If (local/state/nation) governments were focusing, all vehicles that had a low co2/distance rating per region would get subsidy. This would make diesels the best bet because they are by far the cheapest co2 reduction per dollar spent. People/governments have a limited amount of money, we should do the most good with it.

go ahead flamod me as I crashed in flames on the last ev article, but yes if you live in a few select areas (80% of the world dosent) or have a custom solar installation then yes electric is the best for the enviorment. Power plants take decades to plan and build it's likely your area has no plans on upgrading (mine dosent). Hybrids are great co2/dist but still cost too much - around half of people can't spend 30k a car. However give the same 7-10k subsidy to a clean diesel - a 5k usd diesel would get everyone lining up to buy.

Do your calculations include the cost of a replacement battery?

Great to source, not so great to recieve. Unless you are really into that kind of thing.

IANAPA but from my take, yes thr cardboard units are infringing. Granted I only read the claims in apples patent once the first time around when it was posted a few days ago.

My last rough count of ruined kickstarter projects is 4. Few things are sadder than a multibillion dollar international company serving cease and desist letters to fledgling startups who operated in good faith with due diligence. Ahh apple, will you use your 6+ to capture the exact moment you broke that 22yr old business owners heart?

Apple arguably has the best layer dream team in the world. With these things it comes down to money, not facts or laws. Also with that 2008 filing date 7 years ago they should be able to patent troll with the best.

Naw not frankensteinish at all. They didn't even use any bolts. It's more of A island of DR. Moreau kind of mad scientist experiment.

Voted #1 most realistic movie of all time, gatacca may become reality. http://news.moviefone.com/2011...

Far from a fear of genetic tampering, bigger boobs and blonde hair will quickly devolve into less important things like health, lifespan, and more intelligence. But don't worry my non-augmented friends, while you won't be able to vote, hold a job, or hold any preferred life form rights, our kind masters still allow us to serve them. Isn't that enough?

While i do hope it comes to being able to service economy electrics as cheaply as gas models, it isn't probably for 20 years minimum as you say, perhaps longer - i hope we both see that day. Until then i expect electric cars to be like printers where its almost a better idea to buy a new car than replace the battery. At least in a hybrid replacing the battery isn't too important, it's a base 40mpg economy gas vehicle. However, at the risk of you will not like it (been modded down quite a bit) for a fixed amount of money, for perhaps 80-85% of the worlds population, the best thing people can do to reduce co2 isn't electrics its economy gas or even better modern diesel. Hybrids are good, even better than electrics for co2 per mile in 85-90% of the world, but simply cost too much.

sadly we don't see subsidy for vehicles based on co2 per distance in each region, 10k usd modern economy diesels (with a 7-10k subsidy to get them there) would do the most good for the most people until the electrics and hybrids make more sense. If you live in a few select places in Europe, have a 50-100k usd solar installation (which subsidy for is great) that's great electrics are the best choice for the enviornment. Sadly when science is overridden by media and manufacturer hype, even people who don't think critically here on /. we all seem to lose.

Those are some valid points. I really hope the giant battery factory in the works brings down the price on all lithium batteries. However, even economy electric cars have 10k usd battery packs - for the low end cars it's a major percentage of the vehicle. Additionally while you may not 'need' one your already low end range will be reduced by a significant amount. It's pretty amazing they get nearly the same technology that lasts 3-5 years in a phone or laptop and extend it to 8 but honestly it's pretty likely people will abandon perfectly good older economy electrics due to the massive battery replacement costs.

Not at all. You Are about a hundred billion years premature. Right now dark energy is having a negligible effect, only just now accelerating the expansion noticably in recent cosmological time. the main effect is the hypothetical light cone from the Big Bang to the present - nearly the same as the last scattering neutrino surface. The visible universe (visible light after reionizarion) is not 'expanding' but previously disconnected locations in space time (last connected only during inflation) are coming into view at light speed. Thus each second we can see farther. At this point in time it has almost zero to do with any expansion or space injection. It's something that is mis-represented to the masses and is a common mis conception. As an example your own two eyes see different 'observable' universes - each can 'see' a few inches beyond the others visible universe.

What's the new name for someone who wears this product?

The visible universe is slightly smaller than the hypothetical light cone originating at the time of the big bang. The last neutrino scattering surface is closer to this hypothetical size. The hypothetical light cone is what defines the surface area of the universe, inflationary models, relativity, etc all show how the shape and size of the visible universe is observer dependent.

that said the 10km cubes come from the free energy associated with representing a classical definate spatial location of all the stars with respect to independent observers. The number of states does scale with temperature but no case is given for discarding other normal warm matter in the universe - making the framework sloppy at best in my opinion.

If you mean a single measurement of velocity there are numerous examples. One being a radar gun. You send out a known frequency of photons, they are reflected by the object being measured, and the difference in frequency is measured. The velocity stretches or compresses the reflection. This could be done with a single photon.

What you posted is correct. However for technology that evolves continuously, such as the bluetooth standard/hardware, the cip effectively continues the original filing date in spirit as backward compatability and older standards become irrelevant to the market. It's often done in layers every few years as well. It kind of comes down to the if you gradually replace each part in a ship is it the same ship argument, there are those who say it is.