...we wake up from this corn ethanol farce. Corn ethanol hasnt gotten close to breaking even and isnt expected to do so. Meanwhile viable alternatives like sweet and brown potatoes which can yeild just as much ethanol as sugar cane per volume are given the blind eye. Potatoes grow easilly, have few enemies, and require next to no fertilizers.
I would really like to see automakers push more diesel engines in America. Bioiesel production per energy breaks even with nearly every method. It also has greater energy than gasoline per volume, unlike ethanol which has about 2/3's as much as gasoline.
Ultimately the defining factor of energy infrastructure is the technology itself and demand for innovation of that technology. Today, automakers are focused on riding out low compression engines to the very end instead of focusing on more efficient and powerful diesel technology. But as already pointed out, it was never about energy independance, but rather kickbacks to the agriculture business. So we will not see soon a Manhattan project for more efficient engines, nor will we see the same fervor put into biodiesel prduction that we currently have for the ethanol pipe dream.
I would hope an engineer would be smart enough to use a very sturdy bus bar for things like that.
But I suppose on the bright side that it might be a good thing that it melt at a few hundred degrees instead of well over a thousand. Would make a neat fuse concept and not result in molten copper everywhere.
I cant see what the problem is with using other's works and having to abide by the terms set forth by the author. "If you want my help, you are going to do it this way" is what it amounts to. Linux devs dont just throw their code out under GPL for shits and giggles.
I dont see it as a danger, but rather a very stern warning that you abide by the author's license terms if you use their work. If you have something trade secret-related that you cant just hand out to anyone that wants it, you can code it yourself.
Shouldnt this apply to OSes that are commercially sold? At some point I may write my own OS and release it under GPL. Should I be forced to write in functions for security, even though I am operating a car? What about embedded Linux OSes? What about FreeRTOS?
I dont think forcing OS makers to include specific functions is a step in the right direction. I think that suggesting the same is a good idea, however.
Probably a script that searched youtube by titles of their copyrighted media and then saved the url for some unlucky intern to watch and flag for copyrighted content.
You can still use the -gl arguement to render some OpenGL at least in Counter-Strike:Source. However, playing in linux on an MX440 Mobile with the latest drivers doesnt work out too well, so I cant be certain exactly how much OpenGL rendering it actually does.
Even still, water and alcohol injection used to cool the charge is not new, and has been around since the 30's.
Whoever wrote the article doesnt understand why SUVs and trucks have big engines. Its not because they are powerful, its because they need lots of torque. You can pull a trailor up a hill in an S2000 just like you can a road tractor, but the tractor will use much less fuel and less wearing of the engine doing it.B enignes arent going anywhere in SUVs any time soon, despite this seemingly "revolutionary" new technology.
No matter how novel the technology, when the product's life depends solely on the customer, your product wont usually stay on the shelves for very long.
[if] Mankind isn't responsible,... steps should be taken to even things out anyway. The act of counteracting global warming if it is not caused by humans is just as bad as inaction if it is. That is, of course, if it is threatening mankind as a whole, which I am not convinced it is all that big a threat. The most we could do is throw off the balancing forces enough so that global cooling becomes a reality much faster than it is supposed to and the earth freezes again. Hopefully we have the technology by that time to leave this rock.
(Note, I also suscribe to the Global Warming is bullshit viewpoint)
You have a point, but your post also implies that there are words I can and cannot compile into a program. I can impliment a style that is similar to the rapebot problem in a text game sort of way. Is that also ethical? Fiction of that sort is protected under first amendment...
So what is stopping me from code reuse and adapting for an OS suitable for a robot? By association, it is also ethical, yet it is not ethical for the same thing to be done to a sentient being.
1. Therefore, robots are not sentient. 2. ???? 3. Profit!
Because engines have to vent exhaust gases through a pipe with very little backpressure, that makes little sense. Can you breate through a brick of charcoal running a marathon, let alone sitting in your chair?
Didnt think so. Thats why engines stall when you plug their exhaust pipes.
As for the topic at hand, I am pretty excited about it. The volume of the average gas tank is 15 gallons, so that makes a 2700 gallon tank for methane thats the same size as a gasoline tank. 2700 gallons of methane makes approxiamately 360,000 BTUs. Unfortunately thats roughly equivalent to only 3 gallons of gasoline. But hey, you can make methane from biomass alot easier than gasoline and propane will yeild higher energy densities, assuming this breakthrough can be adapted to store propane with adequate storage compression.
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In correct amounts, violence solves everything.
...we wake up from this corn ethanol farce. Corn ethanol hasnt gotten close to breaking even and isnt expected to do so. Meanwhile viable alternatives like sweet and brown potatoes which can yeild just as much ethanol as sugar cane per volume are given the blind eye. Potatoes grow easilly, have few enemies, and require next to no fertilizers.
I would really like to see automakers push more diesel engines in America. Bioiesel production per energy breaks even with nearly every method. It also has greater energy than gasoline per volume, unlike ethanol which has about 2/3's as much as gasoline.
Ultimately the defining factor of energy infrastructure is the technology itself and demand for innovation of that technology. Today, automakers are focused on riding out low compression engines to the very end instead of focusing on more efficient and powerful diesel technology. But as already pointed out, it was never about energy independance, but rather kickbacks to the agriculture business. So we will not see soon a Manhattan project for more efficient engines, nor will we see the same fervor put into biodiesel prduction that we currently have for the ethanol pipe dream.
Thanks Congress. You are awesome.
Damn you, global warming!
I would hope an engineer would be smart enough to use a very sturdy bus bar for things like that.
But I suppose on the bright side that it might be a good thing that it melt at a few hundred degrees instead of well over a thousand. Would make a neat fuse concept and not result in molten copper everywhere.
I cant see what the problem is with using other's works and having to abide by the terms set forth by the author. "If you want my help, you are going to do it this way" is what it amounts to. Linux devs dont just throw their code out under GPL for shits and giggles.
I dont see it as a danger, but rather a very stern warning that you abide by the author's license terms if you use their work. If you have something trade secret-related that you cant just hand out to anyone that wants it, you can code it yourself.
Hydraulic fluid tends to be clear like water.
The rusting process creates a small voltage.
1) Make rust-powered car
2) Patent the hell out of the process
3) The obvious ????
4) Profit
Just wait till the release after the next: Ubuntu Hungry Hippo
Shouldnt this apply to OSes that are commercially sold? At some point I may write my own OS and release it under GPL. Should I be forced to write in functions for security, even though I am operating a car? What about embedded Linux OSes? What about FreeRTOS?
I dont think forcing OS makers to include specific functions is a step in the right direction. I think that suggesting the same is a good idea, however.
You might need this: while(1){
printf("HA");}
Great, I was looking for a shocking reason why I wont touch a Java program.
I'm patenting dupes.
Probably a script that searched youtube by titles of their copyrighted media and then saved the url for some unlucky intern to watch and flag for copyrighted content.
Why do you wish to inflict pain on Anonymous Coward? Big meany.
205 Nanomage Fixer.
Worst. Combo. Ever.
You can still use the -gl arguement to render some OpenGL at least in Counter-Strike:Source. However, playing in linux on an MX440 Mobile with the latest drivers doesnt work out too well, so I cant be certain exactly how much OpenGL rendering it actually does.
Efficiency and power are not the same. If a 200 hp engine consumed 20 mpg, an increase of that nature would yeild 600 hp and 15 mpg.
Even still, water and alcohol injection used to cool the charge is not new, and has been around since the 30's.
# Turbo_Jetfire
Whoever wrote the article doesnt understand why SUVs and trucks have big engines. Its not because they are powerful, its because they need lots of torque. You can pull a trailor up a hill in an S2000 just like you can a road tractor, but the tractor will use much less fuel and less wearing of the engine doing it.B enignes arent going anywhere in SUVs any time soon, despite this seemingly "revolutionary" new technology.
I predict this will end up as a failure just like the last time an engine manufacturer tried this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_V8_engine
No matter how novel the technology, when the product's life depends solely on the customer, your product wont usually stay on the shelves for very long.
Gran Turismo?
I dont keep up enough with any of the consoles to be fluent of bread and butter exclusives, but that isnt to say there are any.
(Note, I also suscribe to the Global Warming is bullshit viewpoint)
You have a point, but your post also implies that there are words I can and cannot compile into a program. I can impliment a style that is similar to the rapebot problem in a text game sort of way. Is that also ethical? Fiction of that sort is protected under first amendment...
So what is stopping me from code reuse and adapting for an OS suitable for a robot? By association, it is also ethical, yet it is not ethical for the same thing to be done to a sentient being.
1. Therefore, robots are not sentient.
2. ????
3. Profit!
I think the Java rant is the only thing that can top this.
How many other language inventors are Canadian?
For making Java, he should have been deported, though.
Nothing... thats why the parent is modded offtopic. =/
Because engines have to vent exhaust gases through a pipe with very little backpressure, that makes little sense. Can you breate through a brick of charcoal running a marathon, let alone sitting in your chair?
Didnt think so. Thats why engines stall when you plug their exhaust pipes.
As for the topic at hand, I am pretty excited about it. The volume of the average gas tank is 15 gallons, so that makes a 2700 gallon tank for methane thats the same size as a gasoline tank. 2700 gallons of methane makes approxiamately 360,000 BTUs. Unfortunately thats roughly equivalent to only 3 gallons of gasoline. But hey, you can make methane from biomass alot easier than gasoline and propane will yeild higher energy densities, assuming this breakthrough can be adapted to store propane with adequate storage compression.