NASA deliberately publishes erroneous data in its Institute for Research in Schools program. Sits back and waits for some smart kid to detect the bad data. Offer kid job (sometime down the track).
Remember Enron in California? Privatised energy companies deliberately suppressing supply to jack up the prices.
A good example was on display in South Australia during the load shedding in the Feb heatwave. There was spare capacity at the Pelican Point power station that the SA government ordered turned on, but AEMO did not bring it online. AEMO is a private company, btw, as is NEM.
Yep, got on here to specifically mention Lube Mobile. So where's the invention in this new-startup? Really, seems like a case of: X, but on the Internet!
If they are pumping air into the chamber to replace the water, then you are right. But I don't think they're doing that. They're creating a vacuum in the chamber when pumping the water out. Therefore, no bubble if it failed catastrophically.
I'm not American, so I have absolutely no horse in this race.
During the election, you lot kept shouting about how all the shit he was attacking Hillary for wasn't really a big deal. Now he's doing it, and suddenly it's a big deal? Yeah, it is funny how that works.
It seems to me that two wrongs don't make a right. Also seems to me that a *current* security threat is worse than a past threat. One can be exploited, one cannot.
I think the issue is not so much that he might conduct government business over his private phone, it's that he always has that private phone on him. If it were to be compromised (which is likely for an old samsung), there's a non-trivial potential for audio and/or video to be captured or his GPS location to be revealed.
From SolarCity's 2015 impact report it seems that 70MW of installed power produced 28,630 metric tons of CO2. It's 2017 (which should have yielded further emissions savings over 2015), plus installing bulk might yield yet further savings.
But I'm a firm believe in the energy trap, so I think that's 28,630 tons of CO2 well invested.
At a guess, if you have a known quantity of red light time, you can tune the radio, adjust your seat, etc, and not get caught out when light goes green. This should lead to lower frustration levels for both you, and the cars around you.
For a car manufacturer who trades solely on the "experience" (let's face it, Audis are just over-priced VWs), you can hardly blame them for trying something like this.
Personally, I think there's better technologies they could be putting this R&D money into. But hey, each to their own.
My understanding is most server farms are connected to dedicated nuclear power plants anyway, so power consumption isn't an issue. Heat dissipation? Yeah, that might be an issue.
With recent news that Google is shooting for 100% renewable energy for its datacentres (and many others will follow suit), I'm not quite so sure that's true any more.
My Sanden hot water system, which uses a C02-based heat pump, achieves a COP of 5.4. With a steady heat sink, I wouldn't be surprised if this unit might be even better.
My Sanden hot water system has includes a heat pump using CO2 as the refrigerant (R744) and achieves a COP of up to 5.4 Extraordinary technology, by any measure, but certainly not new - it's been on the market for many years now.
Surprised that it's taken this long to get to market. The technology has been around for years.
Lake Technology in Australia pioneered this technology way, way back. Lake was bought by Dolby back in 2003 and the technology re-labelled as Dolby Headphone. Their technology uses HRTFs.
In 2007, the then leader of the catholic church stated that there was no conflict between evolution and catholicism. The catholic church officially toes the theistic evolution line. I'm not sure where you get this "Catholics are creationists by definition" line from.
Dude, the Honda FCX Clarity is literally the first non-paid search result in "buy hydrogen car".
I ask about cars that I can go down to the dealer and "buy". Honda only lease the FCX
The SECOND link is about Hyundai shipping hydrogen cars LAST YEAR
The second for me is a HowStuffWorksPage. All the links for Hyundai are about their plans to launch their car next year.
Earlier, you said this:
as the engineering challenges there are much easier to get over than the mythical better battery.
Now you're saying this:
... and currently they are more advanced than hydrogen
If the engineering challenges for hydrogen are easier to get over than battery technology, then why are battery cars currently more advanced than hydrogen?
Because Musk, that's why.
Ahh, I see, so one man has come down from on high and sprinkled some magic dust over his cars, trumping the combined sum of all the research dollars pumped into hydrogen tech.
I posit that you, sir, are the "complete idiot". See how these ad hominem attacks work? Fun, aren't they:)
I'm pretty sure that the commuting masses will work out the economics of it and realise that waiting for an hour to get a free charge worth five bucks isn't quite worth it.
You may want to check your tracking then, because there are very real hydrogen cars running around in California and quite a few fueling stations.
That is not vapor, any more than the tiny handful of all-electric cars actually sold is.
To prove your point, could you please name me a single make and model of car that I can walk down to the local dealer and purchase today? I've actually tried googling it and can't seem to find an answer. This article says that hydrogen cars will be on the road in 2015. However they also say that the cars will not be sold, they will be leased (because of the high cost).
You're saying that they're not vapor, but I can't find a shred of evidence to support your claim.
The use of hydrogen is inevitable, as the engineering challenges there are much easier to get over than the mythical better battery.
Telsa has just driven across the country in 72 hours. If your statement were true, why aren't we seeing similar headlines about all the hydrogen cars on the road today? It might be because there's only 10 hydrogen fueling stations in the US.
The evidence says that they're solving the battery engineering challenges faster than the hydrogen ones.
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I'll posit a different theory.
NASA deliberately publishes erroneous data in its Institute for Research in Schools program. Sits back and waits for some smart kid to detect the bad data. Offer kid job (sometime down the track).
If *your* wife had at most 2 months to live, seriously, would YOU be working? (okay, husband whatever)
Maybe to pay the medical bills? Or to keep much-needed medical insurance?
Remember Enron in California? Privatised energy companies deliberately suppressing supply to jack up the prices.
A good example was on display in South Australia during the load shedding in the Feb heatwave. There was spare capacity at the Pelican Point power station that the SA government ordered turned on, but AEMO did not bring it online. AEMO is a private company, btw, as is NEM.
Yep, got on here to specifically mention Lube Mobile. So where's the invention in this new-startup? Really, seems like a case of: X, but on the Internet!
If they are pumping air into the chamber to replace the water, then you are right. But I don't think they're doing that. They're creating a vacuum in the chamber when pumping the water out. Therefore, no bubble if it failed catastrophically.
I'm not American, so I have absolutely no horse in this race.
During the election, you lot kept shouting about how all the shit he was attacking Hillary for wasn't really a big deal. Now he's doing it, and suddenly it's a big deal? Yeah, it is funny how that works.
It seems to me that two wrongs don't make a right. Also seems to me that a *current* security threat is worse than a past threat. One can be exploited, one cannot.
I think the issue is not so much that he might conduct government business over his private phone, it's that he always has that private phone on him. If it were to be compromised (which is likely for an old samsung), there's a non-trivial potential for audio and/or video to be captured or his GPS location to be revealed.
The second is, the neodymium in the magnets for the motors is only a rare earth. That tends to mean there's a fair bit of strip mining to get it.
Tesla doesn't use rare earth metals in their motors or batteries. I realise they are not the whole EV market, but they are a large fraction of it. There's a general downward trend in the rare earth consumption by the other EV manufactures. One example
From SolarCity's 2015 impact report it seems that 70MW of installed power produced 28,630 metric tons of CO2. It's 2017 (which should have yielded further emissions savings over 2015), plus installing bulk might yield yet further savings.
But I'm a firm believe in the energy trap, so I think that's 28,630 tons of CO2 well invested.
At a guess, if you have a known quantity of red light time, you can tune the radio, adjust your seat, etc, and not get caught out when light goes green. This should lead to lower frustration levels for both you, and the cars around you.
For a car manufacturer who trades solely on the "experience" (let's face it, Audis are just over-priced VWs), you can hardly blame them for trying something like this.
Personally, I think there's better technologies they could be putting this R&D money into. But hey, each to their own.
All valid points, but:
I can see drivers approaching a red light looking at the display instead of looking at where they are going
This is why Audi has the countdown in a head up display
Yep. Which surely makes "longer range" in the BT5 spec more of an anti-feature, right?
My understanding is most server farms are connected to dedicated nuclear power plants anyway, so power consumption isn't an issue. Heat dissipation? Yeah, that might be an issue.
With recent news that Google is shooting for 100% renewable energy for its datacentres (and many others will follow suit), I'm not quite so sure that's true any more.
Maybe the Long Now foundation could make use of it as a power source for their 10,000 year clock?
My Sanden hot water system, which uses a C02-based heat pump, achieves a COP of 5.4. With a steady heat sink, I wouldn't be surprised if this unit might be even better.
My Sanden hot water system has includes a heat pump using CO2 as the refrigerant (R744) and achieves a COP of up to 5.4 Extraordinary technology, by any measure, but certainly not new - it's been on the market for many years now.
Surprised that it's taken this long to get to market. The technology has been around for years.
Lake Technology in Australia pioneered this technology way, way back. Lake was bought by Dolby back in 2003 and the technology re-labelled as Dolby Headphone. Their technology uses HRTFs.
I wonder if there's a link between ALS ambulances and the practice of giving oxygen to heart attack patients?
A recent study in Victoria, Australia found that there was a 20% increase to the damage to the heart if given oxygen by ambulance paramedics.
Perhaps, in general, the BLS ambulances don't carry as much oxygen and thus administer it less frequently?
Well, except for some deluded suicide bombers.
Yeah, fair enough. I guess I was thrown because the term has been used lately to identify the intelligent design / young earth creationist crowd.
In 2007, the then leader of the catholic church stated that there was no conflict between evolution and catholicism. The catholic church officially toes the theistic evolution line. I'm not sure where you get this "Catholics are creationists by definition" line from.
Dude, the Honda FCX Clarity is literally the first non-paid search result in "buy hydrogen car".
I ask about cars that I can go down to the dealer and "buy". Honda only lease the FCX
The SECOND link is about Hyundai shipping hydrogen cars LAST YEAR
The second for me is a HowStuffWorksPage. All the links for Hyundai are about their plans to launch their car next year.
Earlier, you said this:
as the engineering challenges there are much easier to get over than the mythical better battery.
Now you're saying this:
... and currently they are more advanced than hydrogen
If the engineering challenges for hydrogen are easier to get over than battery technology, then why are battery cars currently more advanced than hydrogen?
Because Musk, that's why.
Ahh, I see, so one man has come down from on high and sprinkled some magic dust over his cars, trumping the combined sum of all the research dollars pumped into hydrogen tech.
I posit that you, sir, are the "complete idiot". See how these ad hominem attacks work? Fun, aren't they :)
No benefits what so ever? I'd bet that the folk paying $0 for gas on their daily commutes would beg to differ. Sounds like a decent compromise to me.
over a real car
Oh, wait, I see what you did there. No REAL Scotsman... I really should learn to stop feeding the trolls.
I'm pretty sure that the commuting masses will work out the economics of it and realise that waiting for an hour to get a free charge worth five bucks isn't quite worth it.
You may want to check your tracking then, because there are very real hydrogen cars running around in California and quite a few fueling stations.
That is not vapor, any more than the tiny handful of all-electric cars actually sold is.
To prove your point, could you please name me a single make and model of car that I can walk down to the local dealer and purchase today? I've actually tried googling it and can't seem to find an answer. This article says that hydrogen cars will be on the road in 2015. However they also say that the cars will not be sold, they will be leased (because of the high cost).
You're saying that they're not vapor, but I can't find a shred of evidence to support your claim.
The use of hydrogen is inevitable, as the engineering challenges there are much easier to get over than the mythical better battery.
Telsa has just driven across the country in 72 hours. If your statement were true, why aren't we seeing similar headlines about all the hydrogen cars on the road today? It might be because there's only 10 hydrogen fueling stations in the US. The evidence says that they're solving the battery engineering challenges faster than the hydrogen ones.