Why not just make the batteries swappable at service stations?
Too many variables. How much charge is in the current battery, how much wear and tear are in the battery you just got versus what you just gave, what happens when you get a partial dud, how many batteries can be swapped out a day, the physical labor of swapping batteries, what do you charge/how do you come to the cost and how does that make you competitive with your competition.
I thought it would be a smart idea to change out the electrolyte instead of the whole battery, but it wasn't actually all that smart either.
You remember the story about someone wanting to power a car off of hydrogen that is produced by burning magnesium in water?
Some ideas are just so stupid that they are put on the main page for us to poop on them.
Why is this one stupid?
Cost is first, this is built on top of carbon fiber which is already pretty damn expensive without also turning it into a battery. Yea, one day they may bring the cost down, but it is not in the reasonable future.
Kaboom is second. Its not just about energy storage, its about where you store the energy. With electric powered cars and petrol powered cars the energy is stored in a safe spot in the car, the body of the car is about as unsafe as you can get.
Even once they do perfect the electric car I would imagine there is no getting rid of the internal combustion engine.
Diesel powered vehicles will slowly turn to bio-diesel options and gasoline powered engines will slowly turn to ethanol power.
Electric is good for basic commuting where the route will be basically the same day after day, it is not good for if you do not know how far you will drive a day. Although the long recharge time is part of it, the main part is that you do not want to buy more battery than you are going to be using since the battery will be one of the most expensive parts of the car.
A larger gas tank costs almost nothing. The infrastructure is already in place for bio-diesel and ethanol and most cars can be converted. Electric cars will fill a niche, and that is all.
I would imagine all this does is give 4chan something to bitch about.
The main downside is that there are people trying to reach 4chan who cannot, and therefor will visit other parts of the internet. Before now they were contained, now Verizon broke containment.
I'm really not up on this field of science, but it looks like aluminum is a very stable element so I guess it won't just decay away in a few million years.
Looks completely made up to me. Why just think about the times that the consumer has ran across hidden malware such as the Sony Rootkit incident. Experts saw unusual traffic and traced it back to a CD. Same thing would happen if a piece of equipment had hidden malware in it, someone would notice the suspicious traffic and trace it back to the source.
Yea, its a really low threshold, incredibly low really.
Besides not being so much in your face when you're dealing with them, what really separates Google from the rest of the crowd?
I do think that if Google starting pushing out flashy "punch the monkey" type ads, without changing any other aspect of their business, the "punch the monkey" type ads would lose them more business than any privacy infringement.
My MSN email account is so clogged with spam that it is unusable.
My Gmail account is filtered well enough that I have no problem with receiving it on my phone. If I was receiving a few spam per hour like on the MSN account it would drive me buggy.
Both MSN and Google are trying to do the same thing, I trust Google more than MSN with my information. MSN will sell all the information to anyone they can. Google sells information stating that I may like (insert variable here).
I would think that any moon base would still need to be excavated, far too dangerous and hostile on the moons surface. The inflated structures could make a good mold to build off of, but not as a long term finished structure.
I would think that the inflatable structures would be mainly used in orbit.
So Lockheed Martin had plans for a ship that reflected what NASA wanted while McDonnell Douglas had a different idea and had a scale model of their idea.
Hell I could mock up a model rocket, but that doesn't mean that I can make a larger version that is space capable. That would require good design.
The inflatable structures are able to handle projectiles better than the stiff walled structures since they have some give to them and can disperse the energy across a larger area. The fact that they pack well is just bonus.
This is all money earned with anti-competitive business practices that have set free software back decades.
How exactly has Microsoft set back free software "decades"?
SCO may have set Linux back a few years at most, but more likely just raised awareness about free alternatives as well as setting legal precedent that Linux is indeed free.
Their bluff about patent infringement was called and Microsoft did nothing.
Probably the worst thing Microsoft did against free software was allowing XP to be pirated at an insane amount which lowered demand for free alternatives.
Microsoft may have set back some software decades, but it wasn't the free software movement, it was the companies it bought.
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Why not just make the batteries swappable at service stations?
Too many variables. How much charge is in the current battery, how much wear and tear are in the battery you just got versus what you just gave, what happens when you get a partial dud, how many batteries can be swapped out a day, the physical labor of swapping batteries, what do you charge/how do you come to the cost and how does that make you competitive with your competition.
I thought it would be a smart idea to change out the electrolyte instead of the whole battery, but it wasn't actually all that smart either.
You remember the story about someone wanting to power a car off of hydrogen that is produced by burning magnesium in water?
Some ideas are just so stupid that they are put on the main page for us to poop on them.
Why is this one stupid?
Cost is first, this is built on top of carbon fiber which is already pretty damn expensive without also turning it into a battery. Yea, one day they may bring the cost down, but it is not in the reasonable future.
Kaboom is second. Its not just about energy storage, its about where you store the energy. With electric powered cars and petrol powered cars the energy is stored in a safe spot in the car, the body of the car is about as unsafe as you can get.
Even once they do perfect the electric car I would imagine there is no getting rid of the internal combustion engine.
Diesel powered vehicles will slowly turn to bio-diesel options and gasoline powered engines will slowly turn to ethanol power.
Electric is good for basic commuting where the route will be basically the same day after day, it is not good for if you do not know how far you will drive a day. Although the long recharge time is part of it, the main part is that you do not want to buy more battery than you are going to be using since the battery will be one of the most expensive parts of the car.
A larger gas tank costs almost nothing. The infrastructure is already in place for bio-diesel and ethanol and most cars can be converted. Electric cars will fill a niche, and that is all.
I would imagine all this does is give 4chan something to bitch about.
The main downside is that there are people trying to reach 4chan who cannot, and therefor will visit other parts of the internet. Before now they were contained, now Verizon broke containment.
I'm thinking that DailyKos got the link on this one because everyone else got done talking about the potential golden parachutes back in June of 2009.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/12/sun_network_gets_it/
It's just silly to assign a day of the year to plan something romantic.
Very True.
Steak and BJ day should be everyday.
http://www.steakandbjday.com/
Bah!
Don't say that too loud, the Scottish might hear you.
In this case the question is will the technology be wise enough?
This meme would die but damnit, some mad scientist went playing god and now this meme is unkillable.
I thought the amphibian DNA was used to fill in holes in the target DNA.(Jurassic Park)
I always found it strange that these artificial beings that cannot reproduce are somehow able to get past a physical. (Blade Runner)
Doctor "Why I see that you have a model 545G uterus, you know those are only used in replicants?"
The only problem with hiding out in Wyoming are the other people hiding out in Wyoming.
And of course the whole issue of being in Wyoming.
It looks to me that they have basically taken the Running Man show from the book and made it real.
Unlike that bullshit movie that was made with the same title, same character names, but the story was nothing at all like the book.
I imagine they would use the Running Man title if they could get permission to.
I'm really not up on this field of science, but it looks like aluminum is a very stable element so I guess it won't just decay away in a few million years.
http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/al.html
Isotope Half Life
Al-26 730000.0 years
Al-27 Stable
Al-28 2.3 minutes
Looks completely made up to me. Why just think about the times that the consumer has ran across hidden malware such as the Sony Rootkit incident. Experts saw unusual traffic and traced it back to a CD. Same thing would happen if a piece of equipment had hidden malware in it, someone would notice the suspicious traffic and trace it back to the source.
Yea, its a really low threshold, incredibly low really.
Besides not being so much in your face when you're dealing with them, what really separates Google from the rest of the crowd?
I do think that if Google starting pushing out flashy "punch the monkey" type ads, without changing any other aspect of their business, the "punch the monkey" type ads would lose them more business than any privacy infringement.
What exactly did Google do to earn your trust that Microsoft never could?
Unobtrusive ads.
My MSN email account is so clogged with spam that it is unusable.
My Gmail account is filtered well enough that I have no problem with receiving it on my phone. If I was receiving a few spam per hour like on the MSN account it would drive me buggy.
Both MSN and Google are trying to do the same thing, I trust Google more than MSN with my information. MSN will sell all the information to anyone they can. Google sells information stating that I may like (insert variable here).
I would think that any moon base would still need to be excavated, far too dangerous and hostile on the moons surface. The inflated structures could make a good mold to build off of, but not as a long term finished structure.
I would think that the inflatable structures would be mainly used in orbit.
A little googling around popped this up as the likely culprit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-33
So Lockheed Martin had plans for a ship that reflected what NASA wanted while McDonnell Douglas had a different idea and had a scale model of their idea.
Hell I could mock up a model rocket, but that doesn't mean that I can make a larger version that is space capable. That would require good design.
The inflatable structures are able to handle projectiles better than the stiff walled structures since they have some give to them and can disperse the energy across a larger area. The fact that they pack well is just bonus.
I think it's a reasonably likely partial explanation
A reasonably likely partial explanation? Are you serious? Why not just say "Hey, I'm totally pulling this out of my ass!"
This is so highly unlikely you can't even come up with a hypothesis that would lend the least bit of credence to your opinion.
Dead men don't pay.
A low cost alternative to the laser system would be the good old bug zapper. I'm sure the Gates could afford to throw a few of them in.
This is all money earned with anti-competitive business practices that have set free software back decades.
How exactly has Microsoft set back free software "decades"?
SCO may have set Linux back a few years at most, but more likely just raised awareness about free alternatives as well as setting legal precedent that Linux is indeed free.
Their bluff about patent infringement was called and Microsoft did nothing.
Probably the worst thing Microsoft did against free software was allowing XP to be pirated at an insane amount which lowered demand for free alternatives.
Microsoft may have set back some software decades, but it wasn't the free software movement, it was the companies it bought.
Birth control doesn't mean no kids, it means planned kids.
Then there is also the issue that Yemen is having, 50% of their population is under the age of 18.