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That is interesting. I wonder how they will sepearte the hydrogen once the water is cracked. Ben

Sitting here on the pile of coal in my backyard I have to ask... Where do we get the energy required to produce the hydrogen used by the fuel cell if not fossil fuel ? Hydrogen fuel cells are great for situation where hydrogen is a by-product of some other process. Ben

When closing a project we get a "something has changed" that the detils seldom help reveal. I have given up trying to find the answers on occation. It should show us what has changed and the nauture of those changes. Ben

"I'll take three." Ike, same S.P. episode (BTW I live in South Park both literaly and figuratively). RE: The prius etc. I have a cRIO app that I have been toying with to help the sales of such critters. It will monitor the accelerator pedal and critial parameters and coordinate a set of linear postitioners and a giant sound system such that reving an electric vehicle sounds and feels like an LS crate engine. Since it will be software based, users could choose the classic car they want to emulate.THe wife and I did concider alternative motive source vehicles when choosing to replace our oldest Cavalier. At the rate I drive (60 miles a week) the batteries would need replaced in the vehicle before I would start to realive the break-even point. So we decided on a Jeep, not to save on gas but to transform those masive snow banks from bariers into tempting challenges reaching out to me from the side of the road. Ben At the recent recyling day for our community I showed up with my pickup filed with old PC printers etc. Whe I produced a large box of batteries the people working the recylce project where confused if they accepted batteries. It apperas that I was the only person recylcing batteries. Ben

That is a nice way of describing an accident. Now I am giggling over a situation where people do get positive feed-back.. A Nany-Garmen ... Nice stop there asbo, hardly exceeded 3 Gs this time." Take care, Ben

If "match the flow" could technically earns me a ticket, then then color me guilty. i once concidered building a billboard display that I could hang on the back door of the jeep. I could use a handholed keyboard to type messages like "I know I am going slow but chill, I'll get out of the way as soon as I can." I am glad I don't have to get in your way on my comute. The biggest delays are the occational tractors moving between fields. Oh, and if you do happen to find youself behind me, please smile and wave as you pass. Ben

I have riden far to many cars to their death and don't want to do so again. I am the proverbial "Old man in a hat". Dismissing the one occation involving a head on collision with a 16 year old driver trying to beat the midnight deadline, all of my accident occured in traffic that involved a lot of stoping and starting. I have since changed my driving habits and my insurance company apreciates it. I would like to concider for a moment "what would traffic flow look like if it was under computer control and optimized?" I answer that question by envisioning a smooth flow of traffic with no stops and goes. So when I put on my hat and get behind the wheel I drive my vehicle as if it being coordinated with all others and leeve plenty of room ahed of me to let people change lanes as they wish without forcing me to slam on the brakes and putting the bike rider behind me in jeopardy. If I can get through a traffic jam without ever coming to a halt, I concider it a win. Under non-jam conditions I do try to adhere to the speed limit (I calibrate my spedometer at evry one of those "Your spped was" signs ) and use the left lane sparingly. But if I am in the process of passing a vehicle and I am approached from behind at high speed by another while doing so, they will just have to wait until I am back in the right lane since I can ignore long queues with the best of them. so what is the end of it all? If we are starting out on a long road trip together, I suggest y'all depart before me. I'll only p$#% you off. Games old men play while driving: Can I make my brakes last longer than my mechanic predicts? Can I avoid using gas when going down hill? Can I keep that uncovered cup of coffee from spilling on the way to work? Can I keep the section of roadway I am driving out of the local traffic reports? For those of you that a happy when you see me slip back into the right lane: Go ahead have a good time. I'll do my best to stay out your way. Ben

I avoid construct that kill time like the plague so it has been a while since I had to do benchmarks on code perfomance (it problably has more to do with faster CPUs than my imporved coiding techniques I freely admit) but when I did I used the seq frame with ms tick counts. But, I kept performance in mind as I have been developing and buried in the "top-level" Hardware Class (from which most of my widgets inherit) there is an optional built-in timing functions so I can turn on the time logging functions. I hope I never have to use them! Ben

Be forwarned that globals can cause Timed Loops to finish late. I never got a good explanation as to why but testing made it clear that globals can cuase timeing issues. Globals also do not scale well. As soon as that "constant" needs changing due to a requirements change, you may be converting to an AE in the end. Done beating my drum, Ben

I have boring apps as well but those require a security clearence and approval by a regulatory agency ... that I can't talk about. Ben

rendering utrasonic scans in 3-space. With skins This I call "Cscan on the surface. This shows the data rendered inside the wheel Extreme zoom in, sector of wheel reduced threshold looking at flaw from inside wheel Another CScan on surface but challenge of the web illustrated. This was all implemented using LVOOP so that I can add new surfaces for other applciations when the need arises. Ben

It is called artistic liberty... I think. ben

That read well with those beans named fava. The post were all sweet and the forum was neat With lots of info for those who where nova. :ph34r: I am dispicable. Ben Ben

Where LabVIEW Gurus spew new views to chew for you. Ben

Break all of the rules and inventing official names for each. Ben

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