Try looking at his website on www.archive.org. Krvaric had it blocked within a few days of the story on rawstory being picked up and talked about on some local San Diego forums. There are also old pics of Krvaric as Strider that are clearly the same guy.
After he founded Fairlight, his "legitimate" business was to sell devices to make illegal copies of games.
There are strong indications that at a minimum he maintained ties to Fairlight until very recently, if he wasn't actively involved.
What I am much more interested in is how an immigrant born in Sweden of immigrant Croatian parents, becomes the head of the Republican party in the 7ty largest city in the US only 4 years after being a naturalized citizen. The man has been eligible to vote in exactly 1 presidential election. There is a much bigger story here than whether you think it was cool or not that he dabbled (at the very least) in the warez scene.
I checked out the MP3.com bankruptcy auction a few years back. The stuff they had in there was a mind-blowing waste of money. Tons of the best new equipment, hideously expensive (and ugly) interior decorating including an honest to god bordello for visiting musicians.
In one of the oak-paneled developer conference rooms with 360-degree white boards and projectors and other gadgets galore, somebody had written the note:
"Robertson + $$ = stupidity"
It's like saying that motorcycles are useless because you can't ride them much of the year in Alaska, or that large ships are useless because they can't cross the Mojave.
"The soloution, then, is to rework the transport infrastructure so you are railing cargo in containers for any distance greater than @100+ miles. Then you can power the *trains* with electricity. That is OldTech. The main reason the electrification was pulled out on the railroad from Chicago to Seattle, USA was that the company that owned the line was doing poorly in the 1970s recession."
Um, aren't most current trains already electric (using diesel generators)?!?!?
http://travel.howstuffworks.com/diesel-locomotive. htm
Wow, where to even begin.
Right now there is a net reduction in CO2 emissions using dirty coal + BEV vs ICE. Read some of these reports, and then recheck your numbers: http://www.ilea.org/downloads/MazzaHammerschlag.pd fhttp://evworld.com/library/CanadaFuelCycle.pdfhttp://www.epri.com/event_attachments/2093_(16)Duv allEmissionsGlobal.pdf
The benefit is not as large as you would like for current dirty coal, but it does exist now, and reduces our dependance on foreign oil. An existing BEV will actually get cleaner over time as dirty coal is replaced with something cleaner (like clean coal!). How much have we invested in oil wars over the last 20 years?
Only roughly half of the power in the US is coal anyway, and of that not all is dirty coal. In california we have very clean power (primarily NG, nuclear, hydro and wind). EVs would make a huge difference in net pollution.
There is a large unused off-peak capacity that would be sufficient until about 20-25% of all cars where electric. That would not happen over night, and gives plenty of time to upgrade the grid over 10-20 years as electric cars gain traction. We need to improve our electric grid anyway, so that is a good thing. I would much prefer investing in our electric grid than a whole new infrastructure for something else like hydrogen.
BEVs are the ultimate flex-fuel vehicles, because they will run on the electricity produced by anything: Coal, NG, nuclear, solar, wind, bio. Whatever becomes viable in the future, your car could run using it. 100% flexibility. No foreign oil. Today.
Current hybrids have it backwards, and at some point will change. The cars should be pure electric and then add a generator for extended range or off-grid use. Check out what Mitsubishi is doing (http://www.gizmag.com/go/4666/). Very cool stuff. If you are wondering whether electric works for semi trucks, just step up and see how a train works. The ultimate hybrid, and they do it the correct way (unlike the Prius), diesel generator powering electric drive.
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Try looking at his website on www.archive.org. Krvaric had it blocked within a few days of the story on rawstory being picked up and talked about on some local San Diego forums. There are also old pics of Krvaric as Strider that are clearly the same guy. After he founded Fairlight, his "legitimate" business was to sell devices to make illegal copies of games. There are strong indications that at a minimum he maintained ties to Fairlight until very recently, if he wasn't actively involved. What I am much more interested in is how an immigrant born in Sweden of immigrant Croatian parents, becomes the head of the Republican party in the 7ty largest city in the US only 4 years after being a naturalized citizen. The man has been eligible to vote in exactly 1 presidential election. There is a much bigger story here than whether you think it was cool or not that he dabbled (at the very least) in the warez scene.
I checked out the MP3.com bankruptcy auction a few years back. The stuff they had in there was a mind-blowing waste of money. Tons of the best new equipment, hideously expensive (and ugly) interior decorating including an honest to god bordello for visiting musicians. In one of the oak-paneled developer conference rooms with 360-degree white boards and projectors and other gadgets galore, somebody had written the note: "Robertson + $$ = stupidity"
"Nor are superconductors readily available."
Not exactly true...
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060725/20060725005221.html ?.v=1
It's like saying that motorcycles are useless because you can't ride them much of the year in Alaska, or that large ships are useless because they can't cross the Mojave.
"The soloution, then, is to rework the transport infrastructure so you are railing cargo in containers for any distance greater than @100+ miles. Then you can power the *trains* with electricity. That is OldTech. The main reason the electrification was pulled out on the railroad from Chicago to Seattle, USA was that the company that owned the line was doing poorly in the 1970s recession." Um, aren't most current trains already electric (using diesel generators)?!?!? http://travel.howstuffworks.com/diesel-locomotive. htm
Wow, where to even begin. Right now there is a net reduction in CO2 emissions using dirty coal + BEV vs ICE. Read some of these reports, and then recheck your numbers: http://www.ilea.org/downloads/MazzaHammerschlag.pd f http://evworld.com/library/CanadaFuelCycle.pdf http://www.epri.com/event_attachments/2093_(16)Duv allEmissionsGlobal.pdf
The benefit is not as large as you would like for current dirty coal, but it does exist now, and reduces our dependance on foreign oil. An existing BEV will actually get cleaner over time as dirty coal is replaced with something cleaner (like clean coal!). How much have we invested in oil wars over the last 20 years?
Only roughly half of the power in the US is coal anyway, and of that not all is dirty coal. In california we have very clean power (primarily NG, nuclear, hydro and wind). EVs would make a huge difference in net pollution.
There is a large unused off-peak capacity that would be sufficient until about 20-25% of all cars where electric. That would not happen over night, and gives plenty of time to upgrade the grid over 10-20 years as electric cars gain traction. We need to improve our electric grid anyway, so that is a good thing. I would much prefer investing in our electric grid than a whole new infrastructure for something else like hydrogen.
BEVs are the ultimate flex-fuel vehicles, because they will run on the electricity produced by anything: Coal, NG, nuclear, solar, wind, bio. Whatever becomes viable in the future, your car could run using it. 100% flexibility. No foreign oil. Today.
Current hybrids have it backwards, and at some point will change. The cars should be pure electric and then add a generator for extended range or off-grid use. Check out what Mitsubishi is doing (http://www.gizmag.com/go/4666/). Very cool stuff. If you are wondering whether electric works for semi trucks, just step up and see how a train works. The ultimate hybrid, and they do it the correct way (unlike the Prius), diesel generator powering electric drive.