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I think picking WG Grace took it too far.
I think picking WG Grace took it too far.
Parmi | #1 draft pick | Jake King is **** | Big Bash League tipping champion of the universeCome and Paint Turtle
Just been doing some light reading and after some research my new ATG World XI
1 Matthew Elliott
2 Bruce Laird
3 Asanka Gurusinghe
4 David Houghton
5 Usman Afzaal
6 Mohsin Khan
7 Lee Germon
8 Lance Klusener
9 Adam Huckle
10 Chris Old
11 Aaqib Javed
It should be noted that I refused to pick every other Test Cricketer as no other Test Cricketer ever walked in any of the players selected shoes, therefore I couldn't judge them fairly, so alas this is the new ATG XI.
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I'm writing a book on magic, I explain, and I'm asked, Real magic? By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. No, I answer: Conjuring tricks, not real magic. Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic.
― Lee Siegel, 'Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India'
I'd be barking mad if I included Woof in my XI.
Okay guys, which of these teams do you think looks better.
Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Pollock, Hammond, Sobers, Gilchrist, Marshall, Warne, Murali, McGrath
Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Pollock, Hammond, Sobers, Gilchrist, Marshall, Barnes, Murali, McGrath
ATG World XI
1. J.B Hobbs 2. H. Sutcliffe 3. D.G Bradman 4. S.R Tendulkar 5. W.R Hammond 6. G.S Sobers 7. A.C Gilchrist 8. M.D Marshall 9. S.K Warne 10. D.W Steyn 11. G.D McGrath
And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW
Yeah we don't crap in the first world; most of us would actually have no idea what that was emanating from Ajmal's backside. Why isn't it roses and rainbows like what happens here? PEWS's retort to Ganeshran on Daemon's picture depicting Ajmal's excreta
I would say the second one, because even though I belive Warne would be the better spinner (especially in modern conditions), the fact that you are only playing two specialst pace bowlers, Barnes would be able to deliver some cover for that at first change. He would revert to spin later in the innings and on the last day in particular if required.
Aus. XI
Simpson^ | Hayden | Bradman | Chappell^ | Ponting | Border* | Gilchrist+ | Davidson3 | Warne4^ | Lillee1 | McGrath2
Greenidge | Hunte | Richards^ | Headley* | Lara^ | Sobers5^ | Walcott+ | Marshall1 | Ambrose2 | Holding3 | Garner4
Richards^ | Smith*^ | Amla | Pollock | Kallis5^ | Nourse | Cameron+ | Procter3 | Steyn1 | Tayfield4 | Donald2
Eng. XI
Hobbs | Hutton*^ | Hammond^ | Compton | Barrington | Botham5^ | Knott | Trueman1 | Laker4 | Larwood2 | Barnes3
How about
Hutton | Hobbs | Bradman | Richards | Tendulkar/ Hammond | Sobers | Gilchrist | Marshall | Warne/ Muralitharan | Lillee | Barnes |
Lillee over Mcgrath as Barnes at best is another medium pacer and so more mimicks Mcgrath and so better served by another full out agressive quick.
Again based on if Barnes should be included, which again I not convinced he does.
yeah barnes instead of mcgrath i'd agree
i want to see a tournament featuring sheet anchors + accurate bowlers in one team, aggressive batters + strike bowlers in another and players who could change gears either ways in the third team. will avoid bradman to ensure all three teams are equally balanced.
gilchrist +
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01. Jack Hobbs
02. Len Hutton
03. Ricky Pontin
04. Sachin Tendulkar
05. Walter Hammond
06. Imran Khan
07. Alan Knott
08. Dennis Lillee
09. Sydney Barnes
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Bill O'Reilly
Can't see that team losing to the other 2.
Lillee-Ambrose-Imran-Barnes-O'Reilly is too strong an attack.
An all-rounder combo vs a non all-rounder combo. No Bradman to be fair.
Non all rounders- top order (1-6) batsmen have never taken a wicket in tests. Best pure keeper available. Lower order (8-11) have a batting average under 15.
All rounders- every player selected needs to have taken at least 100 wickets in tests. Keeper must average 40 plus. All batsman must have a batting average above 25.
Non all rounder combo
- Herb Sutcliffe
- Gordon Greenidge
- George Headley
- Peter May
- Brian Lara
- Colin Cowdrey
- Godfrey Evans +
- Curtly Ambrose
- Dennis Lillee
- Glenn McGrath
- Muralitharan
All-rounder combo
- Wilfred Rhodes
- Trevor Bailey
- Jaques Kallis
- Garry Sobers
- Keith Miller
- Tony Greig
- Adam Gilchrist +
- Ian Botham
- Imran Khan
- Kapil Dev
- Richard Hadlee
What do you think? Couldn't squeeze Benaud in to the second line up based on my own criteria!
Was Eddie Barlow an allrounder? Trevor Goddard certainly was.
Barlow-Goddard to open for the 'All-Rounder Combo' and I'll go for them.
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Albert M. Greenfield School has added a a 5.33 kilowatt solar energy system, making it the first solar panel system installed on a public school roof in Philadelphia.
Greenfield's system, from Mercury Solar Systems, Inc., consists of 26 solar panels and is expected to produce 6,400 kilowatt hours every year. The environmental benefits are equivalent to recycling 103,998 cans of soda, planting 350 trees and not burning 516 gallons of gasoline.
The solar project is part of a large initiative driven by the parents, teachers, administrators of the Greenfield School and the Philadelphia School District called "Greening Greenfield." The pilot project is focused on developing a green physical environment at the school to teach the students about the Earth, to provide a green oasis for the community, and to serve as an exemplary public structure. The other completed phases include installation of a weather station on the roof plus school yard improvements which incorporate a storm water management system with two indigenous woodland forest rain gardens, porous pavement, permeable recycled play surface, an agriculture zone garden, and solar shading from 40 new trees.
"Our 'Greening Greenfield' initiative could never have gotten off the ground without the support of our numerous donors including Mercury Solar Systems. We are excited to roll out Phase III of this five stage project in our quest to transform the exterior of Greenfield School," Pat Toy, co-chair of the school's project committee, said in a statement.

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Richard Young is one of the most significant social documentary photographers of our time
Richard Young is at the forefront of celebrity photography. With a career spanning 40 years in 2014, and no sign of stopping anytime soon, Richard's exceptional eye and unique approach has cemented him as the most trusted and prolific contemporary photographer to the stars. As both a portraitist and photojournalist, his unerring ability to capture the moment and present a candid, inside view into the world of celebrity has resulted in iconic images that are celebrated in publications throughout the world.
In recognition of Richard's tremendous impact in the field of photography, over the past several years he has been honoured with multiple awards and achievements. In October 2013, Richard Young's candid photograph of Freddie Mercury at home was inducted into the National Portrait Gallery. In July 2013, Richard received an Honorary Fellowship and the title Honorary Doctor in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Field of Photography from The University of The Arts London. In March 2013, Richard was awarded Le Prix Champagne de la Joie de Vivre, in celebration of his long-standing contribution to Joie de Vivre. The previous year Richard was presented with the Ischia Art Award at the Ischia Global Film and Music Festival in Italy. Most notably, in May and June of 2012, Richard was featured as the sole subject of a four-part Sky Arts documentary "Celebrity Exposed: The Photography of Richard Young". Directed by Don Letts, this intimate portrayal featured contributions from notable celebrities including Sir Elton John, Kate Moss and Tracey Emin.
Richard has photographed a diverse and distinguished range of famous celebrities, capturing some genuinely unique moments over the course of his career. He took the last photograph of Keith Moon at a party with Paul and Linda McCartney, just hours before he died. Richard visited orphanages in Romania with Michael Jackson, photographed Sting's wedding to Trudie Styler and toured the country with the Sex Pistols. He has covered parties for the Cannes film festival and the Oscars in Los Angeles. He accompanied and documented United States troops in Iraq and Fidel Castro in Cuba. These are just a few of Richard's achievements, and are a mark of the trust and liking that he inspires in his subjects - there isn't much that Richard hasn't been involved in, and his portfolio could easily serve as documentation of popular culture over the past 30 years.
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The Main Parts and Functions of the Carrot Root
The purpose of a root is to anchor the plant to the ground and
to absorb water and
nutrients - diagrams below.
Examples of typical carrot root shapes here.
More detail on root structure and formation
here. (Biology web - Carrots are didcots) Is the hard outer layer on a root absorbing water from surrounding soil through
osmosis The Cortex is comprised of the phloem, or nutrient conducting tissue - phloem
conducts photosynthate from the leaves to the root tips. The metabolism of roots
growing in the dark of the soil is essentially dependent upon respiration. This
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requires a supply of oxygen, which is why soil needs to drain well for good
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In the US Department of Agriculture circular dated March
1950 are listed 389 names that have been applied to orange-fleshed carrot
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On the basis of their general or outstanding characteristics these varieties or strains were classified in 9 major groups, as follows: I, French Forcing; II, Scarlet Horn ; III, Oxheart ; IV, Chantenay ; V, Danvers ; VI, Imperator; VII, James' Intermediate; VIII, Long Orange; and IX, Nantes. (Source -Synonymy of Orange-Fleshed Varieties of Carrots M F Babb 1950). Right shows the longitudinal section of a carrot illustrating the terms used in the circular for varietal descriptions. |
For information here is the full classification of a carrot: Kingdom Plantae Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta Flowering plants Class Magnoliopsida Dicotyledons Subclass Rosidae Order Apiales Family Apiaceae Carrot family Genus Daucus L. wild carrot P Species Daucus carota L. ssp. sativus- domestic carrot (It is generally accepted that carrot is drawn from the wild variety) Note - Some classifications show Umbelliferae rather than Apiaceae Important Note - The chemical constituents of carrot are not there by chance, but perform a function. Many constituents of the orange carrot we now cultivate are also in the white root of the wild carrot, Queen Anne's lace, from which our carrot was developed. This is true of falcarinol, falcarindiol, and myristicin. Carotene (present in small amounts in Queen Anne's lace) has been increased by centuries of selection. Volatile oils have been decreased in this process. Plant scientists must continue to monitor all known constituents nutritive and non-nutritive - as new cultivars of the carrot are developed to keep our vegetables nutritious and safe. Plant breeding for the sake of high yields, appearance, and keeping quality will not be sufficient. Carotenoid pigments provide red, yellow and orange colours and antioxidant protection to a wide variety of plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi. In plants, carotenoids play a protective role in photosynthesis by dissipating excess light energy absorbed by the photosynthetic mechanism. What it means is that carotenoids are good antioxidant compounds which effectively prevent damage to DNA or other important parts of cells. This damage can be caused by free radicals which are very reactive molecules generated through the normal living processes of a cell (the release or generation of energy). In plants, the carotenoids protect the plant cells from damage caused by energy from the sun in the same way. Carotenoids are also a starting point for the construction of other useful compounds, so their function is not always protective. There are possibly more important parts of the plant containing carotenoids (eg the leaves) where they are less obvious because they are masked by the green colour of chlorophyll. In the parts of the plant which dont photosynthesize, we can see their presence more easily. |
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The electric car is a technological cul-de-sac
The End Is Nigh is always an arresting headline, the end which is nigh now is the Age of Oil, following the deep thoughts of the boffins at Deutsche Bank.
They are forecasting a "game change" as a result of – wait for it – the electric car. Their thoughts are "unburdened by the conflicting forecasting agendas of government agencies, oil companies or auto makers", so can roam the intellectual highways and byways.
They postulate a price spike to 175 dollars around 2016, followed by an "equilibrium" price around 100 dollars by 2030. The shock will be enough for the electric car to displace the conventional automobile, and OPEC will eventually be reduced to cutting prices to maintain its market share.
These projections are far enough into the future to ensure that nobody will remind Paul Sankey and his fellow authors of their words if they turn out to be hideously wrong.
Even at hundred-dollar oil, the electric car is a technological dead-end, and the battery is the roadblock. The technology is improving, but there is no sign of the "breakthrough" that might put energy storage capacity within an order of magnitude of the petrol tank. Nor is there a solution to the question of charging times – and the faster a battery is charged, the less efficient the process becomes.
The size of the problem can be simply illustrated: if a dozen cars are filling up simultaneously, the energy transfer (of fuel into the tanks) is equivalent to the output of a medium-sized power station.
Then there is the question of the cost of the exotic materials needed to squeeze more from batteries and electric motors. Rare earth elements, with unpronounceable names and mostly found in China, are crucial to modern technology, but electric and hybrid cars eat them wholesale.
Rare earths will no more run out than will oil, but they may get much more expensive. That Toyota Prius sitting so smugly outside your house is full of them. It presents a tempting target for the same scrap metal merchants who helped themselves to manhole covers during last year's commodity boom.
Compared to the petrol, or better still, diesel engine, the electric car is a poor use of primary energy. Fuel must be burned to generate the power, which must then be transmitted and stored in the battery. Each process costs energy, and the total thermodynamic efficiency is less than that of internal combustion.
The air quality in cities may be marginally better, but improved exhaust controls will do that far more cheaply. So here's my prediction for 2030: the electric car will turn out to be a vast, and unnecessary diversion of technological effort.
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Good article and spot on. 100 years ago, battery cars were popular in towns and were called 'Doctors Cars' because they started immediately and at any time but their range was small and speed low. Not a lot has changed
The future should be small light cars with light weight diesel engines. With a performance, comfort and safety better than current cars but delivering 200+ miles per gallon. All perfectly possible now if anyone wants to make one. And that's just a starter for now, better is possible.
Don't think of bubble cars, think formula 1 with 2 seats!
I find you article very interesting, and I really hope you are right. I am really fed up with all the hassle on new energy,etc…
Own oil stocks? It is not electric car, it is better photoelectric cells that will make EVs more appealing.
This article ignores the way in which pure "internal combustion" vehicles waste the gravitational potential energy released whilst going down hills, and the kinetic energy dissipated whilst slowing down. You apply the brakes, and the brake-pads turn ALL of that energy into heat.
Hybrids have a higher OVERALL efficiency due to their ability to recover kinetic energy and gravitational potential as electrical energy. Dynamos attached to the drive system do this job. This electrical energy would be of no use if you couldn't store it and/or turn it back into kinetic energy again. Although the storage capacity of the battery is small, this usually does not matter much for a hybrid because usually, soon after braking/ going downhill, you are accelerating/ going uphill again.
Interesting points though about the rare materials… Naturally the energy & cost of extracting those should be included in the overall evaluation…
Not so fast! The break-through has not been made for electric cars yet. However, further into the future, the Hydrogen car seems the most realistic bet.
I think technology making internal combustion engines more efficient and environment friendly, than makind electric cars energy for which will be produced by nuclear plants, solar/wind/water and other renewable energy sources.
whatever the technology of future (2030) it is to run on anything but OIL.
Great article. It looks so far you're right, though hybrid cars are more efficient. But you never know, things can change.
This article misses some crucial points. The author is right to suggest that pure electric cars are unlikly to be significant – too much weight, not enough range.
But the plug-in hybrid (20 – 30 mile electric range + internal combustion engine) may well work in the volume car market. The trick is that most individual trips are less than 10 miles and average daily mileage is less than 20 miles a day. So if you do the calculations, with a small battery charged overnight at home you can replace 80+% of you gasoline needs, while still having the internal combustion engine on the infrequent trips you want to do more than 25 miles.
The rare eath point is a red herring as the latest battery technologies do not use them and Lithium is found in vast quantities as a salt compound.
Plug in hydbrids should be fun to drive (good acceleration from electric motor), and much chaper to run. So if they are adopted the Deutche Bank Study may provve to be correct.
This article might have been correct, had it been written 10 years ago.
The efficiency of Prius-type hybrid is higher – they regenerate energy as they brake and put the internal combustion engine at more efficient rpm.
The well-to-wheel efficiency of electric cars used to be lower than IC-based cars. Currently electric cars show better efficiency and they have a lot of potential improvements coming! While the author used the point that each transfer of energy lowers the efficiency, he forgets that a 'highly-efficient' IC engine runs at 30% efficiency. Plus, because of the mechanical components and rpm, further loss of efficiency occurs. An electric engine can have an efficiency of 98% and if it is placed on the wheels, it delivers the energy right where it is needed. There are, of course, roadblocks to cross – but it is an ongoing engineering process.
The point about rare earths is valid but I do not think this is going to stop the development.
To say that electric cars are a dead end, is rather shortsighted. The truth is we don't know yet if it will be or not. But i guarantee you that oil IS a dead end, even if you don't take the climate aspect into account, it's going to run out eventually. So we'd better look for alternatives.
Electricity can also be made from non fossil fuels. If the battery problem is solved for cars, the energy storage problems for solar and wind energy would also be solved, which is one of the biggest barriers of these technologies.
In a couple of years, if we're lucky, we might even have polywell fusion reactors to provide us with clean energy.
Hydrogen is most definitely a red herring, it's inefficient to produce, inefficient to transport and store on location, requires very heavy and expensive fuel cells or very heavy pressurized tanks. A regular current state of technology battery is more efficient than hydrogen ever will be, and we already have an infra-structure for it!
Algae based fuel -might- work though.
And what about the most obvious thing. Less of all transport. Many of us commute to work/school/college to sit at PC's all day that we could just as easily do at home, or a local internet cafe etc. And bussiness travel is mostly pointless – use videoconferencing more. So let's travel less altogether!
I believe too electric cars are a dead end. The amount of power required to charge the batteries is wasted and not efficient.
To produce electricity you need to burn more coal, oil, gas, create turbines for wind power.
And heh use nuclear fuels. Which ofc are not renewable, enviromental unfriendly and still nobody talks about the nuclear wastes that we dump them worlwide waiting for the next generations to sort out. Still the 1950′s wastes haven being sorted. And planning to produce more. Also don't forget Uranium availability will stop before we run out of Oil.
Hydrogent while not existing on it's on in nature, can be produced quite easily requiring less energy than charging batteries and not changing the way of "driving" either. Coal gassification, Solar power plants breaking down salt water to Hydrogen, Oxygen, and electric power at the same time, can provide the pure clean start to continue it's spread.
Except Fussion comes in before 2080, while still Hydrogent will be a viable option to use the power generated, and move on until self sustained reactors at home and cars by the end of the century.
The private automobile is a dead end. Our yearly global production of oil is on a plateau and will eventually decline. That decline is a geological inevitability, since the planet hasn't made any oil for millions of years. Yearly automobile miles driven will decline with it. The price of oil, gasoline, plastics, and petrochemicals will increase, and so too will the price of building, owning, and operating a car. Poorer people will get priced out of the market first. Eventually the automobile will once again be the status symbol of the rich. Perhaps there will be too much resentment from former drivers to allow even that.
In the meantime, I'll correct the author's misapprehension about the overall efficiency of electrics. Convert a car to electric propulsion and you roughly double the "oil well to wheels" efficiency, even with all the losses along the way. Consider that a normal car has a real world efficiency of about 15%.
Hydrogen as an energy carrier has a basic physics problem. It can't carry enough energy per cubic whatever at normal air pressure. It makes transporting it any distance a net energy loser.
Russel's comment about traveling less is the real point. We will travel less, either voluntarily or involuntarily, as the yearly flow of fossil fuels declines. If we do nothing, the problem will solve itself, but not in a nice way.
@Pescho, you are forgetting transmission losses of electricity from the power plant to the point of use. I carpooled with an electrical engineer who designed high voltage power distribution systems and he said that the best efficiency from power plant to the home was something like 60%. That's the losses of already produced power (which has efficiency losses from converting oil/natural gas to steam to generate electric). Therefore the article is very likely correct that when you compare a 15% efficient IC engine (this was the standard when I was taking automechanics class, 20% was an engine in good tune, remember the ideal Otto cycle engine is 30%) to all the losses from the generating station to a purely electric car. Also the article was comparing a true electric car, not hybrids, to an IC car.
@ Hamish, the "rare earth" is not a "red herring" as it is not the batteries that use "rare earth's" its the MOTORS because the "rare earth's" that are referred to in the article are MAGNETS.
My take is that gasoline-electric hybrids are a waste of time. If we were really concerned about mileage and saving fuel, car companies would use a diesel-hybrid. Manus should EASILY be able to get 100 mpg from a diesel-hybrid. The only practical 100% electric car on the near horizon would have to use some kind of fuel cell, unless there is some breakthrough in battery that has eluded scientists for the past 75+ years, which I doubt there will be.
@Minor, while I find very little to disagree about with your post, you state that there has not been any oil made in millions of years. We don't know if that's true or not. There are some scientists who hold that the nuclear process going on at the core of the planet may be what generated the oil to begin with. Therefore, it may actually be a "renewable" resource, though it may not have a sufficient replacement rate to keep up with our usage.
Or it may not. There's a LOT about our planet that we do not know.
Competition among the prospective technologies will lead to a resolution of this question – unless governments make the decision. Only governments can force the wrong choice.
Wow, another pseudo science right wing article. I guess we should just give up on the whole electric car deal then, along with the wasteful wind towers, solar generation and geothermal.
I could rip the 'science' of this article apart, but I think I'd prefer to morosely think about how easy it is for media to 'set the agenda' of what we think. It's not cool to come out directly against global warming any more, those people are seen to be the luddites that they are, so we make easy puff pieces that 'question' this new green movement. Try posting this article on a tech blog – I dare you, and you will be torn to shreds.
The crux of the problem is twofold: 1) the abysmally low thermodynamic efficiency of the ancient internal combustion engine, and 2) miswiring of the human brain that demands a 1:1 ratio between testosterone and gasoline.
A little-known engineer named Steve Jansen (Jerseyville, Illinois) has solved the efficiency issue. His isothermal engine is two and a half TIMES more thermodynamically efficient than gas/diesel. Now all you've gotta do is change human nature… or wait until gasoline is so damned expensive that sheer desperation trumps the drag-racer factor of demanding that 6,000 pound SUVs go 0 to 60 in 5 seconds.
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Just to keep everyone honest, you mentioned that the most efficient cars have 30% efficiency and EV have 98%…but you're not including the efficiency of the coal fired electric plants. Off hand I don't know what it is: Could be 90% could be 30%. Then you multiply that with the 98%. I'm just saying, lets keep it honest.
oops, Al beat me to it.
re James Perly – I have found the comments here from both sides informative and mature. Then I came to yours. You say you could "rip the 'science' of this article apart". Please do so, I would be interested to read it.
However, the fact that you chose invective instead implies that you can't. I don't know the answers to these problems, which is why I enjoy reading others' views, but its still nice to take a break and watch someone make a fool of himself, so please reply.
As for not cool to come out against Global Warming, I think it is happening, has happened several times before(Ice Ages starting and finishing) and mankinds intervention is probably exacerbatring it. But if it is not the sole cause, to what extent can we mitigate it? I don't know, but if you can answer the first question to the satisfaction of the scientists and laymen such as me, perhaps you should address your second answer to the UN, you clever boy.
In a previous life, you must have written how absurd it was to believe the earth was round….Give up your GM SUV and your free Chevron gas card…read a little about TESLA(who you say) and then test drive one….
..thank God,most of us desire an end to the status quo and a fresh new start on the road to ending the wasteful and dirty oil business and all those industries related to it…
well that was a nice rant from someone who may or may not be getting a kickback from big oil. the fact is there are many ways to fuel a vehicle. go to an eco challenge at least once in your life so you may get a clue.but you offered no kind of persuasive arguement to the fact or contradiction of fuels that may work or may not work..
redesign the engines altogether so that they no longer rely on fossel fuels at all?? the fact that governments are in cahoots with oil industries is no secret. but when the final bell tolls, not even they will be able to run from the mess they have created thru greed. where will you go when you are unable to breathe the air around you.you will die off like the rest of us. and your fortune and posession will not go with you. but you will meet your maker. good luck trying to pay him off.
As for any environmental choice, the impact of car motorization is much linked to how far we accept to consider the carbon chain/ and efficiency of the technical solutions.
Trully Electrical is appealing (not to say about Silent motors in cities!) but what to think about using Lithium-Ion batteries manufactured from rare earth to come from Perù and hardly dispendable after end of its life-time, loaded from nuclear or coal energy electrical networks (another carbon chain) carrying electricity in copper cables over thousands of kms with the lowest possible overall efficiency…
Then is it combustion motors with improved efficiency (one talks about 2-3 l/km) but still impovering our oil and gaz ressources, and impacting directly on CO² ?
I would bet that the answer does not rely on one single techno, but rather on tuning existing solutions into different types of motorization segmented upon needs : long haul/ urban distance / isolated areas … solutions using hybrid, solar, hydrogen, kinetic
Lets wait and see (not so long to wait though…)
I can not believe that Reuters allows such a poor quality article to be published on their site. Hope they make a note of this.
Al – Oil welling up from the core of the earth…really? Love it. The Soviets fell for the same ludicrous idea (that oil isn't biologically related) and no one has been able to prove it. You could have made an attempt to say something at least within the realm of plausibility / sanity; such as an increase in cost will make existing, yet difficult to exploit oil more attractive, such as oil shale in Canada, or deep sea exploration, etc. Did really enjoy the laugh I got from the idea that someone who isn't from antiquity believing that oil comes from the center of the earth.
I also like the potential of hydrogen fuel cells, but you still have the same power generation problems; production of hydrogen takes a lot of energy.
Wrt photoelectric cells; the power needed fuel a car is considerable, there is simply not enough energy coming from the sun no matter how efficient the cells, to make much difference other than a small top-up to the battery.
Hybrid do little more than give you a lttle better fuel economy and are not really a long term answer. Btw – Toyota Prius has the same long term effect on the environment as a Land Rover Dicovery – batteries are made of nasty stuff.
Btw – a previous post asked about efficiency of power stations… I believe it something like 10% (i.e. if burn a piece of coal at the power station you only get about 10% of that by the time you have losses through the generators and pumped it through power lines to your power outlet). So, unless the power generation problems are solved, it is not worth talking about improved battery technology.
The same guy who posited that the oil comes from the fusion process of the planet's core was also the same person who first posited the now accepted theory that the core IS a fission reactor, way back in the '70′s. It was the only way, he found, to explain the volcanic activity on our planet since it is not subject to the gravitational distortion from the sun, which is what fuels the volcanic activity on some of Jupiter's moons. Oh, and that scientist was laughed at about that theory, too. You may laugh, but that's because you believe you understand how the world works beneath the crust, when you don't have a clue any better than I do. While I am undecided on believing the theory, I do find it to be as valid as any other. Afterall, all the carbon in the universe was created by the trillions of stars in a non-organic process.
To my dear friend David, I will point out some of the grosser inaccuracies since it is late and I am tired:
Point 1: Overall implication that what we do with car technology is the only impact on the price of oil. Since auto and truck transportation accounts for only about 40% of all petrochemical consumption, the entire premise of the article (as well as the preceding report) is flawed.
Point 2: Batteries are the roadblock, there is no technological breakthrough in sight.
I just googled the term 'fast charging battery' and this article was the first result:
'MIT develops new fast-charging battery technology ideal for automobiles'.
Venture Capitalists have been piling into the green tech industry because they say that the science is so poorly developed, that they have a very good shot at actually patenting a real breakthrough.
Point 3: Rare earth materials shortages. The WORLDS LARGEST KNOWN RARE EARTH ELEMENTS MINE (sorry) – is in California!!! Many other large mines in Canada and Australia have been laying fallow because China has swamped the world with cheap rare earth materials. Prices will rise, these mines will open, and then prices will stabilize, and maybe even drop again. This is basic economics.
Point 4: "Fuel must be burned to generate power". Here it is not clear if the author is referring to a hybrid engine burning the fuel, or of a power plant creating the fuel. If he is referring to a hybrid engine, I don't understand how one can say that they are less efficient than gasoline powered cars when they get much better mileage. And if we are talking about power generation, that is another whole kettle of fish, but I for one am all for generating the power outside of the city for two huge reasons:
1) a lot of that power is generated cleanly (or cleaner than by burning gas)
2) at least that pollution isn't being spewed at ground level where I am standing breathing it
Lastly, the prediction that the electric car will be done by 2030? I guess that is a little joke given the authors anger over the Deutsche Bank report. I have to agree that that report sounds like a bunch of crap, but two wrongs don't make a right. Peak oil and clean energy are huge problems with hundreds of facets, and both the report and this article make light of (and vastly oversimplify) a significant situation.
why is no one trying to fit an alternator on the electric cars to improve their range
The electric car is waste time. Fact.
The car itself produces no emissions or harmful gases but when that battery runs out of energy it needs to recharge. Where does it recharge from? The mains supply, which goes directly to power stations: which pollute. It does not matter what type of power station it is it will pollute.
Sustainable energy sources such as wave energy pollute rivers and seas, solar energy is inefficient(many solar panels needed to output alot of electricity), wind energy is unreliable. Nuclear energy produces harmful nuclear waste. The point of the electric car is reduce carbon emmisions and other harmful gases being released into the atmosphere but this is not being achieved.
Also there is a problem concerning noise. Blind people cannot hear the cars. Also all motoring events would become silent and this removes some enjoyment out of the sport. Indeed people enjoy the sounds of cars. Electric cars remove this enjoyment.
In conclusion electric cars are pointless.
I heartily agree with this article. The electric car is at best a gimmick. A battery that will give reasonable range, reasonable performance, us not unduly affected by temperature, is affordable and doesn't rely on the most exotic of exotic materials is a chimera..a hipogryph…a fantasy that science simply cannot conjure up!
The truly terrible thing is that the promise of this impossible electric car is being used to restructure the energy sector of the economy. The new so-called GREEN ENERGY will be subject to pork-barrel politics, will owe it's very existence to the politicians who force it into existence and will PAY back that favor comes election time. It is a swindle and the electric car is being held out as appealing eye-candy for what will go down in history as one of the greatest political manipulations, the direst economic disaster in the history of the US.
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I live in BC Canada and our energy comes from HYDRO. So yeah I can plug in my electric car instead of burning oil. I'm sure you can bash hydro but you can go back to riding a donkey if your going to attack all forms of energy. The problem is humanity is short sighted and greedy. Me first, environment second. This swing is coming back around to smash us in the face. The monkey race learns, bad monkey, forced to change or die we will. We have a small chance of change. India, China and all the 3rd world countries hold the future. If they want the same standards as the US had, its over. Billions of people cannot have 1st world lifestyles. The 1st world must lead the charge. Downsize, recycle, public transit and human transit (cycling etc), organic gardening IN the cities, end of the consumer cycle creating billions of tons of garbage a day, wind/solar power for every home and this can be panels which put energy back into the grid, or simply heating water etc. geothermal green structures which recycle and reuse. While the world still uses "disposable" were failing. How much paper, plastic, energy, garbage, pollution is used for packaging / single use? How many species are being decimated for senseless profit (shark fin soup). Until the entire human species is educated to see/respect/understand these issues and CHANGE were not going to make it. Crimes against the future of the Earth are under way, who's going to stop it? We will change when life is so unbearably hard we are forced to, and by then it may be too late. I hope not, and anyone who's trying gives us a chance. Maybe electric cars with batteries are not the golden goose, but its a huge step in the right direction. Awareness, education, action. Keep trying new stuff. Doing the same thing, in the same old engines with the same old energy sources = FAIL. So try to be part of the solution, walk to work, stop buying junk you don't need etc. and support new ideas.
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HYdrogen fuel cells also pollute. The hydrogen burns with oxygen and forms water right? The draw back is that in the production of hydrogen, carbon dioxide is produced. This is a green house gas which still pollutes.
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Welcome to the dark clouds gather over the electric car many see the slow end of the car, the lack of a breakthrough in the range of these vehicles, the high spending on systems that would ensure fast loading of those cars in the cities of expensive lithium batteries away the future of these cars many car companies by cold calculation, or electric cars will be able to beat cars, gasoline, or closer to the time scale or charging its battery. Many companies verify that the zastało done today in the world that direction. Many car companies have not made weapons to change the deteriorating situation of electric cars by the day, whether the world has to accept it or not we are able to see the flash stronger than oil or gas to end the domination of the world, whether people are powerless to help improve our climate change, waiting for the last drops of oil for the price as I am. The world is still divided into those who want progress and those who still want to maintain the old order as long as possible. And now, our opinion does not look so bad that the reach of the electric car is missing Tyko three months to clarify whether the world will follow our vision of how a different drive like the rest of the world and together with the climate we will wait until the end of the black days of our oil and climate change, new sources of Energy gets shocked to see many electric cars, which will themselves generate their energy to power and their reach will be amazing, you pass one end of America to another are not filling up your car is not loading, or 20 KW will be warmed your house at will throw the gauntlet we wonder who called the first raise, at the end of this line of research is a man who is known in Physics World
I totally agree with this article. We will be running cars on water (yes, good old H2O) long before the battery technology is a real contender.


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This was a fun and entertaining story. The narrative constantly keeps shifting to reveal something new, and no one is really what they seem. There were a lot of surprises in 8 pages, kudos for that.
The dialogue fluctuated between sharp ("I hope you're not going to tell me this is your table"), and cheesy. If anything I would just iron out a few of the more cliched lines in the conversation with Kendra ("I'm trouble", "you like bad boys", etc.) Of course those lines are later revealed to actually be threats more than playful banter, which is great in retrospect, but at the time they sound a little stilted. Try to make that conversation a little more unique, and heighten the subtext.
I'm also not quite sure about the last paragraph. I like the reversal, but he's not quite sure what he is? He seems sentient enough that he should be aware of his origins. It just struck me as an odd line
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Our good friend, Sal, aka Craftylady just celebrated her birthday too! I know she had a great day since I read her post saying she had received an invitation to join a group of crafters on Ebay.
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Goodbye Ice
I could possibly label the last 3 days of my life the most unproductive days I have ever lived.
But that might not be true, considering my summer days as a high schooler were spent either laying by a pool or watching TV.
But I was pretty lazy these past couple of days. I think I even lost a little coloring in my face, due to lack of contact with the sun.
Monday I had an excuse because I was sick.
By Tuesday mid-afternoon I was no longer sick – but I continued to live as if I was. (thank you all for your kind words by the way)
I finished my bag of Sour Patch Kids before the end of the day.
Wednesday Luke had to go back to work, but I was still at home so I decided to hang some pictures on the wall.
One wall and 20 holes later I didn't have one picture hanging on my wall.
Apparently I have no idea how to hang pictures.
How the heck do you get those things straight?
I had one of those level things and everything.
When Luke got home I just pointed to the wall and said "I think I messed up" He truly let out one of the biggest laughs I have ever heard.
Our wall looks like somebody shot it with a nail gun.
Thank goodness it's just an apartment wall.
And I don't feel bad since their idea of a heater is something that BLOWS COLD AIR.
I have an unhealthy relationship with our heater and I am working on it.
So this morning I woke up and showered for the first time in a couple of days.
I have never been a big fan of showers, if one isn't required for the day I opt out. (this might be one of those things my mom tells me is TMI)
I was all geared up and ready to go back to work when I heard this news on the radio this morning:
"Girl Scout cookies will now offer fewer cookies in a box due to high baking costs."
Is there any point in continuing on with life? I live for those cookies.
Well yes, of course there is a point in living, but I am seriously sad about it, I can already put away a box of those things in about 20 minutes, now it will probably only take me 10.
So I am back at work and I must say it is nice to be back out in society.
I love my job and I am thankful that I don't have to hang pictures to earn a living.
25 comments:
- d.a.r. said...
Oh my gosh how funny that we are both blogging about this :)
Glad you are feeling better!!! - January 29, 2009 at 7:49 AM
- Heather said...
I am SOO with you about "opting out" if there is a choice about the shower! Oh, preach it sister! And WHAT?!?!? about the cookies? What is the world coming to?
- January 29, 2009 at 8:02 AM
- Glamorous Life of a House Wife said...
Girl scout cookies are my life. Ahhhhh.... :)
- January 29, 2009 at 8:02 AM
- THE Stephanie said...
Seriously funny stuff. And the SPKs??? OMG. Love.Them. Even more than Girl Scout Cookies. :)
Glad you're feeling better! - January 29, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- Rachel H. said...
That is so sad about the Girl Scout cookies!! Terrible! And I can totally relate I hate taking a shower unless I have to! I know that it's something I have to do, but I hate having to get ready and taking all that time afterwards.
- January 29, 2009 at 8:13 AM
- Trina said...
The nail gun bit was hilarious!
Girl if you are that thin and can get away with eating an entire bag of Sour Patch Kids and Girl Scout Cookies, I am so jealous. - January 29, 2009 at 8:16 AM
- Candice said...
Haha! I can only imagine what your wall looks like. You are so funny!
I just had my first Girl Scout Cookie a couple of weeks ago. I don't think I'm hooked yet, but I'm so sorry for your loss!!
Oh, and I left you another little something on my blog! - January 29, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- Randall @ Happy For This Moment said...
Happy back to work day - drive safe!
- January 29, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Kelley and Rhett said...
i heard about the reduced number of GS cookies on the radio...it is a sad sad day! and I have no idea how to hang a straight picture! neither does my husband!
- January 29, 2009 at 8:23 AM
- Shannon said...
GS cookies - I heard about that on the news the other day. Makes me sad, but still, I ordered 10 boxes. Ha!!
- January 29, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Alex and Jill said...
I haven't seen one stinkin' girl scout anywhere. I want some. Even if there are only 5 in a box now.
I don't know if you've noticed, but the cheese dip at Chili's is smaller now. We asked why and the waiter told us, 'because of the cost of gas to get it there'. Good grief.
Have a happy day, girl! As always, love the post! :) - January 29, 2009 at 8:40 AM
- SassyEngineer said...
You crack me up! I'm sad about the cookies too, but I guess you won't feel so bad when you eat a whole box because there are less in there, right? Oh, and the picture hanging thing made me laugh! That sometimes happens to me, too.
- January 29, 2009 at 8:42 AM
- Emily said...
you and me are soo much alike:)
I showered for the first time since monday last night:)
My husband said my skin smelled like it needed to be washed.. ha!
back to reality.. boo:) - January 29, 2009 at 8:50 AM
- Rebecca Jo said...
What a good husband you have - laughing at the wall? My husband gives me ONE SHOT to get it right when hanging a picture - makes me want to take the hammer to his face :-) (JOKING! - kinda!)
- January 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- Sweet Simplicity said...
HAHA! My husband would have killed me for making all those holes. I'm glad Luke just laughed about it! We have a couple of boxes of girl scout cookies in our conference room. I already ate 5 (cookies, not boxes) this morning. I am trying my hardest to restrain from walking in there again--until this afternoon. :)
- January 29, 2009 at 9:14 AM
- Brown Eyed Girl said...
Ha you make me laugh!! Is it sad that the main thing I got from this is the Girl Scout Cookies?? I heard about that yesterday and was SO sad!! I love thin mints and I can eat the whole box in minutes. Oh well, I guess this is good for my diet :)
- January 29, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- The Mrs. said...
What? I ordered girl scout cookies this morning and the price was the same, so i assumed the quantity was, too! BOOOOOO!
Everybody is cutting back on quantity and jacking prices. Gotta love the economy!
I just moved in to my new office this week, so my job did entail hanging some pictures and hopefully some curtains by the end of the week! - January 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Lindsey said...
Soooo sad to hear about the girl scout cookies!!!
- January 29, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- Julie said...
Sorry you've been sick. Not a fun way to spend when you're not working.
I can't hang pictures either. I always get the engineer of the house.
And lastly, I LOVE sour patch kids!!! I could eat the whole package in almost one setting. - January 29, 2009 at 11:12 AM
- Lauren Kelly said...
So glad you are feeling better! I'm with you girl, I love girl scout cookies to, it's a sad, sad day in the girl scout world, haha!!! What were they thinking :)
- January 29, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- valerie said...
Yum....the thin mint Girl Scout cookies are the best!
I'm home again today! I haven't been out of the house since Mon. afternoon. I have showered though. ;)
About my blog background....if I can do it, ANYONE can. I mean it. It wasn't hard except trying to find that one template. I just can't wait until my friend helps me get a cute header.
Be careful out there. Kristen said your parking lot is still pretty bad. - January 29, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- amy (metz) walker said...
Very funny post...GS cookie recession means things are really bad! Hope you feel completely better soon!
- January 29, 2009 at 3:09 PM
Okay - you are seriously one of the funniest people I know. I can just read your blog for a little pick me up.
Juliane - January 29, 2009 at 4:59 PM
- petrii said...
Less cookies in GSC what in the wide world is that all about? I shall have to write my local GSC headquarters!!! lol =)
So glad you are feeling better and thanks for the heads up, I guess I WILL NOT be hiring you to hang my pics!!
Have a Blessed Friday,
Dawn - January 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
yes, i get depressed after i get home from fabulous vacations. Every time. It's just like when ur at home, u want to be on vacation, and when u go on vacation, after awhile u want to go home. wow...
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In her book "Wake Up and Live" she made the following confession:
The first thing to confess is that two years ago I was a failure. Oh, nobody knew it except me and those who knew me well enough to see that I was not doing a tenth of what could be expected of me. I held an interesting position, lived not too dull a lifeyet there was no doubt in my own mind, at least, that I had failed. What I was doing was a substitute activity for what I had planned to do; and no matter how ingenious and neat the theories were which I presented to myself to account for my lack of success, I knew very well that there was more work that I should be doing, and better work, and work more demonstrably my own…
…Of course it goes without saying that I was unhappy. Not miserably and painfully unhappy, but just nagged at and depressed by my own ineffectuality.
Why's this important? When we're faced with our own perceived negative inertial and frustration I believe it's helpful to understand that this isn't a problem unique to any single person or only relevant to only one period of time. It's a universal trait of mankind that has probably been suffered since man first became self aware. You're not alone!
Freedom of choice: Just as we all have the potential for success we also have the potential for failure. It's a doubled edged sword that can be frightening to comprehend but the essential and joyous fact is the knowledge we're not preordained to fail. Being at a low point now doesn't mean you'll always be there!
So during the storm of our doubts, those dark periods, we need to shelter the spark to rekindle our minds and spirits on the other side–act like it's impossible to fail.
*inertial - The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force.


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Hey Rico,
I guess it really depends on what you want to do there, I would recommend going to their site and deciding on what is most important for you to see. One must see at DLP is Space Mountain Mission 2, it is MUCH different then both DLR and WDW's. If you make it over to the Walt Disney Studios Park you gotta also do Crush's Coaster. (For that one you need to go straight to it after opening, the line piles up very quickly)
Hope that helps!


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Sergey Brin On Google and China
CmdrTaco posted more than 4 years ago | from the to-famous-for-slashdot dept.
368yuhong writes "The NY Times has an interview with Sergey Brin on Google and China. A few quotes from it: 'Mr. Brin lived in the Soviet Union until he was nearly 6 years old, and he said the experience of living under a totalitarian system that censored political speech influenced his thinking — and Google's policy. "It has definitely shaped my views, and some of my company's views," he said.' Yes, business is personal, especially these days."