Charging speed is not unlikely to be a factor, really. If HEVs and BEVs become common place, batteries won't be recharged by the user. Instead, you'll trade batteries in the process that would be analogous to buy gas right now: give old batteries, purchase new battery to replace.
Well, that's assuming the current charging speed limitations hold true.
If, as this article suggests, those limits can be surpassed... then it's not obvious to me that a quick-charge system akin to fueling an ICEV wouldn't be adopted.
@anthony137 -- Think of it this way. The faster you accelerate your car, the less fuel efficient it is. This is due to the loss of energy in the transferal of energy from the car to the road. It's a poor analogy from a physics standpoint, but resistance (and thus loss to heat) is a bigger problem with you're pushing more power down a wire.
I understand how power dissipation works. I'm an electrical engineer. What I'm saying is that the quick-charge advances may decrease the equivalent charging resistance, so you get the same charging efficiency with greater current.
I flagged this attempt at sarcasm by user Peter of The Corn as spam, because:
It adds nothing to question (doesn't ask/help to clarify, etc)
It doesn't help with answer
It is essentially some sort of straw man / false generalization and is what they call a flame bait, thus inappropriate in Q/A ...
I actually only recently started being active on here, mostly because a friend asked me to answer a work-related question. Thus, I pretty much assumed that the entire experience would be new to me, including the chat room.
I saw it mentioned on someone's blog, the first time, but I didn't actually do anything with that knowledge. Later, someone asked me to address questions specific to sexuality, but I didn't have time to. Then, today, someone linked to it, again, with a question that relates to things that are important to me and I was motivated to answer.
Then I got hooked and spent a lot of time going through questions and a significant amount of time answering one related to my education
Well, I'm also sitting here in a red and black striped mini skirt and a batman t-shirt.
My batgirl mask is about three feet away, on a table
Near a box of other awesome costuming stuff.
And, on the wall, are posters with various sci-fi references.
<geek and nerd
I just realized that made me come across as one of those super-geeks who live and breathe comic books and sci fi and people believe in a stereotype that they never leave their rooms or bathe.
and they creepily wear various references to their subjects of affection, all the time, more so than the average person.
I guess pointing it out probably makes the impression worse
I've signed up for a skeptics account with the same OpenID login as many other SE sites. I have received my bonus 100 rep, and my profile picture is correct, but my user name is user922 (it should be fredley), and no other profile information has migrated.
It doesn't really happen. Of course, if you have a lot of reputation, people will tend to read your really long answers to the end because you're known to be interesting but that's about it.
The reason I'm asking is that, unlike other information systems on the internet, there is not really a dictatorship set up, but you're not really directly voting for a leader, either.
They said they didn't like my response for lack of supporting evidence beyond anecdote, but I explained that there wasn't research in the area and so all I had was experience to draw on ....
so, wtf?
If there's no evidence, and I mention there is nothing ...
There usually isn't. In fact, Alain was a newb too when he posted his question. He got all his reputation from it (plus a 100 bonus for being active on at least another site in the Stack Exchange Network).
The answer to this question varies greatly, depending on country you are from.
If you're from the Netherlands, Islamists represented 100% of the individuals suspected of terrorism each year from 2006 to 2009 (between 2 or 6 per year), except in 2007. On the other hand, if you are from France, ...
Still trying to find more data on the US, but the US gov't makes finding information painstakingly impossible
Is there data on convictions instead of arrested suspects?
That's a really tough question
I suspect it would also be influenced by who's doing the accusation.
erm, making the acusation
If I were you, I'd also note the percentage of the global population in each of the major religions, @Borror0, as the question, itself may be skewed by perspective and ignores overall population patterns.
(just a suggestion, you're already doing better with that question than I would)
I just read the right columinist to be aware of most of the data (I <3 Dan Gardner) and the rest can be found by digging a little, when you know where to look!
@SophieMonster It's usually best practice to give references to back any significant claims when you answer so that 1) we can verify the validity of the answer if skeptical (skeptics being skeptical, imagine!) and 2) so that we can read more on the topic if we're curious.
It's the best way we found to maintain quality: since we're not all experts on all subject, the best way to make sure we're not upvoting soemthing wrong is to ask for the source
Oh, I understand. I've written on scientific matters before and had to use lots of references.
Though, right now, most of my books are in boxes, so that makes it tougher.
On a side note: Do you know what is challenging? Eating only 200 calories of mozzarella sticks. I just had three, but I still want more and I can't have them. :(
Hey guys, one question that seems to be jumbled around alot, Have Aliens actually ever been here? (Earth). I mean is there actual rock solid proof that they have? Many "landings" and "sightings" have been fake but what about ones that leave mysteries?
Cheers
James Dyson
:s....Hey I am sorry...I am going to have to go to some...Skeptic class or something......Hey not am I only new to the site but am well new to life (15 Years old)
The underlying question is good, how it was asked, however, is not
He could have given a more thorough definition of terrorist, for example, and limited to a particular location (Canada, United States, Europe, Spain, etc).
exacly, this is why i posted my reply as a answer and not comment.
Trying to either force a more clear question, or at least make ppl reading aware over the issue that the question is kind of pointless without more context.
Stack Exchange is not a forum. It's a question and answer site. There were over 20 comments in there, most part of the same argument. We cleaned it up.
I left exactly two comments when I cleaned up: jjj's attempt at clarifying his intent and one post to provide context to jjj's comment. That's it. If there are any more comments, they were added after.
@Russell - the FAQ for skeptics says we can link to our websites in our answers. If that is not the case then please change the FAQ. Also, please feel free to remove my link if you think it is too promotional but I think my answer to the "are terrorists muslims" question is on-topic and relevant.
The biggest problems I see here is one of geographical perspective and how you define "terrorist". If you ask someone from Northern Ireland, I suspect they might tell you that most terrorists, from their point of view, are Christian. If you ask one of these "terrorists" (from whatever background or fighting for whatever cause) or someone who has similar aims to them, they will probably tell you that they are not a terrorist at all.
@Muro -- I personally think you are hijacking questions to promote your site. I've only seen two answers, and both were only marginally answering the question. You're free to disagree. I'm not a moderator, just stating my opinion.
@Russell - OK. Like I said - I'm fine with deleting my link but I think my answers were relevant. For a site that claims to be for "free-thinkers" it seems very constrained to only those who think like the moderators.
@Muro -- The FAQ also addresses frequency and density of self promotion.
Regarding thinking like the moderators... I agree often with @Borror0, I generally disagree with almost everything @Sklivvz says, and I'm pretty neutral/happy towards Fabian -- Like I said in my comment. I would love to hear what you have to say in answers when you are not self - promoting.
At least right now I don't see a lot of people being shut down for disagreeing with a moderator
"StackExchange is not a forum..." but leave some wildly rambling remark about with generalities about "applying the scientific method" and "falsifiability", then you're voted up.
@RussellSteen @Russell - I guess I could use links to current news articles regarding activity in the Middle East. Or I could link to my blog entry....just kidding.
@Muro -- One thing that links do is help people understand what you are claiming and why. For instance, by reading your answer, I can't tell if you're trying to claim that all war is terrorism, or that specific governments are, or.... It's just not clear to me. Note here, I'm trying to help you improve your answer.
@EKS -- Yes, but by that argument, anything which implies a downside or consequence for an action is terrorism -- which makes terrorism and overly broad and useless term. At which point a new term will be invented and we'll be having the same argument.
The biggest problems I see here is one of geographical perspective and how you define "terrorist". If you ask someone from Northern Ireland, I suspect they might tell you that most terrorists, from their point of view, are Christian. If you ask one of these "terrorists" (from whatever background or fighting for whatever cause) or someone who has similar aims to them, they will probably tell you that they are not a terrorist at all.
Yea i think my english is not good enough to word it in a way that does not change the subject, my effort in ( skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1164/… ) was to point out that question is very subjective to where come from.
But again, as I claimed before, because many on this site have predetermined answer to predetermined questions, they let inflammatory and weak reasoning stand, as long it supports their preconceptions.
@EKS They weren't "discussions." They weren't flippant, or not related to the question. People were curious "why is this question important?" "How can it be useful?" And the comments revolved around that question, which is imperative for all good questions.
The first relates to the comment system in general, in that the only way to express disapproval is through deletion -- there are no downvotes.
I think that's a general SE discussion.
More relevant to skeptics is the assertion that people pick a side, then find a way to attack the other "side". I think that is a relevant discussion, and it would be good to find some examples and start that in meta where it can stand and be discussed better.
@Billare I never disagreed. There were a few good comments in the 22 that I deleted (yes, 22). If comments were deleted, it's because this is not a forum. There was too much discussion (24 comments), so I trimmed it down to the essential.
Preconceptions, as I mentioned before. The studies, and the data are inarguable -- I've spoken to Tino before about this study, been reading him since 2006 -- so the next level s to kind shuffle it with weak reasoning so as to not deal with his implications.
Do you think, if Tino had actually not gone down to the RAND database, anyone would accept an offhand comment from me about Muslims being the majority of terrorists without sparking up a "cite-fest"?
No, it's that greater scrutiny towards dissenting views, and bizarre and unspecified rules, are used to guide discussions towards preconceived answers.
@Billare -- I see your point. I don't think the moderators are colluding to form that sort of environment. So we either have (in my view) A - bad habits, or B - a single bad moderator, or C - a community trend. In all three cases, I think the way to solve it is to come up with half a dozen examples supporting your position, and post them in Meta.
Alien life being from another planet then earth.
I know there has been has been found evidece pointing to simple life on Mars, but has any of the projects like SETI found anything that could point to intelligent life (Intelligent not having to mean something we can "speak" to) out there ?
Everyone came to this site with expectation, and if he/she leaves, there must be something disappointing here, albeit other positive things exist as well.
In most cases, when one leaves a comment, it means he/she cares about this site and is willing to spend time to discuss about it. But what I ...
The bible as we know today originally started as a hundred's (thousands?) of individual documents, letters, oral tales all written in a multitude of different languages and dialogues. These were all put together by a variety of different leaders/scholars/scribes and made into two books: the Old a...
Tim, Russell, User, et al.
I think you guys are correct, and that I was suspended for using the rollback option on the question repeatedly, and repeatedly requesting (through flag, comment, and chat) that the question be allowed to remain the same, or else be deleted. I can't think of what else...
He was both an active user and one with lot of upvotes. I think the parties who suspended him should explain why.
I flagged this attempt at sarcasm by user Peter of The Corn as spam, because:
It adds nothing to question (doesn't ask/help to clarify, etc)
It doesn't help with answer
It is essentially some sort of straw man / false generalization and is what they call a flame bait, thus inappropriate in Q/A ...
I've signed up for a skeptics account with the same OpenID login as many other SE sites. I have received my bonus 100 rep, and my profile picture is correct, but my user name is user922 (it should be fredley), and no other profile information has migrated.
The answer to this question varies greatly, depending on country you are from.
If you're from the Netherlands, Islamists represented 100% of the individuals suspected of terrorism each year from 2006 to 2009 (between 2 or 6 per year), except in 2007. On the other hand, if you are from France, ...
Hey guys, one question that seems to be jumbled around alot, Have Aliens actually ever been here? (Earth). I mean is there actual rock solid proof that they have? Many "landings" and "sightings" have been fake but what about ones that leave mysteries?
Cheers
James Dyson
Alien life being from another planet then earth.
I know there has been has been found evidece pointing to simple life on Mars, but has any of the projects like SETI found anything that could point to intelligent life (Intelligent not having to mean something we can "speak" to) out there ?
Tim, Russell, User, et al.
I think you guys are correct, and that I was suspended for using the rollback option on the question repeatedly, and repeatedly requesting (through flag, comment, and chat) that the question be allowed to remain the same, or else be deleted. I can't think of what else...
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