Got to watch them launch DirecTV 11 last night. Not quite as thrilling as a NASA launch (not as many cameras, for one thing), but pretty cool nonetheless. Hopefully, I’ll have more HD channels soon.
Posted by pjsauter on March 20, 2008
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Got to watch them launch DirecTV 11 last night. Not quite as thrilling as a NASA launch (not as many cameras, for one thing), but pretty cool nonetheless. Hopefully, I’ll have more HD channels soon.
100 miles on a full charge. That would be perfect for me.
How practical would it be getting RG or you to work in an upstate winter? Prius’ cannot hold their own on icy snowy Colorado roads sad to say. ๐ Mrs A takes the CRV because the Civic doesn’t do well in blizzards :cold:
I don’t know how it would do in snow. But there were really only a handful of days this year when the conditions were lousy. We’d definitely need an alternate vehicle, but for at least 7 or 8 months of the year, there’d be no problem. The tricky thing would be on days when it’s bright and sunny (and the roads are clear) on the way in, but it turns to shit by quittin’ time.
Still, we live about 5 miles one way from work, and the dog park is about 7 miles one way, so I could go about four days on a charge.
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: ๐ฎ ๐ฎ :yuck: :crap:
:omg: There are :sheep: le out there ๐ฏ ๐ฏ
:yuck: Its Thursday again :reaper: :reaper:
On the other hand
:yippee: :yippee: :yippee: Free orange juice and donuts :yippee: :yippee:
Those millage numbers are probably for flat land , warm weather daytime driving too.
When you are on the Interstate moving at 10 mph at 20 degrees with the head lights on and the heater on full blast how far can you go ??
I70 west of Denver is like 35 miles of 7 to 10 percent grades west bound .. throw in some winter :cold: and darkness and I wonder how an electric car would do ??
I have to wonder if lets say half the people in your neighborhood had plug in electrics if the exiting power distribution infrastructure would be capable of accommodating them ..?? Around here we seem to have a lot of problems with to many AC units running on warm days already . :reaper: :reaper: Excell energy would probably love to build a few more coal burning generator stations to charge all the batteries ?? :tap: :tap:
Four days on a tank of electrons? Is that daytime driving or are you considering the more economical nighttime excusrion as well? We must consider all options.
I live six miles from work, but with D.C. traffic the return trip out of Old Town (Alexandria) has been anywhere from 25 minutes to 4 1/2 hours so far this year. Daytime ice storms tend to mess up bridges and miles of spaghetti-style overpasses but good. A couple hours of radio traffic reports boiled down to a simple “You’re screwed!” might drain that puppy before its time.
They don’t have any details for that particular concept car, but whatever equivalent horsepower you get is whatever you get. I’m sure the hills would cut the range some, but then again you presumably would also go downhill on occasion, and they’d hopefully be able to recharge the battery while breaking. As far as going slow, I don’t think that would make much difference.
For me, it would work great (not that it would be affordable at the moment). If you ever saw “Who Killed the Electric Car,” you could see just how good these things were, even with technology a decade old. Now they have the Tesla, which uses litium ion batteries, goes 0 – 60 in 4 seconds, and has a range of up to 300 miles. Unfortunately, it’s also $100,000 and you have to replace the $10,000 battery pack every 5 years or so.
But if they were to take, oh a couple trillion dollars out of the invading and occupying other countries account, and put it into the gettin us off foreign oil account, those prices would come down in a hurry.
Not that I see that happening, if course.
I was looking at a conventional car retrofit. It said it had a range of 50 miles on a charge that used 12KWh (and took 3.5 hours). Not a whole lot, especially since people would presumably be charging at night.
And, if you figure even 15 cents a KWh, that’s less than 4 cents a mile. If I get 25 mpg at $3.50 a gallon, that’s about 14 cents a mile.
Just ran across this article, which has some bearing on the current topic.
Study says diesel emissions raise cancer risk
The California Medical Association published a report ten years ago stating combusted diesel contains more carcinogens than cigarette smoke. The Republicans immediately demanded a retraction for publishing “bad science.”
Associated Press president Tom Curley says his news organization does not buy the government’s argument that one of its photographers arrested in Iraq was working on behalf of the enemy, and he alleged the US is rounding up journalists in an attempt to control information.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/AP_President_chides_Bush_Admin_for_0319.html
Of course this is what a democracy does.
Raging Grannies
http://tinyurl.com/29m3ay
“You want a piece of Granny?”
:fist:
Yeah, just make sure you get them home by their bedtime (around 8:00).
Is it just me, or is Osama starting to sound kinda desperate for attention these days (poor guy’s been so ignored by the Bush administration)?
And, if you figure even 15 cents a KWh, thatรขโฌโขs less than 4 cents a mile. If I get 25 mpg at $3.50 a gallon, thatรขโฌโขs about 14 cents a mile.
Don’t forget there’s almost zero maintenance on an electric, even if electric rates were twice as high an electric has a much lower TCO.
The smartcar electric is expected to have a 160 mile range.
Yep, that’s why the car companies killed them off. No money on parts and maintenance on them. They just go. They actually have to install an electric water heater in them so you can get heat.
I think,it’s ceramic heat and they pull heat out of the AC like a heat pump.
This is an interesting way to kill yourself. I can probably rig up the Roomba.
Yeah, but I was looking at a retrofit that used a little hot water heater.
Most low end 4 cyl cars have to produce about 95 to 125 shaft Hp .. A HP is close to a KW.. Can you even go up I70 west of Denver on less than 50KW. ?? Or do you become like a gasoline powered school bus a leader among vehicles ??
Because of the power concerns a lot of these electric concept cars are very light weight ..
What happens to the occupants when they and an RTD bus have an interaction ??
Meanwhile, King Coal
Yes, I am willing to stipulate that nothing will work in Colorado.
Did everyone hear about the further lay-offs? This is unbearable. What are poor people doing? I cannot fathom this atrocity. We should set up NATIONAL Food places … this cannot be any longer…
but we have to bring in money……I am working on ideas … but it is not about the HOMELESS (on my site I have “BUTTONS to Click for MANY HUMAN & NON-HUMAN issues…there is only 5 Buttons,
but whatever do something else since many to click these on my
site๐ PAGE, whatever) Seriously, many stop by (many to me) plus I click a zillion times all … so no worries about clicking ……unless you really want — but my s— ๐ but my PAGE is a bit “bloody” so WARNING, if one ventures.Anyway, I am writting this and another so going back — TO FINISH! :pirate: :yippee: :banana: 8) …… :reaper: :dancers: A!I!V! TEA I NEED MORE TEA ๐ฎ
re 23 I thought it was to be about NAT and that you were “punning” —
but I rest My Case. NO COAL OR LIQUID COAL โ However, Nature is proving the VICTOR. A!I!V!
I just loved seeing this
Cheney Ex-Aide ‘Scooter’ Libby Disbarred
What a wonderful Vernal Equinox gift!
Here’s one you can reserve for $100 (a little pricey for a two seater at $32,500).
Their Zap-X is even more at $60,000, but it is being co-designed with Lotus (are they still around?). It’s supposed to have 644 horsepower, an all-wheel drive option using one electric motor per wheel, a top speed of 155 miles per hour, a range of 350 miles, and a 10 minute rapid recharge time. Plus, an onboard computer to provide รขโฌลWi-Fi, Bluetooth, high definition video,รขโฌย ports for all your gadgets, and special glass that will allow the windshield and other windows to provide a little solar energy to the car.
See, NAT to me means Network Address Translation.
Hang on to your hat. Its gonna be a bumpy ride!
Leading indicators in 5th straight drop
The Conference Board’s measure’s down streak is longest since 2001.
Here’s some FAQs about the EV-1, featured in WKTEC, that GM was forced to produce and was able to kill off, back 10 years ago (the second generation ones, which came out in 1999, used NiMH batteries to get longer range). They had 137 HP motors in them (electric motors are rated for constant output, unlike combustion motors, which are rated for peak).
This was on the BBC, because, well, our media has more important things to cover.
PJ, think about it. If you had to live in a tent you want to do it in L.A. or Buffalo?
I pick SoCal any day.
That’s a pretty crappy choice. I’d prefer a tent out in the woods around where I live, personally. I went to school in Buffalo for a couple of years, and it’s way too flat there for my tastes. Kinda windy with the winds off of Lake Erie, too. Never been to LA, but I don’t like the heat. Cold doesn’t bother me, as long as I can have all my camping gear with me, and can have a fire. I could always hang the TV on a tree somewhere, and get satellite Internet.
Seder is doing Randi in the 3rd hour today.
I think I may go to see her Saturday to see what kind of people show up and hopefully engage some station folks. Since I am deaf in one ear I only need ear protection for one and I can also position her downhearingwind. :ear:
Besides, it is in North Beach so there is no shortage of other entertainment :boobs: :spank: and drinking :40: :alc: and dining escapes and options.
She may be totally different than her on-air personality, too. She’s just putting on a show, afterall, and talk radio “success” is generally reserved for the loudmouth know-it-all persona.
I agree what you say Mask V. Man …Never give up…thanks you
:bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:
PJ, PROFOUND “clip” … re 32 I want ALL of Bush’s money and property to go to the HELP THE HOMELESS!!
We cannot let the EVIL TOXIC TWIT B-bastard be free — he will go STRAIGHT TO ARGENTINA …ARREST! IMPEACH! then Whatever :fist: HE MUST NOT GO/|\ HE MUST NOT GO/|\HE MUST NOT GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Toxic Twit that bush is!
The Tent Cities Started during Reagan’s time. There are different places like the Tent City that was seen. It is so bloody hard to NOT BE IN A MAJOR CITY……..I can’t even be there to help or get a F___ing MEGAPHONE! … :spank: Get back to work Morrigan :spank: A!I!W
I have heard her say she is really shy and nervous about public appearances and she sounds very intimidated by this one. Maybe after she gets a few :40: , :rant1: .
I just want to go to North Beach again. I had fun there. Especially at the different plays and a very special corner shop of my youth and the music from those wonderful clubs, although one corner bar up the side MAIN other street and one better not go in if you are a 5’3 3/4 very, very wee chick. (Now just one very) (no kinda more between a very and just a “wee” :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2: ๐ okay, I am done.)
Seder is on Randi in a few minutes for an hour. You can watch on SammyCam. He will also be doing Randi all next week.
Maron mentioned some subbing for Malloy coming up but I have not transcribed the end of Tuesday’s show to get the specifics yet.
:pup: maron on malloy!!!!! im gonna call him ๐
A modified form of a cheap and widely used dietary supplement sold to relieve joint pain was identified as the contaminant found in tainted and at times lethal heparin produced in China for American patients, Food and Drug Administration officials said yesterday.
Agency officials said they were investigating whether the compound, chemically modified chondroitin sulfate, was intentionally added to cut costs and boost profits or was mixed in by mistake. In either case, they said, it was not part of the prescribed manufacturing process.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031901548.html?hpid=moreheadlines
It sounds like April 8-10 for Maron in for Malloy and Seder doing April 7.
Astronomers reported Wednesday that they had made the first detection of an organic molecule, methane, in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system and had confirmed the presence of water there, clearing the way for a bright future of inspecting the galaxy for livable planets, for the chemical stuff of life, or even for life itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/science/space/20planetw.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin
Grrr re 42 and Way 8) re 44. But it does worry me about further human pollution. Perhaps “they” will Save This Earth. ๐ ๐ A!I!V!
๐ The Analogy of The Homeless & The Polar Bear.
… I was going to put Dogs & Cats yet then I remembered
that is how I got rats and I never had Rats before…and their tales. ๐ฎ . Now all is so very special for me. :love:
Jeff Farias read this on his show today. Pretty interesting and scary. I am becoming more and more of an atheist everyday of this primary. ๐
Hillary’s Ties to Religious Fundamentalists
When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, Hillary Clinton is a lot more vulnerable than Barack Obama.
Friday am “Pup talk”
http://www.westword.com/2008-03-20/news/pup-talk/print :pup: