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     Hootowl |
Article is incorrect. All model 3 vehicles have a security mode that records will all cameras giving a 360 degree view around the car. The guy didn’t have to install anything other than a thumb drive to store the video. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/dem_c andidates_trip_over_each_other_to_declare_who_will _best_destroy_the_economy.html Ned, I have a life based on truth. What's yours based on? Ad Hominem? | ||
| Aesquire |
Here ya go.... FLAME ON!!! https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a285 69610/viral-math-problem-2019-solved I have an opinion based on actually doing math for a living in an engineering, machining & statistical context. NOT a mathemetician's viewpoint. The argument that it's a badly written math problem is both true, and irrelevant. Life is full of badly written math. There are rules and orders of operations, and over rides. Because sometimes pretty don't count. I am reminded of RPN ( reverse polish notation ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notat ion But have not tried the above in RPN. Opinion? Level of fury? and... what's the answer? | ||
| Hootowl |
The answer is 1. It is not 16. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-a nd-tech/news/universe-galaxies-milky-way-hubble-na sa-discovery-breakthrough-latest-a9045951.html Crow! Told you so! Suckers! Why the unholy glee? Dark matter and dark energy. When theorists looked at the papers on how much stuff is in the Universe, it didn't match up with observed gravity papers. Not enough stuff. Calculating that the amount of not glowing dust and gases ( invisible, unless it dims blowing stuff ) sufficient to make up the difference would make other galaxies invisible, and by golly, we have pictures of lots of them, some folk invented invisible, undetectable dark matter and then that it has negative gravity effects, aka dark energy, also invisible and undetectable. Then made it Dogma. Heretics lose grants and are cast out! To even think the New Truth might be flawed is to be a pariah. The above is, for sake of brevity, oversimplified. Now? They found more glowing stuff. I don't know that dark stuff is imaginary. But it violates Occam's Razor, and looks like a cheat to the math that keeps telling us we don't understand everything yet. In a lot of ways dark stuff is cool and has enormous potential to teach us how forces we don't understand yet work. But as religious dogma instead of debated hypothesis, it's just like Global Warming or Lysenkoism. Prediction! They'll find more glowing stuff. It still won't fix the math, Because we haven't found enough. Beware of any dogma that says the science is settled. It's almost always a lie. https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/reali mpactofweatherwithdrjoelnmyers/throwing-cold-water -on-extreme-heat-hype/70008963 The U.N. group that already told us that they aren't about science, their purpose is power, want you to eat less meat. The Keto diet folk should protest them.  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7 | ||
| Ducbsa |
"Finally, there is the question of whether heat waves should be named. That’s an easy one: I oppose naming heat waves. If such warnings existed, what would be the cutoff point or the boundary line? A heat wave in one state is not in another? " The current criteria if something is to be dwelled upon is if it is happening to NYC. | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Hootowl |
Took delivery of the model 3 Monday. I have already scared myself a few times. I cannot describe how unbelievably quick it is. Throttle response is now. Acceleration is immediate and brutal. The accelerator pedal is a rheostat. Push farther, instantly go faster. With the regenerative braking effect off throttle, it feels like you’re stomping the brakes. You can literally drive this car around town without ever using the brakes except for the last 10 feet to the stop sign. The brake lights come on if you get off the throttle hard enough. It takes some getting used to. All in all, a sweet ride. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/08/ger mans-rebel-against-tax-on-meat.php https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/08/cli mate-solution-trees.php Biased editorials, | ||
| Pwnzor |
Hoot... how's the paint job on that model 3? I'm seeing a lot of orange peel when I look at them up close, which bothers me on any car. | ||
| Hootowl |
No complaints. I confess, mine is the only one I’ve taken a close look at (that’s what she said). Tesla has gone through, and will continue to go through, growing pains. They are, in my opinion, the Buell of cars. Driven by a vision, excellent pioneering engineering, small loyal customer base, some issues, but driven to fix them. If there were paint issues, I expect they’re in the past. I got the multi coat pearl white. It likely gets more attention due to the multiple layers. I don’t know, maybe the standard color paint jobs don’t get the QA the white does? Like I said though, never really looked at one. | ||
| Zac4mac |
Sunday I went to visit Lawana's Aunt Gerry, she's 97 and quite a fireball... Saw 7 Teslas in an hour of driving. Very popular out here. Saw an X model the day after they debuted... I live about 20 miles from Boulder... Z | ||
| Ducbsa |
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| Hootowl |
LOL. The power has to come from somewhere. Like I said - it has an external combustion engine. Question though: Is it more efficient to run a generator tuned to run at a fixed RPM than to burn fuel in an engine that is a compromise between peak power and a broad torque curve? Hard to say. Lots of variables. Power is cheap at the house. Those chargers cost 2-3 times more per kwh. It is possible to road trip an electric car (the newest chargers will put 150 miles of range on a model 3 in 5 minutes) but I wouldn’t do it. Not worth the hassle. Not yet, anyway. For long trips, I’ll use my jetta. Or, and here’s the more likely scenario, I’ll simply drive to the airport. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I’ll simply drive to the airport. My next roadtrip is looking something like this... Not sure I'll get to it in 2020... it might be a 2021 thing. It will cost under $700 for gas... no chargers required.  | ||
| Hootowl |
https://images.app.goo.gl/Gx9gdSwLh8HKrayd7 Pretty damn efficient compared to a car engine, even a diesel. | ||
| Aesquire |
Local restaurant chain, Peppermints, has charger stations. Decent food. | ||
| Hootowl |
I finished running a 100 amp subpanel to the garage today. 3 gauge in conduit through the attic. It’s 100 degrees in Houston today. I am a puddle of sweat. But the charger is installed. Done. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I will be curious to hear what you pay to give your car a full charge. | ||
| Aesquire |
It costs me around $50 a month to have hot water with fairly high priced electricity. Consider that as a baseline for comparison. And 22 mpg @ today's $2.75 per gallon with a minivan. Or 40 mpg @ $3.15 per gallon for a VW TDI. Vs. 45+ mpg @ $2.75..... Prius. | ||
| Sifo |
I saw a Tesla at the local Tesla charging station a couple of days ago. Not charging! I guess it's reserved parking at the front of the lot for Tesla owners. Nice perk! | ||
| Hootowl |
https://www.foxnews.com/media/climate-change-envir onment-green-al-gore I would say he’s an idiot, but he’s not. He’s making lots of money, and convincing the real idiots to vote dem. | ||
| Chauly |
Patrick, The difference in cost gets to be astounding: After 100K, my Prius Literally saved me $8000 in gas cost compared to our Outback (1/2 the mpg). Simple choice as to which car to take, and I chose the Prius whenever I could, for 300K miles$ | ||
| Hootowl |
Matt, Car says I’m using 0.26 kWh per mile, which, according to the conversion chart I googled up, is 129.6 MPGe. I know there’s a lot of controversy with MPGe ratings. I’m not sure what all is involved with the calculation, but part of it has to be cost per gallon of fuel, which varies greatly. I noted my mileage when I left the house this morning, and will note how long it takes to charge tonight at 48 amps (max charge rate, as limited by the onboard charger- superchargers are already DC and charge much faster). That should let me calculate the apparent power I’m being billed to charge back up to 80% capacity, which is where I have the charge limit set. I have to assume a 100% inductive load, since the first thing it hits is the on-board transformer, so there’s vector math involved. Or, maybe not - the meter measures apparent power, which is a representation of the inductive component of power (as opposed to a resistive load, which would be true power). Bah. I’m not doing fancy math. Just doing 240 volts x hours x 48 amps. If there’s a better way, the numbers will be posted. | ||
| Aesquire |
The mpge numbers seem faked to me. But it's a good question how to measure & compare. Do I measure at your meter between house & power company? That's the bill thus money figure. Convert to BTUs? Again, multiple variables. | ||
| Hootowl |
That 260 figure is also the power the car is using, not how much energy it takes to put that power back in the battery, which, since nothing is lossless, isn’t going to be the same. I don’t have a meter on the subpanel. That would be the most accurate reading. kWh = E x I x T is going to have to do. | ||
| Hootowl |
But, regardless of the cost per mile, it is a seriously fun car to drive, which is why I bought it. And I don’t think anyone buys a car this expensive to save a few bucks on gas. It will never pay for itself, or even make up the difference. People looking to save money on transportation are better off with a used TDI Jetta. Which I also have | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Court |
>>>It’s 100 degrees in Houston today. I am a puddle of sweat. You have me laughing . . . here in the fall like weather of NY. Until you have been to and worked in Houston . . . many folks are not equipped to understand what 100F is like there. When we were building the Woodlands Mall . . . . we needed to put in about 100 L.F. of 1-1/2" rigid conduit in a 24" deep trench. Our guys were all spun up about having to load a trencher in the Dallas office and drive all the way to Houston. I called them a bunch of sissies . . . . Went by home, got out of my suit, jumped in my boots and jeans and went to the office and grabbed the conduit, fittings and a tile spade and set out for Houston. I spent the night . . . and got up early the next morning . . . headed to the Woodlands and started digging. Now . . . until you have done this in 99.9995% relative humidity and 105F weather . . . it's incomprehensible to understand that kind of heat. Lesson learned. I'm lazy in my sunset years . . . but glad I got that lesson. Carry on. | ||
| Chauly |
Summer in Houston = standing on the tongue of a large, panting dog. |
