How long before Compact Diesels are obsolete?

[MossRoad]

Or maybe he just got the bill for a replacement battery.

 

[Mike68]

Nonsense...cover a million hectares of California (with the exception of Hollywood and Malibu) with solar panels and put windmills atop the Sierra Nevadas and they can make enough power! :laughing:

Perhaps on paper. The challenge is getting that power from where it is generated to where it is needed.

The complexity to run transmission lines over that terrain is not to be underestimated.

 

[hdmyers]

I was at Dewalt a few years ago discussing gas vs battery. The engineer had a thimble and a 1 liter bottle on his desk. He said a thimble of gas was equivalent to a liter of battery in power density. This is why electric vehicles are successful in limited markets. Technology advances will certainly change this over time, but as others have said, it's storage of power that is the limiting factor presently.

WIld. Neat that the 'Engineer' had a thimble and a litre bottle (fixed the spelling for you). I don't think there are litre bottles in the US. 946 ml perhaps (32 fl oz). Snopes has heard this same anecdote many times over. Party on.

 

[hdmyers]

Did you even read the Airbiscuit post?

Men are in trouble on two fronts. Women are getting more education and hence higher pay, AND few women are interested in having the child of a man with less social status than themselves. Unless he's a bad boy and that is a genetic decision and a somewhat different discussion.

I don't feel like I'm in trouble.. my wife (to maintain the vernacular) has her PhD and is a full professor... i'm a lowly 'Engineer'.. I'm quite satisfied with the arrangement...and I'm certainly not a bad little boy.

 

[lilranch2001]

People who have to "FIX" things and then shame people because they think they are better then someone else have much more wrong going on with themselves than the other persons typos or misspellings........

 

[/pine]

dream on...dreamers...!

 

[MossRoad]

People who have to "FIX" things and then shame people because they think they are better then someone else have much more wrong going on with themselves than the other persons typos or misspellings........

It wasn't a typo or a misspelling. Perhaps you didn't see he's from Canada, where they spell liter litre. It was intended as humor.

American English vs. Canadian English (Spelling Differences)

 

[ovrszd]

It wasn't a typo or a misspelling. Perhaps you didn't see he's from Canada, where they spell liter litre. It was intended as humor.

American English vs. Canadian English (Spelling Differences)

Moss humor perhaps.

 

[fried1765]

It wasn't a typo or a misspelling. Perhaps you didn't see he's from Canada, where they spell liter litre. It was intended as humor.

American English vs. Canadian English (Spelling Differences)

Moss is absolutely correct!
Nothing needed fixing!
1000ml in Canada is a LITRE
1000ml in the USA is a LITER

 

[Industrial Toys]

Now I understand why I have that confusion in my brain with the two spellings. BOTH look right to me.