i can see "paper" (which looks more like plastic) being expensive, but printer should be relatively cheap, much cheaper than $5k.
isn't it just a row of heating "pins" that heat up parts of the page to turn dark?

... Or just turn the heat up.
If your house is so cold you need to wear gloves and a hood, then I think you can turn the heat up just a notch!

But Wait - What if you are a cold claustrophobic? - then what?

OK, yes, being energy efficient is great, and my wife and I are currently hunting for a house to buy and renovate, with the idea to make it as energy efficient as possible. BUT... you've gone a bit overboard on some of your ideas.

To suggest that everyone should have tiny windows is insane. Windows are brilliant for a large number of reasons:
* Free light
* Free solar heating when it's cold (including heating up a large mass like a brick wall to radiate heat inside the house)
* (most importantly for me) Removes the feeling that you're living inside a tiny box... large windows overlooking a garden or nice view can turn an otherwise normal room into a peaceful oasis.

Definitely do all you can to reduce heat loss from the house through them when it's cold, or heat entrance to the house when it's hot... but getting rid of windows is NOT the way to live. Not in any sane sense of having quality of life. And suggesting that people have sheets of plastic over their windows really is a little horrendous. That's utilitarianism taken to extreme. It may work, but your house will resemble a shanty town.


LED lights would be great to have except that there are NONE that are anywhere near to bright enough to replace even moderately bright incandescent bulbs at a pricepoint less than $100... so until they become a logical choice it's compact florescent for our house at present.

You haven't really even touched on passive heating/cooling, and you're very much only thinking of keeping a house warm when it's cold rather than cool when it's hot. I live in Melbourne Australia, today the temp is going to be 44C (111F), which is STINKING hot by anyone's measure. But it also gets down to single digit temps (40s F) in winter... so we have to have homes that can be good both ways.

One of the best ways to keep a house cool is to keep air moving through it. If you have vents/windows up high you can have them open to vent off hot air that rises, and window down low open to draw in cooler air from outside. This is one thing our current house lacks. It may have lots of windows we can open to let air through, but being that they are all about midpoint through the wall it is infuriating to have the house too hot and yet a change has come through and it's lovely outside but you can't coax the air through the house.

* Insulate as much as you can afford.
* Build the house (when you're doing so from new) such that it takes best advantage of the sun for the given times of year.
* Install Solar Panels for electricity
* Use an on demand gas hot water system (so you're not heating a large container of water and have it sit there), and even better have it be a backup to a solar hot water system
* Install Rain water tanks
* Use dual flush toilets (amazing that they are not common in the US)
* Use evaporation cooling over refrigerated
* Use as much passive heating/cooling as you can.

Crying foul of how inefficient things like stoves/fridges are is a little pointless, as other than getting the most energy efficient ones you can when buying, what can you really do about it?

Definitely think about energy and insulation and actual energy usage, but you don't have to live in a sealed, windowless box in order to live efficiently.

Well the problem is that TV oversimplifies things inorder to maintain its retard audience and allow its producers to have an easy job fiting in just enough compacted shit before the advert brakes.

Tv is fundamentally fucked and it has been for ages if you watch tv debates or the news you will see what I mean subjects that require a good 2-3 hour discussoin are gone over in 6-10 minute segments its a fucking joke and a diservice to the public.

the climate change thing will not be a simple case of YES EARTH IS DYING OR WE ARE HAVING NO AFECT ON ANNYTHING

the rality will be in some cases pumping gass and random shit into the enviroment will do damage in others it will be neglagable compared to enviromental factors , and in other cases it will be just a mixture of things so much so that you would not be able to scentifcly prove or study it, In the same way that we can only predict tomorrows weather with 60% certainty despite having huge super computers and established mathematical models working on it.

The important thing is that We don't let the media and generally moronic people combine all the issues into one single issue that is then debated.

Im pretty sure that regardless of what affect things have on the weather a human breathing in toxic chemicals is not good for your helth, im allso prity sure that reducing bio diversity allso reduces avalable food sources. allso polluting and abusing fresh water removes our ablity to drink and servive.

so regardless of if the earth is heating up because of us or not the fact is we need to look after things that are important to our survival.
and regardless of it being a natural or man made fenomnum it dose appear to be happening so we still need to work out ways to deal with it.

aside from the global warming debate if we actually move away from limited fuels that also happen to pollute then we will start to find sustainable fuels that not only do less damage to the environment but also don't run out reducing the need for wars.

Max, thats one part of the what if equation. In the above renderings, chances are the ring is a solid mask effect and not actually rendered particles. The pictures from space show almost dark night in the shadow of the rings. In reality, it might not get that dark...

That being said, the rings would cast a gigantic shadow over a section of the earth on a day by day bases. While it wouldn't be a frozen tundra, it most certainly would create enough change in temperature to change the current jet streams dramatically. Not only air temperatures, but water temperatures as well. The hot and cold areas on the planet would most certainly be different, and if the rings reflected light heated up other parts of the globe, I would imagine our weather patterns would be quite violent.

Then there is the physical side of things, I am sure rocks from the ring fall into the atmosphere on a constant bases.

"Hot is simply a measure of how much energy something has." (1:15)

This is slightly inaccurate, right? Two species of gas can have vastly different amounts of kinetic energy, but still have the same temperature. That's what specific heat measures.

I always assumed temperature was strictly translational kinetic energy, and the reason water takes so long to heat up is because the energy it acquires goes into other modes of freedom, such as vibrational or rotational motion (hence its high specific heat).

Can someone back me up or correct me on this?

Umm. How does the liquid cool the LED? Wouldn't it just heat up?

Should this be renamed World's first incased-in-liquid-to-slow-rate-of-temperature-increase bulb?

He's not melting the bag. It works via condensation. When he heats up the food, steam fills the bag. Then he seals the steam in the bag. Given a fixed number of water molecules, the vaporous state will occupy a dramatically larger volume than the liquid state. So, as the bag cools and the steam turns back to liquid water, the bag collapses.

Casualties of war; as I approach the barricade
Where's the enemy? Who do I invade?
Bullets of Teflon, bulletproof vest rip
Tear ya outta ya frame with a bag full of clips
Cause I got a family that waits for my return
To get back home is my main concern
I'ma get back to New York in one piece
but I'm bent in the sand that is hot as the city streets
Sky lights up like fireworks blind me
Bullets, whistlin over my head remind me...
President Bush said attack
Flashback to Nam, I might not make it back
Missile hits the area, screams wake me up
from a war of dreams, heat up the M-16
Basic training, trained for torture
Take no prisoners, and I just caught ya
Addicted to murder, send more bodybags
They can't identify em, leave the nametags
I get a rush when I see blood, dead bodies on the floor

Day divides the night and night divides the day
It's all hard work and no play
More than combat, it's far beyond that
Cause I got a kill or be killed kind of attack
Area's mapped out, there'll be no, Stratego
Me and my platoon make a boom wherever we go
But what are we here for? Who's on the other side of the wall?
Somebody give the President a call
But I hear warfare scream through the air
Back to the battlegrounds, it's war they declare
A Desert Storm: let's see who reigns supreme
Something like Monopoly: a government scheme
Go to the Army, be all you can be
Another dead soldier? Hell no, not me
So I start letting off ammunition in every direction
Allah is my only protection

But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same
and this is Asia, from where I came
I'm on the wrong side, so change the target
Shooting at the general; and where's the sergeant?
Blame it on John Hardy Hawkins for bringing me to America
Now it's mass hysteria
I get a rush when I see blood, dead bodies on the floor

The war is over, for now at least
Just because they lost it don't mean it's peace
It's a long way home, it's a lot to think about
Whole generation, left in doubt
Innocent families killed in the midst
It'll be more dead people after this
So I'm glad to be alive and walkin
Half of my platoon came home in coffins
Except the general, buried in the Storm
in bits and pieces no need to look for em
I played it slick and got away with it
Rigged it up so they would think they did it
Now I'm home on reserves and you can bet
when THEY call, I'm going AWOL
Cause it ain't no way I'm going back to war
when I don't know who or what I'm fighting for
So I wait for terrorists to attack
Every time a truck backfires I fire back
I look for shelter when a plane is over me
Remember Pearl Harbor? New York could be over, G
Kamikaze, strapped with bombs
No peace in the East, they want revenge for Saddam
Did I hear gunshots, or thunder?
No time to wonder, somebody's going under
Put on my fatigues and my camoflouge
Take control, cause I'm in charge
When I snapped out of it, it was blood, dead bodies on the floor

>> ^kulpims:
^Grinter and NetRunner are right, EDD is not, and I'm a smartass


I also agree.

As a rallycross and autocross driver and instructor, I don't have a lick of F1 driving experience... but I know a bit about cars and handling.

This was a lack of experience with a VERY tricky class of car to drive. F1 cars are horrible beasts and extremely demanding. I would guess that one contributing factor (beyond lack of very fine throttle control by the driver) was that the tires were not yet warm.

F1 tires need to be warm. Very warm. Hot. You have to drive them hard to get them hot. Until then, they're not sticky. Whenever a driver pulls out onto the track, their tires are NOT up to optimal temperature. They have to carefully nurse the car through the first few corners, pushing hard enough to heat up the tires... not too hard, or they'll spin/slide... not too gentle, or they won't heat up the rubber.

It's a tough game.

>> ^therealblankman:
>> ^Krupo:
Yup, my uncle picked up some crazy nasa-grade stuff.

How does that stuff work... it comes off in big chunks and then your house explodes?


lol - just super-high reflectivity or low-absorbtion of heat.

To those who say, 'what then paint dark in the winter?' - no. The painting-white thing applies to warmer climates, first of all. Second of all, you don't get that much sunlight in the winter anyway, so trying to collect heat through a darker roof is a non-starter anyway. Plus, heat rises so the heat in your house will hit your roof anyway. The idea is to keep your house from heating up, which is more expensive (energy-wise) to combat than warming it up (which is generally way easier to accomplish).

It looks to me like as he's filling it, the molten aluminum covers a pocket in the mold, creating an air bubble surrounded by the molten aluminum. The air bubble rapidly heats up and pops.

The metallic sound is harder to explain, but if any of the aluminum had solidified near the air bubble when it popped, that would make a metallic "ping."

That's my guess, anyway.

It's sad to see these examples from USA. Back here in Europe these things are SO rare that it is frontpage news if it happens. Could it be the more reasonable gun laws? Or is it just a culture difference? Don't know but i have to say that i've been dealing with police a lot in the past and none of them have showed me any signs of force, even when in some cases i would've probably been tasered in US. No, i haven't shown any resistance of arrest just the common arrogance of youth. Every cop i've been dealing with have used common sense and things don't get heated up. This video doesn't show everything but the comment about "you should drop to your knees when someone shouts", hmm let's see: He was not actively running anymore, it doesn't look like he was running like hell anyway and maybe he was getting ready to kneel. I mean, would you DROP to your knees in a concrete? Probably not.. It hurts..

These videos are coming a bit too often. There's certainly something seriously wrong in the US of A. It seems like everybody's mad there. I'm just happy i don't have to live there and while it is a magnificent country, the way thingsa are now, i don't even dare to visit there. Too bad, like i said, it is a magnificent, beautiful country. Canada in the other hand is a whole different place.. What's the difference? You tell me...

Gore is a self-anointed figurehead in what I deem one of the biggest hoaxes perpetrated on the human race. He deserves to be targeted as he targets others. He was a "C" student who originally took environmental classes because they were easier. His crockumentary has been seen by many more people than have read Lomborg's tome, and "An Inconvenient Truth" has been soundly thrashed for numbers 1-6 listed (except perhaps for plagiarism).

It's simply telling that Gore won't debate, when infinite resources are at his disposal for such an undertaking.

The greenvangelicals are beyond reason on the GW issue and the politicians love AGW because it gives them the omnipresence of God without placing any moral authority higher than their own. At last they have a way to link all their schemes in a unifying "circle of life".

The sun is responsible for heating up the earth as well as other planets which have no SUVs as of yet. Man tried to create his own paradise via 'Biosphere II' and nearly suffocated the inhabitants. If they can't mix the proper ratio of gases in a bubble, do you really think these international goofballs can "fine tune" a planet's weather?

Had a dog bite me on the tip of a finger, same thing happened.

Clinic doc heated up a paperclip with a bic lighter and melted through the nail to make the hole.

Never went back to that sawbones again. A little too ghetto for me...