rbf | 6 years ago | on: Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3
I guess 100k deliveries was the magic number investors were hoping for.
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rbf | 6 years ago | on: McCharge: McDonalds Is Now Charging EVs
In Norway McDonalds have chargers in many locations already (and significantly more EVs than Sweden)
rbf | 6 years ago | on: McCharge: McDonalds Is Now Charging EVs
Probably correct, however from a user perspective it’s much more convenient to charge when parked overnight or at work. Installing an ordinary AC charger is quite cheap, and the goal should be to have lots of these, to make EVs more practical then fossil fuel cars.
rbf | 6 years ago | on: Germany Turns to Hydrogen in Quest for Clean Energy Economy
From what I've seen on current hydrogen fuelling stations having the capacity to actually refuel a significant amount of cars are limited (because tanks have to be repressurised), if you add electrolysis to this I imagine the fuelling rate is even more limited.
rbf | 6 years ago | on: Germany Turns to Hydrogen in Quest for Clean Energy Economy
Hard to say. Their hydrogen efforts seem half-assed at best; so maybe it is just management not yet convinced BEV will work, and assume hydrogen at some point will be good enough so they want to have some experience with it.
Most likely there is internal company politics in many of these car companies which makes it hard to convert to BEV development, it will mean many people losing their jobs, factories closing, etc.
rbf | 6 years ago | on: A $5,600 Electric Makeover for Old Diesel Cars
Or synthetically generated fuels (eg audi e-diesel, which is a diesel, but I think a petrol equivalent can be generated), which can be done today, but are very costly for general use. I don't think the cost of fuel for a classic car will be a huge issue even if it is very high (10x of todays cost).
rbf | 6 years ago | on: A $5,600 Electric Makeover for Old Diesel Cars
With regards to weight - hydrogen tanks are heavy, even if the fuel is light. The tanks on a Toyota Mirai weight 87.5kg (193 lbs). In addition you need the fuel cell, piping, more wiring.. The actual weight advantage is not as great as it might seem.
rbf | 6 years ago | on: A $5,600 Electric Makeover for Old Diesel Cars
I see people talking about refuellig time of hydrogen beein an advantage. Although most videoes I see on youtube seem to use ~10ish minutes - and it depends if the pumps has the correct pressure). Recharging an electric car is usually done in a few seconds of active time (plugging in the cable when you park), only if you exhaust the range during one trip you have to wait for recharging.
rbf | 8 years ago | on: Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords
FYI there are only some countries where evidence is inadmissible solely because it is aquired illegaly (eg in the United States, but not most of Europe AFAIK). Not that I in any way condone what this company have done.
rbf | 8 years ago | on: More diagnostics data from desktop
True. However, it's hard to argue diagnostics data for Ubuntu would be performance of contract (art 6.1: b). It could be argued legitimate interest (arg 6.1: f), but then the right to object comes into play.
rbf | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How are you implementing GDPR-compliant soft deletes?
If the information no longer is possible to decrypt, it would no longer be considered personal data.
rbf | 9 years ago | on: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
I wonder if our Model X that was put in production yesterday will have the new hardware..
rbf | 9 years ago | on: What the nine debris finds may tell us about the MH370 end point
Or just continously upload the data to the internet, should be quite feasible these days with satellites everywhere.
rbf | 9 years ago | on: How I designed a practical electric plane for a NASA competition
Interesting read. I don't have high hopes for hydrogen cars as batteries seems to solve the range problem adequately for most scenarios, and it's easier to build charging stations than hydrogen filling infrastructure. However, for planes it seems that the advantage of low weight is a necessity to electrification. I wonder if the future will be (mostly) electric road transport and hydrogen air transport.
rbf | 13 years ago | on: Can gaming be the turning point for Linux on the desktop?
How large percentage of PC users are active users of Adobe Creative Suite?
rbf | 13 years ago | on: Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
Or most people are lucky, and you hear about those who have aggravating experiences.
rbf | 13 years ago | on: Wi-Fi “as free as air” – totally false story
Having a free internet would be as nice as having free electricity, water, roads, etc. Unfortunately designing, implementing and running a infrastructure costs money.
rbf | 13 years ago | on: How far has Microsoft fallen?
> Why the hell is Microsoft making an ARM-based hardware platform in the first place?
Same reason as everyone else. People want devices with low power consumption. Until x86 can deliver that I would say it makes great sense to make ARM-based hardware. I keep hearing atom etc will be on par with ARM, however, I have yet to see devices who deliver on that promise.
rbf | 13 years ago | on: Signal-blocking wallpaper stops Wi-Fi stealing
It's hard to imagine that it doesn't block cell phones. To get cell coverage you would need a micro-cell inside the apartment. Enabling encryption on the WiFi seems easier to me :-)
rbf | 13 years ago | on: The Foolproof Dock Connector
With new wireless technologies like NFC and Wi-Fi Direct, shouldn't we be moving away from proprietary connectors?
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