I was told by an Amercian, that you tend not to use knives; ie that many of you only use a fork at the dinner table? Is that true?
If any cutting your food requires can be done with the edge of your fork, why would you want a knife? Perhaps for pushing food onto the fork, but in many cuisines and dishes there's some sort of bread for that purpose.
Let's say since greens are in season now, I cook a HUGE 6-7QT pot of greens, Basically the only fat in the thing is 1lb of Andouille sausage. This pot will easily be 6-10 portions/meals. Granted this is a simple dish with few ingredients, but what about the same size pot of mushroom chili?
If you're serious, the nerd answer is that you go download the sr27 nutrient content of foods database, stuff it into a database, and then come up with some way to query it. I downloaded the ascii, used phpmyadmin to stuff it into mysql, then I used the Views Database Connector and Views Field View modules (along with Views, of course) to query those database tables. That way it works when the 'net is down. You can always just go to the website but it seemed so retarded to have to look up everything across the internets every time. The database will tell you that x volume is approximately y mass and has approximately z amount of total carbs, fiber, fat, etc — down to all the known micronutrients.
The thing is...I rarely cook anything simple with an easy to find and read ingredients list, It would take forever to figure what the calories and all were from what I cook since so much of it is fresh vegetable and meat based, etc.
You have to mix your food on or across a scale. It's an added step, but it's not impossible. I made Atkins baking mix from their publicly available recipe, with some tweaks to include coconut flour. I put a bowl on a scale and measured the amounts in grams, and then I was able to figure out that a low-carb waffle has about 20g of net carbs (less fiber) if I make it with a non-nutritive sweetener, e.g. a mix of monk fruit and stevia extracts, based on 1-1/4c of mix and one egg.
Yeah, it's extra work. But let's not pretend that it can't be done.
If grey goo replicators were possible, evolution would have already created them.
Yes, that's why nature created the iWatch.
The iWatch is a fragile thing that won't last very long without specialized maintenance, replacement parts, et cetera. Grey goo replicators have to get energy from somewhere. Where? A more credible threat is a more special-purpose malicious mite, and since there are already precedents in nature (viruses, bacteria, small insects, etc) which have been shown to be effective against large and complex organisms, it ought to be highly believable.
The organisms which can break down anything are readily out-competed by a variety of organisms which between them can break down anything. And that's why grey goo is not a credible threat.
Resource conflicts are typically about the resources you want not the resources you need. If you had been given nothing but gruel to eat and you saw someone have a food fight with cake who told you that there was none available for you to eat because it was all for playing you would be mad despite having all the resources you need to live.
Au contraire, the fed rarely revolt.
That is the crux of the problem, that you do not care. To you this is unimportant, and should not matter. You are incapable of believing that it COULD matter.
Oh no. Many of us are capable of suspending disbelief that far. I could even write a little story about it. But it would be fiction.
It's less to do with planned obsolescence and more to do with the fact lithium cells of almost any kind tolerate very little overcharge before there is a fire.
Too bad so many of these cheap chargers will crank your 16850s to 4.2 volts.
yes i googled this ev post vehicle nonsense and all i found were feel good political bs and almost no detail or facts or evidence.
You were expecting their business plan?
They would be better off simply reprocessing the materials and starting over.
That might be true. Citation?
So no source then.
If you're half as clever as you think you are, you can google up the information about how this is the plan for recycling Leaf packs.
Simply hooking up a new pack or replacing a damaged cell has multiple problems as you need to reset the smart battery firmware (not available over smbus via the laptop) and replacing a single cell throws off the cell balancing (among other things) quite badly. You basically are fucked and need an entirely new battery or years of experience in hacking battery systems and programming firmware.
Yes, because they are designed to fail and to generate additional sales. What about the el cheapo replacements which don't even have a programmed maximum lifetime? Are they as bitchy about replacing cells? Because let's face it, there's absolutely no reason for them to be. A proper balance charger will effectively evaluate cell condition on every single charge.
Anyway, I'm not rebuilding packs, just repurposing cells for other things. And there's nothing stopping anyone from testing cells' charge/discharge profiles and building packs of matched cells just like we've always done.
I'm very suspicious of the idea of used battery packs being used for grid storage.
If I were designing this plan, I wouldn't literally "use used battery packs", but those packs are full of cells that I would test and reuse. I'd also design the pack to be convenient to stuff with new cells.
Way to show your ignorance, fuckwad.
OK, so I'm ignorant, and the summary is shit. And don't ask me to RTFA, because if it's about Facebook, I'm not going to.
I urge you to consider that Occam's Razor does not apply in the social realm, where motives are often hidden. This makes "paranoia" difficult to distinguish from "foresight".
In my personal unqualified opinion, it's like using alcohol. If there is no sign that it harms your well-being or reduces the quality of your life, then you do not have a problem. If there are such signs, then you do. In the absence of such signs, I would call it "caution".
That said, I don't know where the OP got the idea diesel was cleaner than gasoline.
Diesel is still a bit more efficient overall, start to finish. It takes less energy to produce, and you do still get more mileage from a diesel even though TGDIs are closing the gap. They thus produce less CO2/mile, though they do produce more NOx. However, they also release fewer unburned hydrocarbons, because the basic function of a diesel is to run lean all the time (hence the NOx.) They also tend to produce torque at low RPMs, where there's less loss due to friction. All this still arguably adds up to diesels being less polluting than gasoline vehicles, now that we know that the gassers produce just as much soot as the diesels.
The cleanest fuels of which I'm aware overall are butanol and methane. Butanol can be made by bacteria from any organic material, and is a 1:1 replacement for gasoline. The other stuff that comes out of the same process (ethanol and acetone) can be used to adjust octane. Butanol produces less emissions than gasoline when used as a motor fuel. Acetone is already commonly used as an octane booster and to reduce emissions during testing, although it takes quite a bit to make a significant difference. Methane is a common byproduct of decomposition in nature as is, and when you burn a gas like methane or propane in a combustion engine you substantially reduce both emissions and wear not just to the engine parts themselves (you'll never wash the walls of the combustion cylinder with methane or propane) but also to the crankcase lubricant. Since the fuel burns cleaner, the blow-by is cleaner, and the oil lasts longer. With simple and relatively minor hardware changes (mostly the addition of solenoid valves and spray nozzles, plus probably an additional computer module) engines can be made to run on both fuels, including startup.
Where does the methane come from? AIWPS. Ah, we can dream of a world gone sane.
Do you have a source?
Battery packs are made of multiple cells, not all the cells go bad at once. Break down a laptop battery sometime. You can find perfectly working cells which are actually fully charged, completely hosed cells which won't take a charge, and cells which appear to work but whose lifetime is very short. The problem is that all of these cells are wired into one pack which has a limited ability to bypass cells. In most cases the pack is only capable of ignoring groups of cells, sometimes as few as two — but it's pretty rare that a cell can actually be cut out individually. So right next to a non-working cell, there can be a cell which will be highly useful in a recycled context.
I only recently started breaking down laptop battery packs, because only recently did I get any significant number of them. My hit rate for getting good cells out of it is over 25%, and the dump takes the old cells for recycling with no fee... The Tesla in particular uses packs which are made out of 18650 cells, just like a laptop. They have slightly more expensive chemistry and a differently-shaped electrode, but you could stuff them into ultrafire flashlights like cells from laptop packs.
Internet badass here. Everybody watch out.
Ah yes, now you'll imply that I was implying violence. What an amazing coward you are. Just come out and say it, if you can.
netem provides Network Emulation functionality for testing protocols by emulating the properties of wide area networks. The current version emulates variable delay, loss, duplication and re-ordering.
Nice work, Facebook. NIH assholes.
You're confusing brain-washed with brain-dead. Different things.
They're the same in that neither person is really thinking. They're different in that brain-dead people don't bother anyone else. They just lie there and beep occasionally, or lie there and rot.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
