(unknown) says:
quote your sources.
(unknown) says:
While I appreciate everyone’s concern for the environment in this day and age, I feel that the outlook is quite short-sighted.1) 85% of the electricity produced in the US is done so by burning coal, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels out there.2) With the sheer number of electronic devices we use in our everyday lives presently, the power grid is already over-worked. Could you imagine if everyone was recharging their environmentaly concious electric vehicles every night or while at work? It would outright fail, forget the rolling brown-outs!! Even if the grid could support everyone recharging their cars, how much more coal would have to be burned to keep up with the demand? Millions of tons!! How much more pollution would that create? More than your average full-size SUV I’ll bet you.3) What about the environmental hazard of dumping all of those used up batteries when they fail in 7 to 10 years and need to be replaced? Currently the batteries used in hybrid vehicles are 10 times the size of a regular car battery where are they going to fit and in what land fills? They are toxic!I don’t have the answers but as you can see, I do have questions about how environmentally sound these options are. We can find better answers, we just have to look a little deeper.
(unknown) says:
Rebelwitcauz » Check out <a href="http://www.extremetracking.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.extremetracking.com</a><a href="http://soundandcomplete.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow" >nitro2k01</a>
(unknown) says:
Yes, it helps you define and build shapes and diagrams. And, then generate code or xml from those diagrams into interesting things, like a flow of dialogs each with some input controls.But, mainly it about allowing users to create diagrams and then run code generation to get something useful at the other end.<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/pedrosilva" rel="external nofollow" >Pedro Silva</a>
(unknown) says:
<a href="http://www.repp.org/discussion/ev/200007/msg00326.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.repp.org/discussion/ev/200007/msg00326.html</a>The aluminum-air cell is approximately 75 times more energy dense than conventional lithium ion cells and delivers significantly greater power in portable electronic applications. Aluminum-Power’s current focus is on this end of the market. Additionally, because of the simplicity of the fuel cell’s design, its dimensions can be customized to fit small and large technology.
(unknown) says:
Ouch! Good Cars Coming
Toyota is saving the best for the right market conditions in the U.S.A – Post (GRD) great republican depression, when Yankee Doodles’ raging sense of entitlement to comfort and extravagant luxury is beaten the fuck out of his asshole psychology by lack of credit and inability to pay, and he will willingly get down into a “Yaris” sized three cylinder, turbo-bio-diesel with H2 injection and Li batteries; plug-in, carbon fiber, plastic panels and all, and probably a three wheeler two seater commuter car to boot, and will gladly lose weight off of his fat ass to get better mileage! Right now, the arrogant sons of bitches feel that even some BMW models are not good enough to suit their fancies, time-payment fancies, no down payment fancies, but valid fancies on this side of the greatest depression ever, the great republican depression. VW of Germany withdrew their bio-turbo-diesel electric plug-in from the American market for the same reason! Americans still don’t get it! They are broke and not entitled to the food they currently eat, the toilet paper they currently waste, the very air the currently breathe, and their military can’t threaten good times to occur or bills to get paid, and you simply cannot eat extravagant aircraft carriers even if you named them “Clam Chowder” instead of “George Walker Bush”! After the great come-uppance, the GRD, the mindbending paradigm shifts, the high oil prices now in the works, the ever tightening credit crunch, the run away from the dollar by internationals, the fall of the dollar to worthlessness, the utter defeat and disgrace in Iraq, and not a drop of oil to show for it, the rows of foreclosed McMansions, the shystered banking system, bankrupted food chain, and a collapsed infrastructure, Yankee Doodle will stand in a shanty on the outskirts of town with his now aging, surgically altered great huge saggy boobed dumbbell sex maniac psycho-consumer wife and realize “Life is not on the glossy pages of magazines at all! It is real! and in the land we have polluted so badly, we can’t even swim in a lake!” Then, and only then will truly economical means of travel become available, and only to the select few who have converted totally to reality and no longer disrespect life.
(unknown) says:
ooh yeah i have a version of speedblogging. well i call mine daily read and plus I save the links that are worth saving. it’s sorta like a mini review for me.btw good template that you picked out here.<a href="http://www.earadriede.com" rel="external nofollow" >earadride</a>
1180842130027 says:
I love your enthusiasm. It is definately ashamed there are no more choices for electrical vehicles than their are. The Jetta TDI has been an alternative I have used and appreciated. Miss this car!! The public is getting pissed off. EV's are on their way with companies like ZAP and Tesla.
(unknown) says:
Okay, here’s the big thing that I always noticed never gets mentioned in all discussions about electric cars I have seen, that I feel it is my duty to post about.As mentioned here by many, the electric car, even at best, doesn’t solve all the pollution, dependence on foreign oil, etc., etc., etc. problems. Furthermore there is more wrong with the car dominated culture than just those sorts of things. Ideally we should if not totally getting rid of private car use, cut it way, way, way back. Ideally I would really prefer using trains for long distance travel and human power for short distance travel. At the same time as having an energy use problem we have a terrible obesity problem. If we at least tried to use private cars as little as possible we could make progress to solving both of these problems, and create a better general quality of life as well. The problem is, for most it is impractical to totally do without private cars, so without radical measures that we are probably unprepared to use, there will be cars on the road.The problem with petrol cars, though, is there’s no such thing as a small number of them on the road, because they breed themselves. Who wants to walk or bike next to an exhaust pipe? The great thing I see about the electric car is that it is capable of breaking the car use chain. Even *if* the pollution problem were merely transferred to the power station, that tranference *would* be a good thing, because people can walk and bike next to an electric car. In other words, the biggest advantage I see to an electric car is that it is pedestrian compatible. Where I live there is a post office about a half mile away, but there’s no way to get to it without using a major highway. I walk there, when I go there, but it’s not pleasant, and it takes a good amount of dicipline not to be tempted to drive the short distance. Now that I have an electric car, at least if I do succumb to that temptation, I will not be contributing to the problem, because if all those cars out there were electric, I and probably many others would be far more likely to make the trip on foot. Similarly, I would have to take that same road, the A49, to get to the center of town if I wanted to go by bike. It’s only 3 miles, so a bike trip that many could be encouraged to make if all those cars on it were electric. And the more bikes feel comfortable on the road, the less cars will be on the road, and the less cars are the road the more bikes will be on the road, etc., etc..As to the problem about limited range. They are really a blessing in disguise, because we shouldn’t really be using private cars for long distance travel anyway. We should be using trains. My electric car is nowhere near as good as a Toyota RAV4 EV. It has a maximum speed of 42 mph and a maximum range of 40 miles. But with the right infrastructure (inexspensive rental cars like it available at all train stations, and charging facilities in every major parking lot) I’d get rid of my petrol car in an instant.
techandother says:
7.04 has an issue with ATi x**** cards. It will be worked out shortly, I'm sure. In the meantime, here is how to get 7.04 working:
http://www.mikesplanet.net/2007/04/installing-ubuntu-704-ati-x-cards/
techandother says:
Uh oh! Standard install?
1177096247482 says:
I can't believe how many people are misinformed about electric cars.
Where do you read this crap that coal-powered electricity emits more greenhouse gas than gasoline powered cars? You make these claims without doing any research, so where the heck did you hear it? Centralized-coal-plants produce less greenhouse than gas-powered cars, and it will only get cleaner as we change the grid:
www.ilea.org/lcas/taharaetal2001.html
www.teslamotors.com/display_data/21stCentElectricCar.pdf
Where do you read the crap that the electrical grid can't support millions of cars charging at night without building new energy plants? Once again no legitimate sources of research, just bold claims. From what I've read, according to MIT Technology Review, over 180 million electric cars can be charged per night (over half the pop of the US) with no infrastructure change:
blog.wired.com/cars/2006/12/how_phevs_will_.html
Where do you hear that the cost of manufacturing and making batteries and recycling them (used in millions of computers everywhere) is so damaging to the environment? What about the cost of extracting oil, completely destroying habitats, transferring that oil by the barrels from remote regions of the earth under regimesthat support terrorism, only to make more greenhouse gas when the oil is refined, and then again transported to gas stations, which you have to drive to (making more greenhouse gas)... is that better than buying a battery every 5-10 years and plugging it in from home, using local power?
Anyone who says local generated power isn't better to use in transportation is either a PR rep for Exxon/Mobil or really good friends with "the terrorists".
I hope in the next five years this FUD gets exposed for what it is, but considering Exxon/Mobil and others have an army of PR managers attacking EVs, I think it will just get worse. The future is very uncertain.
1177084764186 says:
I upgraded my Ubuntu to Feisty and now it says that X server won't start :-( I've got to figure that out!
1176970750054 says:
It goes beyond merely the power put into the batteries.
First of all consider the costs of mining and generally obtaining the exotic chemicals and stuff the batteries are made of, then transporting it etc etc. They don't just plop into the battery maker's hands.
Then add the cost of actually creating the batteries themselves - again by no means emission-free.
Next consider the emission costs of recycling said batteries.
Add the costs and landfill problems of disposing of the remaining toxic sludge.
Now consider these costs over the average life-time of the car. A good petrol engine car will go for around 150,000 miles or so, much more sometimes - how often would you need to recycle the batteries for that?
Once you've figured THOSE elements in then you can start comparing the pollution and energy costs.
Done on a large scale we're going to have tankers full of toxic stuff to create batteries. Heaven help us if that runs aground.
I often see the figure thrown around of petrol engines only being "20% efficent" but that's highly misleading.
It's actually a lot more efficent to refine the fossil fuel and put it straight into the vehicle than it may atfirst sound!
I should also point out that cars DO have batteries - and improvements in batteries would help MPG as the engine wouldn't need to keep charging the thing so much?
I have no objection to electric cars per se - they don't have the same kind of power curve issues and can accelerate rapidly, don't sit there throbbing in traffic etc. Give me one as speedy and easy to drive as my petrol car that I can "top up" once a week like I do my current car, at the same price (car and fuel) and I'd be happy to switch.
Likewise I have nothing against a good conspiracy theory but don't really see one here. If Toyota coulda, they woulda - if they weren't interested in exploring electric engines they wouldn't have produced the thing in the first place. Evidently experience has shown it is not a feasible vehicle at this time.
Might be great for the owner but you have to consider everything else that goes into it.
Put it this way - ever seen an electrically-powered gas tanker? Well there's a reason for that...
1172502777622 says:
Sounds interesting, I'd be interested in seeing how powerful those are though - they might be optimized for low-power, long-duration use, instead of high-power, shorter-duration... In any case, there definitely is way more battery technology out there than most people realize, and we most likely could be using it for much more than we currently do.
(unknown) says:
what you guys dont realise there are struntion batteries that power sattelites and the northern weather stations that have been in production for over 20 years and will last 20 years without a charge
(unknown) says:
Thanks for posting Susie. You bring up a good point. What’s becoming more and more obvious is that we need to get used to being open to new ideas, and understand that ‘just because that’s how it is/has been’ isn’t a valid excuse anymore, due to the wide array of technology and knowledge available to us!
(unknown) says:
1: that screenshot is looking nice dawg!
2: speedblogging, at least you thought of it yourself, anwaym who cares that someone else did it before?
3: too bad about the mega IM review :’(
4: good luck with that! I’d recommend Ubuntu just as Dan did, or if you would prefer KDE over Gnome, take Kubuntu. A quick review of the latest beta release by my friend Daniel can be found <a href="http://danieldematteis.wordpress.com/2006/03/01/ubuntu-dapper-drake-604-flight-4/" rel="nofollow">here</a>
5: m.gmail.com looks interesting! I just love speed.
6: MS live search does also look very interesting. It has a nice looking layout (even in Firefox and Opera) and it works really quick, I find it to be very promising.
7: I just took a quick look at the Geeks of Hazard, but haven’t looked much further than the first 2 post on the front page… Will check it out soon, I like the title :P
8: music contest? I must inform my brother of that!
9: sweet pics of Lauren! Give her my regards :D<a href="http://zhooibaal.wordpress.com/" rel="external nofollow" >zhooibaal</a>
(unknown) says:
I think all of you are forgetting that photovoltaics and wind turbines can provide a clean power source for ev vehicles! Why not combine the two? If you are going to spend the money anyway on an ev car, then spend some more on the off-grid system to fuel the car and your home. Don’t depend on coal to recharge the vehicle. I promise you it is cleaner than just staying on the grid with an ev vehicle. EV’s are great if you could power them in this manner. There is some pollution generated manufacturing the PV’s, and some in the batteries for both systems, but please, if even 50% of the homes in America did this, we could be off foreign oil permanently!