The largest producer in the world of lead for batteries is in fact a plant that recycles lead acid batteries! Lead is VERY recyclable. You may be surprised to find out that the acid from those batteries ends up as a key ingredient of laundry detergent!
Of the 5 Prii that I have owned the average 'first brake job' is well pas t150,000. Contrast that to the Dodge vehicles we drove before that where attaining 40,000 on a set of brakes was extraordinary! Our Toyota dealer echoes this explaining that the average Prius goes 'about double' the miles of a Corolla before needing brakes.
Experiment? The one in Ludington MI has been in operation since 1973 with a peak generation capacity of 1.8GW. It can go zero to 1.8GW in 30 minutes. It sits on the shores of Lake Michigan about 360 ft above the lake and smooths out the power here in Michigan all year long.
So far the only thing that has 'broken' any of our Toyota hybrid power trains is a tree. It was not the tree's fault. We are on our sixth Toyota hybrid with at least 750,000 total miles on them and still own four one a 2001 model. Many of these miles would be considered serious abuse like delivering newspapers 7 days a week for years in one of them. Some days that car started with the springs crushed right to the axles. We live in the snow belt of Michigan and they are excellent in the snow though the mileage does suffer in the bitter cold of mid-winter. In all those miles the non routine maintenance has included a few wheel bearings. Toyota has recalled them several times for some water pump issues, replacement fuel pumps on early models, a steering issue, and a few other things. I could not recommend Toyota's hybrids more highly.
Yes the parts are expensive they tell me but we've never had to test that theory.
And should you actually RIDE one of these hybrid buses they are much smoother and quieter than their straight diesel counterparts. There is no revving engine and no lurching shifts. Due to the regenerative braking there is both less brake dust and dirt and they last far longer saving maintenance dollars. The more they build the better the cost will become and the better they will be for everyone in nearly every way.
I really don't care if there is a standard or not, if nobody is utilizing it then it's just fancy documents somewhere. If Internet over Power Lines was going to take off I would expect it to already have done so since the power lines have existed for a century and already extend to effectively every home that would want Internet service.
Our power provider services many of the most rural areas of the state which translates to 'areas that don't have high speed internet'. They have been reading meters over the power lines for 15 years so they know that data can traverse the lines but in investigating providing Internet they couldn't find a solution that would work and be cost effective enough for people to purchase it.
As various wireless technologies improve they are the best bet for rural areas to get reasonable speeds at reasonable prices.
I'm not quite sure how IPV6 makes a whit of difference in the equation. Do 128 bit addresses go faster than 32 bit addresses over Power Lines somehow?
Internet over power lines? Are there actually any of those working in the U.S.? Our power grid isn't so favorable to delivery that way. I live in a rural area with no cable or even DSL and our power provider tells me they looked into it and dismissed it completely.
You must be a tiny little runt. 80 kg is only 177 lbs and 65 kg is just 143 lbs!! At 6'5" if I weighed 143 and turned sideways I would be invisible! My 5' 22" brother would appear a toothpick even at 177! 80 kg is normal to itty bitty where I look down on you from.
DB/2. Not the best, but it's inbuilt, and accessible with system utilities/calls, using any language on the system, including control language.
Say what you will but DB/2 on IBM i is the most SQL compliant database of any. It scales well and being built into the system means tuning it is not often needed. In addition there is near zero database administrative effort required for most IBM i systems. Since all disk space is typically viewed as a single store, space for tables and collections is automatically drawn from and returned to that space.
Because of the object oriented nature IBM i (the modern version of OS/400) a thing is either a program or its not. Creating programs from source generates an intermediate level code. This code is then compiled into lower level code that differs by O/S version and by the underlying hardware (e.g. POWER8 or POWER7). Because the object is a program you may only perform actions allowed on programs. Execute it, rename it, save it, restore it, move it, delete it, change it's owner or authority. That's it. You cannot change it's type to say 'File' and then edit it and then change it back to 'program'. The O/S blocks that which is beautiful and it's why there are no anti-virus products for IBM i!
You also cannot execute something that is not a program. So that avenue of attack is also unavailable.
Yes! IBM i (The current generation of the AS/400) with its 128 bit address space would work well in a computer with only memory, no disk! In fact it was envisioned that way at its inception. Additionally the abstraction that it brings allows program objects going all the way back to the System/38 to run on current POWER8 hardware unchanged. That's software investment protection! Of course why you would want to run 30 year old software is a valid question but you could if it was valid and needed.
The second benefit of the abstraction layer is that new hardware is easily introduced and over it's history OS/400 (the O/S that ran on the AS/400) and now IBM i have hit many first in the industry points. These include memory and storage technologies such as the first SAS based SSDs.
Oft overlooked except by sysadmins the command line of IBM i is also second to none being very intuitive, very consistent, and easy to learn. One example is vfytcpcmn which does the same thing as ping. (Yes ping works too!).
Clearly not the first if this type of harassment.
Check out Chip Rosenthal's nightmare. He registered unicom.com the first day registrations were available and used it as his company web site. Years later a very annoying man started a company named Unicom systems and then spent thousands trying to get the name from Mr Rosenthal. Eventually the courts finally settled it in Mr Rosenthal's favor.
http://rightwingnews.com/speci...
We have a co-op rather than a private utility. They trim every year and if you don't allow that they add a cutoff switch to your leg so that when branches/trees/etc fall on the lines you get cut off and the rest of customers still have power. They then only repair your leg when the weather improves enough for it to be safe for their linemen to work there.
The system isn't perfect of course as not every tree can be trimmed far enough back to make the lines immune to damage but our power rarely goes out even in high winds, storms etc and we're out in the boonies.
At my high school this was also the norm in the late 70s. You could have armed a decent size militia from our student parking lot. Then add various other items like axes, chain-saws, knives etc to the mix as well. Likely 75% of all students had a pocket knife with them at all times and it was normally very sharp. There were exactly zero stabbings, shootings, or other injuries from weapons in my three years there. There was never a concern spoken about any of this because parents taught their children to respect others and any student who got in trouble at school was in BIGGER trouble at home. Today it's nearly automatic for the parent to take the student's side even when the student IS in the wrong.
If you simply change everyone's temporal frame of reference by the exact same amount, you have done nothing, really. Everyone will simply account for the 500ms delay, and trades will still execute in the same order.
Exactly. So look up IEX. Their solution is to 'position' themselves electronically to be *EXACTLY the same number of ms away from all the major exchanges in the U.S. So when they execute trades across 5 exchanges they all happen at EXACTLY the same time on all the exchanges. Thus those HFT guys react too late, all the needed buys for the specific transaction have already occurred. HFT Guys loose. Bummer.
I ask you to show me a single law that says coasting is illegal because you're makin' that sh** up. Sure I suppose kicking your car out of drive so you can roll 1/4 mile at 10 to 15 might be frowned on. However there is no way you're going to get me to stay at the speed limit until I have to lay on the brakes lurching to a stop like a bad bus driver just so you can hit the slip lane 4 seconds sooner.
That said around here you would be one of the 10% that know what a signal is for. If I see the vehicle behind me with a signal on and I can make way for it to turn I will always accommodate that if it means moving up, moving over a bit or even speeding up on occasion. I will NOT do that if the vehicle is flashing it's lights, sounding it's horn or tail-gaiting.
Additionally 90% of my driving is two lane rural roads where slip lanes simply don't exist and stop signs are the norm. If I roll up to the car ahead of me as it rolls away taking it's place at the stop sign I have perfectly executed that intersection. Even if there are 50 cars behind me I am hurting exactly nobody.
I also think you need better brakes! My vehicle has 145,000 miles and is 8 years old and still has the factory brakes, inspected just last month. 6 months? Really???
And coasting is a problem why? If I get there before the light changes or shortly thereafter thus NOT turning kinetic energy into heat by means of friction, that is a good thing all around. Less fuel burned. Less brake wear. Less damage to roads due to lower speeds. Improved safety as I have no need to wonder if the coefficient of static friction between my tires and the road, or snow, or ice is sufficient to slow my vehicle before it impacts the vehicle ahead of me.
When a tailgaiter blows past met just to get to the red light before it changes I think to myself: "Yep rather have a poor driver like that ahead of me where I can see them, rather than behind me where they have the ability to do me harm."
In 38 years of driving, in Michigan where it rains, sleets, snows, and freezes, I have rear-ended exactly one car (at less than 5 MPH) and been rear-ended exactly once. Safe driving works.
Yes I do and our stuff WAS on time but knowing the roads and massive number of trees down around here that WAS impressive. The trucks were spending extra time and miles figuring out how to get to various addresses but not everyone was even accessible. We were told as many as 6 days to get power on but it was only 2. Yes it went off a few more times and our generator got a workout but as you say, live where we live and be prepared!
Fedex called me to meet them down the road so they would not get stuck having to back a 53 footer away from a downed or 'low hanging' tree.
The logic is good BUT said drivers, being retired, are not likely to want to work Christmas or New Years. Also they need to maintain their endorsements and physicals etc which many choose not to do.
On a fabulously smaller scale my wife hires drivers and prefers that most of them be part time. This gives her maximum flexibility to scale up and down easily week by week as routes vary. This week every driver is working maximum daily hours because they got Christmas Even and Christmas off but the job is getting done. Her methodology doesn't work as well for a massive truck fleet.
But you need drivers. And as it works out in the Midwest of the U.S. Christmas happens when the weather is often 'quite frightful'. I do work for trucking firms and know that getting GOOD drivers is a full time challenge. Need to staff up at Christmas and you're not going to get the best drivers. Then put them in old trucks. Now put the poor drivers in old trucks on sloppy slippery icy roads and you can imagine that incremental capacity is no where near as cheap as you think it might be.
Then you balance out my excellent UPS Service. We live in a rural area that was CLOBBERED with Ice on Dec 22, over 75% of our county had no electricity. My UPS packages still arrived on time. Speaking to the driver he admitted some did not because he could not reach the homes due to downed trees and blocked roads.
Six days later, power is STILL out in areas around here (mine is out now in fact) so a delay in delivery is not at all unexpected.
Ludington MI has had a pumped storage for more than 40 years on the shores of Lake Michigan. Its a 2.1 GW facility that draws water from the big lake during low electric usage and lets it flow down generating power when needed. The concept is simple as was previously mentioned but the cost to build is not. Additionally special care must be taken not to pump fish through the system.
This is the sort of thing we would need a LOT more of to support huge increases in Solar or Wind energy on the grid. And they would need to be located 'closer' to the generation point. THAT is a hard thing to do!
If my Prius has to make noise at low speeds I'm going to go for a Top Fuel Dragster at idle - the sound of several gallons a minute burning without even moving.:-)
I pick up several thousand pounds a year of old computers from my customers. My family and I pull them apart and recycle as much as possible. Batteries, Steel. Copper, Aluminum are the primary money makers. By weight at least 95% gets recycled and once broken down is worth money. Last trip to the local recycler was several hundred dollars US. Some lessons learned from this activity. 1) IBM is the very best at building computers that come apart. Few different fasteners mean fewer tool changes. Most materials also separate quite easily. Even their hard disks come apart quite easily yielding their substantial aluminum content. 2) Compaq was pretty good at this as well. 3) Dell PCs are HORRIBLE to get apart with nothing standard whatever. Every model different, every fastener unique. 4) No matter what the brand, power supplies are the worst. Lots of copper and aluminum in them but also lots of capacitors - the number one contaminate in PCs. 5) There is a lot of labor in proper recycling so once old enough to get a real job the kids lose interest quite quickly.
Better design for recycling would make the process much more cost effective.
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The largest producer in the world of lead for batteries is in fact a plant that recycles lead acid batteries! Lead is VERY recyclable. You may be surprised to find out that the acid from those batteries ends up as a key ingredient of laundry detergent!
Of the 5 Prii that I have owned the average 'first brake job' is well pas t150,000. Contrast that to the Dodge vehicles we drove before that where attaining 40,000 on a set of brakes was extraordinary! Our Toyota dealer echoes this explaining that the average Prius goes 'about double' the miles of a Corolla before needing brakes.
Experiment? The one in Ludington MI has been in operation since 1973 with a peak generation capacity of 1.8GW. It can go zero to 1.8GW in 30 minutes. It sits on the shores of Lake Michigan about 360 ft above the lake and smooths out the power here in Michigan all year long.
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So far the only thing that has 'broken' any of our Toyota hybrid power trains is a tree. It was not the tree's fault. We are on our sixth Toyota hybrid with at least 750,000 total miles on them and still own four one a 2001 model. Many of these miles would be considered serious abuse like delivering newspapers 7 days a week for years in one of them. Some days that car started with the springs crushed right to the axles. We live in the snow belt of Michigan and they are excellent in the snow though the mileage does suffer in the bitter cold of mid-winter. In all those miles the non routine maintenance has included a few wheel bearings. Toyota has recalled them several times for some water pump issues, replacement fuel pumps on early models, a steering issue, and a few other things. I could not recommend Toyota's hybrids more highly.
Yes the parts are expensive they tell me but we've never had to test that theory.
And should you actually RIDE one of these hybrid buses they are much smoother and quieter than their straight diesel counterparts. There is no revving engine and no lurching shifts. Due to the regenerative braking there is both less brake dust and dirt and they last far longer saving maintenance dollars. The more they build the better the cost will become and the better they will be for everyone in nearly every way.
I really don't care if there is a standard or not, if nobody is utilizing it then it's just fancy documents somewhere. If Internet over Power Lines was going to take off I would expect it to already have done so since the power lines have existed for a century and already extend to effectively every home that would want Internet service.
Our power provider services many of the most rural areas of the state which translates to 'areas that don't have high speed internet'. They have been reading meters over the power lines for 15 years so they know that data can traverse the lines but in investigating providing Internet they couldn't find a solution that would work and be cost effective enough for people to purchase it.
As various wireless technologies improve they are the best bet for rural areas to get reasonable speeds at reasonable prices.
I'm not quite sure how IPV6 makes a whit of difference in the equation. Do 128 bit addresses go faster than 32 bit addresses over Power Lines somehow?
Internet over power lines? Are there actually any of those working in the U.S.? Our power grid isn't so favorable to delivery that way. I live in a rural area with no cable or even DSL and our power provider tells me they looked into it and dismissed it completely.
You really think this would make airline pricing MORE complicated? That's funny stuff right there!
You must be a tiny little runt. 80 kg is only 177 lbs and 65 kg is just 143 lbs!! At 6'5" if I weighed 143 and turned sideways I would be invisible! My 5' 22" brother would appear a toothpick even at 177! 80 kg is normal to itty bitty where I look down on you from.
DB/2. Not the best, but it's inbuilt, and accessible with system utilities/calls, using any language on the system, including control language.
Say what you will but DB/2 on IBM i is the most SQL compliant database of any. It scales well and being built into the system means tuning it is not often needed. In addition there is near zero database administrative effort required for most IBM i systems. Since all disk space is typically viewed as a single store, space for tables and collections is automatically drawn from and returned to that space.
Because of the object oriented nature IBM i (the modern version of OS/400) a thing is either a program or its not. Creating programs from source generates an intermediate level code. This code is then compiled into lower level code that differs by O/S version and by the underlying hardware (e.g. POWER8 or POWER7). Because the object is a program you may only perform actions allowed on programs. Execute it, rename it, save it, restore it, move it, delete it, change it's owner or authority. That's it. You cannot change it's type to say 'File' and then edit it and then change it back to 'program'. The O/S blocks that which is beautiful and it's why there are no anti-virus products for IBM i! You also cannot execute something that is not a program. So that avenue of attack is also unavailable.
Yes! IBM i (The current generation of the AS/400) with its 128 bit address space would work well in a computer with only memory, no disk! In fact it was envisioned that way at its inception. Additionally the abstraction that it brings allows program objects going all the way back to the System/38 to run on current POWER8 hardware unchanged. That's software investment protection! Of course why you would want to run 30 year old software is a valid question but you could if it was valid and needed. The second benefit of the abstraction layer is that new hardware is easily introduced and over it's history OS/400 (the O/S that ran on the AS/400) and now IBM i have hit many first in the industry points. These include memory and storage technologies such as the first SAS based SSDs. Oft overlooked except by sysadmins the command line of IBM i is also second to none being very intuitive, very consistent, and easy to learn. One example is vfytcpcmn which does the same thing as ping. (Yes ping works too!).
Clearly not the first if this type of harassment. Check out Chip Rosenthal's nightmare. He registered unicom.com the first day registrations were available and used it as his company web site. Years later a very annoying man started a company named Unicom systems and then spent thousands trying to get the name from Mr Rosenthal. Eventually the courts finally settled it in Mr Rosenthal's favor. http://rightwingnews.com/speci...
We have a co-op rather than a private utility. They trim every year and if you don't allow that they add a cutoff switch to your leg so that when branches/trees/etc fall on the lines you get cut off and the rest of customers still have power. They then only repair your leg when the weather improves enough for it to be safe for their linemen to work there. The system isn't perfect of course as not every tree can be trimmed far enough back to make the lines immune to damage but our power rarely goes out even in high winds, storms etc and we're out in the boonies.
At my high school this was also the norm in the late 70s. You could have armed a decent size militia from our student parking lot. Then add various other items like axes, chain-saws, knives etc to the mix as well. Likely 75% of all students had a pocket knife with them at all times and it was normally very sharp. There were exactly zero stabbings, shootings, or other injuries from weapons in my three years there. There was never a concern spoken about any of this because parents taught their children to respect others and any student who got in trouble at school was in BIGGER trouble at home. Today it's nearly automatic for the parent to take the student's side even when the student IS in the wrong.
If you simply change everyone's temporal frame of reference by the exact same amount, you have done nothing, really. Everyone will simply account for the 500ms delay, and trades will still execute in the same order.
Exactly. So look up IEX. Their solution is to 'position' themselves electronically to be *EXACTLY the same number of ms away from all the major exchanges in the U.S. So when they execute trades across 5 exchanges they all happen at EXACTLY the same time on all the exchanges. Thus those HFT guys react too late, all the needed buys for the specific transaction have already occurred. HFT Guys loose. Bummer.
It's not all about speed it's about timing.
I ask you to show me a single law that says coasting is illegal because you're makin' that sh** up. Sure I suppose kicking your car out of drive so you can roll 1/4 mile at 10 to 15 might be frowned on. However there is no way you're going to get me to stay at the speed limit until I have to lay on the brakes lurching to a stop like a bad bus driver just so you can hit the slip lane 4 seconds sooner.
That said around here you would be one of the 10% that know what a signal is for. If I see the vehicle behind me with a signal on and I can make way for it to turn I will always accommodate that if it means moving up, moving over a bit or even speeding up on occasion. I will NOT do that if the vehicle is flashing it's lights, sounding it's horn or tail-gaiting.
Additionally 90% of my driving is two lane rural roads where slip lanes simply don't exist and stop signs are the norm. If I roll up to the car ahead of me as it rolls away taking it's place at the stop sign I have perfectly executed that intersection. Even if there are 50 cars behind me I am hurting exactly nobody.
I also think you need better brakes! My vehicle has 145,000 miles and is 8 years old and still has the factory brakes, inspected just last month. 6 months? Really???
And coasting is a problem why? If I get there before the light changes or shortly thereafter thus NOT turning kinetic energy into heat by means of friction, that is a good thing all around. Less fuel burned. Less brake wear. Less damage to roads due to lower speeds. Improved safety as I have no need to wonder if the coefficient of static friction between my tires and the road, or snow, or ice is sufficient to slow my vehicle before it impacts the vehicle ahead of me. When a tailgaiter blows past met just to get to the red light before it changes I think to myself: "Yep rather have a poor driver like that ahead of me where I can see them, rather than behind me where they have the ability to do me harm." In 38 years of driving, in Michigan where it rains, sleets, snows, and freezes, I have rear-ended exactly one car (at less than 5 MPH) and been rear-ended exactly once. Safe driving works.
Yes I do and our stuff WAS on time but knowing the roads and massive number of trees down around here that WAS impressive. The trucks were spending extra time and miles figuring out how to get to various addresses but not everyone was even accessible. We were told as many as 6 days to get power on but it was only 2. Yes it went off a few more times and our generator got a workout but as you say, live where we live and be prepared! Fedex called me to meet them down the road so they would not get stuck having to back a 53 footer away from a downed or 'low hanging' tree.
The logic is good BUT said drivers, being retired, are not likely to want to work Christmas or New Years. Also they need to maintain their endorsements and physicals etc which many choose not to do. On a fabulously smaller scale my wife hires drivers and prefers that most of them be part time. This gives her maximum flexibility to scale up and down easily week by week as routes vary. This week every driver is working maximum daily hours because they got Christmas Even and Christmas off but the job is getting done. Her methodology doesn't work as well for a massive truck fleet.
But you need drivers. And as it works out in the Midwest of the U.S. Christmas happens when the weather is often 'quite frightful'. I do work for trucking firms and know that getting GOOD drivers is a full time challenge. Need to staff up at Christmas and you're not going to get the best drivers. Then put them in old trucks. Now put the poor drivers in old trucks on sloppy slippery icy roads and you can imagine that incremental capacity is no where near as cheap as you think it might be.
Then you balance out my excellent UPS Service. We live in a rural area that was CLOBBERED with Ice on Dec 22, over 75% of our county had no electricity. My UPS packages still arrived on time. Speaking to the driver he admitted some did not because he could not reach the homes due to downed trees and blocked roads. Six days later, power is STILL out in areas around here (mine is out now in fact) so a delay in delivery is not at all unexpected.
Ludington MI has had a pumped storage for more than 40 years on the shores of Lake Michigan. Its a 2.1 GW facility that draws water from the big lake during low electric usage and lets it flow down generating power when needed. The concept is simple as was previously mentioned but the cost to build is not. Additionally special care must be taken not to pump fish through the system. This is the sort of thing we would need a LOT more of to support huge increases in Solar or Wind energy on the grid. And they would need to be located 'closer' to the generation point. THAT is a hard thing to do!
If my Prius has to make noise at low speeds I'm going to go for a Top Fuel Dragster at idle - the sound of several gallons a minute burning without even moving. :-)
I pick up several thousand pounds a year of old computers from my customers. My family and I pull them apart and recycle as much as possible. Batteries, Steel. Copper, Aluminum are the primary money makers. By weight at least 95% gets recycled and once broken down is worth money. Last trip to the local recycler was several hundred dollars US. Some lessons learned from this activity. 1) IBM is the very best at building computers that come apart. Few different fasteners mean fewer tool changes. Most materials also separate quite easily. Even their hard disks come apart quite easily yielding their substantial aluminum content. 2) Compaq was pretty good at this as well. 3) Dell PCs are HORRIBLE to get apart with nothing standard whatever. Every model different, every fastener unique. 4) No matter what the brand, power supplies are the worst. Lots of copper and aluminum in them but also lots of capacitors - the number one contaminate in PCs. 5) There is a lot of labor in proper recycling so once old enough to get a real job the kids lose interest quite quickly. Better design for recycling would make the process much more cost effective.