Ok, swapping out a $5,000 battery pack is cumbersome, expensive, and slow to charge back up.
How about making battery usage more granular? On a short trip you drain one or two pounds of batteries. On your commute to work you use 20 pounds of batteries. Day's driving uses 50 pounds. Etc.
So at the eGas Station you swap out only the batteries that are discharged. The discharged 1 pound cells go on a conveyor belt where they are recharged on their way to and at the battery vault.
The downside I imagine is more battery wiring in the car...
There is a natural progression to a life. Early years are spent "getting up to speed". Middle years are spent doing stuff. Later years are spent reflecting more deeply on a few "pet areas" while also teaching those of the next generations who care to listen to old farts.
Debating what constitutes the first, second and third segments is pointless.
FWIW I made "discoveries" while in school (one was realizing that it was faster to do subtraction from left to right and not vice-a-versa). This will reside in the lonely "works for me, your mileage may vary" category until some budding young "scientist" studies a bunch of monkeys doing math and "discovers" the same thing. My point is that they can happen at any time, but are more likely to happen once we have cleared the learning years, and before we start spending all our time "soccer mom'ing" and enabling our replacements.
Your financial affairs are a mess that has little to do with credit unions vs regular banks. It reminds me of co-workers who can barely round up gas money but always take their Starbucks cup with them when they go out for a smoke.
Ok, how about "Hijacked Memory"? "Euthanized Memory" would also work but might be illegal. "Theft Memory" comes to mind, as does "Slacker Memory". "Unemployed Memory" is probably already copyrighted. "Memory that has gone over to the dark side" was considered but rejected by someone going by the name of "tldr". My personal choice would be "Think of the children memory"...
What if solid battery units are available everywhere. They are charged in the most efficient way possible -- night time would be at lower rates, for example. Then when someone needs a new battery unit on the road they pull into a "change station" and swap batteries. The battery they leave behind is analyzed to determine how much energy was drained from it (and how quickly, if that harms the battery, etc.). They are charged for the difference in energy. This requires little infrastructure, no change to battery technology, and would be very very fast.
I never liked Steve Jobs the person, despised how he abused others, was and am disgusted with Apple's limit-the-user's-choice approach and have never owned or wanted an Apple product (in 30+ years of computing).
"Disconnected Kids" presents a very fresh new take on Autism, Asperger's, ADHD, etc., coming up with a "one size fits all" theory, and quickly developing a track record of successfully treating (i.e. eliminating) it. Recommended read.
For me the biggest problem with Real player was that I could never jump to whatever part of the file I wanted. Whenever I tried it would "buffer" for what seemed like forever, even if you were trying to play a local file!
The second biggest problem, with the Real format in general, was that it was hard to save/archive content. RM files were just links to something somewhere and people often wanted more than that. At that time having a RM file of an interview was a pretty common usage. But when you tried to save that audio file...ah, the pain. Or try to play it and skip to some point in the file if you did manage to save it (problem #1).
[BTW, when did slashcode start converting <P> to <BR> but only on every other paragraph?]
So the long winded blah blah blah page concludes, at the bottom, that you follow the perimeter, moving the mower in one row at a time, until you get to the center. Exactly like any 9-year-old kid does without anyone telling them. Amazing!
What is next, analyzing the fastest way to brush our teeth? I'll try not to give away the best approach.
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How about making battery usage more granular? On a short trip you drain one or two pounds of batteries. On your commute to work you use 20 pounds of batteries. Day's driving uses 50 pounds. Etc.
So at the eGas Station you swap out only the batteries that are discharged. The discharged 1 pound cells go on a conveyor belt where they are recharged on their way to and at the battery vault.
The downside I imagine is more battery wiring in the car...
PETA is the new Scientology.
Debating what constitutes the first, second and third segments is pointless.
FWIW I made "discoveries" while in school (one was realizing that it was faster to do subtraction from left to right and not vice-a-versa). This will reside in the lonely "works for me, your mileage may vary" category until some budding young "scientist" studies a bunch of monkeys doing math and "discovers" the same thing. My point is that they can happen at any time, but are more likely to happen once we have cleared the learning years, and before we start spending all our time "soccer mom'ing" and enabling our replacements.
729,000 Borg cubes, working as one.
Your financial affairs are a mess that has little to do with credit unions vs regular banks. It reminds me of co-workers who can barely round up gas money but always take their Starbucks cup with them when they go out for a smoke.
Check out "Disconnected Kids".
More likely it will one day be illegal to not celebrate Halloween. Like it is already illegal to not vote in Australia.
I prefer "developmentally delayed", in part because I think it is more accurate.
"Violet Blue" is the weirdness name you could think of? Try some of these
How do electric cars perform in wet snow?
Slightly Ostentatious Array Project
Ok, how about "Hijacked Memory"? "Euthanized Memory" would also work but might be illegal. "Theft Memory" comes to mind, as does "Slacker Memory". "Unemployed Memory" is probably already copyrighted. "Memory that has gone over to the dark side" was considered but rejected by someone going by the name of "tldr". My personal choice would be "Think of the children memory"...
Mulliganing?
What if solid battery units are available everywhere. They are charged in the most efficient way possible -- night time would be at lower rates, for example. Then when someone needs a new battery unit on the road they pull into a "change station" and swap batteries. The battery they leave behind is analyzed to determine how much energy was drained from it (and how quickly, if that harms the battery, etc.). They are charged for the difference in energy. This requires little infrastructure, no change to battery technology, and would be very very fast.
Please feel free to mod me down.
That sure cleared things up. Thanks, AC.
So we won't believe he is anything but a shill -- "It's better than my color Nook, so you don't need to buy one of those".
Maybe they did that because of those darn HOME and END keys.
"Disconnected Kids" presents a very fresh new take on Autism, Asperger's, ADHD, etc., coming up with a "one size fits all" theory, and quickly developing a track record of successfully treating (i.e. eliminating) it. Recommended read.
"Each Prius, which is powered by a combination internal combustion engine and electric motor, uses about one kg (2.2 lb) of neodymium in the motor and 10 to 15 kg (22-33 lb) of lanthanum in the battery."
The second biggest problem, with the Real format in general, was that it was hard to save/archive content. RM files were just links to something somewhere and people often wanted more than that. At that time having a RM file of an interview was a pretty common usage. But when you tried to save that audio file...ah, the pain. Or try to play it and skip to some point in the file if you did manage to save it (problem #1).
[BTW, when did slashcode start converting <P> to <BR> but only on every other paragraph?]
What is next, analyzing the fastest way to brush our teeth? I'll try not to give away the best approach.
Next week, kids, we move on to tire rotation.
POTC had around 17 writers. And yes I liked the movie, although the sequels remind me of the Matrix sequels.
The biggest of the big boys are sucking $5 trillion a year out of the system (i.e. Us) each year. Greed really does know no limits.
The media.