2008-08-11.log

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fennoblivierra seems like a half-cooked "millenial project" (LUF)21:06
bkeroDoes it even have a domain anymore?21:07
fennuh, i mean the atacama desert colony, not the mmorpg21:08
bkeroI see.21:09
fenni'm reading logs from a couple days ago21:10
bkeroGoogle fails me.21:10
fennhttp://heybryan.org/chats/chats/agaboogamonger_Mar5th02005.html21:10
fennprobably not all that interesting21:10
fennone problem with these self-sufficiency projects is they always consider the 'unit' to be geographically located, but the real world provides different environments that are conducive to different activities21:11
fennand so humanity has ended up with trade21:12
kanzureplastic from silicon or something silly like that21:12
kanzureactually it was from algae IIRC21:12
fennnothing wrong with that, but you have to consider the reasons behind it21:12
fennis it worth trying to make your own plastics?21:13
fennwhat is the cost in freedom vs the cost in labor21:13
bkeroDepends on what your goal of civilization is21:13
fenn(freedom from mail order catalogs and UPS)21:13
bkeroIf you're content with an agrarian society I'm sure it's not too difficult if you chose the right location.21:13
fennright now the US is finally taking a look at this sort of question re: oil21:14
bkeroThe extreme left responds to "We're fucked" reports.  Everyone else tends to ignore them.21:15
bkeroUntil it starts to very quickly change the country to third world status. ;)21:16
fenneven george W bush says the US needs to break its dependence from foriegn oil, so i wouldnt say it's the extreme left21:16
bkeroThen everyone else tries to find some other reason for it happening, because "We told you so" is too embarrasing.21:16
* kanzure glances at the screen to his immediate left ... still scrolling with papers.21:17
kanzure:))21:17
bkero"We have a problem with our dependency on foreign oil.  Clearly the problem isn't with our land yachts and lack of foresight retarding environmental regulation and > 6000lb vehicle 80% tax treaks.  It has to do with everyone else in the world using more, not us.  This problem has not existed until now, everyone else was just waving flag for the wrong culprit."21:19
kanzureif I was more energetic at the moment I'd go into a spiell about recursive publics and fully surveying available resources before exponentially cancering yourself21:20
* bkero is using no oil besides what it takes for my good to get to the grocery store21:21
kanzuredoesn't matter ... dependency loops.21:21
fennif i could, i would.. that's why i'm joining the raelians to get the first shot at cloning! :) </sarcasm>21:21
bkeroYup21:21
kanzuredependency-loops, not a statement that they do loop (of course they do, but no)21:21
kanzurewe've been able to clone for a while though21:22
kanzureso why join them?21:22
fennwho's we?21:22
* bkero bicycles and drives an electric car. :)21:22
fennafaict even the raelians havent cloned anyone21:22
kanzurewe = everybody but me, in a lab21:22
kanzureah, well, people21:22
kanzureok21:22
kanzureI'm assuming the SCNT diff between hu/sheep/ape is minimal21:23
kanzurethe technique has to be roughly the same21:23
kanzureexcept perhaps chemical prep work21:23
fennhas anyone succeeded in cloning sheep/ape that isnt all old and fucked up?21:23
kanzurehttp://home.cfl.rr.com/chaosdriven/references.html21:24
kanzurehm21:24
kanzuremice?21:24
bkeroLeast fucked up big cloned thing I've seen was probably a frog back in the 70s.21:24
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/transhuman/cloning/21:25
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/transhuman/cloning/RefSalSCNT.zip21:25
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/transhuman/cloning/CRi%20SCNT%20Full%20Protocol%20Final.pdf21:25
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/transhuman/cloning/Enucleation%20Rhesus%20Monkey%20MPEG4v2.avi21:25
kanzureetc.21:25
fennbut.. are they viable?21:25
fenndolly was as "old" as the original sheep21:25
kanzurecheck out the zip file 21:25
kanzurelots of awesome references with links to pubmedcentral21:26
kanzurethe dolly problem was largely because of tolemerase21:26
kanzure'Cloned creatures are cloned from diploid cells (2n) and when they divide (those diploid cells) they produce an organism exactly like the cells that they came from. In order to produce Dolly the sheep, it took over 4000 individual nuclear replacements of the cell - 21:27
kanzureto get them all to divide the same. Insert references to the Alien movies. Don't see Alien versus Predator - horrible. The problem with cloning is that it is a very inexact science. In order to get one good Dolly sheep it takes many thousands of attempts.'21:27
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/school/Biology/notes/output.html21:27
kanzure'Cholesterol-based hormones (steroid hormones) are rapidly absorbed in muscle cells and many other cells. The positive effect is that they turn on genes for proteins to be built, but the problem is that it wears out the division mechanisms like with Dolly that caused increased aging rate.'21:27
fennsometimes you really do behave like a HMM robot21:28
kanzureDolly related:21:29
kanzurehttp://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/bibliography.html21:29
kanzurehttp://www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/03Apr/RL31211.pdf21:29
kanzureWho to blame for Dolly: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/biosciences/anphy/lookup/lookup_role.php?id=NjA0MjI0&page_var=publications&pubs=all&unit_id=21:29
kanzure(his email address and such)21:29
kanzureWasn't there that dog cloning organization from the early 90s?21:29
kanzureSome rich guy's dog was going to die, so he hired a team of 10 men to clone the bitch.21:30
kanzurequite literally.21:30
bkerohaha21:30
bkeroThere are a lot of businesses out there that preserve dogs DNA to be cloned when it's economically viable.21:30
fenncan i get my dog's brain frozen?21:30
kanzurethere was an article on this in the toolkit21:31
bkeroIt's not the freezing that kills the cells, it's the thawing out :P21:31
kanzureoh, wait21:31
kanzureno21:31
fennuh, no it's the freezing21:31
kanzureomg omg omg21:31
bkeroo?21:31
fennit's the crystals, man!21:31
fennoooo21:31
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/docs/cache-index.txt21:31
kanzureBioelectric discharges of isolated cat brain after revival from seven years of frozen storage.pdf21:31
kanzureok, found it21:31
* kanzure feels better.21:31
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/~bbishop/docs/Bioelectric%20discharges%20of%20isolated%20cat%20brain%20after%20revival%20from%20years%20of%20frozen%20storage.pdf21:33
bkeroSCIENCE!21:33
kanzure:)21:33
kanzurehm, pdx.edu21:34
kanzurethat's where nchaimov is21:34
kanzurewhy isn't he in here?21:34
kanzureoh, heh. he's the one who retrieved the file for me. :)21:34
* bkero is in portland too21:35
* kanzure is more worried about the artificial wombs .. cloning seems ok so far, but these damn tanks seem to mutate the cargo21:39
bkeroWhy not just use real wombs?21:40
bkeroSeems optimal for nutrient delivery. :P21:40
kanzurebkero: Suppose you were using a von Neumann probe and flying across the galaxy.21:40
kanzureAssume cryonics isn't working out too well (oops)21:40
kanzureyou'd have to have live supplies of women and their "real" wombs21:40
fennartificial womb needs an artificial heart, glandular system, kidneys, etc etc21:41
kanzureas if the fact that it's attached to women makes them any more real, except in that we currently have them I suppose21:41
kanzureartificial womb is just a tank sort of21:41
kanzurelet me get the Kuwabara refs21:41
kanzureclose but not it: http://www.uni.edu/~maclino/cl/skinner_baby_in_a_box.pdf21:41
kanzurehttp://www.amazon.com/Ectogenesis-Artificial-Technology-Reproduction-Inquiry/dp/904202081421:41
fennthey dont have to be 'real' kidneys, just something that performs the same function. but kidneys seem like an efficient use of space and energy to me21:41
bkerofenn: You merely need to produce the outputs of those. :P21:41
kanzurehttp://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13418180.400-japanese-pioneers-raise-kid-in-rubber-womb-.html21:42
kanzurethere we go21:42
kanzurehttp://www.amazon.com/Ectogenesis-Artificial-Technology-Reproduction-Inquiry/dp/904202081421:42
kanzurehttp://www.babytron.com/21:42
kanzurehttp://www.geocities.com/placenta_rb/Biblio.html21:42
kanzurehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/22/neggs122.xml21:42
kanzurehttp://www.aec.at/festival2000/texte/nobuya_unno_e.htm21:42
kanzurehttp://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2005/Faking-Babies-Reproduction19may05.htm21:42
kanzurehttp://www.eshre.com/CM.NET.WebUI/CM.NET.webUI.SCPR/SCPRfunctiondetail.aspx?confID=05000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000029&sesID=05000000-0000-0000-0000-000000002074&absID=07000000-0000-0000-0000-00000001460521:42
kanzurehttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19526146.200&feedId=online-news_rss2021:42
kanzurefor bonus points, the second one is the raelians :)21:42
kanzure(babytron)21:42
kanzureMore: http://www.nrlc.org/Killing_Embryos/ArtificialWombs.html21:42
kanzurehttp://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook1011.htm21:42
fenni find it curious that the only people publically advocating human cloning are UFO kooks21:43
fennwhy is this a taboo?21:43
kanzurehm21:43
bkeroCan't we just have organ sacs for the purpose of feeding the fetus?21:43
kanzurebkero: What?21:43
bkeroAutonomous sacs of organs for an artificial womb. :P21:44
kanzurefenn: maybe it's because nobody has actually seriously proposed some projects or something ... something nonprofit would be needed methinks21:44
kanzurebkero: Maybe. There's the tissue engineers that we could go abduct and have them make those 'sacs' you're talking about.21:44
bkerofenn: It's taboo because it raises all sorts of ethical questions by people who don't understand science, but question what kind of rights it should have, and if it has a 'soul'.21:45
kanzureI've always wanted to try 'exploded organism emulation' via having mostly biological components except separated by long distances with networking hardware of some sort or another in between, just so that it could all be modular and stuff. ;-)21:45
kanzurewhy are 'rights' even a question ?21:45
kanzureis that the right question to be asking?21:45
fennwhy would DNA makeup have anything to do with whether it has a soul?21:45
bkeroCould I clone myself for a housemaid?21:45
kanzureI dunno, could you ?21:45
fennyour clone would grow up just like any other baby21:45
kanzurewrong question ;-)21:45
fennyou can name your kid 'ben' but that doesnt make him the same as you21:46
kanzurehint of angst there ?21:46
bkeroTrue, but could you breed 'subhumans' with less rights?21:46
kanzurethere's a scale of rights ?21:46
bkeroThere used to be.21:46
bkeroAnd there still is in a portion of the world.21:46
kanzureAnd how do you map genome to this scale ?21:47
fennthey already did that in america in the 1800's21:47
fennno cloning needed21:47
kanzureI don't know what 'subhuman' means :-/21:47
bkeroSubhuman is more of a social distinction than a biological one.21:47
bkeroSee: Eunechs21:48
fennwhat do you call a human with less performance, ie the opposite of transhuman21:48
kanzure"Control, an illusion, and order our comforting lie; Through chaos, from chaos, into chaos we fly."21:48
kanzurehuman with less performance21:48
kanzurebut you see, that's kind of assuming there's a performance thingy21:48
kanzureerm21:48
bkeroCould it be a human with less value?21:48
kanzure"better human" and "worse human" just doesn't make sense to me. It's the same reason why GPA doesn't make sense.21:48
kanzurevalue to *who*? 21:49
kanzureIt's context-dependent, remember.21:49
kanzure*you're* the one making the value judgment21:49
kanzure(or somebody else yelling at you)21:49
fennquality of subjective experience?21:49
kanzure?21:49
fennsay i'm blind and deaf and numb and hate my life, obviously my subjective experience is of a lesser quality21:49
fennOR IS IT!21:49
kanzureI don't understand.21:50
kanzureare you asking me to tell you that I'd kill you or something ?21:50
fenni'm slightly undecided, but i think it's OK to argue that lesser subjective experience means that your life is inherently worth less 21:50
bkerokanzure: If he were that disfunctional, he would be of little value to society, however his quality as a human could be great.21:50
fenni dont mean value as in what sort of contributions i can make21:51
kanzurethis problem space is confusing and sucks21:51
* kanzure ignores it.21:51
fennbecause eventually we will all be obsoleted by AI21:51
bkeroHeh21:51
bkeroAs soon as singularity bootstraps itself.21:51
bkeroI'm waiting it any day now.21:51
* kanzure points out that we're probably the bootstrappers sort of21:51
kanzureif you looked at exp.html for instance.. it's one of the lazy projects we've been kicking around for a few months21:52
fennkanzure: i got in an argument with an economist once21:52
kanzurehow'd you survive?21:52
fenner, something like that21:52
fennnot a real economist, just someone who thought he was one21:52
fennanyway21:53
fennthe argument was about how much your life is worth21:53
fennhe said that you could determine what monetary value the person placed on their life by measuring risks and the amount of money put into reducing those risks21:53
bkeroYou know you're right that my eyes sort of glazed over when reading that21:54
bkeroEr, I'm not entirely sure that's accurate.21:54
bkeroThat's assuming risk reduction is the primary goal21:54
fennsay you are a thug, with 50% chance of getting killed tomorrow21:54
* kanzure hates the concept of 'risk'21:55
kanzureprocto knows :)21:55
fennyou could buy a gun for $100 that would reduce your risk of dying by 50%21:55
kanzureand probability21:55
fennyou could buy another gun for $1000 that would reduce your risk by 99%21:56
fennso, assuming you have $1000 and dont buy the fancy gun, you can estimate the value you put on your life at somewhere between $50 and $1000 right?21:56
fennblah21:57
bkeroThat's not even fallacious, that's just dumb.21:57
fennit's dumb because people have an invincibility bias, they dont believe they can die21:58
bkerofenn: I don't know about you, but I'm not going to die.21:58
fennwell, i'm not dead yet am i?21:58
bkeroBut do you think you will?21:58
fenni dont know, i'm death-agnostic21:58
bkerohttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html21:59
fennyeah yeahh your're preaching to the choir21:59
bkero:P21:59
fennanyway the whole point of this was that weiwe should value human life insttrinissically21:59
fennintrinsically*22:00
fennbut then saying "human life" is sort of arbitrary, so i've generalized it to subjective experience22:01
fennfor all the fuzzy bunnies and whales and dolphins and robots22:01
bkeroAlthough I have to say that in an appropriately welfared society, we wouldn't have to put any surmountable amount of money into life extension.22:01
fenn"I don't worry about the ethical problems. I just want to rescue the fetus where it is impossible to be rescued by present treatment"22:05
fennsad state of affairs22:05
fennhey kanzure we could lobby conservative anti-abortionists to develop artificial wombs, the rationale being that unwilling mothers wouldnt have to kill their fetuses22:06
bkeroIs the state going to pick up the bill for them? :P22:07
kanzurenot bad22:08
fennno, the rich religious nutjobs would22:08
* kanzure recently met Aubrey in person :)22:08
bkeroYou can't get rich religious nutjobs to pay for anything besides their 44,000 sqft creationist museum in kansas.22:08
fennbkero: then they could see the reality of the cost of bearing a child, and the guilt would be on them for not contributing, see?22:09
bkeroGuilting rich republicans, I like it.22:09
fenn"you murderer, sending this innocent fetus to its death!"22:09
bkeroOf course they're simply going to claim 'its not a child'22:09
fennnow if only i could figure out how to apply this to space development22:09
fennbut they can't claim it's not a child22:09
* bkero met burt rutan 3 years ago. :)22:10
bkerofenn: They could claim it's not human because it lacks a soul(somehow)22:10
kanzurewho's burt?22:10
kanzurethe mothers would argue otherwise22:10
fennbkero: its not a cloned fetus, just a regular aborted (or would-be aborted) fetus22:10
bkeroHe designs ultralight aircraft, and spaceshipone22:10
fennraised in an artificial womb22:10
kanzurebkero: ultralight, like scramjets? http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Scramjets22:11
fennnot ultralights, homebuilt small airplanes22:11
fennyou need a pilot's license of some sort to fly the *EZ22:11
bkerofenn: I get that, but they could claim that it has neither a nurturing mother or father, it's a humunculous22:11
fennwtf the whole point of pro-life is that the fetus is worth saving22:11
fennthe mother wants to kill it22:12
bkeroMy ex girlfriends father has an ultralight in his garage.  I helped him cut the styrofoam, vacuum bag it, and assemble it.22:12
bkeroWe built one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-EZ22:13
fenncool, that's my favorite homebuilt design i think22:14
bkeroHehe, it's what john denver died in22:14
bkeroBurt Rutan basically wrote ALL the books on experimental aircraft.22:14
fennyeah i read the report, it was stupid22:14
bkeroI'm a member of 2 EAAs.  The Electric Auto Association, and the Experimental Aircraft Association22:14
kanzurebkero: I'll be over in 10 hours22:17
bkeroThe aerodynamics of the Long-EZ are such that it's the same as pushing a 2sqft block through the air22:17
* kanzure wants to see.22:17
bkerohaha22:17
bkeroI don't actually own the plane.  I'm way too fucking poor.  I'm still getting a pilots license.22:18
fenni have a hard time understanding why planes cost so much22:18
fennthey're very simple22:18
bkeroBecause they're made of composites, which don't have cheap manufacturing processes.22:19
bkeroYou can roll steel and stamp aluminum22:19
fennthat's not true, cessna's are made of stamped aluminum and are just as expensive22:19
bkeroYou have to mold styrofoam then lay fiberglass on both sides of that, then epoxy it, then seal it in a bag, and run a vacuum to remove excess epoxy.22:19
bkeroCessnas also demand a price premium, you pay for their product marketing.22:20
bkeroThey're also not 'experimental'.22:20
fennexperimental or not, airplanes are expensive22:20
bkeroYea, those long-ez's are $35000 :/22:21
bkeroBecause they require a substantial bit of engineering? :P22:21
bkeroA piece of shit will roll, but a piece of shit won't fly.  That's why engineering on planes is infinitely better than cars.22:22
fenn$35k isnt too bad, that's about what someone would pay for a car22:22
bkeroFinished in 198522:22
bkeroThen again, nobody has built substantially better planes since then. :/22:22
bkeroFor fuel mileage, the Vari-EZ still holds the record.22:22
fennbut i'm talking to these aero-engineers who make $100k/yr and can't afford to fly22:23
bkeroThey use fucking air-cooled Beetle engines.22:23
bkero(and get better mileage than the beetle)22:23
* fenn ponders a turbo diesel homebuilt22:24
bkeroairplane or car?22:24
fennairplane22:24
fenni'm interested in using a turbo diesel as the generator for a serial hybrid car tho22:24
bkerohttp://www.deltahawkengines.com/journa00.shtml22:25
bkeroAlready been done22:25
fennhard to find small high efficiency diesel engines for cheap-ish though22:25
bkerohttp://www.evxteam.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=2522:25
bkeroNot if you tear them out of old VWs. ;)22:25
bkeroElectric motors are up to 98% efficient.  Gasoline/diesel motors are up to 26%22:26
* kanzure sleeps22:26
fennVW engine is too big22:26
fennbig engine == car bullshit22:26
fennyou end up designing the car around the engine22:26
bkeroRiding lawn mower?22:26
fennhmm that "hybrid supercar".. what were they thinking? couldnt afford supercapacitors so they tried to use lead acids instead?22:28
bkeroSupercapacitors don't story energy for very long. :/22:28
bkeroThey dissapate really fast.22:28
fennit says their batteries didnt provide enough power22:29
bkerolol22:29
proctokanzure: I don't hate concepts :> though there are concepts that I hate seeing implemented22:29
bkeroLead acid batteries are really good at discharging TONS of amps at once.22:29
fennbut not enough for this supercar, apparently22:30
bkeroThe only thing that's gotten close is LiFePO3, and that's about 12x as expensive.22:30
fennwhat about NiCd?22:30
bkeroNope22:30
fennseems to me that batteries shouldn't be used for power buffering22:30
bkeroNiCads discharge at about 0.75C.  That means if it's a 12v 2000mAh battery, it the maximum that it can discharge is 24W22:31
bkeroEr, 24 * 0.7522:31
bkeroBatteries are used for power storage, capacitors are used for energy storage.22:31
bkeroCapacitors discharge on their own significantly faster though.22:32
fennuh, express that in SI units please22:32
fenn"Batteries are used for power storage, capacitors are used for energy storage."22:32
bkeroCapacitors are great at being charged very fast with a lot of electricity.  They can also discharge equally quickly, but they don't store it that well.  Think of how you're supposed to wait 5 seconds after you shut your computer off to turn it back on.  That's the caps discharging themselves.22:33
bkeroBatteries are the exact opposite.22:34
fennthat's a resistor across the capacitor terminals dissipating the energy stored in the capacitor, it's a safety feature22:34
fennthe capacitor doesn't have any internal leakage (not nearly as much as a battery anyway)22:34
bkeroBut if I go and charge a capacitor to however many farads it's going to hold, and measure the wattage in there after 1 second, it's going to be significantly higher than 1 minute.22:35
fennnot true22:35
fennand your units are all wrong22:36
bkeroWhich unit?22:36
bkero(s)22:36
fennif you charge a 1 farad capacitor to 12V it will stay at 12V for a very long time22:36
bkeroBut if you put a known load on it, it can sustain the load longer if it was just charged22:37
fennif it was charged recently you mean?22:38
bkeroyes22:38
fennbasically you are arguing that the equivalent parallel resistance of a battery is higher than a capacitor22:38
fennwhy oh why is this data so hard to find22:39
* bkero shrugs. I've had this conversation before with people asking about superconductors as a remedy to the problem of charging electric cars.22:42
fenn"The self-discharge of the supercapacitor is substantially higher than that of the electro-chemical battery. Typically, the voltage of the supercapacitor with an organic electrolyte drops from full charge to the 30 percent level in as little as 10 hours.22:43
fennOther supercapacitors can retain the charged energy longer. With these designs, the capacity drops from full charge to 85 percent in 10 days. In 30 days, the voltage drops to roughly 65 percent and to 40 percent after 60 days."22:43
fennso, i was wrong. sorry 22:43
bkeroS'no problem22:43
bkeroI'm surprised to see it that high though.22:43
bkeroTHey'd be really good in electric dragsters. :)22:43
bkero"Look how many amps i can dump!"22:44
bkeroI've thought of picking up some supercapacitors, they're about $200 on digikey iirc22:44
bkero100F 2.7V are $15.22:46
bkeroI'd need 14 of them to power my bicycle22:46
fennESR is a critical parameter22:47
bkero10 mOhm22:47
bkeroIs that the rate of dischareg?22:48
bkero*discharge22:48
bkero(or internal resistance)22:48
fennits resistance22:48
fennhmm that could work22:49
bkeroF=(A*sec)/V22:53
fennat 8kW total you'd dissipate 400W in the capacitor22:53
fennbut 8kW isn't a steady state condition so it's sorta hard to estimate heat sinking requirements22:54
bkeroIt disappates as heat, and 400w is a shitton of heat22:54
fennand also you have to consider the thermal conductivity of the insides of the capacitor22:54
bkero400w would be doable by a really big heat sink.  My processor does about 210w22:54
fennalso, you'd only get 20 sec of "thrust"22:55
bkeroWhich is plenty for a dragster, but not so much a car. :P22:56
fennya22:56
fennbut you said bicycle so i assume there's some kind of regenerative braking22:56
bkeroNah, I'm using a cheap motor.22:56
bkeroI'm using 2 36v 15Ah batteries, an ebay 750w motor, and a MY1020 750w motor22:56
bkero*ebay controller22:57
fennthen why use supercaps at all?22:57
bkeroI hadn't looked into that very much22:57
bkeroTo put a really fat back tire on the bike and do burnouts22:57
bkeroAlthough supercapacitors would be excellent for taking regenerative braking22:57
fennwell 750W isnt enough to do burnouts :022:58
bkeroPriuses should use it for regen. :/22:58
bkeroIt is on a tiny skinny bike tire. 8)22:58
bkero745 watts = 1 horsepower22:58
bkero1 horsepower and < 100lbs22:58
fenni think i've seen remote controlled cars with >1hp22:59
bkero1 horsepower will get me up to around 22-30mph depending on if it's completely full or half empty22:59
bkeroVoltage drop on lead-acid batteries is aboslute shit.23:00
fennuse a boost converter? eh nevermind23:00
bkeroI'd like to replace this pack with lithium ion cells, but that's expensive AND NOBODY MAKES BATTERY HOLDERS FOR THEM!!!!23:00
* bkero ordered a 10 pack of 18650s on ebay last week to replace the ones in his aging iBook.23:01
fenni just never unplug my laptop23:02
bkeroThat's pretty bad for the battery.  I've ruined 2 in my powerbook that way23:02
bkeroIf you never unplug it, I'd recommend taking the battery out.23:02
fennwhy?23:03
bkeroBattery chargers(even smart ones) maintain float voltage on the batteries.23:03
bkeroThey burn off the top electrolyte23:03
bkeroThe battery on my macbook is 9 months old, and the battery holds 5091mAh.  The battery was originally rated for 5020mAh.23:08
bkeroIt has 300 load cycles on it23:08
fennremaining capacity:      299 mAh23:09
fennit seems to cut that number in half each time i run on battery power23:09
fennthat's "fully charged"23:09
bkeroerrr23:10
bkeroWhat's 'original capacity'?23:10
bkero / design capacity23:10
fenni think 2000-3000, not sure how to find out23:10
bkerocat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state23:10
fennpresent:                 yes23:11
fenncapacity state:          ok23:11
fenncharging state:          discharging23:11
fennpresent rate:            800 mA23:11
fennremaining capacity:      299 mAh23:11
fennpresent voltage:         12330 mV23:11
bkeroHum, strange.23:11
bkeroLook up your model laptop on google. :P23:11
bkero300mAh is staggeringly bad though.  My 2005 iBook is at 72% original capacity, and goes up to 3100mAh.23:11
fenni'm sorta wondering how it comes up with that number23:12
fennlooks like it was probably 3600mAh23:13
bkeroThe ACPI controller on your motherboard shows it to the bios23:13
fenni want a laptop that takes AA batteries, is that so hard23:16
bkeroIt's entirely doable.23:16
bkeroYou'd need 16 AAs to get a decent sized laptop battery23:17
fennthat's about the same as what's there now23:18
bkeroThe Li-ions in there now are 3.7V * 2000mAh23:18
bkeroThat's what's been used in laptops for the last 5 years or so23:18
bkeroAAs can't be recharged that many times. :/23:19
bkeroSorry, rechargables are 1.2V.  You'd need 20 to get a decent sized battery23:19
fennwhat do you mean 'decent'?23:20
bkeroWould last more than 1.5 hours23:20
bkeroAt 1.2V you'd need 10 to get up to 12V.  Then you have 12V * capacitory of a single cell23:20
bkeroPut 2 of those strings in parallel and you have 12V * double the capacity of a single cell23:21
fennok, so NiMH AA batteries are like 2600mAh = 3.25hr23:21
fennat the 800mA which i'm currently using23:21
bkeroNiCAD AA's are 650-800mAh23:22
fennbut i dont need nicad23:22
bkeroIf you use NiMHs you can get them 1300-2850mAh23:22
bkeroGood laptops will typically draw around 18W23:23
bkeroSo if you have 2850mAh * 12V, that's 34.2 Wh23:23
fenni guess my laptop sucks then because it's using 10W?23:23
bkeroAre you sure it's using 10W?23:23
fennno23:23
fennthat's just what acpi tells me23:24
bkero10W is pretty good23:24
bkeroThen theoretically a single string of the highest capacity AAs you can find would make it last for 10/34.2 hours23:24
fennuh, what?23:25
bkeroYour laptop is consuming 10 watts per hour23:25
bkeroIf the battery is 34.2 Wh, that's 10/34.2 hours it'll last23:25
fenn34.2 watt*hr/10watt = 3.42hours23:25
bkeroSorry, yea23:25
bkeroOther way around23:25
bkeroHooray checking for feasability.23:26
bkero4 hours on 10 AA's isn't too bad23:26
bkeroMy laptop is using 1487mA at 12.371mV23:26
bkero18.4 watts :/23:27
bkero20 AA's would be a nice auxilery battery pack though. :)23:29
bkeroWhat do you think of Human completion?23:48

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