It strikes me that while they're optimistic they're not making promises. That seems prudent to me. They seem to be making progress on gerotor compressor efficiency. Patience.
They get around the seal issue by not having one. By making the rotors with tight tolerances, and by using the Brayton cycle rather than the Otto cycle, thus allowing lower compression ratios, they reduce leakage to a negligible level with no seals to deal with. I've got my eye on this company for the next few years. As for nutating engines, the seal issue probably will get the best of them, but it's still a neat concept that may see limited use.
I'm glad they're finally getting to this. As for Detroit, they'd have been better off if they hadn't had to be dragged kicking and screaming into this if the bill gets signed. Although given that the deadline is 2020 it seems like they have more than enough time to do this. Between nutating and gerotor engines it seems like the technology is just waiting to be taken seriously by an industry stuck in the 1960's.
"From the amount of rabid (and normal) replies, I see I've touched a pretty painful spot for Americans. I wonder what that could mean..."
It means you're being a bit of a dick, but this is an interesting subject. Anyhow, 2 things. One, the diversity of America is different from the diversity of Europe. For one, we have massive ecological and geographic diversity. Some of the taller mountains in the world, deserts, strange natural rock formations, rainforests, vast plains, the largest trees in the world, swamps, canyons, etc. Secondly, the cultural diversity isn't so much that various cities are really different, as much as the people or neighborhoods are often different even within areas. For instance, if I want Russian food I can go to my Russian friend's house. Or Vietnamese, I can go to a Vietnamese friend's house. Chinese, Mexican, same. My parents grew up in an Iraqi neighborhood....in Detroit. Yeah, our houses may look similar, but the people who live in them have very different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. That's often more than you can say for a lot of other places, where foreigners are rarer. Also, on states, they were very nearly all different sovereign countries 200 years ago, so they are more than "local administrative units."
Irrelevant? If you don't remember the original cause of your dispute, you're never going to end it. Since Israel was founded a few years before we toppled Iran's government, perhaps they were pissed for that first. I wasn't really going for in-depth analysis of the situation, just pointing out that the CIA isn't a happy groups that doesn't do evil things. As for Iran, you're right on this bit: our continuing unwavering kowtowing to Israel certainly isn't going to bring them any closer to being our friends. Bush's constantly calling them evil probably doesn't help, either. As for the propaganda, that may propagate it, but that's an effect of the situation, not a cause. There's obviously no simple answer, but one of the earlier and primary reasons they hate us is the installation and harboring of the Shah.
Do you ever wonder why the Iranians hate us? It might have to do with us helping the Brits in overthrowing their democratically elected government and installing a dictator (the Shah), then giving him protection here when they overthrew him in their Islamic revolution.
Hmm, it appears I did. I haven't gone through the math or tested it yet, but I'll assume this Earnshaw fellow knew what he was talking about. Still, one could use diamagnets to stabilize it, rather than ferromagnets. These are an exception to the law in that they violate the assumptions. So these windmills could still work the way the article claims.
"Earnshaw's theorem states that a collection of point charges cannot be maintained in a stable stationary equilibrium configuration solely by the electrostatic interaction of the charges."
You're forgetting about gravity. All it needs are some fixed, well-secured magnets (they're using rare-earth magnets, not electromagnets), and the weight of the thing will keep it from moving out of its "tracks".
Hmmph, this is a good argument against having a built-in battery, a la the iPhone. If you want your privacy, you should be able to remove the battery (otherwise I guess you'd have to wrap it in metal...)
What's so special about UCLA, exactly? That sucks that it's hard to get into classes I guess, but in my experience the hard classes are the ones that are easiest to get into, since the popular ones tend to be the easy ones. Physics and math classes never fill up. I'm not saying UCLA is a cakewalk, but I'd bet it can't be any harder than the program I'm in. And btw, I didn't say I knew everything, so have fun arguing with your straw man. You can put it next to your Real Doll and have a party.
It shouldn't require 5.5 years. Maybe if you're working a lot and want your 4.0.... I'm doing the same majors, and it's only going to take me 4 years, and I know people who are set to do it in three. Still, it's a tough regimen; it's not everyone who can do it.
NO! Bad! This is not about "feeling" secure, it's about BEING secure. There's a huge difference. If someone can unreasonably search all your papers, effects, etc. then you're not secure against unreasonable searches and seizures, are you? It has nothing to do with how you feel about it. I see people making this fallacy all the time, that it's about feeling secure rather than actually being secure. That's not how it works. There is no rhetorical ground to be muddied.
Not really. I know a number of people at a good architecture school, and they really don't have to take any engineering. Lots of design, yes, but pretty much nothing in terms of calculus or structural engineering. Maybe in some states they're required to be licensed as structural engineers too, but it doesn't seem like they put much emphasis on it. Of course, if they themselves aren't, they should be hiring engineers to do this sort of thing...
Using NoScript (may it be forever blessed), I've come to assume that any page I visit will have google-analytics.com scripts running on it. Many have doubleclick.net ones as well. In fact, those two are the only ones on this slashdot comment page aside from the slashdot ones. Google-analytics scripts are probably running on at least 95% of all web pages, in my experience. Well, for some people they are:)
Am I the only one who thought Goldeneye sucked? As far as FPS games from that era on consoles go, it was pretty good, but that isn't saying much. Compared to any FPS on a computer, the control utterly sucked, and there wasn't much else going for it either. You pretty much just described every console FPS, ever. That said, I loved Goldeneye.
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It strikes me that while they're optimistic they're not making promises. That seems prudent to me. They seem to be making progress on gerotor compressor efficiency. Patience.
Screw noise-canceling, I think an EMP generator would be a better idea. Just fry the damn thing, let them replace it every day.
They get around the seal issue by not having one. By making the rotors with tight tolerances, and by using the Brayton cycle rather than the Otto cycle, thus allowing lower compression ratios, they reduce leakage to a negligible level with no seals to deal with. I've got my eye on this company for the next few years. As for nutating engines, the seal issue probably will get the best of them, but it's still a neat concept that may see limited use.
Care to elaborate on these sound engineering reasons?
I'm glad they're finally getting to this. As for Detroit, they'd have been better off if they hadn't had to be dragged kicking and screaming into this if the bill gets signed. Although given that the deadline is 2020 it seems like they have more than enough time to do this. Between nutating and gerotor engines it seems like the technology is just waiting to be taken seriously by an industry stuck in the 1960's.
Isn't the true name of Yahweh supposed to be 216 characters, or some such thing?
Shouldn't be that hard to figure out.
"From the amount of rabid (and normal) replies, I see I've touched a pretty painful spot for Americans. I wonder what that could mean..."
It means you're being a bit of a dick, but this is an interesting subject. Anyhow, 2 things. One, the diversity of America is different from the diversity of Europe. For one, we have massive ecological and geographic diversity. Some of the taller mountains in the world, deserts, strange natural rock formations, rainforests, vast plains, the largest trees in the world, swamps, canyons, etc. Secondly, the cultural diversity isn't so much that various cities are really different, as much as the people or neighborhoods are often different even within areas. For instance, if I want Russian food I can go to my Russian friend's house. Or Vietnamese, I can go to a Vietnamese friend's house. Chinese, Mexican, same. My parents grew up in an Iraqi neighborhood....in Detroit. Yeah, our houses may look similar, but the people who live in them have very different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. That's often more than you can say for a lot of other places, where foreigners are rarer. Also, on states, they were very nearly all different sovereign countries 200 years ago, so they are more than "local administrative units."
Irrelevant? If you don't remember the original cause of your dispute, you're never going to end it. Since Israel was founded a few years before we toppled Iran's government, perhaps they were pissed for that first. I wasn't really going for in-depth analysis of the situation, just pointing out that the CIA isn't a happy groups that doesn't do evil things. As for Iran, you're right on this bit: our continuing unwavering kowtowing to Israel certainly isn't going to bring them any closer to being our friends. Bush's constantly calling them evil probably doesn't help, either. As for the propaganda, that may propagate it, but that's an effect of the situation, not a cause. There's obviously no simple answer, but one of the earlier and primary reasons they hate us is the installation and harboring of the Shah.
Do you ever wonder why the Iranians hate us? It might have to do with us helping the Brits in overthrowing their democratically elected government and installing a dictator (the Shah), then giving him protection here when they overthrew him in their Islamic revolution.
Yeah, that's your beloved CIA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
Hmm, it appears I did. I haven't gone through the math or tested it yet, but I'll assume this Earnshaw fellow knew what he was talking about. Still, one could use diamagnets to stabilize it, rather than ferromagnets. These are an exception to the law in that they violate the assumptions. So these windmills could still work the way the article claims.
Earnshaw's Theorem doesn't apply here.
"Earnshaw's theorem states that a collection of point charges cannot be maintained in a stable stationary equilibrium configuration solely by the electrostatic interaction of the charges."
You're forgetting about gravity. All it needs are some fixed, well-secured magnets (they're using rare-earth magnets, not electromagnets), and the weight of the thing will keep it from moving out of its "tracks".
Hmmph, this is a good argument against having a built-in battery, a la the iPhone. If you want your privacy, you should be able to remove the battery (otherwise I guess you'd have to wrap it in metal...)
What's so special about UCLA, exactly? That sucks that it's hard to get into classes I guess, but in my experience the hard classes are the ones that are easiest to get into, since the popular ones tend to be the easy ones. Physics and math classes never fill up. I'm not saying UCLA is a cakewalk, but I'd bet it can't be any harder than the program I'm in. And btw, I didn't say I knew everything, so have fun arguing with your straw man. You can put it next to your Real Doll and have a party.
It shouldn't require 5.5 years. Maybe if you're working a lot and want your 4.0.... I'm doing the same majors, and it's only going to take me 4 years, and I know people who are set to do it in three. Still, it's a tough regimen; it's not everyone who can do it.
NO! Bad! This is not about "feeling" secure, it's about BEING secure. There's a huge difference. If someone can unreasonably search all your papers, effects, etc. then you're not secure against unreasonable searches and seizures, are you? It has nothing to do with how you feel about it. I see people making this fallacy all the time, that it's about feeling secure rather than actually being secure. That's not how it works. There is no rhetorical ground to be muddied.
Not really. I know a number of people at a good architecture school, and they really don't have to take any engineering. Lots of design, yes, but pretty much nothing in terms of calculus or structural engineering. Maybe in some states they're required to be licensed as structural engineers too, but it doesn't seem like they put much emphasis on it. Of course, if they themselves aren't, they should be hiring engineers to do this sort of thing...
Using NoScript (may it be forever blessed), I've come to assume that any page I visit will have google-analytics.com scripts running on it. Many have doubleclick.net ones as well. In fact, those two are the only ones on this slashdot comment page aside from the slashdot ones. Google-analytics scripts are probably running on at least 95% of all web pages, in my experience. Well, for some people they are :)
That's why you have a household capacitor bank that sips juice from the grid, then discharges quickly for just these sort of applications.
No, that's the beauty of it! The cats will all starve come winter.
What, are you 15? The AC was right, that was weak and you're a prick to boot.
1,1,2,3,5,8 ftw.
Interesting, but do you have any sources to back up these claims, besides your good name?
Bravo! I think this is appropriate:
http://www.xkcd.com/151/