Entertainment News Huge potential to increase the energy efficiency of cars. * comparative energy costs of manufacturing bikes vs cars Farmers are devastated. This was more than two years ago, so he was only 10, and even though I loved Digger, I didnt know if I should share it. When Beck walks into his bookshop he is immediately smitten. Historical examples: maybe Suchou in the 50s? Otherwise its just a mood. Thick as a cinderblock. You would be doing very very well to hit 90% at optimal operating point with large highly efficient machines, considering that even going straight through you need a mechanical to electrical conversion and an electrical to mechanical conversion, with at least one and probably two electrical conversion stages as well. And, in fact, I can misspell it up to 5 different ways in a single newsletter. Rather than all-electric or electric assist bikes, Ive wondered about the possibility of a hybrid electric bike where the pedals are completely disconnected from the wheels. Or they might work out more to compensate for their lack of exercise. Cattle are dying of thirst by the tens of thousands. The lucky ones in some areas are harvesting a tenth of what they normally would. Im going to stop refreshing he fundraiser page and go get some sleep. And you know what? These are three pretty big things. Because at $350,000 every Softcover and Hardcover book people get through the kickstarter will include a special bookplate with new, original art by Ursula Vernon. If I had bought used, in both cases, I would have done better. Its our maiden voyage. Cars represent a three-stage consumption/pollution lifespan, each requiring energy in their own way. Again, giving books is one of my purest joys. All on FoxSports.com. Then, if we hit $666,666, Ill assemble the Geek Glitterati equivalent of the Avengers and well record it for you. The mile will take 24 minutes to traverse at this speed, so 90kcal will be consumed per mile. Over 85,000 miles of road-use, the car emitted another 1.3 billion tons of polluted air, and shed 40 pounds of tire and brake debris alone. But anyway. Plus the books get damaged boxing and unboxing. Thats all for now, Gotta go dig up my character sheets and dust off those dice. Or a Dutch town? Pallets of books. (If you dont know what that is, you can look over here.) Hell, I probably *should* write a blog about Labyrinth. Our first try? If I did the unit conversions correctly, this works out to 20 kcal/mi for biking and 85 kcal/mi walking (assuming 180 lb for the biker and bike and 156 lb for the walker). You can trust him. But it was only, like, 3 calls. Big feelings, but nothing overwhelming. Its only over the last 5-6 years that Ive had a taste of Anxiety that. Every time I tweet, whenever I leave my house for a walk, I know theres probably a 50/50 chance of someone coming up to me and asking me about it. I can set the temperature, humidity and ventilation to my liking, as I enjoy a smooth, quiet ride while listening to the radio or music through my 6-speaker sound system. To get a real comparison, wed have to compare the habits and diets of a typical motorist with a typical bicyclist and see how calorie intake varies with bicycle miles. The gallon of lard (well, whatever the unit) is not a complete gross-out. So even if you dont care much about the charity stuff Im doing, theres something for you to enjoy there.
MPG of a Human | Do the Math Road damage scales as the fourth power of axle weight which means trucks and buses account for nearly all of it.. I solved my anxiety puzzle. Of course, relative duration plays a part Unless you bike really fast. Whats that thing way down at the bottom there?
Twitter If you get there before it launches, you can click the button to be notified as soon as things go live, If any of you have any questions about the kickstarter or Underthing Press, feel free to drop them in the comments below, well try to answer them. So I should make it clear. If we ever do decide to transition out of the cars and into public transit and onto bikes, well be in luck. http://newurbannetwork.com/news-opinion/links/15408/messy-street-patterns-boost-walking, Messy street patterns provide the most functional urban space. First, youve considered the efficiency of converting solar energy to chemical energy of an Iowa cornfield, but gasoline is taken as the raw MPG of a car. But I guess that blog is one of the hundreds Ive half-written then left unfinished. Im starting my own tiny publishing imprint: Underthing Press. The beauty of my having done the calculation both with and without base metabolism and laying out the assumptions explicitly is that if you dont like my choices, you can roll your own calculation or selectively ignore the parts you dont like. So I called Shawn Speakman, cool guy, experienced book-doer, and founder of Grim Oak Press. When I was a teenager she introduced me to it, and we stayed up late to watch it together on the weekends. The Netherlands is also very flat, so bikers dont have to deal with many steep slopes. Coincidentally, I just read this article about velomobiles and their increased efficiency relative to bikes: Im also *very* pleased that folks seem to be liking the new stretch goals I up on my team page. Im exposed to rain, wind, snow, extreme temperatures, road noise and other unpleasant environmental conditions. And I dont think bikes make sense for more than a tiny fraction of our travel. Great. This gives you extremely high efficiency for direct pedal to wheels, and a lower (but still optimal) efficiency (and motor/generator + power electronics re-use) for the smoothing stage. Ive loved his work for ages, especially Girl Genius. For short trips around town, this is the sensible number. Playful tone. First off, lets be clear. So Im going to cast my net among my friends and see who might like to come help me read the chapter of Doors of Stone for yall. But wait! I hear you cry. I think that sounds like a fun way of releasing the early peek of the book. And now, without further ado, heres my rambling mess of a foreword. Huh. If youre not aware, they are essentially the most advanced sail boats ever built, designed from the ground up to efficiently slip through the water while maximizing the energy captured from the wind by using a wing sail. Thanks again for all your support, everyone. Its a delightful collaborative storytelling environment to be sure, and I *love* me some worldbuilding as you know. Just feelings. So you could argue that, at least for moderate values, biking/walking for transport actually *reduces* the burden on the energy intensive food system as while your personal output increases the inputs required to achieve a given output reduce. Whats more, its no longer the night before the kickstarter, its the morning of. So I get a taste of both the manic and the depressive.
Literotica.com Think about someone who drives to the gym everyday to exercise on a machine that requires electricity. Also, I would like to go on the record as saying that I didnt go into this game with *anything* planned. Ill be releasing a chapter of Doors of Stone into the wild. Fiasco proves how fun it is to role-play without a DM. Not just the ~100 square-foot perimeter of the automobile itself, but effectively up to 300 square yards afore and aft of the moving vehicle, depending on speed. Cars need a lot of pavement, and they chew it up something fierce. What a wild world we live in. This is, at best, going to be an odd, maundering aggregation of anecdotes and elegy. The simplest definition of a calorie is a larger unit of energy this unit of energy is equal to the heat required to raise the temperature of 1KG of pure water by 1 degree Celsius. Sounds pretty complicated and mathematical, and it more or less is. I did have a little meeting around 4:30. 04 (4.52) Husband likes showing off his sexy wife. The Tak kickstarter blew the doors off and we raised well over $1,000,000 dollars. True, but a low number there is probably THE top selling point for automobiles, right? And hassle. And Im guessing if youve made it all the way to the end of this foreword, you might be one of the folks who enjoy that sort of thing as well. And so while it was cool, it was also a bit of a shame. It has just 15 intersections, the lowest Ive ever counted., See: This is a tiny fraction of the caloric content of our gallon of food, implying that we could go for almost 1150 miles per gallon! You can show up to enjoy the Q&A live over here, or catch the VOD after were done. And Im the only one who can do them. Plus the time. The fact that yall have been steadily donating there means Im going to be hopping back on the stream early tomorrow to to try and make some progress against the Ender Dragon before I have to cough up TWO favor rings. Protection delivered by the same tools Microsoft uses for business customers. And my plans are more prone to that than most. Like, (Pat said, doing an expert segue) the time I played Fiasco with the folks over at Polygon. So for todays blog to make sense, you might want to go back and read the one I wrote a couple days ago. While this is a good first-level approximation, it is the worst possible nutritional advice one can give. Great great. Yeah. Incest/Taboo 02/07/20 Its wild to me when I stop to think that back in the day, I used to post up blogs at the rate of 2-3 a week, whereas now its more usual for me to post one every 2-3 months. He came up with the following: 0.15 cal per km per gram for biking and 0.75 cal per km per gram for walking. This article was great, except for one point. This should in no way be taken to suggest setting aside the bike or boots for a car that gets better performance. So Im going to throw that up here today. As you predicted, efficiency is always the thing that kills it. And all those parking lots could be planted or developed, and all those garages could get converted into additional living space (or workshops or storage or whatever). Polygon posted up an article about the game, titled Fiasco proves how fun it is to role-play without a DM., They even generously subtitled the article, Patrick Rothfuss joins us for some collaborative storytelling instead of something more realistic like, Rothfuss weirds up our game and then drives us off a narrative cliff.. Parking garages might be hard to re-porpoise, but theres always the wrecking ball if nothing else. If my job here is to introduce you to the book shouldnt I do it in the same way I introduce people? In the city Groningen of the Netherlands, 57% of the people who commute to work use a bicycle. A good overview of food energy is at http://pge.uchicago.edu/workshop/documents/martin1.pdf, and references therein, which indicates that 17% of the U.S. energy budget is used for food purposes (planting, fertilizing, irrigation, harvesting, transportation, refrigeration, preparation, etc.). * * * Fast forward. And the gas/lard equivalent is about 1300MPG! As I sit down to write this, its just after midnight, and Ive done a thing that I dont normally do during the fundraiser.
Femail Obviously bikes have some advantages theyre very cheap and they can promote better health, for example but those benefits are not important enough for bikes to attract more than a tiny share of the market. Another issue is that we were actually going to launch this kickstarter waaaaay back in August of 2021. Now, factor in the health benefits and the resulting reduced cost to society. The only thing that keeps me from burying him in books is the fact that I only want to bring him truly good things to read. I get to share something I love with someone I love. Ive had a vast, pervasive, and widely assorted grab-bag of mood disorder experience over the course of my life. On the Net, its common to come across what gets derisively labeled as the physicist diet, because it navely assumes that, if the calories on the package label equals the physical work expended by the person, the person will maintain body mass; increase the work and the mass goes down, increase the food calories and the mass goes up. Also, Shawnposted an update announcing an add-on that folks requested in one of our early brainstorm session, and weve been working on for a couple of weeks. They are radically different. Careful: I flipped a couple pages to look at the art and suddenly there was a full splash page showing Ganesha. Thats the gist of it right there. But Im pretty sure well be able to get it done early next year. Or even people who dont subscribe to it, could hear me guest star onto a podcast, or catch me do a writing Q&A or play D&D or some other sort of game. If you drive 6 miles to buy your groceries, you have burned more fuel than transporting a similar amount of food from Beijing to Los Angeles. His desire quickly turns to obsession as he stalks her both online and in real life. Diagrams and references are included here: The first one we did went over really well. Hes ridden all over the world, currently in California. This is my favourite cycle touring blog. Bicycle advocates like me tend to forget what kind of impact having multiple passengers can have on the energy efficiency of cars. 04 (4.67) Clarissa and Dominic find a way together. a few words you're probably going to have to look up. Subscribe for free via iTunes and other podcast platforms At small scales, and non-optimal operating points (steep hills, long flats, etc) the mechanical electrical efficiency especially will drop quite a bit and youll probably be looking at more like 60% 70% or less.
Literotica.com And theres the initial energy investment in the vehicle itselfjust a single car door is going to take more energy and raw materials to manufacture than the entire bike. I do it so much that I buy my favorite books in bulk, so I always have a copy I can hand to someone. The result is that bicycles are by far the most efficient means of transport. Even half our current road capacity would probably be overkill. As it is, Im just angry about my face.). Energy and Equity is one of my favorite essays on energy use and society, but Illich doesnt explain how he arrived at these numbers, though I see them quoted from time to time on bicycle forums. If we send someone a catalog and say, Congratulations on your first child! and theyve never told us theyre pregnant, thats going to make some people uncomfortable, Pole told me. Energy is not important enough to usyet. Now Im like the rest of the plebeians, promiscuous with my punctuation to the point of profligacy. But if you feel it so strongly you cant fight the boss, then its a disorder. ), My 8-year old immediately stomped out with: Its wonderfully story-rich!, My 12 year old said he wanted to think about it a bit, then a couple hours later he came back and said: Digger is a beautiful story that rambles, but in a good way.. I dont mind being nervous, but I hate not knowing *why* I feel a way. Another consideration to bear in mind: in most cases, cycling and walking involve a single passenger. A Prius loaded with four people effectively gets 200 MPG per passenger (18kWh/100-mi per passenger), so make sure to account for this when making comparisons. Air resistance is negligible. Huge potential to shift from internal combustion engines to electrical propulsion, further increasing the range of potential energy sources (nuclear, renewables). P.S. The actual food calories consumed are irrelevant. Hell, Im publishing it. Im trying to do my best on this project, because I love Ursulas book. This is meant to be ballpark, people: good to a factor of two. Parking space, sure- state-sized swathes of arable land appropriated for car storage- but also roadway.
Patrick Rothfuss Blog Then wed really be smokin. Then wed play together, have some fun, raise scads of money to feed hungry kids, and make the world a better place. ). Joe is a stalker. Couldnt we do better by eating a bucket of lard? Oh yeah, you sure do consume more food when on a cycle tour! What will happen to the planets several billions if even non-drought farming requires proportionally-similar extravagant energy resources? So there is a 10:1 ratio. That I dont read introductions. The old assumption by traffic engineers is that the distribution of trip origin/destination pairs are generated without consideration of how easy any particular trip is, but through the well-documented phenomenon of induced traffic this has been shown to be false. But yeah. Backed by enterprise-grade security Outlook works around the clock to help protect your data. If youve never heard of Fiasco before. 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