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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2018-01-10 kl. 17:55, skrev Bob Gezelter:
> On Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 11:35:58 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Doomsdrzej  <dre at do.om> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I want power in my vehicle as well as the ability to drive as far as
>>> I want to and that is something electric cars will never allow for.
>> 
>> You might want to try the Tesla.  Range isn't there yet, but it's got
>> more low end torque than most V-8s, and it handles decently.  Range is
>> actually better than some of those V-8s too, though of course it takes
>> longer to fill which is a problem.
>> 
>> It's getting there.  What is cool about the electric car from both a 
>> performance and conservation standard is that you're not paying a
>> huge overhead running with low power most of the time.  With the
>> gasoline engine, you have to size the engine for peak power that
>> you're only using very occasionally, and you pay an efficiency penalty
>> at low power.  With the electric motor you use only what you need; you
>> get crazy high peak power and good efficiency in cruise at the same
>> time.
>> 
>> I'm not ready to buy an electric car yet, but I wouldn't discount them
>> if I were you.   The Tesla is way too expensive for what it is, but
>> that will change given time.
>> 
>> And I might add, given that this is a computer architecture group,
>> that what made these cars possible was high density battery
>> technology, and what made that possible was smart charging.  The
>> lithium chemistry was known for many years but it takes a lot of
>> charge control technology to keep them from destroying themselves.
>> It's not something you can do with an 8051 anymore.  CPU makes it
>> possible. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres
>> precis."
> 
> A postscript. Range is nice, but the average use of the overwhelming
> majority of personal cars is well within the range limits of a single EV
> vehicle charge.

And in many cases even in the range of a bicycle or a Vespa scooter.

> 
> - Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com
>