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• Also, these guys are being pretty lackadaisical about their shifting, especially the 'vette driver. If he was a little quicker on his gear changes he wouldn't have lost so much time the first time around to the porsche. In reply to: "One mile, two cars, high speeds"

  July 3, 2009

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• I'd imagine the porsche is almost twice as much as the corvette. In reply to: "One mile, two cars, high speeds"

  July 3, 2009

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• Hah, are you serious? It says "Raid 0" right on it. Technically that could quadruple the speed and capacity of any one of those microSD cards. That's the point of it, and that's precisely what the bottleneck is on a lot of dSLR's, which, like you said, is the primary market for CF cards. This way instead of having to spend a pile of money on a large, fast CF (which is expensive), you can drop a bit on this adapter, and buy a ton of microSD's and put them together.
  
  Admittedly, Raid 0 will not fully quadruple the speed of any given single card, however it will be damned close. In reply to: "Get 64GB CompactFlash--via 4 microSD cards"

  June 29, 2009

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• That'll never happen, unless you want to hot-swap the entire battery compartment, because there's simply no way to charge batteries up quickly enough for the purposes of long-term racing. Maybe in a decade when lithium-sulfur batteries come out (80% charge in 10 seconds) and then someone decides to actually adopt them, but in the forseeable future... negative. In reply to: "New hybrids on the way from BMW, Toyota"

  June 29, 2009

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• There's no way that the whole wall could be active -- in Canada at least, you can only have 10 sockets per 15A circuit. Including labor and parts, the cost of this wall would be calculated out to be about $10-25k. Tack on the fact that you'd need to probably have a 200A panel put in to handle all the 15A breakers, the fact that there's simply no room for studs in that mess nor any place to actually run wire except inside the box, and you've got yourself a serious dilemma.
  
  But it does look kind of cool. :)
  
  Granted, even sparsely placing active plugs is a sound idea. But when resonant power transmission tech is mainstream, you'll just have a big copper coil behind your wall and your gadgets won't need wires whatsoever. I can't wait! In reply to: "Power outlet wall solves your electrical needs"

  June 19, 2009

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• AAAAAAahahahhahaha In reply to: "World's smallest microwave also has world's worst name"

  June 11, 2009

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• This. Is. Awesome. Who would have thought horrible bacteria + plant = plastic!? In reply to: "From sugar water to Spandex"

  June 3, 2009

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• Sorry, didn't mean cheaper to run with AC power, I meant normal AC motors are cheaper to make and therefore buy. In reply to: "SolarEdge uses chip to boost solar panel output"

  June 2, 2009

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• You raise a good point, and a few bad ones. 120VAC (or 240VAC) is so ingrained into most homes, at this point it'd be almost impossible to phase out. One of the initial reasons that we go with AC (aside from the easy voltage transformation) is that most of the major appliances in your house (fridge, air conditioner, stove, microwave) use motors that are cheaper to run with AC power. With the advent of the expensive (but rediculously efficient) brushless motor, these things could be phased out, but the cost would be astronomical. What would be nice, if possible, is to make a localized raised ground level like Phantom power in PA circuits; put a safe, low-voltage 12 or 24VDC voltage laid over the 120VAC waveform. Put DC blocking caps for your old appliances, and some sort of (more effective) inductor to block AC for your DC equipment. That way, infrastructure remains intact, and we gain the benefits of both types of power without modifying our homes (too much)... In reply to: "SolarEdge uses chip to boost solar panel output"

  June 2, 2009

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• Ethanol burns cleanly (read: no carbon monoxide) and can give as much as a 50% boost to fuel economy in cars designed for it. That's where the carbon relief is. There are also other materials that can be used to make ethanol - not just plain old sugar (corn is a standard, but there are other materials that can make this process even more efficient). That aside, if the machine could handle scrap high-sugar foods, all the wasted food from restaurants and your home could be thrown in there and turned to fuel. (Grandma's old pie that you've freezer burned to death? Feed it to the yeast!) In reply to: "Brewer to turn beer suds into car fuel"

  February 4, 2009

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