[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[Ron C]

On 1/6/2018 10:38 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
> Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Tim Streater  <timstreater at greenbee.net> wrote:
>>> In article <060120181149170429%nospam at nospam.invalid>, nospam
>>>> range is only a problem for long road trips, and in those cases, rent a
>>>> vehicle. eventually, that won't be a problem, as more charging stations
>>>> are built.
>>> I think some of you guys need to calculate the power rate needed to
>>> charge the higher range cars in any sort of reasonable time. You'll
>>> find it quite high. Then you have the problem of supplying that power
>>> at a safe voltage, and without such a high current needed that even Mr
>>> Muscles can't lift the charging cable, never mind plug it in.
>>
>> It's not that bad, one or two cars at a time.  These days it's not 
>> unusual
>> at all for houses to have 200A service and putting a 100A 240V outlet in
>> the garage for a charger does not require a major retrofit.
>>
>> Where it gets bad is when you start thinking about doing that in every 
>> house
>> in the country and the degree to which the grid needs to be enlarged 
>> in order
>> to deal with that load on a constant basis.
>>
>> It'll happen, and the money is there to make it happen because it's 
>> the same
>> money that is currently going into purchasing gasoline, but it's not 
>> going to
>> happen today and it's not going to happen tomorrow.
>>
>> But you can go out right now and buy a BMW i3 at your dealer today,
>> get a charger installed on your existing service panel, and have a whole
>> lot of fun driving fast right now.  It's not cheap, but that's how it 
>> goes.
>> --scott
>>
> 
> Not sure how this got into c.o.v, and no, I'm not helping the problem.
> 
> People who want to drive gasoline powered autos should be the biggest 
> proponents of electric vehicles for local usage.  Look at what happened 
> to the cost of gasoline, almost $4.00 a gallon in the US, when a glut of 
> oil happened worldwide.  Gasoline dropped as low as less than $2.00 a 
> gallon.
> 
> So, say there is a 25% drop in the demand for gasoline.  The soccer mums 
> are mostly driving electric vehicles, less than 100 miles per day.  
> What's going to happen to the cost of gasoline?
> 
> I am more than ready for en electric vehicle.  More than enough to get 
> me to the airport.  What else matters?  Unfortunately, you can't live 
> out in the boonies without a truck.
> 
Dare say you're squeezing a water balloon .. squeeze one place
and it pops out somewhere else. Some win some lose..
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Later...
Ron C
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