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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2018-01-07 kl. 05:01, skrev 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,...

It is approx $6.50 a gallon here today. And probably should need to be
something like that in the US also, to force the developmet and use of
less gasoline hungry cars forward. And also to drive the development
of cities forward with such as better cycle paths everyware.

With a too low gasoline price, you will never learn or evolve.