There's a British company trying the same thing the article is confusing but the system essentially spilts off the hydrogen inside the vehicle then stores the carbon from hydrocarbon fuel. They reprocess the stored CO2 back into a hydrocarbon fuel so it's a closed loop system. It's more a way to store hydrogen as a hydrocarbon then recycle the storage medium, the carbon. It's in no way a fuel source it's a storage medium. ALL hydrogen based systems are storage mediums not fuel sources. Hydrogen is too friendly about combining with other elements so the hydrogen always needs to be spilt off to use as fuel. I take it you can store a lot of hydrogen safely this way if the system can ever be perfected but the real point is there's little difference from an electric vehicle other than faster refueling. Because of transfer losses I have to believe it's less efficent than straight electric. Even hydrogen cars are generally all electric so the hydrogen largely replaces batteries. Because of all the technical problems it seems focusing on improving batteries would be a better solution. There's no proof this system is in anyway practical let alone the technology still doesn't exist.
It's amazing how many things that have been considered vaporware for so many years are coming it this year. Obviously most have still not sent he light of day but we are starting to get release dates. I always thought Spore would come out in the next 12 months but a few old friends like Duke Nuke Em Forever will have a bitter sweet edge to it. There needs to be a little mourning for some of the more long lived bits of vaporware. I just hope they both live up to expectation so it can be a positive thing them being released and not just a let's get it over with and get on with our lives event.
And the point being so the Studios can keep ALL the money? Or is it so every fan with a video camera can release their own version of LOTR? Why should everyone EXCEPT the author's family benefit?
coal is the greenest fuel because it requires the least processing. The point is corn sucks as a fuel source and sugar cane requires vast amounts of land and fertilizer. Biofuels will never replace oil. Here's a big shocker, so what? We've never run our houses on one source of electricity so why should we expect to run our cars that way? Biofuels are a great way to offset oil use until something like electrics can take over. Just a reminder hydrogen isn't a fuel source it's a storage medium and it has a really low energy density so dont hold your breath on that one. Diesels can be run on blends of biodiesel and regular diesel and cars can handle alcohol blends without modification, flex fuel cars can run up to a 100%. Where's the problem? Biodiesel can also be made from waste products and there are processes for turning grasses and such into alcohol with far less energy than corn. Even the worst biodiesel can't be as bad as any fossil fuel simply because fossil fuels ALWAYS contribute to CO2 where as biofuels at least part of the year store CO2. Petroleum based fertilizer? Bad idea. Believe it or not there are alternatives it's just cost and convienence that determines the type of fertilizer used. Some bio crops do require little or no fertilizer. If we just added 5% biofuel to existing fuel sources it'd save millions of barrels a year. Wants really save? Try upping mileage to 50mpg. Can't be done? I'll call BS on that one. They made cars in the 70s that better than 35 mpg, I owned one, used but I owned one. Hybrids can get that without recharging and rechargables can get radically more. That'd cut our fuel usage down by half. Gee then biofuels are suddenly contributing 10% of our needs. Battery technology is already good enough for easily 90% of our needs so try that number on for size, suddenly biofuels could largely replace oil with current technology. Can't drive your monster SUVs? My heart bleeds.
Stick Ron Paul's brain inside Obama's head and you'd have a super candidate. It's not insulting Obama's intelligence the man is extremely intelligent but I'm not hearing a lot of reform ideas come from him. They blew off Ron Paul as the funny old guy but if you had Obama saying the same things he'd be the young guy with new fresh ideas. Hillary is a left wing Bush with a brain and McCain wants to win Nam. We need fresh blood but we also need fresh ideas about how to fix this mess.
Isn't what he's doing effectively returning the power from the drag brake, the generator, into system? It's just a form or hybrid motor and the only net affect would be increasing the motor speed not the output energy. Stick another drag brake/generator on the system and see what happens. Does it produce more power than the first generator or as I'd bet less? Conservation of energy says inspite of the speed he's loosing energy somewhere. Remember it's not the speed of the motor but the torque that's going to generate the electricity. You can have a 20,000 rpm spinning device that can't generate enough power to light a light bulb if there's so little torque that a small generator can slow it to a standstill. This almost seems like a magic trick more than a perpetual motion machine. The genius of magic tricks is they are often so obvious no one sees the trick. Gee feeding the power back into the motor makes it go faster, but they are missing the point that you are loosing torque in the process so the potential power generated is being cut not increased.
Trolls are often on topic but are expressing unpopular opinions. I wish the mod was used strictly for those being obnoxious and not contributing to the discussion. "Troll" and "Flamebait" are at times used to shout down people with unpopular stances. Make a few posts supporting copyrights or speaking out against illegal downloading and see how fast you get trolled or flamebaited. People do at times get decent mods for making good arguments but the vast majority of times they'll be modded down.
I don't give my business partner access to all my files so now the border agents are demanding access to them. There's sensitive company information in the files. What's to stop some one from hacking their system and gaining access to my company's information? I keep certain machines off the internet to avoid any possibility of hacking, do they do the same? Let's say a border agent copies legally bought music from my MP3 player then posts it on the web, am I responsible since it was my responsibility to keep those files secure and off the net? There's a massive potential for abuse over and above the looking for embarassing photos on some one's hard drive. We aren't talking FBI or CIA here. Most agents are underpaid and poorly trained. There's still a lot of confusion about what's allowed on planes and there is a lot of abuse in body searches. If the agents are already getting their jollies from patting down well known actors then what are the odds they'll be digging through personal files looking for dirt?
I've lost hundreds of dollars hanging onto my 100% because of obnoxious buyers. I had one insist on overnighting a camera back to me after he couldn't figure out how to use it. I wound up refunding everything including the overnight charges. As part of that same sale two buyers in a row bailed out on me and Ebay tried to charge me both times. The first buyer didn't even respond after running up the sale price. The second guy claimed he didn't mean to bid eventhough he bid in the last 20 seconds of the sale. When I said I'd have to leave negative feedback he agreed to pay for it but then I wound up eating the overnight shipping when he whined about not being able to use the camera. I've had other problems with buyers as well as sellers but most of the trouble I've had was with buyers. Too many people get caught up in the excitement of bidding then don't want to go through with the purchase. It's not just odd collectables that get run up beyond what people are willing to pay it's often common items that aren't common to see on Ebay. I stopped selling through Ebay because it was too hard to keep my 100% and I hate dealing with Paypal. Also when Ebay made errors and overcharged me it took three months to get them to respond and refund the money.
Actually it's a realistic budget it's just not a traditional Maglev. It's more of a railgun that fires the train at a 100Gs then there's a big catcher's mit at the other end. There are a few bugs to work out involving rapid excelloration and sudden stopping but they feels they are solvable problems.
Kind of like the attempt in Kansas to declare the use of the "term one million years BC" as a religious hate crime since it shows religious intolerance. Like the "N" word the "M" word was very hurtful to the faithful given there was no one million years BC and there can't be a one million years AD since the Rapture is around the corner. When asked about one billion years the response was "now you're just being silly."
Still a hell of a coincidence and I have to say where is the info coming from that it's down for maintainence? Same claim was made in California when there was the power crisis. They just happen to schedule the down time to coincide so there was a shortage. If it was one cut cable and one down for service I wouldn't blink, four and Occam's Razor says there's more going on here than a one in a billion coincidence. The problem is if nothing major happens we may never know why service was interrupted but I'm having a hard time choking down the story that three cables were cut and one needed service power supply or not. It could be Iran messing with the internet or it could be the US since terrorist have used the internet far more successfully than the west for planning and propaganda. As I said unless there is an attack from one side or the other odds are we'll never know. It worries me because being an American I know Bush is desperate to attack Iran before he's out of office. I just hope and pray it's not related to that twisted goal. The world is going to breathe a massive sign of relief when that power drunk idiot is out of office. Not trying to flame I think that's an obvious fact. It's hard to spin his actions any other way.
The real point should be that there won't be 7 billion shitting on the planet no matter what we do the issue is how many will be alive in a 100 years. Everyone agrees we passed sustainable population levels in the early 80s. That's nearly a billion that will drop off the population levels no matter what we do. Now add in the effects of global warming, severely limited water supplies and such, and we're likely to see the population drop 3+ billion. We throw over a trillion at a war because a few thousand die in an attack and we hesitant to spend significant sums when we face billions dying. Most will die in the second half of the century so it's largely being ignored. There is evidence that we could see 20'+ increases in sea levels over the next 100 years. If the headlines tomorrow were "all coastal cities lost to floods, 3 billion die of starvation in the last 24 hours", people would be left in shock and shaken to their core. Tell them this is likely to happen over the next 100 years and there seems to be little reaction. It's like racing towards a brick wall in a car. Hit the brakes now and we damage a fender, wait a few years and we total the car. We're still 100 yards from the wall so why brake? Well we're moving at 100mph so seconds count. The wall seems to be so far in the distance people don't really care and feel there's still time they just don't realize we're already too late to avoid damage we just have nearly 7 billion people in the car and the question is how many will survive the collision if we wait longer to apply the brakes.
Then obviously we should be devoting the funds to stopping Earth's rotation. With the US facing the Sun 24/7 we get 24 hours of solar power and more hours for crops to grow for biofuels. It'd also save us a fortune in lighting at night and allow for an unlimited work day. Seems like a win win.
I still vote Flamebait and suggest you reread the parent. Apple has been the target of the mod squad for a lot of years. This whole flame war didn't start with iPhone. Everyone has complained endlessly about Apple computers because there's is little or nothing you can customize and you can't scratch build them. Here's a 411, who cares? There's an ocean of scratch built options so why does it drive the geek crowd so crazy that Apple won't knuckle under and open up? They build solid elegant hardware that runs great out of the box. I just bought two new PC systems, one from Alienware and one from XI Computers. The Alienware took some configuring because of XP not anything Alienware did so it was still a half hour before I was installing software. The XI machine was defective and after a month of screwing around I had to return it and they are building a scratch system. The point is I bought a Mac 18 months ago for an editing system. I took it out of the box, plugged it in and was installing software five minutes after I plugged it in. I've never had a hardware problem and few crashes other than specific software which also crash on my PCs. The iPhone is meant to work the same way. There's a huge number of smart phones out there if you want to tinker or go with another service. The parent did an excellent job of pointing out why they did the AT&T deal. Do I like them? Hell no but it was the ONLY company that would play ball. If Apple wants to expand when their contract is up I'm guessing a lot more carriers will be interested since they have blown expectations out of the water. My only hesitation is there are several features that strangely got left out like movie clips that I was hoping would have been added this spring. The keynote was surprisingly sparce on the iPhone front so I guess not much is going to change until next year so I may wait another year and get my current contract nearer the end before I switch. Just because a product isn't open doesn't make it evil. Apple has always done business this way but it allows them to make superior products rather than the chaos that exists in the PC world. I have endless headaches with ALL my PCs. My Mac just keeps chugging away with probably 5% of the trouble that I have with the best of my PCs. iPhones were built to do what they do and well over a million people seem to like what they do. Sure a lot have unlocked them but this doesn't mean Apple has to do anything. Also if their profits are based on kick backs from AT&T, yes a $500 phone can still be sold at a loss, then they have every right to do updates that cut off unbundled iPhones. We aren't talking digital rights here, if they don't make a profit they go out of business. Would people whine less if they sold iPhones unbundled for $750 with some features crippled?
I'm not supposed to watch the Super Bowl if I have a 56" TV? Got it. Anything else they don't want me to watch? Not sure how my not watching helps their ratings but I'm happy to help in this case.
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There's a British company trying the same thing the article is confusing but the system essentially spilts off the hydrogen inside the vehicle then stores the carbon from hydrocarbon fuel. They reprocess the stored CO2 back into a hydrocarbon fuel so it's a closed loop system. It's more a way to store hydrogen as a hydrocarbon then recycle the storage medium, the carbon. It's in no way a fuel source it's a storage medium. ALL hydrogen based systems are storage mediums not fuel sources. Hydrogen is too friendly about combining with other elements so the hydrogen always needs to be spilt off to use as fuel. I take it you can store a lot of hydrogen safely this way if the system can ever be perfected but the real point is there's little difference from an electric vehicle other than faster refueling. Because of transfer losses I have to believe it's less efficent than straight electric. Even hydrogen cars are generally all electric so the hydrogen largely replaces batteries. Because of all the technical problems it seems focusing on improving batteries would be a better solution. There's no proof this system is in anyway practical let alone the technology still doesn't exist.
It's amazing how many things that have been considered vaporware for so many years are coming it this year. Obviously most have still not sent he light of day but we are starting to get release dates. I always thought Spore would come out in the next 12 months but a few old friends like Duke Nuke Em Forever will have a bitter sweet edge to it. There needs to be a little mourning for some of the more long lived bits of vaporware. I just hope they both live up to expectation so it can be a positive thing them being released and not just a let's get it over with and get on with our lives event.
And the point being so the Studios can keep ALL the money? Or is it so every fan with a video camera can release their own version of LOTR? Why should everyone EXCEPT the author's family benefit?
You must be new. That's what we do around here...pointless debate.
I can't wait for that patent filing. Microsoft's new NAG security system.
It covers the "accidental" erasure of orders by the President of the company.
coal is the greenest fuel because it requires the least processing. The point is corn sucks as a fuel source and sugar cane requires vast amounts of land and fertilizer. Biofuels will never replace oil. Here's a big shocker, so what? We've never run our houses on one source of electricity so why should we expect to run our cars that way? Biofuels are a great way to offset oil use until something like electrics can take over. Just a reminder hydrogen isn't a fuel source it's a storage medium and it has a really low energy density so dont hold your breath on that one. Diesels can be run on blends of biodiesel and regular diesel and cars can handle alcohol blends without modification, flex fuel cars can run up to a 100%. Where's the problem? Biodiesel can also be made from waste products and there are processes for turning grasses and such into alcohol with far less energy than corn. Even the worst biodiesel can't be as bad as any fossil fuel simply because fossil fuels ALWAYS contribute to CO2 where as biofuels at least part of the year store CO2. Petroleum based fertilizer? Bad idea. Believe it or not there are alternatives it's just cost and convienence that determines the type of fertilizer used. Some bio crops do require little or no fertilizer. If we just added 5% biofuel to existing fuel sources it'd save millions of barrels a year. Wants really save? Try upping mileage to 50mpg. Can't be done? I'll call BS on that one. They made cars in the 70s that better than 35 mpg, I owned one, used but I owned one. Hybrids can get that without recharging and rechargables can get radically more. That'd cut our fuel usage down by half. Gee then biofuels are suddenly contributing 10% of our needs. Battery technology is already good enough for easily 90% of our needs so try that number on for size, suddenly biofuels could largely replace oil with current technology. Can't drive your monster SUVs? My heart bleeds.
Stick Ron Paul's brain inside Obama's head and you'd have a super candidate. It's not insulting Obama's intelligence the man is extremely intelligent but I'm not hearing a lot of reform ideas come from him. They blew off Ron Paul as the funny old guy but if you had Obama saying the same things he'd be the young guy with new fresh ideas. Hillary is a left wing Bush with a brain and McCain wants to win Nam. We need fresh blood but we also need fresh ideas about how to fix this mess.
Isn't what he's doing effectively returning the power from the drag brake, the generator, into system? It's just a form or hybrid motor and the only net affect would be increasing the motor speed not the output energy. Stick another drag brake/generator on the system and see what happens. Does it produce more power than the first generator or as I'd bet less? Conservation of energy says inspite of the speed he's loosing energy somewhere. Remember it's not the speed of the motor but the torque that's going to generate the electricity. You can have a 20,000 rpm spinning device that can't generate enough power to light a light bulb if there's so little torque that a small generator can slow it to a standstill. This almost seems like a magic trick more than a perpetual motion machine. The genius of magic tricks is they are often so obvious no one sees the trick. Gee feeding the power back into the motor makes it go faster, but they are missing the point that you are loosing torque in the process so the potential power generated is being cut not increased.
Refer to it as the "The Time of the Great Kegger".
Trolls are often on topic but are expressing unpopular opinions. I wish the mod was used strictly for those being obnoxious and not contributing to the discussion. "Troll" and "Flamebait" are at times used to shout down people with unpopular stances. Make a few posts supporting copyrights or speaking out against illegal downloading and see how fast you get trolled or flamebaited. People do at times get decent mods for making good arguments but the vast majority of times they'll be modded down.
I don't give my business partner access to all my files so now the border agents are demanding access to them. There's sensitive company information in the files. What's to stop some one from hacking their system and gaining access to my company's information? I keep certain machines off the internet to avoid any possibility of hacking, do they do the same? Let's say a border agent copies legally bought music from my MP3 player then posts it on the web, am I responsible since it was my responsibility to keep those files secure and off the net? There's a massive potential for abuse over and above the looking for embarassing photos on some one's hard drive. We aren't talking FBI or CIA here. Most agents are underpaid and poorly trained. There's still a lot of confusion about what's allowed on planes and there is a lot of abuse in body searches. If the agents are already getting their jollies from patting down well known actors then what are the odds they'll be digging through personal files looking for dirt?
I've lost hundreds of dollars hanging onto my 100% because of obnoxious buyers. I had one insist on overnighting a camera back to me after he couldn't figure out how to use it. I wound up refunding everything including the overnight charges. As part of that same sale two buyers in a row bailed out on me and Ebay tried to charge me both times. The first buyer didn't even respond after running up the sale price. The second guy claimed he didn't mean to bid eventhough he bid in the last 20 seconds of the sale. When I said I'd have to leave negative feedback he agreed to pay for it but then I wound up eating the overnight shipping when he whined about not being able to use the camera. I've had other problems with buyers as well as sellers but most of the trouble I've had was with buyers. Too many people get caught up in the excitement of bidding then don't want to go through with the purchase. It's not just odd collectables that get run up beyond what people are willing to pay it's often common items that aren't common to see on Ebay. I stopped selling through Ebay because it was too hard to keep my 100% and I hate dealing with Paypal. Also when Ebay made errors and overcharged me it took three months to get them to respond and refund the money.
Why do I feel a hyperspace bipass coming on?
They're pretty but having to wipe them down with Windex once a week is a pain. Oh, also they don't seem to live more than a week.
Actually it's a realistic budget it's just not a traditional Maglev. It's more of a railgun that fires the train at a 100Gs then there's a big catcher's mit at the other end. There are a few bugs to work out involving rapid excelloration and sudden stopping but they feels they are solvable problems.
It's coming out exclusively on Playstation 4.
Kind of like the attempt in Kansas to declare the use of the "term one million years BC" as a religious hate crime since it shows religious intolerance. Like the "N" word the "M" word was very hurtful to the faithful given there was no one million years BC and there can't be a one million years AD since the Rapture is around the corner. When asked about one billion years the response was "now you're just being silly."
The really creepy part is the dog is still alive he's just too old to jump down.
1 Uninstall Firefox
2 Uninstall iTunes and any non Windows players
3 Uninstall Open Office
4 Update Vista
5 Max Firewall settings
Still a hell of a coincidence and I have to say where is the info coming from that it's down for maintainence? Same claim was made in California when there was the power crisis. They just happen to schedule the down time to coincide so there was a shortage. If it was one cut cable and one down for service I wouldn't blink, four and Occam's Razor says there's more going on here than a one in a billion coincidence. The problem is if nothing major happens we may never know why service was interrupted but I'm having a hard time choking down the story that three cables were cut and one needed service power supply or not. It could be Iran messing with the internet or it could be the US since terrorist have used the internet far more successfully than the west for planning and propaganda. As I said unless there is an attack from one side or the other odds are we'll never know. It worries me because being an American I know Bush is desperate to attack Iran before he's out of office. I just hope and pray it's not related to that twisted goal. The world is going to breathe a massive sign of relief when that power drunk idiot is out of office. Not trying to flame I think that's an obvious fact. It's hard to spin his actions any other way.
The real point should be that there won't be 7 billion shitting on the planet no matter what we do the issue is how many will be alive in a 100 years. Everyone agrees we passed sustainable population levels in the early 80s. That's nearly a billion that will drop off the population levels no matter what we do. Now add in the effects of global warming, severely limited water supplies and such, and we're likely to see the population drop 3+ billion. We throw over a trillion at a war because a few thousand die in an attack and we hesitant to spend significant sums when we face billions dying. Most will die in the second half of the century so it's largely being ignored. There is evidence that we could see 20'+ increases in sea levels over the next 100 years. If the headlines tomorrow were "all coastal cities lost to floods, 3 billion die of starvation in the last 24 hours", people would be left in shock and shaken to their core. Tell them this is likely to happen over the next 100 years and there seems to be little reaction. It's like racing towards a brick wall in a car. Hit the brakes now and we damage a fender, wait a few years and we total the car. We're still 100 yards from the wall so why brake? Well we're moving at 100mph so seconds count. The wall seems to be so far in the distance people don't really care and feel there's still time they just don't realize we're already too late to avoid damage we just have nearly 7 billion people in the car and the question is how many will survive the collision if we wait longer to apply the brakes.
Then obviously we should be devoting the funds to stopping Earth's rotation. With the US facing the Sun 24/7 we get 24 hours of solar power and more hours for crops to grow for biofuels. It'd also save us a fortune in lighting at night and allow for an unlimited work day. Seems like a win win.
I still vote Flamebait and suggest you reread the parent. Apple has been the target of the mod squad for a lot of years. This whole flame war didn't start with iPhone. Everyone has complained endlessly about Apple computers because there's is little or nothing you can customize and you can't scratch build them. Here's a 411, who cares? There's an ocean of scratch built options so why does it drive the geek crowd so crazy that Apple won't knuckle under and open up? They build solid elegant hardware that runs great out of the box. I just bought two new PC systems, one from Alienware and one from XI Computers. The Alienware took some configuring because of XP not anything Alienware did so it was still a half hour before I was installing software. The XI machine was defective and after a month of screwing around I had to return it and they are building a scratch system. The point is I bought a Mac 18 months ago for an editing system. I took it out of the box, plugged it in and was installing software five minutes after I plugged it in. I've never had a hardware problem and few crashes other than specific software which also crash on my PCs. The iPhone is meant to work the same way. There's a huge number of smart phones out there if you want to tinker or go with another service. The parent did an excellent job of pointing out why they did the AT&T deal. Do I like them? Hell no but it was the ONLY company that would play ball. If Apple wants to expand when their contract is up I'm guessing a lot more carriers will be interested since they have blown expectations out of the water. My only hesitation is there are several features that strangely got left out like movie clips that I was hoping would have been added this spring. The keynote was surprisingly sparce on the iPhone front so I guess not much is going to change until next year so I may wait another year and get my current contract nearer the end before I switch. Just because a product isn't open doesn't make it evil. Apple has always done business this way but it allows them to make superior products rather than the chaos that exists in the PC world. I have endless headaches with ALL my PCs. My Mac just keeps chugging away with probably 5% of the trouble that I have with the best of my PCs. iPhones were built to do what they do and well over a million people seem to like what they do. Sure a lot have unlocked them but this doesn't mean Apple has to do anything. Also if their profits are based on kick backs from AT&T, yes a $500 phone can still be sold at a loss, then they have every right to do updates that cut off unbundled iPhones. We aren't talking digital rights here, if they don't make a profit they go out of business. Would people whine less if they sold iPhones unbundled for $750 with some features crippled?
I'm not supposed to watch the Super Bowl if I have a 56" TV? Got it. Anything else they don't want me to watch? Not sure how my not watching helps their ratings but I'm happy to help in this case.