Posted November 19th, 2012 @ 07:19pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I think that for my birthday (March 23, so plenty of notice! :D) I'd like to get a QuadCopter to pair with my GoPro HERO3. Oh the things I can imagine doing with this combination…
Is there some place with this stuff pre-built? Or some place that details the basic options? Maybe even has stuff that doesn't cost a mortgage payment?! 😀
Hmmm. $1799 on Black Friday, normally $2399. I'm not listing that to buy it (Carey), just to remind myself the good ones are pretty expensive and thus this birthday wish will likely go unfulfilled. 😛
P.S. The more I look into all of this, the more I've talked myself out of it. And by typing that, now, I think I'm just about done.
10. Bewitched
9. NewsRadio
8. Soap
7. Cheers
6. Dharma and Greg
5. The Andy Griffith Show
4. Seinfeld
3. The Big Bang Theory
2. The Beverly Hillbillies
1. WKRP in Cincinnati
Dharma and Greg? Really? And Seinfeld in fourth?
What's missing from this list? What would you add - and what would you kick out to make room?
Even with its remarkable, 85-kW-hr battery, the Model S' EPA-certified 265-mile range is about 100 miles short of spanning California's two biggest cities. And if you can't manage that, how would you ever get to New York? To answer that, Tesla recently unveiled the first five of what it calls its Supercharger stations along routes connecting L.A. to Las Vegas and San Francisco, and S.F. to Reno. (A sixth is located at SpaceX's Hawthorne factory.) These Superchargers are veritable electron fire hoses, delivering DC energy directly into the battery at rates up to 80 kW, bypassing the on-board 10-kW (or optional 20-kW) inverter(s), and gaining 150 to 160 miles in range in 30 minutes. As Tesla says, stops on long drives often take that long anyway, if you use the bathroom, stretch, and grab a snack.
Moreover, charging will be partially sun-powered -- the stations' roofs are covered with Musk's Solar City photovoltaic cells, but don't worry, you can recharge at night -- and it's permanently free to Model S owners with the 85 kW-hr battery, and 60 kW-hr cars with supercharging capability. As Musk says, as long as you bring enough sandwiches and drinks, you could drive across the country without your wallet. Tesla predicts 100 stations nationwide by 2015.
Posted November 8th, 2012 @ 09:45am by Erik J. Barzeski
So, Marco's "The Magazine" has been around for a few issues now. What's the general take? Worth the $2/month? Worth it if you have to read it on your iPhone 5 only (no iPad)?