PF Random Thoughts

zoobyshoe

Utensil in the garbage disposal! First time I've ever done that. The motor is fine, but I need a new soup spoon.

collinsmark

That reminds me of another advantage of electric cars and most hybrids. Much (if not most) of the typical breaking is regenerative, and that component of breaking doesn't even involve the break pads. That means that the time averaged wear on the break pads is only a fraction of that of more conventional automobiles (ultimately meaning you don't have to change the break pads as often) -- not to mention, vastly reduced break-dust on the rims, if you happen to have nice rims.

Astronuc

What's in a name?

Icelandic girl fights for right to her own name
http://news.yahoo.com/icelandic-girl...074758814.html

BTW - 'C' or 'c' is not in the 32 letter Icelandic alphabet.

Borg

I noticed last week that my car has 75,000 miles and that I've never had to have the brakes worked on. Inspections are pretty tough here so I'm sure that the inspectors would catch it if it was even close to needing brake work.

AlephZero

The basic reason you don't have to replace brake pads often is because asbestos brake pads were banned for health reasons. When manufacturers couldm't sell cheap short-life pads any more, they moved to selling high-cost long-life pads instead.

These days, the metal brake discs wear out as fast, or faster, than the pads.

dkotschessaa

The computer that I use for no other purpose than to watch netflix has a virus. It's like it got bored and started browsing one night in the red light district of the internet and uhhh...caught something.

Kholdstare

Anybody knows how to keep from dozing off in boring meetings? I can never avoid that.

Michael Redei

If they don't allow names beginning with or containing the letter 'c', I wonder what they call the main figure in the New Testament. Jesus Godsson?

Borek

Jesús Kristur:

http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesús

Michael Redei

That Icelandic Wikipedia is most interesting. I see that they have no entry on Bjarne Stroustrup (maybe because he's a Dane), but they do mention his best-known invention: http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B

zoobyshoe

I'm sure you're right about asbestos pads but wear on the rotor and the pad would be greatly reduced in a regenerative braking system since some significant part of the the slowing is caused by making the wheel turn a generator and, to the extent that's the case, (the slowing) is not caused by friction between rotor and pad.

collinsmark

Thanks, Zooby. That was the original point I was trying to make.

The regenerative part of the breaking transfers energy from the wheels to the generator/motor via the drive train in the same way that normally the generator/motor transfers energy to the wheels, except in reverse (neither of which relies on friction). Most praise about this is that it reclaims energy that would otherwise just be lost to heat (not to mention brake-wear).

My point was that in addition to the energy savings, since it doesn't involve the conventional part of the brakes, it means less frequent brake maintenance, and less brake dust. (And you don't hear about that nice fact as often.)

HeLiXe

I just saw a post where I used the pseudo-word "misleaded" and I was not even under the influence or anything.

Borg

I saw this on FailBlog today. I used to work in the same office as the owner and saw it in the parking lot all the time.

HeLiXe

instant LOL

Gad

zoobyshoe

That's true. It didn't occur to me that would be the case before you mentioned it.