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#21603 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)
Inconsistent column names in cursor.description under SQLite break RawQuerySet
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See pull request at https://github.com/django/django/pull/2069
SQLite will sometimes return column names in cursor.description in the form table_alias."column_name" or simply "column_name" instead of just column_name. This can happen when returning columns from subqueries, views or unions.
This means that RawQuerySet can't match up the columns when trying to create model instances, and raises InvalidQuery: Raw query must include the primary key.
This change introduces a column_name_converter() to the backend introspection code to mirror table_name_converter() and implements the fix on the SQLite backend.
Change History (13)
comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by claudep
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
test_subquery_in_raw_sql doesn't fail on my system. Is this behavior specific to some version of SQLite?
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by alexh
This bug report suggests it might be platform/version specific: http://bugs.python.org/issue19167
I'm on OSX 10.9, Python 2.7.5, and if I run sqlite3 from a command line it reports version 3.7.13.
comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by claudep
I'm on Linux, that may explain why I cannot reproduce the issue.
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by vajrasky
Ladies and gentlemen, this has nothing to do with OS. Mine, sqlite 3.7 on Fedora Core 18 is afflicted.
This is a bug from Sqlite. Sqlite 3.7 is afflicted. Solution: upgrade to sqlite 3.8.
I guess it is not our place to fix this bug. So, I am inclined to make this ticket as invalid. But I let OP or core developers to do that.
comment:5 Changed 3 years ago by claudep
Thanks for the research! And yes, I have the 3.7.17 version of the debian mozilla team which is posterior to the fixing patch. However plain Debian Wheezy (currently stable) package seems to be affected. I'm still undecided about the value of working around this bug in Django.
comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by alexh
Yes, thanks for unearthing that!
I personally would like to see it fixed in Django, because a feature I'm hoping to get merged (#21604) relies on getting this data from cursor.description. As well as Debian, 3.7 is the system installed version on the current versions of Ubuntu and OS X - I think it's widespread enough to warrant including the workaround.
comment:7 Changed 2 years ago by aaugustin
- Patch needs improvement set
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
- Type changed from Bug to Cleanup/optimization
Given that the patch isn't too invasive, yes, we could include it... It needs a comment stating which versions of SQLite are affected, so we can eventually remove the workaround when we consider them sufficiently outdated.
comment:8 Changed 2 years ago by alexh
OK, I've added the version affected and a link to the bugfix commit in the comments. Also added a TODO to remove the change at some point in the future. Let me know if it needs anything else.
comment:9 Changed 2 years ago by timo
I left comments for improvement on the PR. Please uncheck "Patch needs improvement" when you update it, thanks.
comment:10 Changed 2 years ago by alexh
- Patch needs improvement unset
Have updated the PR to incorporate your feedback, should be good to go.
comment:11 Changed 2 years ago by Tim Graham <timograham@…>
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
comment:12 Changed 2 years ago by timgraham
- Cc shai timgraham added
- Has patch unset
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to new
The query added in this test doesn't work on Oracle (DatabaseError: ORA-00920: invalid relational operator). Should we try to make it work there or just skip it?
comment:13 Changed 2 years ago by Shai Berger <shai@…>
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed


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by Veronique Largeau on 11 Apr 2013
Fernando do Noronha in Brazil, an ideal stopover - Rallye des Iles du Soleil P. Garenne / GPO
The Grand Pavois Organisation (GPO) took over the helm of the Rallye des Iles du Soleil (RIDS) in December 2012; subscriptions opened following the official signature at Nautic de Paris, where GPO hosted a stand in the event colours.
At the time, the interest aroused at the Paris boat show allowed us to believe that the RIDS would attract a large enough number of boats to be able to organise the 2013 edition, bearing in mind that the set target was from 20 to 25 boats at the start. Unfortunately, to date GPO has only six firm subscriptions, and despite several contacts, many boat-owners have told us that they are unable to put their project together in the few months before the departure date.
It has to be said that GPO feels it must postpone this 2013 edition until 2014, to be able to offer the best possible conditions of welcome, of exploration and of sharing in this wonderful rally to the Brazilian coast and sailing up the Amazon.
To make the most of the promotion and development of the 2014 edition, GPO and the Rallye des Iles du Soleil will be present at Southampton, England (from September 13 – 22 2013); at Grand Pavois (La Rochelle, 25 – 30 September 2013) and at Nautic de Paris (6 – 15 December 2013). Visitors will be able to receive all the necessary information, discuss it with the organising team, finalise their project and confirm their subscriptions.
The departure point will be La Rochelle in the Charente-Maritime. A Rally village will be open around the 'Bassin des Chalutiers' in La Rochelle to welcome crews, route partners, journalists, families, children and the general public. The first stage of the Rally will be to the volcanic archipelago of Madeira. The crossing of the Gulf of Gascony will be the time to test out the equipment and crews. Around a week's sailing before meeting up with the other participants. The entire fleet will set off from Madeira at the beginning of October, heading for Lanzarote, the principal arrival port in the Canaries.
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The crossing from Sao Vicente to Salvador (in the State of Bahia) will take, depending on the boats and the prevailing weather conditions, between 12 and 17 days' sailing, during which you will pass through the Doldrums and cross the equator, perhaps for the first time.
This sailing back up the north-east coast of Brazil will be a magnificent part of the RIDS. After Fortaleza and its magnificent All Saints Bay, where a few days off will be a 'must', the fleet will go on to João Pessoa. The capital of the state of Paraiba is the most easterly point of the Americas. It will be the departure point for a short trip to the magical archipelago – because it has been protected – of Fernando de Noronha (editor's note: the Brazilian Galapagos). A magical, well-organised anchorage, where all the formalities will have been dealt with before the participants' arrival.
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Fabulous high point of this Rallye des Iles du Soleil, from now on the participants will have an extraordinary experience: sailing on the most powerful river in the world, the Amazon. With several stops along the way, as well as navigating in the Amazon's narrowest tributaries, this will be the chance to explore this outstanding natural area, its luxuriant flora, and above all the unbelievable warmth of its inhabitants. This Amazon expedition, from Belém onwards, must be undertaken in convoy, preceded by an accompanying boat at a speed of six to 6.5 knots. Once the Cotijuba lighthouse is left on the right (starboard), the fleet will head for Sao Sebastio de Boa Vista, then Araras, Portel, Porto do Moz, Almeirim, Hovo Horizonte; then return on the extreme north of Marajo island, Afua. It's in this town that the Isles du Soleil Rally comes to an end, after sailing this legendary river for almost 30 days.
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Last comment in the previous Concentrator from eggwis:
Want to add that I checked in at comment 147 in the past Concentrator. Thought, ahh, I'll let it go another hour or so...and maybe three or four more comments will happen, and I can flip to a new Concentrator when we get to 150 comments.
The many posts in the several months that I've been reading the APCs that belittle lithium ion tell me that a lot of posters think it actually IS a material threat to PbC. Not necessarily now, but maybe sometime sooner than is comfortable. I know that in my own life, when a threat is meaningless, I may mention it once, then toss it aside. I don't see that here. Hopefully, TG humbly worries about every threat. I love my investments' managers to do just that.
Li-ion may continue to creep down in price, and creep up in performance. But with highly-refined materials being such a big part of their costs, and those prices more likely to rise long-term than decrease, it's hard to see, without some step change improvement, how Li-ion could kill PbC. To me they just occupy different spaces. That said, it is troubling how Li-ion always seems to get the love and attention.
I think talking about lithium-ion is a general theme throughout these APC's because it is one of the leading alternative forms of energy storage. There might be a little bit of, perhaps, animosity toward the fact it has received all the government funding and hype -- stock hype, while Axion and the PbC quietly suffer, plugging away at progress on its own merits.
Li-ion is something of a threat to Axion IMO simply because government policy has, and continues to, both discourage use of lead and encourage Li-ion. Both policy tracks have slowed development of PbC product markets and increased cost of capital to Axion. As a commercial competitor to PbC, though, I do not see Li-ion as a threat due to a host of considerations. Lithium is highly reactive as I understand it which IMO makes it a far more hazardous material to work with and use. Use of Li-ion generally entails greater capital investment and ongoing variable expense on supporting/complementary materials and systems. Lithium is presently not recyclable and expanded domestic use will substitute one dependence on foreign suppliers for another.
Lithium-ion is a fine battery chemistry and there will always be a big place for it in the market because it's the only sensible choice when size and weight are mission critical. It is not, however, a new technology. The manufacturing process has already benefitted from over 20 years of refinement by the best manufacturers in the world. The only substantive difference in the new generation of cells is a larger cell format that may give rise to some packaging economies but won't change the fundamental materials and manufacturing processes.
"Lithium-ion is a fine battery chemistry and there will always be a big place for it in the market because it's the only sensible choice when size and weight are mission critical. "
There are no shortages of lithium deposits, but there are shortages of deposits that have been turned into mines. The difference between the two, of course, is about a decade and a billion or so dollars.
A comment:
In South America there are two large deposits litium: Salar-Oyuni in Bolivia and Chile Salar de Atacama (I was there in December).
In Bolivia's government is reluctant to start exploration and only the Atacama is active. The Oyuni is largest than the Atacama.
In my opinion I do not see that the Bolivian government to change its way of thinking in the short term. They prefer to see the litium buried under the earth that improving the welfare of his country.
I would not be surprised at all to see lithium "do a PbC", that is, achieve a similar breakthrough in a mature product. Tons of $ going into its R&D. I'm no scientist nor engineer, but looks like a promising area of research is in enhancing the structure of the lithium (e.g., more surface area, but one that doesn't crumble). So, the same package holds a lot more charge, or any combo of that. Conceptually similar to the carbon part of PbC, I'd guess.
The PbC was only possible because R&D on lead-acid batteries came to a screeching grinding halt in the late 70s when the focus shifted from starting cars to powering portable electronics. For a couple of decades, nothing of substance went on in lead-acid R&D while amazing advances were made in nano-carbons and other materials for devices like lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors.
people tend to lump lithium ion batteries in with the tech they power, and then expect the same kind of whole scale changes/ pace in application. i see lithium ion batteries developing like lead batteries.
I have been looking for a place to stuff my following thoughts but I just have not been able to find an opportune time so I will just say it here. In light of a lot of other energy companies like Xide, Ener1, A123, Beacon, Tesla etc. we have seen either buckle completely or begin to buckle or at least falter badly under the guidance of their management, I thought now would be a fine time to speak about this.
I'll drink to that JA! Management's character can make or break any company. I don't care how big or how *well heeled* it may be.
Over the years I've come to believe that new businesses rarely *fail,* because the entrepreneurs that start them *surrender* first.
The cigar company was a clean public shell that I bought before I knew that Axion existed. I bought the shell after prior management had taken the cigar company through a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. My search for a clean operating company to put into my shell is what ultimately led me to Axion.
Hi JP,
There are two classes of worker bees in the world. Those who work because they have to and those who work because they love what they do and couldn't imagine sacrificing the joy of accomplishing something worthwhile. I believe 60 is the new 40 and most of my contemporaries feel the same way. Baby boomers will write new rules for retirement just like we did for everything else. The one thing we won't do is glibly expect our kids to pay for our dotage because we really do understand that the numbers can't work, even if the politicians swear they will.
Thanks JP,
D Mc, I don't recall ever having stated that TG did work for Tamboril. The bio does state that he served as a director of Tamboril from 2004. I'm not privy to the time line of what transpired, when, nor do I care.
Tom and I had nothing to do with the cigar business, which went bankrupt in April 2000. I bought control in January 2003, spent a year doing clean-up work and searching for an acquisition, and closed the reverse merger with Axion on December 31, 2003. The Axion designated board of directors was appointed on February 2, 2004 – http://1.usa.gov/wR01UN
Jakurz, I totally agree with you that management is the most vital factor to consider when making long term investment decision, however, usually it is also very difficult for an investor can get clear and reliable info on it. In my case, I get Axion Power's manaement and leadership info mostly from JP's posts. Is it the same case for you or you have other sources? (Fyi, In the case of aircraft design, it is required that any indication/signal must have at least two information sources for the sake of safety)
What I suggest people do is go to the management section of the latest proxy statement – http://1.usa.gov/rscz7P – read the biographies of management and then do Google searches for combinations of names. It's not complicated, it just takes a little work.
Hi Frrat,
You're right Frrat. I've learned far more about Axion's management from JP than I ever would have learned just digging around on my own, and I'm pretty sure that that is a big part of my feeling very comfortable with my investment; i.e. if JP is comfortable, then I should be as well. He knows worlds more about it than I do and I'm pretty sure that is skin in the game is in another world from mine as well!
Regarding management decisions, it gives pause for concern when Envia's management reworks a Lux research report graphic to suit their needs: Link to JP's instablog.
The demonstrated tenacity and commitment of Axion's leadership is indeed an awesome thing to behold. These gents have been at this what, the better part of a decade now? Investing a significant portion of their lives and fortunes into this enterprise. Evidently they don't seem to think it's a waste of their time. Now, perhaps much the same could be said for the good people of Beacon, Ener1, AOne, even Tesla, who are all trying hard too, but you'll notice our guys have done it without any big DOE love money, and unlike many other boats, have thus far kept our ship well off of the rocks. All in all I think this crew will see us through.
Here's an interesting article I dug up. It's old (May 2011) but I thought some of you may enjoy it. I used BW's search to see if it had been posted previously, but found nothing. IINM, it is pre-APC.
eggwis, great find and it doesn't predate the APC's by much...
Energy will always be a tough nut to crack because it's a function of the amount of chemically active lead in the battery. When you take out a mess of the chemically active lead and replace it with carbon, total energy has to suffer. Those kinds of trade-offs are very common in the battery industry.
I remember this article. Especially the parts about the auto market. The word "several" stuck out to me as well. Makes one wonder if the auto sales really won't occur before 2014 like many have suggested. I think/hope BMW might come in sooner than that.
Model years in the auto industry are different from calendar years. For instance, action which affects model year 2014 would have to take place and be complete in 2013, so that the new model could be introduced by Q4 2013.
The decision to use Maxwell and Continental's dual device system in Peugeot's 2011 MY diesel micro-hybrids was announced in October 2010.
This isn't typical auto industry behavior, John. BMW, for instance, just announced the new engine for one of their 2013 SUV models (the hook being that it will get better fuel economy), which won't be introduced to the market for another 9 months.
The February 9th balance was their last reported balance. While Quercus is not perfect when it comes to reporting all trades within two business days after the trade date, they're generally within a few days of being current. Given Quercus' history, I'd be surprised to learn that they'd made substantial unreported sales.
In HTL's "FWIW" category, if anyone is interested, the Quercus shares sold, as reported in the February 9, 2012, Form 4 totaled roughly 37k shares at $.43.
They are making a big deal out of this battery in my neck of the woods but I wonder how many years it will be till this thing is production and also if it will have the "bricking" problem.
"When commercialized, Envia says the 400 wh/kg battery, with a range of 300 miles and a cost of about $25,000, will slash the price of electric vehicles and make them more affordable for mainstream consumers."
Where's the Batteries?
The most recent estimate I remember is that the neg electrode production equates to about 100 battery capability per line (Gen2) per shift [see Futurist in Conc'37, http://seekingalpha.co... and the "dwell" calc discussions].
Thus every month they could make two 1MW PowerCubes, per line per shift. They also make batteries for potential clients, so that cuts the potential, but they could run two more shifts if they felt it was worth making these speculatively, or to order.
If you use the most recent Sandia system cost estimates, a 1 MW PowerCube will cost about $400,000 for the control electronics and another $330,000 for the batteries. Toss in another $70,000 for containerization and shipping and you're looking at an $800,000 cash outlay. That's a huge amount of money to spend before you have a buyer lined up and willing to write a check.
But it can generate income and act as a marketing show-piece, so there are offsets and other "budgets" to consider. And if the lines aren't used, isn't that a waste of fixed costs? But there is a limit I agree.
Putting units out for demonstration is an immense consumer of cash, even if those units will return the capital investment over a period of three or four years. So is selling products at a loss to generate more public exposure. Many Axionistas were upset when Axion raised $9 million on terms they thought unattractive. It would have been disastrous if Axion had raised $19 or $29 million so that it could throw PR products out for the world to kick the tires.
Hi, agree with your 24 months (NS) or 30 (BMW) good news period, but there is a horizon of test with a calendar with certain objectives to meet let´s say 100,000 full charges with 8% max.degradation for example...so there MUST BE a calendar and a date where Axion will know "officially" a result and a decision.
JP...I disagree with you here....IF, the PC works as planned, then we need to get some out and let them prove themselves....you just can't keep waiting, waiting, testing, testing, for the home run.
The PC at the navy zero emission building, although a sale, seems also to be a test platform for navy. There is also the PC at the Axion HQ, which I believe is still being used as a test bed: if I remember correctly were going to use it to collect further data and also eventually ramp up output. Gives a chance for Viridity and PJM to further validate it for marketing efforts.
To me that would be a bad business decision. They have demonstration units going on with BMW, NS, GM, PJM as well as other unnamed OEM's -- what "advertising" have they received from this testing and demonstrations that makes you believe that it is worth them spending another couple million dollars on PowerCube demonstration units to give away? Which will cause them to have to do another capital raise a quarter or two earlier.
jakurtz: re "They have demonstration units going on with BMW, NS, GM, PJM as well as other unnamed OEM's", but these are virtually meaningless in terms of "by example" marketing as nothing has arisen, yet.
A pretty girl handing out free samples may work in the grocery store, but it gets no traction with top tier manufacturers who incorporate batteries in their products or top line customers who use batteries in their businesses. Those companies all have specific processes they follow for system-wide purchasing and there is no way to circumvent that process. The PbC is already in the hands of the creme de la creme who are apparently quite happy with the results they're getting. Bush league promotional stunts will not accelerate the process.
I have to side with JP on this one. Producing demo PCs @ $800k a pop is very expensive marketing, particularly in lieu of the fact that you just raised $9-10mil to keep your ship afloat for the next year.
eggwis: I think there is a more positive view to be had on your objections....
The upfront cost is to be mostly recovered in this suggestion (else I wouldn't go with it), so it seems like a better use of the money than keeping it in the bank.
So Ford and Toyota might want batteries, great, run some more shifts, but what's been made wouldn't affect what can be made and this demo unit, or three, could/would be a speculative build using idle shift time, reducing fixed cost averages.
Jak & jlyleluce...you are right on the Navy, but that is just one small unit....Jak, to me the BMW, GM, NS is NOT demo projects. This info in guarded and only inclusive to AXPW and each individual company. We do not know anything now about NS, the 999 is sitting still & has been until the EPA is done, and it is obvious that NS higher priorities is the new bio-diesel and the new loco's with multiple engines for better fuel consumption/mpg. That only leaves the PC at AXPW and the Navy yard for the grid...and we are expecting auto's to be another 1-3 years out maybe....it's too early to talk about it, too much can happen, but your going to get another capital raise before auto's come online. Do you want it to fund sales or leases that generate income and will eventually pay out in 3-5 years or just to buy time on HOPE? that's the question.
Don't anyone get me wrong, I have way too much invested here to think the PbC does not make it... my point is that time & delays in market acceptance is sometimes not in your best interest. $2-3 million could be well spent if it means acceptance or not.
With due respect we have no earthly idea what NS is doing or where they're doing it. In every NS discussion TG has spoken of work in New Castle, Roanoke and Penn State. NS' VP of Operations is giving industry presentations bragging on the PbC. The other initiatives you've mentioned are important to NS, but not competitive with what they hope to accomplish with the PbC. I love reading tea leaves when there are enough tea leaves to read, but I'm very cautious about declaring that a conculsion is obvious when it flies in the face of more probative facts.
John, in the last concentrator, you said: "It's taken eight years of concentrated effort to optimize electrode performance and figure out how to manufacture the beast in volume with consistent quality. In computer-speak, the Gen1 electrode line was an Alpha production line, the Gen2 electrode line was a Beta production line and the Gen3 electrode line will be the first truly commercial manufacturing process."
In a couple conference calls Tom has spoken of how they added a couple workstations to the Gen2 line so that it would run at the proper speed.
Thought folks might enjoy this. I will not participate in any resulting political discussion.
(AXPW): Lures dangled by market-maker(s) today at $0.4098 - two batches of 2x100. Interesting to me that both occurrences are in the same *second*. I'm guessing that a market-maker trying to drum up business by selling 100 shares to himself, leaving him both short and long 100, and then buys it back, leaving him net-zero on both sides.
Now 2*10K bid at .40, but a 40K offer at .42 (PERT) above the best offer might be a ceiling today, considering there's at least 17K more to work though before hitting it plus the fact that we've only done 20.25K so far.
OT: Warren Buffet's latest shareholder letter.
Always an interesting read.
Some good info on BNSF & Mid-America Energy
It really is reminiscent of the Mexican Standoff at the end of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Think of Clint Eastwood as the buyer, Lee Van Cleef as the market maker and Eli Wallach as the seller.
When Axion eventually has some inventory to sell to willing buyers, attached is an interesting view on Exide's inventory woes !
Went for a drive today to get away from the computer and there was a big road sign, all by itself, that read in large letters "QUERCUS"- an advertisement for a furniture store in Cannes. Can't believe this was just a random event and isn't part of some grand scheme of the greater universe that was pointed out only to yours truly to let me know that Quercus will be filing another Form 4 shortly. What a promising sign! Pun intended.
Sorry. It is a slow day. HTL gets messages through his tin foil hat, and I through billboards.
HTL ... have you been consulting on the side?
Should be available here in a few more days (8 days after air date)
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MAP: Not *all* small trades are MM ... "inspired". And with the typical volume I see on AXPW I don't *think* a market-maker would do their "fishing" with 500 shares - risk of getting caught in a "liquidity trap" might be too high.
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I *believe* that it's one of the strategies used to garner some business.
- generate some volume (how they make most of their money),
- *maybe* move some shares at a slightly higher price, to satisfy some sell orders,
- and/or move some shares either stuck in their portfolio or move shares they know will be coming in from previous sell orders received which they naked-shorted into the market.
Data hot off the presses--short interest at 2/15/2012 was 28,455 shares:
A different take on "distributed generation" ... coming to Africa.
Saw http://tinyurl.com/7jg... referenced on the Motley Fool battery discussion board. Among other things, the reference reports,
>D-inv ... That is an amazing claim and would be a big advance. Let's just see if it takes only 1.5 years to get into production. If this is really true and I were DOE, I'd pull all other funding tomorrow unless it was in support of this prototype going head to head with all other comers.
Color me skeptical for the decade, unless Envia is willing to license their technology to somebody who already has a battery fab. "We could be in automotive production in a year and a half," call that early 2014 to be safe. Now add a minimum of three years of automaker testing before the cells are approved for use in a vehicle and another couple years to build a plant.
Envia - Do you feel lucky?
Ranking Li-ion battery developers on Lux Innovation Grid:
siliconhillbilly, contributorI see a lot of sloppy language thrown about in battery news and promo blurbs. "cell cost" vs "pack cost" are often used interchangeably in articles. They aren't even close to the same animal.
siliconhillbilly, contributor>JP : Oh yes. I read and I believe, oh wise one.
I don't expect to see the same kind of price collapse in lithium-ion batteries because the materials that go into the batteries have lots of high value alternative uses and nobody can sell for a nickel, buy for a dime and make it up on volume. I think the plants will simply be shuttered.
It will be interesting to see what commercialization path they choose. It's pretty clear that all they've done so far is build a couple prototypes and have them tested. We were there with Axion in 2003. The gulf between an amazing prototype and a manufacturable product is wide and deep. Even really smart people underestimate the challenges. I wish Envia well, but think it will take far longer than they anticipate.
Two of the graphs indicate that the discharges were 80% DoD rather than 100% DoD. They also note that the discharges were C/3.
IMO a good bit of "new" tech battery PR is aimed at 1) drumming up retail interest in anticipation of a security offering and/or 2) delaying go ahead decisions by potential customers for purchase of competing tech systems. Commitment to alternative systems by significant players in target markets is death knell to lots of "better mouse traps."
Oooh! Good thought D-Inv. I'd never considered that.
(AXPW): 2/27/2012 EOD stuff I've been tracking.
HTL, some TFH research:
Good stuff! ...but I can't believe MIT students would have time to play like that, so I have to agree with HTL that there is something diabolical in the works.
Through 12:30 buys 11,939, sells 103,108 for a ratio of 1:8.64.
Maya...you will love this!
Greening the Grid: LightSail Aims To Make Power Cleaner By Making Energy Storage Cheap
At the risk of asking a possible repetitive question...comments?
Mathematicians help me out here.
If Natural Gas peaker plants make energy at $.15 per kh. How do you compute the kh storage cost of a PowerCube that can store the energy (do the same job) and pay for itself behind the meter.
The calculations are all over the place depending on the assumptions you use. A favorite seems to be that the electricity that goes into storage is *free* and the electricity coming out of storage is *expensive.* A more likely outcome is that the electricity going into storage is *relatively cheaper* and the electricity coming out of storage is *relatively more expensive,* and the net value of the storage is the *spread reduced by storage losses.*
2. Arbitrage gains from storing power during low cost periods and using it during high cost periods;
3. Reducing utility demand charges by shaving peaks;
4. Avoided fuel costs associated with backup generation;
5. Reducing direct costs of power interruptions; and
6. Heaven knows what else.
I think some people do not understand a basic fact about the PbC. It is not a commodity product like a standard 12V battery. In order to benefit from the PbC in an application the end user must design and build systems specifically for the PbC.
You've raised a critical point Bang. The PbC is a truly unique energy storage device and manufacturers need to spend a lot of time testing and evaluating before they hitch their wagon to a rising star; but in the battery world devices that offer a 500% improvement in cycle life and a 1000% improvement in charging performance come along once in a lifetime.
Bang one of your best posts ever. I hope to read more insights like this one. The upside it that when someone does commit to Axion there will be too much invested to have a quick annulment. The courtship might take years but the relationship will be much stronger for the effort. With Axion it's a when not an if. This team will find pay dirt before all is said and done. Might not be in 2012 but even if stock tripled this year very few Axionista would sell based on the long term outlooks I've seem espoused on these boards.
You might want to consider expanding that thought just a bit and offering it to Maya as a lead-in article for the next Concentrator.
Excellent comments and agree with this:
"The machines have been designed and built, but without the right battery they'll never reach the market"
In my opinion: BMW will come with PbC and all the toys (SS, regenerative braking, etc.) together and the impact will be higher and savings also.
bang: re "Quit trying to think they can build some "sample" PowerCubes and hand them out like a new flavor candy bar." It's a somewhat demeaning comparison I think that doesn't quite fit.
And besides that, we're really talking control electronics here not the batteries - so we need a few different "interface units", with some reconfigurability, to suit different requirements, I would hope these are already in-hand.
After all, as JP said: "The PECC is also technology agnostic and can accommodate a wide variety of input devices including grid, solar and wind and a comparably wide variety of storage devices including zinc bromine, lithium, lead, supercapacitors or almost anything the customer needs. It's a sensible approach in an industry where every application has different needs." - maybe ZBB could sort it out for us instead if Axion can't handle the customer liaison and preparation work needed. Even a new candy bar goes through quite a lengthy "user group" analysis before anyone tries handing out free samples.
Bang's comment is not demeaning. The PbC's future lies in completely new devices that manufacturers want to take to market or put in service, but can't until they find a better battery.
John, in all due respect, and trust me I respect you and the work you alone have done for this company and this concentrator and numerous articles.
But at times you talk out of both sides just to defend an opinion that demo's are not good. We have a PC, attached to the grid thru PJM utility co. & Viridity management software....there are numerous other plants in the same area with the same interface....it does not have to be altered much if any. One of the advantages is that it just sorta plugs in and can even be mobile. So each PC does not have to be different unless going into a different market such as grid vs. train, vs. auto.
Auto's and rail are different than grid apps. So your argument holds true in this sense, but I don't think so on the grid side. If each grid company has to be different then we need to build one and put it to the test just like the one at AXPW factory. What we did at the Navy building is basically what me and Dave have suggested. There was not enough $$$ in that "one project" to pay shipping, but it moved the stock price and gives insight for more business in the future. I also think it will prove it's worth as a viable product with a viable market. Prove me wrong as I have made many mistakes in my life.
>LT ... I don't know if this covers it, but even in grid applications, "samples" aren't all that practical. Even though the batteries are the same, it is easy to assume that is where 'sameness' ends. Each business will have a different power use profile and thus the inverters/transformers will be different almost every time. The BMS and/or the software may need to be tailored to each power profile. There is considerable cost in engineering associated with those "samples".
I will polish it up for a future header if Maya asks, but I can't do it for the next concentrator. Most of you know I have to care for my 92 year old bedridden, blind mother. The job has worn me out lately and today is my afternoon off. I get out from 1 PM to 8PM once a week as my only respite. I'll would also like to respond to Dave T's comment. He's not entirely wrong in my view, but I would like to comment as thoughtfully as I can to what he said.
Can't you guys understand that we aren't talking of building a one time sample, you build one for a huge market potential,
John, you are bound to win an argument if you go solely for the non sequitur by picking on NS and BMW-type applications, which I agree are a different kettle of fish, but in all the related comments I have talked exclusively about PCs.
this is an interesting debate, but I wonder if we are not getting a bit ahead of ourselves.
The PowerCube has been in existence as a product for three months.
SMaturin: The existing PowerCube is a half megawatt. The PowerCube is "scaleable" to 20 Megawatts. With the software already developed and working, your "Lego-fied" system is not far from becoming a reality.
siliconhillbilly, contributorI'm going to toss in a nickle here.
John: It sounds like you are talking about a chicken/egg thing. So, it would seem that manufacturers will have to design new products totally from scratch to fully utilize, and thus justify the cost of, the PbC. For a car, that's easily a multi-year process, but for simpler products, a year might be a reasonable minimum. Given the costs involved, as you say later on, manufacturers are going to want to touch and feel the PbC in real-world situations before making such a commitment. So, it might be safe to say, that this product development process hasn't even begun and probably won't happen in earnest for several more years. So, with the possible exception of BMW, we might be a very long ways away from the automotive market.
The automakers have already designed and are currently selling vehicles with mechanical systems that are far more powerful than their batteries can support. They're putting those vehicles on the road with the best available technology knowing full well that all their fine engineering work will be inoperable within a few months.
On a lighter note, every time I think of marketing and Vani, this tune goes through my head. Just substiitute "Vani" for the name (won't spoil it). link: http://bit.ly/yAFvlu
As long as we're resetting the tone, let me add that Axion is looking to hire a Controller, with a resume submission deadline of today, whose experience must include "at least 5 years ... in a manufacturing company of at least $50 million in revenue."
Announcement of the hire? For that, I would think it may take awhile after the submission deadline given it's for a big position, but Bang would know a lot more about that.
I am not sure how that works, but I am sure that he is talking about different markets such as grid, auto, rail, etc. that he could customize the battery on some scale (not sure how much) to maximize it's potential for one particular mkt. Not necessarily from one factory to another.
Onward we go to the next Concentrator:
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#19672 closed Bug (fixed)
Negated Q objects over nullable joins result in invalid SQL
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Using the following set of models:
from django.db import models class A(models.Model): value = models.IntegerField(null=True) class B(models.Model): a = models.ForeignKey(A) class C(models.Model): b = models.ForeignKey(B, null=True)
The query C.objects.filter(~Q(b__a__value=42)) fails with the following error:
DatabaseError: no such column: testapp_b.value
The SQL generated is:
SELECT "testapp_c"."id", "testapp_c"."b_id" FROM "testapp_c" LEFT OUTER JOIN "t estapp_b" ON ("testapp_c"."b_id" = "testapp_b"."id") LEFT OUTER JOIN "testapp_a" ON ("testapp_b"."a_id" = "testapp_a"."id") WHERE NOT (("testapp_a"."value" = 42 AND NOT ("testapp_b"."id" IS NULL) AND "testapp_b"."value" IS NOT NULL))
The problem is caused by the last WHERE condition, which is incorrectly filtering on the "value" column in the testapp_b table (where it does not exist) instead of in the testapp_a table.
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Changed 4 years ago by ikelly
comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by ikelly
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The bug seems to happen because a local variable gets clobbered in the Query.add_filter method. I've uploaded a patch and tests to fix this.
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by akaariai
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The patch looks good to me.
What versions to patch? I think 1.4 is out of reach, this isn't a crashing or data loss bug.
1.5 is technically also in "crash, data-loss, security, regression" fixes only as it is in RC, but as we are going to do RC2 and the patch is as safe as they get, IMO master + stable/1.5.x seems like the correct way.
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by ikelly
That sounds reasonable to me.
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The player does not work in iOS when on sermons page, but does play when on an individual sermon page.
Any ideas?
Is this when using the shortcode?
No on the view that came with plugin which we have copied into our theme, so we could adjust main container div name, but that is all.
It works on single sermon page.
Temporarily have removed player completely and relying on html5 browser native players.
Could you open an issue on bitbucket or message me there with a url?
I'll need to set it up on another test site, as the site in question we have now removed the player and just using html browsers default which works.
Could do with easy way of disabling or replacing media element player. Just edited code for now.
Might want to check your link URL when you are adding the mp3. Mine was set to to "Attachment Post URL" by default. Clicking "File URL" set it to link to the actual mp3 file.
Thank you, thank you, thank you mossalot! I have been searching on and off for 3 days trying to figure out why my audio would not play. I could see the player, but nothing happened when I hit the play button. I just re-attached the mp3's using "File URL" and it's all working perfectly now. What a relief!
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- Finding photos by keywords, tags, and ratings
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Another way to organize view and share photos is by location, using a map in the Organizer. To access the map, I'm going to go to the top of the Organizer to the Window menu and I'll choose Show Map. And by the way, the Show Map command has moved from where it was in previous versions of Elements in the Display menu over here to the Window menu. To allocate more room to this map, I'm going to close the task pane on the right. By moving my mouse over the border between the task pane and the Photo Browser and clicking and then I'll move to the border between the map and this list of files, and I'll click on that border and drag to the right.
I can view this map in standard Map View like this or I can come down to this button and I can change it to Satellite to see a Satellite View or Hybrid to see the Satellite View with the map superimposed on it. I'm going to zoom in on New Mexico, which is where I took the photos that you see on the right in the Photo Browser. I will get the Zoom In tool right here and then I'll click on New Mexico several times. A quick way to add photos to the map is to drag-and-drop them from the Photo Browser on the right onto the map.
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I'm not sure whether I should post this question here or under the plugins section.
I am using a couple of plugins. I have noticed now that I am having problems with 3 plugins from lesterchan.net
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With regards to the third plugin : WP-Polls, I cannot add/change/manage the polls. When I try to save changes, I'm being redirected to /wp-admin/admin.php, which just goes blank and stays blank.
I am running wordpress on windows server 2008. Everything else runs fine.
I have posted this issue on the lesterchan.net forum, but they basically said : it's a problem with WP or another plugin
I'm a novice when it comes down to WP, but I can read code (and I should be able to understand php).
Can anyone explain me (high-level) on where and how to start with troubleshooting and fixing this ?