here for the past few days. It will get colder for about the next month. I know that my lead acid battery is now jelly and has something like 40% capacity. What happens to the fancy batteries? What happens to my range? How much energy will my resistance heater use?
You hope the government fails because of a slashdot comment? Let me get this straight then, you want to "teach" the general public a lesson that scientists are fallible. In order to do this, you call for the failure of US energy policy through 2012. Nice plan.
You're deeply confused. "science" isn't going to make any decisions. Steven Chu is going to make decisions. From all accounts, he's a capable guy. I'll take someone with roots in physical science, a clear understanding of numbers, and the ambition to get stuff done over a clueless political gamesman any day of the week. I find irony in your description of "real policy" , as it sounds very similar, from my experience, to a description of "real research."
A++. Nasty images of tub girl can not compare to the nonsensical and damaging ethical compromises children are forced to witness as they grow up in the Real World.
Here's the question: Hasn't technology improved? Shouldn't there be lighter weight materials available? Are they using them? Yes, in case you haven't noticed, plastic is cheap, less durable, and most importantly synonymous with crappy. Aluminum and composites are expensive. The technology is everywhere, but not remotely close to your celica GT price point.
My computer, bicycle, and clothes have all gotten lighter since the 1970s. Why has my car gotten heavier? Even if they have to add, say 500lbs of safety equipment, shouldn't there have been AT LEAST 250lbs of weight savings since then? Clothes and bikes have gotten more expensive. I'd wager that 'normal' bikes haven't gotten lighter either. Certainly on the high end they have... But you can't exactly compare Lance Armstrong's hill climbing rig to a 1970 Schwinn Varsity.
The idea
that a TINY car should gain 500lbs over 11 years in just safety equipment is ridiculous. Especially when the 1997 car already had a few airbags, etc. Many modern safety features are almost purely electronic, requiring only a few sensors and a chip, adding maybe 1lb per system to the vehicle. No, the idea that you can guess and pull numbers and expectations out of your ass is ridiculous.
Where does the rest of the weight come from? The feature creep demanded by consumers
And why does my 1990 Toyota Celica ST get roughly the same milage as a modern vehicle OF THE SAME WEIGHT? Shouldn't engine + drivetrain technology have improved sometime in the last 19 years? 1) They aren't going to get around mechanical drive train losses
2) Engine efficiency is limited thermodynamically, all improvements will be extremely small
3) Your modern car gets the same MPG, but has more power. That is what the consuming public is interested in. Not MPG. Not until it hits the pocketbook.
Yep, huge conspiracy by american auto industry to increase car weight. What do you think happens when they test the idea of the 2009 600kg metro with manual windows in a focus group? I don't think you and your cynical friends are enough to support a new manufacturing line.
Another visitor from the land of platitude. I hope mods meant insightfully moronic.
Going green is first a behavior thing. Secondly it is a materials thing. Lastly it is an energy/fuel thing. 1&2 reduce living expenses by an order of magnitude. Green energy is affordable as long as it accompanies green behavior & materials. The problem is that you don't know what green means.
I have removed the seats from my car(s) on at least 5 occasions. Two of them involved basically hosing down the back seat (lots of vomit and an act of vandalism with err organic waste). One of them resulted in the permanent removal of the seat of the car, which was subsequently taken completely off my hands by a stranger in the parking lot of a junk yard. The first time I took out the backseat I did it because I could. It sat in my garage for months because I had no reason to put it back in. I removed the backseat from another car to install a stereo. I know two other people who have removed seats to hose down their cars.
I don't think its that odd. Shit, I've also slept in my car, but if I didn't have such an awesome hatchback I would have removed the rear seat. When I take my next hobo road trip I will definitely remove the back seat for extra sleeping area.
Your example isn't real evidence. It is an inference by clever two-faced lawyers. Conviction based on inference is not reasonable, esp for 1st degree murder.
wow. i am blown away by this. I've always wondered if there is something better to handle the glue of my codes. do you have resources or direction to send someone who uses fortran quite a bit for CFD research codes? I spend 80-90% of my time struggling with fortran to make it due things that it seems like it should not do. I do this because its what people do. The science takes a back seat to the total waste of time that is connecting functions, parsing, input/output (oh my god..). So yeah is there python stuff specific to fortran users?
what kind of development environment do you use for this python/fortran combo?
actually, breifly searching the literature has yielded some interesting article titles. Do you have any l33t references? amazing, A new dawn may arrive!
I learn by collecting and organizing information. The answer to your questions (for me) is yes. I agree that it is easier to do something by copying it, but it is slower and not necessarily better. The biggest challenge is that it often requires resident expertise. This is an absurd constraint considering the wealth of knowledge available to me.
Clearly, there will be some element of practice-seeing-doing-copying-whatever required, but good research can not be underestimated. And reading is the most efficient way for me to collect that information. It is one of my main problems with audio\visual "learning". If I understand the concepts then these media are terribly slow. Printing the words for me to read would be 10 times as fast. Pictures say 1000s words, videos do this at 30fps, but most of it is either garbage or redundant. And of course, people talk slow.
Even very experience oriented activities like shooting guns, cultivating drugs, or technical get-away driving can be conquered quicker by replacing vast amounts of practice with basically classroom work. You take the lessons and advice from the most seasoned very quickly and you avoid inventing the wheel. It applies universally, so far as I can tell.
He should find new employment. Journalism is not a career for the limp hearted. This isn't about a working man bringing home food for his dependent family. I do not recognize this crutch you lean on. It does not excuse him from a code of ethics. Besides, if the GP is accurate the BBC would not have threatened his job over such an incident. Quite the opposite, actually. He doesn't need excuses from you, the GP said it clearly - he didn't want do deal with mass amounts of activist email. If he wants to make a dollar to feed his family tell him to get go get job at a factory or a department store, where he does not have the same professional obligations to the public.
Compromising his integrity in the face of a baseless threat? He should join his colleges and just reprint PR from various government, NGO, and corporate agencies if in the end he will cave to their threat of "overwhelming email."
It should be a one click and done experience, has to be really. I have feisty and the version before feisty on my 2 machines. I think they both presented me with an obvious link when I first played an mp3. Told me I should be aware of the laws of my country or some such nonsense.
Have they taken this feature away? I think my ubuntu must be at least a year out of date.
I don't think I agreed that they are impractical. What I meant by practical was "created by man." It had nothing to do with economics. The Stirling I had in mind has a cost of about 12k per watt =).
The impressively efficient ones will be too expensive for a very long time. But those that have efficiency comparable to diesel cycle (e.g. submarine engine designs) are comparable with other solar thermal tech costs. Part of their cost is made up by the fact they are used with 10000 sun concentrators, which is generally an order of magnitude or more than other solar thermal tech.
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totally agree. I have 8 tires and 4 Al-Mg alloy rims in my living room. I'm probably going to burn them for heat this winter due to the favorable economics. end of story.
disagree. car speed is just one important variable that someone decided to regulate. It has little bearing on real accidents, but by suppressing the limit you can reduce damage. It's a band aid effort of the worst type and it encourages negligence.
The obvious problem is human behavior. Willful negligence, general ignorance, and a failure to appreciate that, energetically, driving a car is the same thing as waiving a half-stick of TNT around in a crowded room before wetting-out the fuse at the last minute.
That said, speeding below 50mph serves no obvious benefit except thrills. Driving slowly, however, gives you ample time to recognize the clear and present danger brought to you by the average clown with a drivers license.
On the other hand imposing a speed limit over a 3 mile suspended freeway with unlimited visibility and no traffic also serves no obvious benefit unless we pretend fuel conservation is some type of priority.
Battery technology is not the most effective way to power cars.
True!
Avoiding energy density for a second, it has been about -20 to -10C here for the past few days. It will get colder for about the next month. I know that my lead acid battery is now jelly and has something like 40% capacity. What happens to the fancy batteries? What happens to my range? How much energy will my resistance heater use?
No. Al Gore is a preacher. Don't forget 50% of the people in the country hate him, which may constrain his effectiveness. Too much baggage.
You hope the government fails because of a slashdot comment? Let me get this straight then, you want to "teach" the general public a lesson that scientists are fallible. In order to do this, you call for the failure of US energy policy through 2012. Nice plan.
You're deeply confused. "science" isn't going to make any decisions. Steven Chu is going to make decisions. From all accounts, he's a capable guy. I'll take someone with roots in physical science, a clear understanding of numbers, and the ambition to get stuff done over a clueless political gamesman any day of the week. I find irony in your description of "real policy" , as it sounds very similar, from my experience, to a description of "real research."
Saving like you always did should put you down between 3 and 8 years of savings... and you refuse to participate? Ok maybe your a matress guy..
Yeah. All those arrested are guilty. Pile them off the streets and straight into jail. You fucking clown.
yup, but racism through ignorance you can overcome.
A++. Nasty images of tub girl can not compare to the nonsensical and damaging ethical compromises children are forced to witness as they grow up in the Real World.
2) Engine efficiency is limited thermodynamically, all improvements will be extremely small
3) Your modern car gets the same MPG, but has more power. That is what the consuming public is interested in. Not MPG. Not until it hits the pocketbook.
Yep, huge conspiracy by american auto industry to increase car weight. What do you think happens when they test the idea of the 2009 600kg metro with manual windows in a focus group? I don't think you and your cynical friends are enough to support a new manufacturing line.
Good for you, outlier.
haha you are a clown man.
I don't understand. Why can't she just do a mass and energy balance on herself each day? It's book keeping.
The claims are false. No argument. The utility of your comment is even less.
No
and No.
Good luck next time. Try again when you're no longer bound to your slaver.
Another visitor from the land of platitude. I hope mods meant insightfully moronic.
Going green is first a behavior thing. Secondly it is a materials thing. Lastly it is an energy/fuel thing. 1&2 reduce living expenses by an order of magnitude. Green energy is affordable as long as it accompanies green behavior & materials. The problem is that you don't know what green means.
I have removed the seats from my car(s) on at least 5 occasions. Two of them involved basically hosing down the back seat (lots of vomit and an act of vandalism with err organic waste). One of them resulted in the permanent removal of the seat of the car, which was subsequently taken completely off my hands by a stranger in the parking lot of a junk yard. The first time I took out the backseat I did it because I could. It sat in my garage for months because I had no reason to put it back in. I removed the backseat from another car to install a stereo. I know two other people who have removed seats to hose down their cars.
I don't think its that odd. Shit, I've also slept in my car, but if I didn't have such an awesome hatchback I would have removed the rear seat. When I take my next hobo road trip I will definitely remove the back seat for extra sleeping area.
Your example isn't real evidence. It is an inference by clever two-faced lawyers. Conviction based on inference is not reasonable, esp for 1st degree murder.
wow. i am blown away by this. I've always wondered if there is something better to handle the glue of my codes. do you have resources or direction to send someone who uses fortran quite a bit for CFD research codes? I spend 80-90% of my time struggling with fortran to make it due things that it seems like it should not do. I do this because its what people do. The science takes a back seat to the total waste of time that is connecting functions, parsing, input/output (oh my god..). So yeah is there python stuff specific to fortran users? what kind of development environment do you use for this python/fortran combo? actually, breifly searching the literature has yielded some interesting article titles. Do you have any l33t references? amazing, A new dawn may arrive!
I learn by collecting and organizing information. The answer to your questions (for me) is yes. I agree that it is easier to do something by copying it, but it is slower and not necessarily better. The biggest challenge is that it often requires resident expertise. This is an absurd constraint considering the wealth of knowledge available to me.
Clearly, there will be some element of practice-seeing-doing-copying-whatever required, but good research can not be underestimated. And reading is the most efficient way for me to collect that information. It is one of my main problems with audio\visual "learning". If I understand the concepts then these media are terribly slow. Printing the words for me to read would be 10 times as fast. Pictures say 1000s words, videos do this at 30fps, but most of it is either garbage or redundant. And of course, people talk slow. Even very experience oriented activities like shooting guns, cultivating drugs, or technical get-away driving can be conquered quicker by replacing vast amounts of practice with basically classroom work. You take the lessons and advice from the most seasoned very quickly and you avoid inventing the wheel. It applies universally, so far as I can tell.
He should find new employment. Journalism is not a career for the limp hearted. This isn't about a working man bringing home food for his dependent family. I do not recognize this crutch you lean on. It does not excuse him from a code of ethics. Besides, if the GP is accurate the BBC would not have threatened his job over such an incident. Quite the opposite, actually. He doesn't need excuses from you, the GP said it clearly - he didn't want do deal with mass amounts of activist email. If he wants to make a dollar to feed his family tell him to get go get job at a factory or a department store, where he does not have the same professional obligations to the public.
Compromising his integrity in the face of a baseless threat? He should join his colleges and just reprint PR from various government, NGO, and corporate agencies if in the end he will cave to their threat of "overwhelming email."
The journalist should be fired. End of story.
Have they taken this feature away? I think my ubuntu must be at least a year out of date.
I don't think I agreed that they are impractical. What I meant by practical was "created by man." It had nothing to do with economics. The Stirling I had in mind has a cost of about 12k per watt =).
The impressively efficient ones will be too expensive for a very long time. But those that have efficiency comparable to diesel cycle (e.g. submarine engine designs) are comparable with other solar thermal tech costs. Part of their cost is made up by the fact they are used with 10000 sun concentrators, which is generally an order of magnitude or more than other solar thermal tech.