Maybe investigate how to make 18-wheelers get 5mpg more than they do now."
There is a working hybrid system from eaton for medium duty trucks currently being tested. This is good for trucks up to class 7 which weigh up to 33,000 pounds. 18 wheelers weigh up to 80,000 pounds and need allot more power to get them rolling. Hopefully Eaton can get the same system to fit behind a 10 speed and have more kick. Then we can use a smaller 300 or 350 HP engine to save on fuel. Once you get that load rolling you dont need all the power of a 500+ hp engine because the electric motor makes up for the lack of engine torque.
Golf is always stereo typed as a rich white mans sport. While many Private $100,000+ country clubs have the snobby atmosphere, the public courses do not. My friend got into golf after hearing of Tiger Woods. He got me to go to a driving range one day after allot of convincing. Well I enjoyed it, and began to play more often. Im not an avid golfer but I do have a set of cheap second hand clubs for when we go play. We play the local par 3 courses, pitch and putts, driving ranges and even the various mini golf courses to have fun while working on our putt. Its fun but you also see allot of young and diverse people. Once on a pitch and putt course I saw a bunch of the most ghetto black kids you can imagine with their own equipment playing. Golf still has that snobby rich guy image attached to it but overall everyone enjoys the sport, you just do see it portrayted that way in the media.
The H2 does not have a diesel option. Some people have swapped in GM duramax diesels into them but thats an expensive route. The Duramax diesel is standard on the H1 which starts at $130,000.
"a unit about the size of a computer printer and costing $1,000 to $5,000 could produce as much as 50,000 to 100,000 gallons of biodiesel a year." "Jovanovic compared it to Hewlett-Packard when that company invented the inkjet printer cartridge."
Looks at printer sized bio diesel generator:...REPLACE CYAN BIO DIESEL CARTRIDGE...
"which she can only get if she keeps her grades up and does well in her chess club"
School grades I can understand. But letting the decision on wether or not to buy her a DS based on how she does in chess is a little too much. Lighten up, its only a game.
Thats true. At work my truck has no cd or cassette just a tuner. I dont have an fm transmitter so im stuck with radio. Between q104.3 and 92.3 (both rock stations here in New York City) the commercials are timed almost perfectly. So skipping between one or the other is futile. Hopefully I can get a better head unit or a fm modulator.
All the transmission is done in 3 phase AC. Along the tracks are sub stations that step the high voltage ac down and rectify it to dc. From there it gets distributed to the tracks or overhead lines for only a short distance (few miles if even). They only energize the length of track or wire the train is running along. Some trains use a single phase ac ovehead feed, some use a 3 phase feed. it really varies but transmission over any long distance is always 3 phase AC.
Because there is too much money to made off the war on drugs. It also provides allot of jobs. We the people love our freedom, problem is it looks like our goverment hates our freedom.
Just take what happened in New Orleans as an example. Was this a wake-up call about the potential devastation that climate change could cause?
No, it was a wakeup call to the people of New Orleans. The US government cut funding to the levies which when breached caused the flooding. Human error was to blame. Get your facts straight.
Easy UPS too, if the servers use DC then batteries can easily be hooked right to the power bus that feeds them. No ac-dc dc-ac ups systems. If you have a 48V server you get 4 12v lead acid batteries hook em in series and hook them in parallel with a charging resistor and discharge diode. I know its a little too simple but at least it could be easily rigged up in case of emergency.
Thing is how much more efficent is it to have one large ac-dc converter and then smaller dc-dc converters(http://www.nycsubway.org/tech/power/rot ary.html)? You are still converting ac-dc and then dc-dc again just like a normal power supply in a computer. If they oversize the main ac-dc then over size the dc-dc then I can see how it might be better.
LoL It would be fun to get the DC from old rotary converters for a data center. Big mountain of spinning cast iron with slip rings, commutator, brushes and plenty of copper windings. Put in an old marble switch board with carbon arc breakers , synchro scope, volt/amp meters and knife switches. You then have yourself a turn of the century power system running new millenium computers:). Not efficent and high maintenence but how cool would that be!
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Now if they could find a way to do the same with shit.
um, wrong discussion buddy.
"Perhaps we could use them to power turbines."
Easy, build a horizontal turbine over their community. Their bitching and moaning will warm the cooler air causing it to rise and spin the blades.
Kinda dumb OT reply but wing nuts have "wings" so you can tighten them by hand.
You forgot wing commander, doom is definatly not the worst.
Maybe investigate how to make 18-wheelers get 5mpg more than they do now."
There is a working hybrid system from eaton for medium duty trucks currently being tested. This is good for trucks up to class 7 which weigh up to 33,000 pounds. 18 wheelers weigh up to 80,000 pounds and need allot more power to get them rolling. Hopefully Eaton can get the same system to fit behind a 10 speed and have more kick. Then we can use a smaller 300 or 350 HP engine to save on fuel. Once you get that load rolling you dont need all the power of a 500+ hp engine because the electric motor makes up for the lack of engine torque.
I for one welcome our new colonies of large radioactive wildlife overlords.
Golf is always stereo typed as a rich white mans sport. While many Private $100,000+ country clubs have the snobby atmosphere, the public courses do not. My friend got into golf after hearing of Tiger Woods. He got me to go to a driving range one day after allot of convincing. Well I enjoyed it, and began to play more often. Im not an avid golfer but I do have a set of cheap second hand clubs for when we go play. We play the local par 3 courses, pitch and putts, driving ranges and even the various mini golf courses to have fun while working on our putt. Its fun but you also see allot of young and diverse people. Once on a pitch and putt course I saw a bunch of the most ghetto black kids you can imagine with their own equipment playing. Golf still has that snobby rich guy image attached to it but overall everyone enjoys the sport, you just do see it portrayted that way in the media.
The H2 does not have a diesel option. Some people have swapped in GM duramax diesels into them but thats an expensive route. The Duramax diesel is standard on the H1 which starts at $130,000.
"a unit about the size of a computer printer and costing $1,000 to $5,000 could produce as much as 50,000 to 100,000 gallons of biodiesel a year."
...REPLACE CYAN BIO DIESEL CARTRIDGE...
"Jovanovic compared it to Hewlett-Packard when that company invented the inkjet printer cartridge."
Looks at printer sized bio diesel generator:
This guy must really like printers.
"which she can only get if she keeps her grades up and does well in her chess club"
School grades I can understand. But letting the decision on wether or not to buy her a DS based on how she does in chess is a little too much. Lighten up, its only a game.
Thats true. At work my truck has no cd or cassette just a tuner. I dont have an fm transmitter so im stuck with radio. Between q104.3 and 92.3 (both rock stations here in New York City) the commercials are timed almost perfectly. So skipping between one or the other is futile. Hopefully I can get a better head unit or a fm modulator.
My local chase bank still has TR
Yea but not for the average user.
they're well-designed,
Until you try to replace the battery. Well designed with the consumer in mind they arent. More like semi disposable, which is good for Apple.
All the transmission is done in 3 phase AC. Along the tracks are sub stations that step the high voltage ac down and rectify it to dc. From there it gets distributed to the tracks or overhead lines for only a short distance (few miles if even). They only energize the length of track or wire the train is running along. Some trains use a single phase ac ovehead feed, some use a 3 phase feed. it really varies but transmission over any long distance is always 3 phase AC.
Peace is the result of war.
Sitting, as I am, in front of our class 5 telephone switch, I can tell you with absolute certainty that you cannot do this.
Maybe in your area but here in New York City It does work with Verizon. I tested this out on a dead second line in my home.
There are core routers that can do over 300Gbps. Here is an example: http://www.juniper.net/products/tseries/
Or better yet Mr. Goatse.
Because there is too much money to made off the war on drugs. It also provides allot of jobs. We the people love our freedom, problem is it looks like our goverment hates our freedom.
Just take what happened in New Orleans as an example. Was this a wake-up call about the potential devastation that climate change could cause?
No, it was a wakeup call to the people of New Orleans. The US government cut funding to the levies which when breached caused the flooding. Human error was to blame. Get your facts straight.
Great clicked submit by accident, link is in the wrong place. Too bad we cant edit our comments.
Easy UPS too, if the servers use DC then batteries can easily be hooked right to the power bus that feeds them. No ac-dc dc-ac ups systems. If you have a 48V server you get 4 12v lead acid batteries hook em in series and hook them in parallel with a charging resistor and discharge diode. I know its a little too simple but at least it could be easily rigged up in case of emergency.
t ary.html)? You are still converting ac-dc and then dc-dc again just like a normal power supply in a computer. If they oversize the main ac-dc then over size the dc-dc then I can see how it might be better.
:). Not efficent and high maintenence but how cool would that be!
Thing is how much more efficent is it to have one large ac-dc converter and then smaller dc-dc converters(http://www.nycsubway.org/tech/power/ro
LoL It would be fun to get the DC from old rotary converters for a data center. Big mountain of spinning cast iron with slip rings, commutator, brushes and plenty of copper windings. Put in an old marble switch board with carbon arc breakers , synchro scope, volt/amp meters and knife switches. You then have yourself a turn of the century power system running new millenium computers