Comment Re:no, buying a really fuel-efficient car is green (Score 1) 482
Priuses use NiMH batteries, not lithium. They're considering offering a high-performance version that does, but the stock prius has always been a NiMH battery pack.
Priuses use NiMH batteries, not lithium. They're considering offering a high-performance version that does, but the stock prius has always been a NiMH battery pack.
The "3 million base pairs are 6 million bits" isn't because each pair has two parts, it's becuase each pair has four possibilities. 3 million digits in base 4 is equivalent to 6 million digits in base 2.
For instance, decimal 15 is "33" in base 4 and is "1111" in base 2. You could think of it as one bit for which basepair is at this point in the chain, and one bit for which orientation it's in.
The difference is ~95% efficiency in a big electric motor vs. ~20% efficiency in an internal combustion engine. Running two thermo cycles instead of one invokes Carnot twice, which with current materials caps out at a theoretical maximum of ~60%, and in practice we end up at ~30-40% efficiency for a big power plant using a steam cycle and ~20% for a gas cycle engine. Just having an internal combustion engine in the loop makes the thing around four times more expensive to run. And that's not counting any profit margin for the conversion company, either.
AZW is actually mobipocket format with a token change (Device IDs for azw allow a character that isn't allowed for mobi), which in turn is ePub packaged to fit into a palm DB.
The point that the total amount of mercury in a CFL (~5micrograms) is a little lower than the amount of mercury in five ounces of average tuna, and you're supposed to
It's also a volume of mercury several orders of magnitude smaller than that in a mercury thermometer, which is much more of a concern.
From what I can tell, this is asserting that breeder reactors can't effectively burn some of the elements that get produced, and this can. If you read carefully, they do mention that they want to do most of the reprocessing in less exotic reactors, and then just take the stuff that those can't effectively burn and "hit them with a sledgehammer", i.e. expose them to a much stronger neutron source, to burn
I'd swap over to 2.6 if you're swapping to a COM Express module - I'd worry about support for PCIe and devices based on it in 2.4, and the whole point of COM Express over other board designs is to get PCIe and other differential signaling. Also, 2.6 runs snappy on 64MB ram and a 300MHz PII - I don't remember seeing any COM Express modules with worse specs than that, and
TFA is mostly talking about there not being, for instance, a sufficient link across state boundaries - I don't think that the wind power company having to build new lines from the state in the middle of the country (where the wind is) it's generating power in to the coast of the US (where the people are) to be able to do buisiness is on the same scale as tying a plant to the grid next to it.
It's saying that "the grid" can't carry the power long-haul from sparsely populated places where there's easily collected power to densely-populated areas where there isn't, not that the local line from the wind farm is too small/too expensive.
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