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#52 May 27 2014 at 9:06 PM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
Why in God's name would anyone look at map to see where things are located?
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I'm still going to totally wing it and declare that it's all just smoke and mirrors or something.
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#53 May 27 2014 at 9:08 PM Rating: Decent
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You're a bit late to the joke Joph. What I'm saying is that don't *just* look at the map and make assumptions. Look at the map. Locate a public charging station. Now go find it and park in front of it. Because seeing an icon on a map isn't the same as actually being able to locate it and use it to charge your car. Talk to *anyone* who actually owns an electric car, and they'll all tell you that the cakemap is a lie.
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#54 May 27 2014 at 9:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
You're a bit late to the joke Joph.

I'll live. Wasn't so much a joke as a legitimate facepalm at you anyway.
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What I'm saying is that don't *just* look at the map and make assumptions.

In absence of a legitimate reason to assume the map is in error, looking at the map is perfectly sufficient for my purposes. If I had said that I just talked to a guy with an electric car, you'd be moving the goalposts saying that HE needed to visit every location on the map or something. You just want to make the point that there's a dearth of charging stations, evidence be damned.
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#55 May 27 2014 at 9:57 PM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
I'm an out of the box kind of thinker. No, really!
As long as you come out slow than those damn jack-in-the-box things.

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#56 May 27 2014 at 10:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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Jophiel wrote:
You just want to make the point that there's a dearth of charging stations, evidence be damned.
Or surplus, or both. Whoever said a conservative couldn't be flexible?

Though I now have the urge to check in on that map periodically over the next few days to see how many of the thingies fall in and out of use. Smiley: lol

Edited, May 27th 2014 9:04pm by someproteinguy
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#57 May 28 2014 at 6:04 AM Rating: Good
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Smiley: lol

gbaji has really fooled himself good this time.

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#58 May 28 2014 at 6:29 AM Rating: Good
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They Might Be Giants tribute song-vid to Tesla....


Honestly, electric cars will still be using about as much combustible fuel as a small economy car (equivalent to about 35mpgs) IF they are charged from a charging station that generates it's electricity 100% with coal/oil/gas.

If charging stations can get their energy from all those solar panels in the road ....win-win.
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#59 May 28 2014 at 7:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
gbaji has really fooled himself good this time.
I just downloaded an app that locates charging stations, and according to it there are three within five minutes of my house. Not only that, but Manhattan is almost literally covered in them. But, you know, I don't have a third-person anecdote from people sending me private messages on Zam so I guess that's invalid, too.
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#60 May 28 2014 at 9:28 AM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
If charging stations can get their energy from all those solar panels in the road ....win-win.
You're supposed to dam the river and kill lots of fishies for your clean energy. It's the only way it really works. Well, maybe the only non-radioactive way.
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#61 May 28 2014 at 10:08 AM Rating: Good
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someproteinguy wrote:
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If charging stations can get their energy from all those solar panels in the road ....win-win.
You're supposed to dam the river and kill lots of fishies for your clean energy. It's the only way it really works. Well, maybe the only non-radioactive way.

Bats in the windmills seems to be the latest scourge of renewable energy around here.

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#62 May 28 2014 at 10:41 AM Rating: Decent
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According to a website that tracks charging stations, there are three in downtown Albany proper, as well as several more in the immediate surrounding towns and urban sprawl connecting to Schenectady. Including a few that are adjacent to both sections of the Thruway and the Northway. Mind you, Albany isn't exactly a large city. I even found one that's across from my exit off of 787, which happens to be in a hotel parking lot about the blocks away from one of my offices. Now, I would assume that most electric car use would be for short trips in and around urban and suburban areas, so it looks like the greater Capital District is well served for the amount of electric cars currently in use.

Mind you, I did in fact stop next to the charging stain I mentioned and took a picture, though it was not in use at the time. Funny how actually going out to gather and analyze data actually works.
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#63 May 28 2014 at 10:52 AM Rating: Good
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For normal commuting purposes, I'd imagine folks would just charge them at home. They need to be on the thru-ways - and they're not. Maybe that's cuz the time needed to charge is longer than people want to sit at a travel plaza.

How about e-cars with standardized, easily removable batteries. So you can just swap out batteries at the charging station. Give them your empty, they give you one all full up.

Also, just because it says it's a charging station on a map doesn't mean anything. You have to go there and verify by plugging something in.
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It might just be a cardboard box where someone wrote "Chargin' Statschun" on the side!
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#65 May 28 2014 at 11:05 AM Rating: Good
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Googles self-driving car.
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#66 May 28 2014 at 11:09 AM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
someproteinguy wrote:
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If charging stations can get their energy from all those solar panels in the road ....win-win.
You're supposed to dam the river and kill lots of fishies for your clean energy. It's the only way it really works. Well, maybe the only non-radioactive way.

Bats in the windmills seems to be the latest scourge of renewable energy around here.
Should always solve those problems by introducing a predator to eat them. So maybe get some cats and let them loose in the towers.
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#67 May 28 2014 at 11:10 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm at a loss for words.
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someproteinguy wrote:
I'm at a loss for words.


I have one.

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someproteinguy wrote:
I'm at a loss for words.
Here are some....
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It's so cute — if it had cheeks, I'd pinch them.


I'd have thought apple, with it's smart technologies (that have been implicated in many a distracted driving incident), would have been spear-heading this.
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#70 May 28 2014 at 12:23 PM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
It might just be a cardboard box where someone wrote "Chargin' Statschun" on the side!
They're probably the same people that are in charge of my broken ATM Machine.
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#71 May 28 2014 at 2:17 PM Rating: Good
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But not just any car: a car that drives itself. In an effort to create a fully, 100 percent self-driving vehicle — something that needs no human being at the steering wheel — the company is building a car without a steering wheel.

I'm sure the goal isn't for these to be consumer facing, but you just eliminated about 99.99999% of the market who would be fine with a sense of a control and the ability to switch to "manual" driving if desired, even if they wouldn't use it. It'd be better to just put a steering wheel and controls on the thing connected to nothing. Like when you give the 2 year old the unplugged video game controller and he thinks he's "playing".
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Honestly, electric cars will still be using about as much combustible fuel as a small economy car (equivalent to about 35mpgs) IF they are charged from a charging station that generates it's electricity 100% with coal/oil/gas.


Yeah, no. Not even vaguely close. Even with transmission loss, it's wildly more efficient to burn coal at a power plant and charge an electric vehicle than it is to use the explosive force of gasoline to lift a piston like it was 1862.
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What if I burn coal directly in my car?

(More seriously, "using gas" conveniently ignores that "gas" requires its own extraction, transportation, refinement, more transportation, etc before it finds its way into your car. Each step with its own energy cost.)

Edited, May 28th 2014 3:22pm by Jophiel
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#74 May 28 2014 at 2:21 PM Rating: Good
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It'd be better to just put a steering wheel and controls on the thing connected to nothing.
I'm sure the final consumer model will have at least an optional package for something like that.
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What if I burn coal directly in my car?

Can be pretty efficient if you have enough undocumented laborers to shovel. The cars get very large, but this is 'murica and I can't ******* see around the wall of SUV/MINIVAN most of the time anyway so that's probably not an issue.
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I'd like to see the SUV that cuts off my steam locomotive Smiley: mad
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