Among the software developers the better paid ones are the ones with some skill like PhD in computational geometry or machine learning or robotics or something and the software, usually C++, acts as a force multiplier.
Verizon later clarified that it meant it will use a different fake icon for its phones. "When it comes to misleading the customers, we are second to none. The AT&T is a mere baby compared to veterans like us".
Earlier coal fired plants were called base load plants and gas turbines were called the peak load plants. But now that terminology is not being used. Base load plants are nuclear or gas fired plants that run continuously at very high percent of the rated capacity. These are coal, gas or nuclear. Peakers can go down to 0% or up to 100% depending on load. These are mostly natural gas fired. Some are hydro.
The key word is path. We're not there yet, and i'll be a decade at least, IMHOP, before batteries play a significant role in peaking or transportation. I do agree it is the future, the question is how fast and what companies will survive?
BMW Porsche etc are very proud of their performance engines. Toyota, Honda are proud of their smooth ultra reliable, efficient engines. They are significantly ahead in these areas. It is their crown jewels, so to speak. Making a transition where the crown jewels needed to be thrown away would be very very hard for them. Almost like Kodak having to give up on chemical film technology.
Glorified coach builders like Jaguar, (it actually started out as a coach builder), might transition better. If the current chiefs with large ICE empire under them keep insinuating and shoehorning their division into every product the company plans, that company will die. If the top management is strong and sensible and allow the dead technology to be by passed, that company will survive, thrive.
He was probably reading it too fast and confused it with energy storage for solar PV to replace ALL fossil fuel power plants. That is also possible, but several decades away. The existing powerplants have decades of life. They will be replaced by Solar/Wind through attrition.
No new coal powered plants since 2014.
No new gas fired peak load plants after 2020.
No new base load plants after 2030.
Last gas fired base load plant dies, may be in 2045 or 2055.
It would take the entire planet's output of batteries for many years to backup just the CA grid and even then it wouldn't handle 2 cloudy days in a row. I love EVs and am on my second one. But I'm still an engineer who can do math so I know their limitations.
I agree with you on this. It would take a decade of production capacity to store 30 minutes of peak electricity usage. Peak usage= 1 TW. 30 min= 500 GWh. At 40 Wh/ year it would take about 12 years!
But, I see it as a plus, not a minus. The cost effectiveness of batteries to replace gas plants has been demonstrated. There is demand. So the production will follow. There will be investment, there will be battery factories. They will build batteries. Why? It costs same as gas plants. And the cost is falling. Batteries react in milliseconds. Gas plants react in minutes.
PG&E is shuttering three gas powered peak load powerplants. And replacing them with a 1.2 GWh pack (300 MW x 4 hours) and a 0.7 GWh (175 MW x 4 hours). The bigger project is not Tesla. The smaller one is Tesla. Already Tesla has demonstrated grid scale batteries in South Australia.
Monroe is still talking about the tear down of an early 2018 model. Battery side there are small improvements. But on the body/assembly it became significantly better in May, (my car) and then even better in July/Aug.
You are right. I was careless, in using HP instead of acceleration times. Anyway BEV is a better product than ICEV. If Tesla does not make the better one, others will. That is is the important thing.
Batteries are replacing peak load electricity generation plants. Battery cars are replacing gasoline cars. We are on the right path.
It is good to have competition and choice. The minimalistic interior is not everyone's cup of tea.
Also all these self driving etc are not needed for the base level cars. All those 8 cameras and 18 radars
are too much for a regular run about. Yes, we need a cheaper alternative to Tesla, and I am glad
they are coming up.
My enemy is the ICE, not BEV from other makers. Other Tesla supporters may or may not agree.
But that is my stand.
It is all in the trade offs. One can add some extra cells mark cells going bad, like the hard disk drivers mark bad sectors. But, it is going to add weight and reduce over all range of the vehicle. So you need to strike a balance between weight, cost and durability. Different cell makers, and pack makers will strike different balances.
Five six years down the line, there is going to be another industry to unpack, salvage still good cells and create refurbished batteries from salvaged cells. Down graded cells might be repacked into less demanding applications like power wall.
Face the fact buddy, the ICE cars can not perform as well as BEVs.
The only saving grace for the ICE car is, it can be refueled in 10 minutes for 400 miles of range. There is no other winning point for the gasoline cars.
You can argue that is a show stopper and continue to buy ICE cars and eat the dust of my wake.
You thought all Tesla drivers are tree hugging fanatics under the save the world delusion. I am not responsible for your imaginations. I have hard enough time rationalizing my own thoughts wishes and desires. I could do very well without having rationalize your thoughts about others!
Hope all the congresscritters on both parties get spam calls on their cell phones, IRS scammers threatening them with immediate arrest, spoofed caller id calls pitching credit score repair....
Tesla is cheaper than any ICE car in the > 450 HP range. Model S and X. Model 3 LR is cheaper than any car in the 290 HP+ range. Model 3 SR will be cheaper than any car in the 220HP+ range.
Don't feel bad, industry bigwigs whose job it is to anticipate the technology have failed to see it. So you don't have to feel bad, feel free to change your mind and drive a BEV.
You are a 10 year reader with 2^8 +5 insightfuls, and 35th level achievements. You owe it to yourself to test drive a Tesla. Test drive is free, can you imagine getting a test drive as easily with a 700 HP SUV from any other car maker? Test drive a Model X. what do you have to lose, other than unreasonable prejudice?
Usually green products are more expensive and involve compromises. So it is difficult to sell the green tech, to make see the benefits of going green and accept the loss in convenience or cash or both.
Full battery cars hit the trifecta. They are greener, not more expensive, and better. The acceleration and low CG are just the beginning. two, three or four independent motors which can rotate at different RPMs, with time lag between them controlled by computers, torque vectoring.... We are bare scratching the surface of handling superiority of BEV.
I wish Tesla will get a good chunk of the future profits to be made by BEVs, I am sympathetic to it for taking the risk and betting the farm on it. But even if that does not happen, and this century Tesla is also remembered, like the last century's, as a "great vision, but poor execution", the world will be a better place.
They can figure out how many people a document is shared with and filter out the dumb spammers.
Then it is an arms race. All shared documents are associated with accounts. They can throttle down how much sharing you can do to young accounts. For older accounts they can build links of shared documents and shared editing history. With some amount of AI thrown, they can cut down a lot of spam.
Gmail is pretty good in filtering out spam. Google phone is pretty good in marking incoming calls as possible spam. So they will probably have a more sophisticated way than what a random guy like me posts after two minutes of thinking.
Apple developed the technology to get mediocre products made cheaply in China to be marketed as a premium product. Pollution stayed in China. Profits stayed in US of A.
If China figures out how to make people pay premium prices for its crappy products we are doomed!
It is time we replace Sam Walton as the ultimate traitor of the USA, Benedict Arnold is nothing compared to this rat. Exported the manufacturing technology, taught them how to make products that could be sold in USA. Single handedly changed the playing field and made every retailer to go to China. Decimated the manufacturing base of the USA.
Come on, when we take care of our children, or a wasp stuns, but does not kell a caterpiller before laying its egg on it for its young to feast on, it is not done with the ability to recognize the genetically close relatives. Primates have been taking care of their babies long before we learnt to reason or to plan it.
Whatever behavior, with forethought or not, with nervous system or not, with mobility and motor functions or not, that helped one set of alleles to survive better than others out competed the others.
The job of writing press releases claiming robots are not taking jobs away is still being done manually. Robots are likely to become sentient, calculating and cunning soon. So that is likely to be the last job to be robotized.
Didn't they use jammers to prevent people in their conference halls from getting wireless data and thus they could be charged for WiFi?
Suing Marriott will hurt the present stock owners. Need to put a few executives who approved and supervised the data centers, even if they have resigned from the company, in jail. Only then they will take security seriously. As it stands now, they cash in and leave before the shit hits the fan making bag holders out of shareholders.
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Among the software developers the better paid ones are the ones with some skill like PhD in computational geometry or machine learning or robotics or something and the software, usually C++, acts as a force multiplier.
Why isn't there a hot key to override any misbehaving app and give control back to the user, to launch task killer?
Verizon later clarified that it meant it will use a different fake icon for its phones. "When it comes to misleading the customers, we are second to none. The AT&T is a mere baby compared to veterans like us".
95 Floppy Disks would store less than a quarter of a Gig.
Earlier coal fired plants were called base load plants and gas turbines were called the peak load plants. But now that terminology is not being used. Base load plants are nuclear or gas fired plants that run continuously at very high percent of the rated capacity. These are coal, gas or nuclear. Peakers can go down to 0% or up to 100% depending on load. These are mostly natural gas fired. Some are hydro.
The key word is path. We're not there yet, and i'll be a decade at least, IMHOP, before batteries play a significant role in peaking or transportation. I do agree it is the future, the question is how fast and what companies will survive?
BMW Porsche etc are very proud of their performance engines. Toyota, Honda are proud of their smooth ultra reliable, efficient engines. They are significantly ahead in these areas. It is their crown jewels, so to speak. Making a transition where the crown jewels needed to be thrown away would be very very hard for them. Almost like Kodak having to give up on chemical film technology.
Glorified coach builders like Jaguar, (it actually started out as a coach builder), might transition better. If the current chiefs with large ICE empire under them keep insinuating and shoehorning their division into every product the company plans, that company will die. If the top management is strong and sensible and allow the dead technology to be by passed, that company will survive, thrive.
No new coal powered plants since 2014.
No new gas fired peak load plants after 2020.
No new base load plants after 2030.
Last gas fired base load plant dies, may be in 2045 or 2055.
production capacity is 40 GWh/year. typo corrected
It would take the entire planet's output of batteries for many years to backup just the CA grid and even then it wouldn't handle 2 cloudy days in a row. I love EVs and am on my second one. But I'm still an engineer who can do math so I know their limitations.
I agree with you on this. It would take a decade of production capacity to store 30 minutes of peak electricity usage. Peak usage= 1 TW. 30 min= 500 GWh. At 40 Wh/ year it would take about 12 years!
But, I see it as a plus, not a minus. The cost effectiveness of batteries to replace gas plants has been demonstrated. There is demand. So the production will follow. There will be investment, there will be battery factories. They will build batteries. Why? It costs same as gas plants. And the cost is falling. Batteries react in milliseconds. Gas plants react in minutes.
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Monroe is still talking about the tear down of an early 2018 model. Battery side there are small improvements. But on the body/assembly it became significantly better in May, (my car) and then even better in July/Aug.
Batteries are replacing peak load electricity generation plants. Battery cars are replacing gasoline cars. We are on the right path.
Also all these self driving etc are not needed for the base level cars. All those 8 cameras and 18 radars are too much for a regular run about. Yes, we need a cheaper alternative to Tesla, and I am glad they are coming up.
My enemy is the ICE, not BEV from other makers. Other Tesla supporters may or may not agree. But that is my stand.
Five six years down the line, there is going to be another industry to unpack, salvage still good cells and create refurbished batteries from salvaged cells. Down graded cells might be repacked into less demanding applications like power wall.
Rei has level 45 achievements, 2^4 submitted stories. Way better than your record of 0 stories submitted. 2^10 +5 insightfuls too.
Face the fact buddy, the ICE cars can not perform as well as BEVs.
The only saving grace for the ICE car is, it can be refueled in 10 minutes for 400 miles of range. There is no other winning point for the gasoline cars.
You can argue that is a show stopper and continue to buy ICE cars and eat the dust of my wake.
You thought all Tesla drivers are tree hugging fanatics under the save the world delusion. I am not responsible for your imaginations. I have hard enough time rationalizing my own thoughts wishes and desires. I could do very well without having rationalize your thoughts about others!
They might eventually do something about it.
Don't feel bad, industry bigwigs whose job it is to anticipate the technology have failed to see it. So you don't have to feel bad, feel free to change your mind and drive a BEV.
You are a 10 year reader with 2^8 +5 insightfuls, and 35th level achievements. You owe it to yourself to test drive a Tesla. Test drive is free, can you imagine getting a test drive as easily with a 700 HP SUV from any other car maker? Test drive a Model X. what do you have to lose, other than unreasonable prejudice?
Full battery cars hit the trifecta. They are greener, not more expensive, and better. The acceleration and low CG are just the beginning. two, three or four independent motors which can rotate at different RPMs, with time lag between them controlled by computers, torque vectoring.... We are bare scratching the surface of handling superiority of BEV.
I wish Tesla will get a good chunk of the future profits to be made by BEVs, I am sympathetic to it for taking the risk and betting the farm on it. But even if that does not happen, and this century Tesla is also remembered, like the last century's, as a "great vision, but poor execution", the world will be a better place.
Then it is an arms race. All shared documents are associated with accounts. They can throttle down how much sharing you can do to young accounts. For older accounts they can build links of shared documents and shared editing history. With some amount of AI thrown, they can cut down a lot of spam.
Gmail is pretty good in filtering out spam. Google phone is pretty good in marking incoming calls as possible spam. So they will probably have a more sophisticated way than what a random guy like me posts after two minutes of thinking.
If China figures out how to make people pay premium prices for its crappy products we are doomed!
It is time we replace Sam Walton as the ultimate traitor of the USA, Benedict Arnold is nothing compared to this rat. Exported the manufacturing technology, taught them how to make products that could be sold in USA. Single handedly changed the playing field and made every retailer to go to China. Decimated the manufacturing base of the USA.
Whatever behavior, with forethought or not, with nervous system or not, with mobility and motor functions or not, that helped one set of alleles to survive better than others out competed the others.
The job of writing press releases claiming robots are not taking jobs away is still being done manually. Robots are likely to become sentient, calculating and cunning soon. So that is likely to be the last job to be robotized.
Suing Marriott will hurt the present stock owners. Need to put a few executives who approved and supervised the data centers, even if they have resigned from the company, in jail. Only then they will take security seriously. As it stands now, they cash in and leave before the shit hits the fan making bag holders out of shareholders.