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by jtlienwis 9y ago
I did a rough calculation that the value of all solar power generated in 2018 is about the same as the value of we would get out of removing side mirrors from our cars ( about 2% gas saving due to better aerodynamics) and replacing them wit
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by jtlienwis 9y ago
Overlooked in a lot of discussion of the CO2 impact of Tesla vs ICE is the effect of the added weight of the batteries on the amount of road damage a car will cause. A study in the 1950's showed that road damage is proportional to th
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by jtlienwis 10y ago
Lets see. Intel has had an 80% market share since the days of the 8086. Yet here we are 30 years later and the cost for a transistor on the latest Intel chip are THOUSANDS of times cheaper than then. Tech has a pretty slippery slope fo
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by jtlienwis 10y ago
I think Intel had an 80% market share for all its days. Yet here we are 30 years past the 8086 days and transistors on the latest Intel chip are how many thousands of times cheaper than they were then? One big competitor in tech has to r
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by jtlienwis 10y ago
Suffering from the disease of central government. We need a telethon to stamp this disease out. Look how many were killed in the 20th century because of it. Ideology infects a people then gets turned to government implementation, and w
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by jtlienwis 10y ago
With all this happiness they need subsidies Why?
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by jtlienwis 12y ago
I believe Norway produces 140TWatt-Hr per year vs Costa Rica 9 GWatt-Hr per year. Norway produces a lot of aluminum that takes a lot of power to produce. Is this right 14 thousand times as much power generated by hydro in Norway than Cos
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by jtlienwis 12y ago
Do a Google search on "spider webs on caffeine". Over my long career as a programmer, I went from looking at caffeinated beverages as an aid to getting things done, to the discovery that I made far more programming errors under
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by jtlienwis 12y ago
I would start with Engineering Circuit Analysis by Hayt and Kemmerly.
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by jtlienwis 12y ago
I used to use the Silicon Valley bus system back in the 80's. On rainy days when you most needed the bus system to work all the Grumman buses they had then had a feature that when it rained, the electrical system would short out and
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by jtlienwis 14y ago
And once we get passsed the bidet stage then we can go on to the urine diverting toilet. Check out the latest toilet design competition run by the Gates foundation...
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by jtlienwis 14y ago
I am wondering if in a lot of code taking this inverse square root is not necessary like when calculating length = sqrt(x^2+y^2) in a lot of code, you just want to know a minimum of maximum value so getting the min or max of x^2+y^2 is what